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Climate researchers now predict the planet will warm by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century even if the world’s leaders fulfill their most ambitious climate pledges, a much faster and broader scale of change than forecast just two years ago, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations Environment Program. …

The Secretariat for the federal panel reviewing the proposed Prosperity Mine project will be holding information sessions on the review process in communities in the project area starting the week of Sept. 21. • The first will be held on Monday, Sept. 21 at 9 a.m. at the Yunesit’in Community Youth Centre at Stone reserve.…

An op-ed piece by Kevin Libin – who did not attend the pow-wow back in July but is now commenting after last week’s protests in the UK by other eNGOs.  please click here for more information (PDF file)

Mining firm promises a new lake, but Tsilhqot’in leader says that’s the Creator’s job.  “Sport fishers can get slapped by the law for netting a single fish over the limit, yet a large Vancouver-based mining company is proposing to destroy a lake and the tens of thousands of trout that inhabit it.”  Please take the…

The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency announced the beginning of the 30-day public comment period Wednesday. “This 30-day comment period gives Aboriginal groups, governments and the public an opportunity to submit their views in writing to the panel on the adequacy of the additional information as measured against the EIS Guidelines and on the technical merit…

As the price of oil increases again, Canada’s tar sands once more look like a giant cash cow to the industry. Now, the only thing standing between the 400 ton bulldozers and rampant environmental destruction may be a small group of First Nations people…. please click here for more information (PDF file)

The U.S. State Department approved a controversial pipeline project today that, once built, will carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, into the northern United States.  Environmental groups and Native Americans who have been fighting the Alberta Clipper pipeline plan are already preparing a legal challenge.  In Canada, meanwhile, the Beaver Lake Cree Nation is…

Lac La Biche, Alberta — Beaver Lake Cree Nation is saddened and dismayed by news that Alberta wildlife officers have shot and killed 12 bears in a landfill near Conklin, Alberta last week. Beaver Lake Cree Nation, a small Cree band from northeastern Alberta, has filed a court case to halt the wholesale devastation of…

Members of the Council of Canadians visited Fish Lake (Teztan Biny) recently where they talked about the impact of the proposed Taseko Mines Ltd. Prosperity Project.  please click here for more information (PDF file)

A new article by RAVEN president David Williams, published on Watershed Sentinel – Environmental News from British Columbia and the world.   please click here for more information (PDF file)