Indigenous leadership, salmon, and the benefits to us all

Last Friday marked National Indigenous People's Day, a part of Canada’s National Indigenous History Month. In the Columbia River Basin, salmon are a big part of the history of Indigenous peoples. Thanks to the leadership of Indigenous Nations and Tribes, they could become a big part of this region’s future – for everyone that lives here today.

Wildsight news : Conservation

Help make sure these polluters pay

April 16, 2024 by Casey Brennan

We’re fighting to ensure Teck and Glencore are held to account for the environmental damage caused by the Elk Valley coal mines. Your gift will support our work pressuring politicians to make these polluters pay, so our wild waters are kept cleaner for future generations.

British Columbians want mining industry to clean up its mess or pay, survey reveals

April 11, 2024 by Casey Brennan

‘Clean it up or pay’ — that’s the clear message that British Columbians want to send the mining industry, according to new Wildsight-commissioned polling from Research Co.

What a flight over B.C.’s North Columbia Mountains tells us about the dire state of caribou habitat

March 25, 2024 by Eddie Petryshen

Our plane hovers at 9,000 feet above the massive glaciers of British Columbia’s northern Monashee Mountains. It’s hot and cramped in this small, aluminium sky-box, which is currently being pushed around by rough summer winds.

Report reveals Elk Valley’s $6.4 billion water pollution problem

March 19, 2024 by Simon Wiebe

A new Wildsight-commissioned report has revealed it will cost at least $6.4 billion to reverse rising selenium concentrations in Canadian and United States waterways due to toxic runoff from British Columbia’s Elk Valley coal mines

Wildsight welcomes Elk Valley water pollution inquiry

March 11, 2024 by Wildsight

Qukin ʔamakʔis/Fernie - Wildsight celebrates the announcement of an International Joint Commission (IJC) investigation into water pollution from British Columbia’s Elk Valley coal mines as the first step towards addressing a complex problem with transparency, trust and respect…

The importance of critical minerals should not condone their extraction at all costs

March 6, 2024 by Simon Wiebe

Here in the Kootenays, we have a long history of mining a wide range of materials, including gold, silver, lead, copper, zinc and gypsum. Many of these minerals, like zinc and copper, would very easily fit into most critical mineral definitions.

After years of delay, caribou need your help

February 27, 2024 by Amelia Caddy

We’re calling on Canada and British Columbia to protect southern mountain caribou habitat in B.C. and save our last deep-snow herds. Use our pre-written letter to add your voice to the movement. Logging has no place in the wild and globally significant forests that these iconic animals rely on.

Proposed Crown Mountain coal mine could fan the flames of selenium crisis

February 20, 2024 by Simon Wiebe

NWP Coal Canada is forging ahead with its plans to build a new metallurgical coal mine in British Columbia’s Elk Valley, a region already plagued with the fallout from an international water pollution crisis.

Over 1,400 demand environmental assessment for Zincton

January 23, 2024 by Wildsight

Over the past two months, more than 1,400 people have contacted the provincial Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) to voice their concern that the proposed Zincton All-Season Resort, in British Columbia’s Selkirk Mountains, might not undergo an environmental…

What Fernie’s water woes mean for Elk Valley groundwater

January 2, 2024 by Simon Wiebe

In early December, the City of Fernie announced it would begin immediately exploring for a new secondary water supply, with workers planning to operate seven days a week until Christmas Eve. Rush jobs and hiring skilled workers to operate without days off is expensive. It begs the question: what exa

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