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Carrie Saxifrage

Carrie Saxifrage is the Vancouver Observer's sustainability reporter.

 

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Protesters block logging road access on Cortes Island
Earth Matters
Carrie Saxifrage
Nov 27th, 2012
Cortes Islander goes to the ground to prevent Island Timberlands access.
Cortes Island citizens prepare for logging protests
Earth Matters
Carrie Saxifrage
Nov 27th, 2012
Island Timberlands states it will start logging Cortes Island this week. Many residents, however, aren't planning to let it happen quietly.
BC’s natural gas play: a climate charade
Earth Matters
Carrie Saxifrage
Nov 21st, 2012
Experts now call natural gas the "bridge fuel to nowhere." BC must choose between its expansion of natural gas for export and its own climate credibility.
The Cohen Commission: a report that could save BC's wild salmon
Earth Matters
Carrie Saxifrage
Oct 31st, 2012
Justice Cohen found that DFO cannot protect wild salmon while promoting farmed salmon
BC pension fund invests in companies contributing to climate change
Earth Matters
Carrie Saxifrage
Oct 31st, 2012
With time, even the Canadian government will see a price on carbon as more benign than paying the cost of climate change catastrophes.
BC pension fund has deep stake in the timber companies liquidating Vancouver Island forests
Earth Matters
Carrie Saxifrage
Oct 25th, 2012
Why is bcIMC investing in industrial logging that harms the communities that its pensioners live in?
First Nations lead the way in Victoria protest against pipelines and oil sands
Earth Matters
Carrie Saxifrage
Oct 23rd, 2012
First Nations leaders led the protests of 4,500 people in Victoria on Monday.
“You can’t drink the oil, you can’t eat the money”: First Nations women to the Nobel Women’s Initiative delegation
Earth Matters
Carrie Saxifrage
Oct 16th, 2012
The Nobel Women's Initiative delegation was surprised to find that the federal government had called First Nation grandmothers "enemies of the state."
Enbridge promises minimum precautions, ignores seismic instability
Earth Matters
Carrie Saxifrage
Oct 12th, 2012
NGP experts admitted to ignoring a Natural Resources Canada document on seismic instability in Douglas Channel.
US EPA study shows Canadian bitumen still threatens Kalamazoo River following two years of Enbridge cleanup
Earth Matters
Carrie Saxifrage
Oct 12th, 2012
Two years after a ruptured Enbridge pipeline spilled Canadian bitumen into the Kalamazoo River, the EPA finds Enbridge's cleanup is inadequate.
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