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Southeast B.C. coal mines draw the ire of U.S. environmental agency
Toronto :: Canada | 3 months ago
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Environmental Protection Agency has made a veiled threat to take Canada to the International Joint Commission in a dispute over plans to expand coal production in the Elk River Valley of southeastern B.C., near the Montana border. The threat was made
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B.C. man accused of murdering wife now charged with trying to have witnesses murdered
Vancouver :: Canada | 5 months ago
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A 56-year-old Alberta man charged with murdering his wife after she drowned in B.C. two years ago has now been charged with trying to arrange the murders of witnesses in his pending trial. Peter Beckett faces the additional charges of counselling to
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Rock falls off logging truck, kills driver
Lake Cowichan :: Canada | 6 months ago
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The Canadian Press Published Wednesday, Nov. 07 2012, 6:19 PM EST Last updated Wednesday, Nov. 07 2012, 6:19 PM EST A 52-year-old man has died after being hit by a rock that fell off a logging truck and crashed through the windshield of a pickup
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Teck Resources admits discharging hazardous materials from Trail operations
Vancouver :: Canada | 8 months ago
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B.C. mining giant Teck Resources has admitted in a news release that slag discharged from its Trail operations for about 100 years has entered the Upper Columbia River and released hazardous substances into the environment in the United States. Teck
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Applying reason to nature's wrath
Vancouver :: Canada | 10 months ago
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Members of a search and rescue crew return to Kaslo, B.C., Sunday, July 15, 2012, from a landslide that buried three homes and has left four people unaccounted for in Johnsons Landing, B.C. Local residents photograph the swath of a landslide that
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Landslide in southeast B.C. damages homes, leaves up to six unaccounted for
Nelson :: New Zealand | 10 months ago
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The Canadian Press Published Thursday, Jul. 12 2012, 5:58 PM EDT Last updated Thursday, Jul. 12 2012, 6:01 PM EDT Emergency officials say five or six people are unaccounted for after a large landslide came down over homes in southeastern B.C. Bill
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The politics of power picks up steam in B.C.
Kamloops :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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The provincial government's $30-million payout to Boss Power Corp. stinks, says The Alaska Highway News in Fort St John. Taxpayers are paying compensation to the company because the government bungled its ban on uranium mining. The last minute-
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B.C. fire wardens found 98 abandoned campfires last week
Vancouver :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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Fire wardens found 98 abandoned campfires in southeast B.C. last week and are warning hunters and outdoor recreationalists to put their fires out as temperatures continue to rise. The Ministry of Forests reports that so far this season, nine
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B.C. to unveil new greenhouse gas emissions rules
Vancouver :: Canada | almost 3 years ago
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British Columbia's largest industries today will get their first look at proposed new regulations governing greenhouse gas emissions. The province's climate action secretariat will release two papers, one proposing details of a B.C. emissions trading
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Obama and Harper agree to get involved in protection of B.C.'s Flathead Valley
Vancouver :: Canada | almost 3 years ago
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President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper used the G-20 Summit in Toronto to commit to helping to fulfill the "historic" terms of a memorandum of understanding between B.C. and Montana to protect the transboundary Flathead
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