Eric Reder on the Richard Cloutier and Julie Buckingham show on CJOB radio. In this interview Eric talks about the Duck Mountain Audit report release, why logging in parks should be stopped, and how we need to preserve biodiversity and work towards justice with Indigenous peoples.
Eric joins CJOB Hosts Richard Cloutier and Julie Buckingham to talk about the new Manitoba Parks Reservation System and the need for more protected areas in Manitoba. Aired April 3, 2023 at 3:05pm
Duck Mountain Interview with Members of Pine Creek First Nations by Wilderness Committee
Eric Reder - Duck Mountain Interview by Wilderness Committee
Minegoziibe Anishinabe (formerly Pine Creek First Nation) has had enough of logging mismanagement and clearcutting in their territory, and have legally challenged the Manitoba government and Louisiana-Pacific's infringement on their constitutional rights. Here's Chief Derek Nepinak and our own Eric Reder on the subject from CJOB68.
Phoebe and the old-growth forest by Wilderness Committee
Wood Thrush
US President-elect Joe Biden is to cancel the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline on his first day in office, North American media report. The pipeline is projected to carry oil nearly 1,200 miles (1,900km) from the Canadian province of Alberta down to Nebraska, to join an existing pipeline. Environmentalists and First Nations have fought the project for more than a decade. Mike Smyth talks to Climate Campaigner Peter McCartney about the move by Biden.
Wild Executive Director Tom Uniak on CKNW's Simi Sara Show this morning re the growing cross-border opposition to Imperial Metals' application for a mineral exploration permit in Skagit Headwaters Donut Hole. Mornings with Simi, Global News.
Eric Reder on CJOB- Oct 29 2020- Parks Privatization by Wilderness Committee
Wilderness and Water Campaigner Eric Reder went on 680 CJOB with Kathy Kennedy to talk about brutal cuts to the Conservation and Climate Department in the Manitoba government. Staff are struggling to meet their job requirements with almost half of the staff team cut.
Doug Ford strongly opposing the quarry
Climate Campaigner Peter McCartney talks with Mike Smith and Adam Pankratz, UBC business professor about Canada's Supreme Court dismissed an appeal on Thursday from British Columbia's First Nations against the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion. The decision removes a potentially major obstacle to the pipelines completion that would nearly triple the flow of oil from Alberta to the Pacific coast. The top court posted the decision on its website without further detail, rejecting the appeal fro...
Climate Change Campaigner Peter McCartney debates Member of Parliament Elizabeth May's statement that "oil is dead" with Vivian Krause on the Mike Smyth Show.
Under cover of the COVID-19 pandemic Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister’s government is ramming through harmful legislation with no opportunity for public discussion or explanation of the impacts on the province’s forests and parks. While convening an emergency legislative session to pass COVID-19 response measures, the government is also moving forward with all bills that were introduced as the world was shutting down on March 19. That’s more than 600 pages of legislation across 25 new bills.
The British Columbia government has stopped all logging in a Canadian part of the Skagit Valley, which is part of a major salmon producing stream for Puget Sound. The area is known as the “Donut Hole,” or Silverdaisy, and was an unprotected area of land between Manning and Skagit Valley Provincial parks, which are on the Canadian-U.S. border. In making the announcement, the B.C. government suspended all licenses to harvest timber in the 14,332-acre area. Doug Donaldson, British Columbia’s forest...
It's back! With Trans Mountain gearing up for construction again, we're launching season two of our Line in the Sand podcast. This week, we’re talking to the environmental monitors who’ve been keeping a watchful eye on the company’s work at the tank farm on Burnaby Mountain. Join us over the coming weeks and months for more stories from the frontlines of the fight against the Trans Mountain pipeline.
It’s been over five years since Imperial Metals’ Mount Polley mine tailings dam failed, sending millions of cubic metres of water, slurry, sludge and tailings thundering down Hazeltine Creek and into Quesnel Lake. Along with the anniversary was the five-year deadline for federal Fisheries Act charges that expired Sunday, while the possibility of other charges under the same act remains with no timeline for a decision. British Columbia missed the three-year deadline to proceed with charges under ...
Co-Executive Director Joe Foy talks about the endangered spotted owl and old-growth logging in British Columbia with Chris Cook of Gorilla Radio. Gorilla Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate media.
Today, we talk to activists from near and far about a valiant action to prevent an oil tanker from leaving port.
Climate Campaigner Peter McCartney is on the ground at the Kwekwecnewtxw, which translates to "a place to watch from." A Watch House is a traditional structure of the Coast Salish people that has been used for tens of thousands of years to watch for enemies on their territories. Peter talks to Will George, a member of Tsleil-Waututh Nation, about the protests taking place at the Kinder Morgan Westridge Marine Terminal.
Today we meet a farm family in Valemount who would have 890,000 barrels of oil pumped through their backyard every day.
Today, we talk with one of the kayaktivists who stopped Kinder Morgan's construction on its marine terminal in Burrard Inlet for an afternoon.
Today, we attend a “die-in” at ground zero for the health and safety risks the project brings.
We talk to a few people behind the legal challenges against the Kinder Morgan pipeline about what's at stake.
Resistance takes a fire in your belly, but it won't last for long without food there too. Today we visit a workshop in Vancouver teaching people how to cook for a protest camp.
Today, we’re talking to Kanahus Manuel, with a group of Secwepemc women building tiny homes to stand in the way.
Today, we’re talking to three activists who were out on the water this weekend training to stop Kinder Morgan's pipeline.
Line In The Sands Intro by Wilderness Committee
