In anticipation of what @daniellesmithab.bsky.social might be announcing today, I thought that I'd wear some old swag and remind @mark-carney.bsky.social that nothing has changed regarding the risks and consequences in NW BC. We're still here-and we still say no to an oil pipeline & tankers #cdnpoli

Great to have the opportunity to speak alongside health professionals in Smithers demanding @mark-carney.bsky.social #DrawtheLine and take action on climate change and invest in clean water, healthy communities and a future for our kids. #stopPRGT #upholdTankerBan

Always grateful for Haida's stance vs dumb fossil fuel projects:"CHN maintains our strong opposition to any proposed oil tankers & strongly supports the federal gov't continuing to uphold the ban on oil tankers through the North Coast Oil Tanker Moratorium Act" www.haidanation.ca/public-notic...

I just don't know how anyone in the BC NDP can wake up and look at the kids in their life and be proud of approving a fossil fuel project in 2025. Brutal @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social

Sign the petition notinmyname.oxfam.ca/sign-the-pet...

Great to see this leadership and advocacy from regional health professionals. Ironic that @adriandix.bsky.social was previously the health minister and is now pushing fossil fuel projects thru while ignoring health risks... #bcpoli thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

“Environmental assessments are a planning tool and way to bring in science and local knowledge to best evaluate risks and mitigate impacts,” Skuce argued. “Avoiding them doesn’t result in British Columbia having a responsible mining sector.” #bcpoli #mining thenarwhal.ca/mount-polley...

I'm so glad @rachelgilmore.bsky.social covered this as I was shocked to hear on CBC that the Liberals had invited Project 2025 architect. WTF?! #cdnpoli Liberals Call Out Carney for Inviting Trump Insider via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

[W]hen governments are ramming through laws that sideline Indigenous rights and environmental protections, BC is putting a disgraced policing unit in charge of enforcing them—turning struggles for Indigenous sovereignty & climate justice into criminal matters. #bcpoli breachmedia.ca/rcmp-unit-co...

The little B.C. gold mine you’ve never heard of: thenarwhal.ca/dome-mountai...

The repercussions for the largest mine disaster in BC is permit after permit, green light after green light. More rigorous oversight and review are needed for expansions to the same dam that breached, was patched up and filled again. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/08/n...

Mount Polley will be allowed to continue expanding its tailings facility, after a court challenge by the Xatśūll First Nation failed. The nation said it's reviewing the decision to allow the dam, which failed catastrophically in 2014, to hold more mine waste. @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

To add insult to injury just a couple of days after anniversary of disaster. While finally facing federal charges under the Fisheries Act, Imperial Metals has only ever received green lights since disaster. #bcpoli via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

"I think it's important that residents are able to have meaningful input and shift how the project is designed, or elements of it, so that their interests are protected and that the project doesn't go ahead if it doesn't meet certain standards." #bcpoli #mining www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I can't believe it's 2025 with wildfires raging and drought levels high and our politicians are considering pipeline proposals to BC's north coast. For those of us in NW, the answer is still no @eby-david.bsky.social @adriandix.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

Unlike Enbridge's proposed oil pipeline, today such a pipeline would depart rebuilt Fort Mac, pass the scorched iconic town of Jasper, & cross 100s of salmon rivers facing drought. Much has changed, but not our No. @tamaradavidson.bsky.social @christineboyle.bsky.social @joanphillipndp.bsky.social

The fascism south of the border is horrifying. As is the number of minions willing to execute deportation and incarceration orders :(

This statement blows my mind: “We had our budget of $4 billion and we’re still sticking to it." $4 billion of public, tax payer funds going to clean up a gold mine. And we keep approving more. #cdnpoli www.northernminer.com/news/canada-...

We Hear about First Nations 'Capacity Gaps.' What about the Crown's? via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

You misspelled “Canada is getting a second shot at exporting even more greenhouse gas emissions.” 🌎 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Xatśūll First Nation is back in court renewing its pitch for an injunction to stop the Mount Polley mine from expanding the use of its tailings storage facility, a 60-metre-high dam that collapsed in 2014 and spilled 25 million litres of waste into the Fraser watershed. #bcpoli

A decade after the Mount Polley disaster, Xatśūll First Nation is back in court to challenge the BC gov's decision to approve the expansion of a dam at the same mine. Mount Polley was featured in our Dirty Dozen 2025 report. More from @nationalobserver.com: bit.ly/3HV8CXz

Wildfires are making glaciers retreat faster, but not how you might think. Instead of the heat from the flames melting the glacier, the smoke is darkening the snow and ice. This causes the glacier surface to absorb more energy from the sun and melt faster. @kristendejager.bsky.social reports. 🗻🔥

“The mine basically patched up its tailings and got a permit to start operating again. Now, they’re proposing to keep raising the dam height — literally on the same dam that busted out,” said Nikki Skuce, director of the Northern Confluence. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/25/n...

I can't help but agree with Elizabeth May: “It’s a strange thing to find myself more shocked now than at things that the Harper government tried”. #cdnpoli @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/06...

The Liberals and @mark-carney.bsky.social are going to get a lesson in "elbows up" as residents and rights holders challenge deregulation and polluting projects pushed through without proper precautions and engagement. #cdnpoli #Harper2.0

Similkameen leader questions Hudbay about Copper Mountain Mine spills, says no consent for expansion Owner of open-pit mine south of ‘Princeton’ grilled by LSIB after 8,600 litres of waste released into environment in last month indiginews.com/news/similka...

‘Horrific impacts’: as B.C. prepares to fast-track projects, a mining watchdog warns past mistakes could be repeated: thenarwhal.ca/mining-dirty...

‘This land holds everything we love’: hope grows for Indigenous conservation in northwest B.C.: thenarwhal.ca/bc-qa-gillia...

Perfect metaphor, really. Crisis happening in the world and the last place Trump wants to be is in a room with other world leaders, collaboratively developing a co-ordinated response.

Anyone notice anything wrong about this picture? 2025 federal Fisheries and Oceans Committee... #cdnpoli

“The paper fails to outline how new critical mineral mines will be directed toward the energy transition,” Skuce added. #bcpoli @reformbcmining.bsky.social www.biv.com/news/economy...

In a new report highlighting the “top 12 polluting or otherwise risky mines in B.C. in 2025,” Skuce warns the consequences of fast-tracking mining projects could impact public trust, trample Indigenous Rights and leave behind pollution for generations. #bcpoli #mining thenarwhal.ca/mining-dirty...

B.C. has approved the PRGT pipeline, paving the way for construction to start — and setting the stage for what one First Nations leader warns could be a “long, hot summer” of conflict. #bcpoli via @writermjs.bsky.social @sobittersosweet.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/prgt-pipelin...

This BC EAO decision to approve an antiquated EA certificate for a fracked gas pipeline is such bullshit. Not allowed to consider climate change as part of decision?! Ugh #bcpoli projects.eao.gov.bc.ca/api/public/d...

Great announcement today by the province to move forward with land use planning and recognition of conservation areas in northwest B.C. This region has incredible and healthy ecosystems that are key to climate resilience & adaptation. @randeneneillmlabc.bsky.social news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

The world could experience a year above 2C of global warming for a year by 2029 www.newscientist.com/article/2481...

Oil lobby got what they wanted from today's First Ministers' meeting: pipelines are in, climate change is not mentioned (even though statement opens with expression of concern over wildfires) and net zero target is only referenced in relation to the electricity system. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

“There are real threats to our ecosystems and communities if mines are listed as ‘provincially significant’ and bypass environmental assessments. The current regulatory regime in B.C. doesn’t do enough to protect our water and lands today,” said Skuce. #bcpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

B.C. has an embedded belief that we have "the strongest environmental regulations" when it comes to mining (despite no 3rd party validator). Instead, we have many examples of risky and polluting mines that show we need to strengthen our regs, not cut red tape. reformbcmining.ca/wp-content/u...

Great editorial on the importance of enviro regs and risks of Bill 15 vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

"Nikki Skuce, of Northern Confluence Initiative, said the commitment to move forward with protected areas, while better identifying what areas may be open to mining, is welcome. But the rush to streamline environmental reviews is concerning." #bcpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

BC is pushing through a law to scrap major parts of its environmental assessment for any project it chooses. That could include new mines. In the US and beyond, deregulation is having a moment. Has it arrived in BC? Such a treat working with @amandafollett.bsky.social on this for @thetyee.ca

Last evening, #BCpoli passed 2nd reading of the controversial Infrastructure Projects Act in a narrow 46-44 vote, with two former Conservative MLAs (now independent) as no-shows. My Bill 15 explainer with @zoeyunker.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2025/05...

B.C.’s Bill 15 is “totally emulating Trump.” “Why aren’t we standing up for our values, which is to respect Indigenous rights and to have regulations and rules around not polluting the environment and protecting nature?” @nikkiskuce.bsky.social said. @bowinnma.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2025/05...

“Three times more explosive power has been dropped on Gaza than was used in the Hiroshima bomb,” he said. “And for months now, nothing has been getting into Gaza. Nothing: no water, no food, no electricity, no fuel, no medical services.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Why is the BC government reacting to Trump by emulating him and his gutting of environmental laws and safeguards? Bill 15 is brutal overreach of a government responding to lobbying, while violating Indigenous rights. #bcpoli @bowinnma.bsky.social www.ubcic.bc.ca/fnlc_questio...

I had a great conversation this morning with Carolina de Ryk on CBC Daybreak North about “critical minerals” and concerns about deregulation- www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

One more hour to vote in British Columbia! “Conservatives trending as needed in Atlantic Canada”. Get motivated and out to polls if you haven’t yet!!! #election2025

Xatśūll First Nation has filed for an injunction against Imperial Metals as well as a judicial review of BC's decision to allow the company to raise the #MountPolley mine tailings dam without the nation's consent or an environmental assessment. #BCMining #EnvironmentalJustice