There is so much misinformation & fear mongering - and rhetoric about needing to make sure the 5% don't dictate "for the rest of us". So much racism. It's time to uphold DRIPA and repeal & replace the Mineral Tenure Act - not stick with the "free entry" regime of 1859 @eby-david.bsky.social #bcpoli

Major court decision out today in British Columbia with 2/3rd of judges concluding "UNDRIP and the mineral claims regime are inconsistent". Just reviewing and you can too at: bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/ca/2...

The federal government says both extraction and conservation are key to the B.C. “critical conservation corridor." But the scarce information provided focuses on minerals and energy, not wildlife or Indigenous-led protection plans @writermjs.bsky.social writes: thenarwhal.ca/bc-northwest... #cdnpoli

New Major Projects Include Dodgy BC LNG Project Oxford study forecasts LNG oversupply/low prices after 2030. That's why the @NLGNisgaaNation's Ksi Lisims project should NOT be fast-tracked by @MarkJCarney + @timhodgsonmt. No biz case = no taxpayer $$. youtu.be/NDJ4CoZ56c8

West Coast has signed on to the North Coast Protection Declaration. We urge Canada to uphold the tanker ban. Protecting the North Coast is not an item for negotiation—it's national responsibility and a quantifiable investment in Canada’s treasured marine environment and economic prosperity. #bcpoli

Canada is investing billions of dollars to challenge China’s grip on rare earths essential for modern technologies. As it races to build a domestic supply chain, refining minerals is where the money is, reports Christopher Pollon www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/06/a...

📰 You can read more about the toxic legacy of gold mining from @nikkiskuce.bsky.social in Northword magazine’s Fall 2025 edition. 📥 Subscribe to our newsletter: bit.ly/4gCg8DU (9/9)

Unclear to me why @mark-carney.bsky.social doesn’t just make Pierre Poillievre his Deputy PM with all the tax cuts and corporate catering. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Waiting for what I’m expecting to be a corporate, brutal budget with no environmental care or climate initiatives.

For such a bully, Trump is so thin skinned and pathetic.

This is brutal: "The result is that large Canadian corporations have unprecedented access to intelligence collected by Canada’s spy agency." Canada really is a Petrostate. #cdnpoli #bcpoli thenarwhal.ca/tc-energy-cs...

Critical minerals have long been touted as the key to the global energy transition because they’re used in everything from EV batteries to solar panels and wind turbines. They’re also essential to the production of military equipment. @amandafollett.bsky.social reports. #uspoli #bcpoli

“I think it’s important to know if the mine in your backyard is going to help dump bombs on Gaza or if it’s going to help with an electric battery in your kid’s school bus,” said Skuce. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #mining thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

I was pleasantly surprised that a recent episode of CBC's Ideas "So .... Who wants a pipeline" asked which IPCC scenario / global temperature they were aiming for. Jackie Forrest said 2.6C. I wish all stakeholders, politicians and yes, citizens were asked that question. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Can someone please tell me why no media are asking about the NW pipeline within the context of a climate crisis? Did we all just throw the reality out the window because Trump did? It's infuriating that the line of questioning is back to nationally skewed polling and bullshit economics. Ugh #bcpoli

So criminal that they know they'll keep polluting beyond acceptable limits and these fines are just the cost of doing business for them... www.biv.com/news/environ...

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...