Oscar Hunter from Fridays for Future Nelson West Kootenay calls for 16-year-old voting at climate strike at Lakeside Park Saturday, Nov 14, 2020. Listen or download here: Fugitive methane, the leaks of natural gas from wells, pipelines and all parts of the LNG and natural gas production system.  It’s a big issue in Canadian emissions … Continue reading Nov. 17 ’20: Youth strike, fugitive methane, blockades protect old growth

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, BC publishes impressive views on the spread and impact of the TransMountain Pipeline expansion, from great BC photographer, Garth Lenz. Few have documented BC's beauty and tortured pain like Garth Lenz. The photos are well worth the click. Some of the most intense clearcutting of old growth forests in … Continue reading Oldgrowthblockade.com, Saul Arbess tells story of Island blockades, TM Pipeline a bust: J.David Hughes

Fry Creek, on Kootenay Lake, in the rain. Election Day in the USA…. the good, the bad, the very very bad… and the ugly.  After that, Laura Sacks tells us about COUNTDOWN… a global climate initiative, with a local activity, the next two Sundays… and of course its online. New Zealand and BC on a parallel … Continue reading US E-Day, Countdown on climate, New Zealand and BC elections parallel, but different

The essential big tree forests! This week The EcoCentric has THE wrap-up of our interviews with Nelson-Creston election candidates with the Libertarians' Terry Tiessen. In September, the NDP government released its own 2-scientist report on logging of old growth trees and announced an old growth tree plan. Local Nelson forest scientist Rachel Holt gives us … Continue reading Oct. 20 2020. Libertarian Tiessen, review old growth plan, pipeline economics

View from the Slocan Valley Rail Trail, with Frog Peak. The provincial election is on full force, we have Brittny Anderson the NDP candidate on to talk about what she’s hearing in the Nelson-Creston riding. The Province announced some time ago they were officially opening part of the Great Trail to vehicle traffic. It used … Continue reading Oct. 6, 2020, NDP candidate, Brittny Anderson, Rail Trail traffic and biomass energy emissions

Backcountry guide, Mike Judd, defends his eastern slopes of Alberta's Rockies. We're going to ask the Nelson-Creston candidates about environmental issues, starting with Nicole Charlwood from the BC Greens. He was a sled dog musher, a hunting guide and a horseback tour guide along the Great Divide in the Rockies. Keith met Mike Judd in … Continue reading Sept. 29 2020 Nicole Charlwood, Green candidate, Alberta backcountry guide defends his country

Portland Oregon climate campaigner Brian Eating talks about the fire destruction in his neighbourhood and how the massive burning affects us all. Host Linn Murray gets the word directly from Oregon, as he talks with a Portland resident Brian Etling about the devastation caused by these fires and their climate fueled nature. Brian Etling is … Continue reading Sept. 22 2020 Report from the Portland fire zone, saving Fraser Sockeye and BC subsidies to LNG

View of Nelson in slight smoke from Toad Mountain. Last week the provincial government mentioned that they got their long awaited report on old growth logging back on April 30th. Then they announced they were protecting some 350,000 hectares of trees, most of which weren’t on the list to be logged anyway. Then their forestry … Continue reading Sept. 15, 2020 Sonia Furstenau new Green Leader, logging summit and reinventing Green in BC