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Conservation Coalition’s Submissions to the Cohen Commission

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:39:05 +0000

See the Conservation Coalition’s Submissions on Past Reports, Recommendations, and Responses, on behalf of all of the groups in the Conservation Commission regarding our involvement in the Cohen Commission’s judicial inquiry of the collapse of sockeye salmon returns to the Fraser River in the summer

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Fraser Riverkeeper in the News

admin — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:29:18 +0000

The Province: Feds to loosen rules for sewage treatment

CEC Secretariat receives a submission on alleged harm to fish from sewage discharges by CEC

Riverkeeper Doug was interviewed on May 5′s CBC’s BC Almanac regarding the CEC submission and the sewage from Iona. If you missed the interview, you can catch him about 1/3rd of the way through on

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FRK Comments on Proposed Wastewater Regs

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 20:29:12 +0000

Federal government decriminalizes sewage dumping with new permissive regulations for municipal wastewater facilities

Vancouver, BC – Environment Canada has proposed the enactment of new wastewater regulations that would allow for continued dumping of untreated sewage into Canadian waterways, says Fraser Riverkeeper. The proposed changes would decriminalize sewage discharges that are currently illegal

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Stand Up for Pacific Salmon (SUPS) Campaign

admin — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:12:41 +0000

Consumers Demand Sustainable Fish Choices When Grocery Shopping

Waterkeeper Organizations Stand Up for Pacific Salmon

What people don’t know about farmed salmon can hurt them, not to mention salmon, seals, and other marine wildlife. “That innocuous piece of salmon on your plate has a sordid history,” said Lauren Hornor of Fraser Riverkeeper in British Columbia, co-creator of

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FRK Calls for CEC Investigation

admin — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:12:16 +0000

ENVIRONMENTALISTS CHARGE CANADA WITH FAILURE TO PROTECT ONE OF THE WORLD’S RICHEST SALMON FISHERIES

Fraser Riverkeeper Calls for Investigation into Government’s Failure to Enforce Canada’s Environmental Laws Regulating Toxic Sewage Discharges

Vancouver, BC May 4th, 2010 — Fraser Riverkeeper, together with a coalition of Canadian and American environmental groups, submitted a complaint today demanding an investigation

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Dodgy False Creek Water

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:44:45 +0000

Doug Chapman’s letter to the editor 2/25/2010 – Vancouver Sun

Re: Athletes’ village ‘greenest in North America,’ Feb. 17

I note that one of the factors taken into consideration in awarding the athletes’ village an environmental green certificate was habitat restoration.

Surely this does not include marine habitat in southeast False Creek. It is common local knowledge that every

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President of FRK Runs Olympic Torch

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:20:37 +0000

Mary, Alison, Torch Runner Mark, Lauren, and Eden

Fraser Riverkeeper President Mark Mattson ran the Olympic torch for a leg in the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay this afternoon.

Mark ran with the flame on Wednesday, February 10th in North Vancouver, at 12:38pm. He started along Mountain Highway from house 2032 and ran to

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False Creek Contains Dangerous Chemical Contamination Near Olympic Village

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:17:37 +0000

Sediment Tests Positive for Highly Elevated Levels of PCBs, PAHs, Heavy Metals

Fraser Riverkeeper calls on Vancouver Authorities to Take Steps to Protect the Public

Vancouver, BC – February 10, 2010 – False Creek, a part of the Fraser River watershed, which runs through the Vancouver Olympic Village, has sediments that contain

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Press Archives – 2009

admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:14:31 +0000

Rock the Water: Web music project aims for cleaner shorelines

Metro article about Swim Drink Fish Music Club

This video is a short profile of Watauga Riverkeeper Donna Lisenby. It is part of an “Environmental Heroes” series created by students at UNC-Chapel Hill.

We’d like to welcome Moose Riverkeeper as the newest Canadian Waterkeeper. Moose River is 547 km

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Press Archives

admin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:34:29 +0000

Metro beats rap on sewage “Ottawa has flushed a private prosecution against Metro Vancouver that alleged the Iona sewage treatment plant illegally polluted the Strait of Georgia with fish-killing effluent…” By Jeff Nagel, BC Local News

Environmentalist Alumni Address Conservation Issues at Reunions ’08 “Bob Boyle ’58 and Doug Chapman ’58 discussed their roles in the

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