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Wilderness Committee urges Manitoba’s government to ban peat mining
Hecla-Grindstone Provincial Park, Manitoba (Image via Wikipedia) Winnipeg – The Wilderness Committee delivered over 830 letters to Manitoba’s Minister of Conservation Gord Mackintosh, urging the...
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Hudbay copper mine likely to go ahead in Manitoba park despite environmental...
Winnipeg – The Manitoba government is in the final stages of authorizing a new copper mine in Grass River Provincial Park operated by Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company (Hudbay). Over the past few...
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Conservation group decries Manitoba’s first new provincial park mine in 25 years
Image from Wilderness Committee Winnipeg – The Manitoba government has quietly issued an environmental licence for Hudbay’s Reed Mine copper project in Grass River Provincial Park, the first new mine...
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Video: The Bears: Everyone Together for the First Time
CBC – The four polar bears at Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park Zoo got to spend time together for the very first time this week. The bears — Hudson, Storm, Kaska and Aurora — were all allowed to be in the...
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Transport Minister expresses concerns over sending oil through Churchill
Port at Churchill, Manitoba. (Image from Wikipedia.) Winnipeg – Canada’s federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitt recently came out bluntly against shipping oil through Canada’s north any time soon. At a...
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Paddle for Protection tour set for World Rivers Day
Winnipeg – The Wilderness Committee is leading a series of paddle tours on the lower Bird River to celebrate World Rivers Day on September 28, as part of a campaign calling for the protection of this...
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Skownan First Nation and Manitoba government announce new protected lands
Photo credit: Eric Reder, Wilderness Committee. Winnipeg – Skownan First Nation and the Manitoba government have hatched a new agreement that will protect the Chitek Lake region as a new 1,003-square...
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Whiteshell Provincial Park protected in Manitoba
Image from Wikipedia. Winnipeg – Environmental groups are applauding the Manitoba government for adding a huge area of protected lands and waters to Whiteshell Provincial Park, one of Manitoba’s most...
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Manitoba Premier urged to ban mining in provincial parks
Manitoba’s Nopiming Provincial Park Winnipeg – The Wilderness Committee has delivered 3,600 letters to Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger, asking for a ban on mining in provincial parks. The timely...
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Energy East Pipeline hits protected area roadblock in Manitoba
Whitemud Watershed in western Manitoba. Image: Government of Manitoba. Winnipeg – Research by the Wilderness Committee into the route of TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline has revealed a legal...
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