Elizabeth May calls for halt to logging plans of Nanoose Bay Ancient Forest within UN Biosphere Reserve

Today Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May joined the call to halt logging plans for a 64 hectare tract of Coastal Douglas Fir (CDF) forest on Crown land within a UN Biosphere Reserve near Nanoose Bay on central Vancouver Island. The Nanoose Bay Ancient Forest, also known as “District Lot 33” (DL 33), is ...

From cod to salmon: when do we ever learn?

Commentary by Elizabeth May | October 8, 2009 Reprint from Volume 21 Number 20British Columbia may have no other animal as iconic as the wild salmon. Creature of deep forest streams, raging rivers and open ocean, the wild salmon feeds the ecosystem from soil to grizzly, sustaining jobs and culture. That such an emblematic species should be struggling for survival speaks volumes about the state of our whole living world....

Alberta as Energy “Super Power”

Blog Post | Elizabeth May August 30 2010An item in the Victoria Times Colonist caught my attention the other day -- “It’s booze, gambling that powers Alberta.” Amazing that with all the alleged oil wealth that drives the economy, Alberta’s government actually gets more money from taxes on alcohol and on provincial government-run gambling than from royalties on fossil fuels....

Stephen Schneider

Blog | Elizabeth May July 24, 2010 One of the world’s leading climate scientists has died. I knew him and respected his work and his commitment enormously. Stephen Schneider did his work from Colorado but is perhaps best known for tracking the growth in carbon dioxide from the pure readings of the Mauna loa site ...

Budget Bill passed

By Elizabeth May July 16, 2010On July 6, I testified before the one legislative body that paused to examine the budget bill, the Senate Finance Committee. In a series of rushed hearings, the Senators heard about the changes found in those 883 pages: removal of lucrative business for Canada Post, potentially weakening our national public carrier, pre-approval for sale of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd, without a public review of the questions of who will be responsible for the long-term management of high-level nuclear wastes, changes to the EI system, new taxes for airline travel, and,......

Prentice’s climate announcements

June 23, 2010 Blog Post By: Elizabeth May On the evening of the G8-G20 Summits, the Harper government has discovered that, as host, it cannot completely control the agenda. While the government convened face-to-face preliminary meetings for the G8 finance and development ministers, it broke with the precedents of decades and never invited environment ministers ...