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Loss of BC wetlands can amplify effects of extreme weather events | The Weather Network

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FortisBC violating environmental permit for more than a year | Vancouver Sun

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Inside the fiery end of Vancouver Island's last coal mine | The Tyee

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Metro Vancouver is running out of drinking water — and the solutions are interesting | CBC News

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When watersheds fail | Watershed Sentinel

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Landslide mitigation to protect salmon habitat begins on Vancouver Island | Times Colonist

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LETTER: Help kick-start a review of industrial water rates in BC humans created? | Comox Valley Record

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Can nature help solve the flood threat humans created? The Tyee

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Single-use water bottle ban in Tofino to come into effect on Wednesday | CHEK News

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Why logging isn't the solution to BC's wildfire crisis | The Tyee

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Average B.C. snowpack of 92% masks 'strong regional divide,' says provincial bulletin | CBC

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Cattle Were Poisoned by BC’s Forest Fertilizer. Now Someone Will Pay. | The Tyee

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Water mapping helps rural BC communities prepare for wildfire response | The Free Press

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City of Courtenay considers switching all homes to water meters | CBC News

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B.C. phosphate mine penalized $23k for 122 environmental monitoring failures | BIV

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Why B.C. is flooding — again | The Narwhal

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B.C. firm penalized for ‘predictable’ release of toxic cocktail into Fraser River | BIV

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Water-stressed BC towns want the province to stop 'giving water away' to industry | Canada's National Observer

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Powell River company's hope to export power to the U.S. hits roadblock with energy regulator | CBC News

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VIU researchers target stormwater hotspots as tire toxin hits salmon streams | Chek News

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Lowest-ever Osoyoos Lake levels likely to remain until spring | Times Chronicle

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‘Not disposal sites’: Snuneymuxw calls for action after oil spill, toxic sawmill effluent discharge at Duke Point | Chek News

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BC Halts Plans to Make Polluters Pay for Cleanup Costs | The Tyee

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Groundwater monitoring lacking in Columbia Basin aquifers, report finds | My East Kootenay Now

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BC judge rejects class action over deadly Duffey Lake landslide | BIV

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BC opens public review of Elkford coal mine expansion proposal | Vancouver Sun

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What are BC's most endangered rivers? | Global News

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Stoney Creek sewer to get upgrade; Coquitlam traffic to be impacted | Tri-Cities Dispatch

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Younes Alila: B.C.’s flood strategy must incorporate current science on the multiple causes of flood risk | Vancouver Sun

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How the renewed push for critical minerals puts Canadian waters at risk | Canada's National Observer

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B.C. firm penalized $142K for 'major' waste leaks at gold mine | BIV

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Industries pay much less for water in BC, report finds | The Tyee

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Storm knocks out power for thousands across B.C. | CBC News

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Industries Pay Much Less for Water in BC, Report Finds | The Tyee

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B.C.'s failure to fund flood response 'troublesome' as atmospheric river strikes again | The Narwhal

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Vernon Creek Naturalization project mostly done, will be completed in the spring of 2026 | Castanet

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This 1.3M salmon restoration effort in Nootka Sound could mend decades of heavy logging | Hashilthsa

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Port Coquitlam recycling company fined $454,000 for water contamination of river | Vancouver Sun

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Floods, Fires, Forests. For Younes Alila, It All Connects | The Tyee

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Creating watershed security through collaborative leadership | Vernon Morning Star

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Leaked report claims B.C. timber harvest is vastly overestimated | BIV

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BC’s Flood Prevention Promises Remain Unfulfilled | The Tyee

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Feds say Elk Valley coal mine extension needs further assessment | BIV

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As water dries up in northeast B.C., some want industrial users paying more to pump it | CBC News

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Water security a matter of national security | Hill Times

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Sunshine Coast fish farm appears to be abandoned, environmental groups says | Global News

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BC charges Canada's lowest industrial water rates, finds report | BIV

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AI-related data centres use vast amounts of water. But gauging how much is a murky business in Drought-Plagued Northeast BC | CBC News

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Fracking’s Water Demand Soared in Drought-Plagued Northeast BC | The Tyee

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B.C coal giant penalized millions for treatment delays, 171 pollution breaches | BIV

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Beavers disappeared from syilx territories. Could imitating their habitats bring the back - and restore their wetlands? | The Narwhal

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Screenshot of a Vancouver Sun article titled: Trump wants B.C.'s water: Plausible or one big pipe dream?A Drought Emergency Looms in Dawson Creek | The Tyee

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Screenshot of a Vancouver Sun article titled: Trump wants B.C.'s water: Plausible or one big pipe dream?'Sobering' news: No money for B.C.'s flood strategy that will need billions, Metro Vancouver told | The Province

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Toxic effluent, repeated penalties plague B.C. Domtar mill| BIV

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Opinion: Trump’s threats to our water security require urgent action
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Trump wants B.C.'s water: Plausible or one big pipe dream? | Vancouver Sun

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Opinion: B.C. giving away fresh water while funding to fight fires, floods and scarcity dries up | Vancouver Sun

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Atmospheric rivers require new approach to water management | Times Colonist

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B.C. storm weather updates: Body found in Coquitlam mudslide | Weather warnings over as cleanup continues | Six homes under evacuation order in Deep Coveatershed security hasn’t been given its due this election  | Vancouver Sun

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Watershed security hasn’t been given its due this election  | Coast Reporter

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B.C. election candidates must prioritize watershed security to reduce flood risk | Tri-city News

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Investing in watershed security must define B.C.’s future | Fernie.com

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Hudson's Hope facing big bill for water treatment | Daybreak North with Carolina de Ryk

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Coree Tull: Why B.C.’s rivers and watersheds should be a priority this election | The Province

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Port Coquitlam company issued maximum $150,000 fine by Ministry of Environment for lacking proper permit | Tri-Cities Dispatch

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'Sustainable’ logging operations are clear-cutting Canada’s climate-fighting forest | Reuters

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Coquitlam River records historic return of sockeye salmon | Tri-Cities Dispatch

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Wildfire of rumours: Finding truth in dangerous times | Northern Beat

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Extended nightmarish drought strains British Columbia water systems | National Observer

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Water has flowed from Vancouver taps for 100 years. What about the next century? | Vancouver Sun

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screen shot of CBC article about an Abbotsford Class-action lawsuitA decade after disastrous breach, Mount Polley mine tailings dam could get even bigger | The Narwhal

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'Nuisance' beavers relocated, put to work in dried-up watershed | CBC

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Some B.C. residents banned from watering lawn amid dry weather. Heat warnings in place across province, including southern and central Interior | CBC

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Experts stunned by discovery in wetlands 10 years after reintroduction of centuries-extinct beavers: 'Can transform local environments' | Yahoo!

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Agreement-in-principle reached to modernize Columbia River Treaty | CBC

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Conservancy buys island in B.C.'s Fraser River to protect salmon | CBC

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The Massive Harm of LNG Fracking, Tallied | The Tyee

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B.C. coal mining company fined for more than 400 violations | CBC News

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The benefits, opportunities, costs and challenges of restoring Sumas Lake (Part 1) | Fraser Valley Current

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Court certifies class-action flooding lawsuit against Abbotsford| CBC

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Life in the Age of Drought | Maclean's

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BC’s massive water management challenges can benefit from small-scale solutions | Business in Vancouver

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Opinion: BC needs local watershed boards to avoid water wars | Vancouver Sun

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If Canada’s environmental fines don’t match the crimes, industrial pollution will continue | The Narwhal

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Residents stroll riverbed in Prince George amid drought | CBC

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In BC’s forests, a debate over watershed science with lives and billions at stake | Global News

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