The 20 conservation officers sworn in last spring are now at work in various locations throughout the province.

The B.C. government has introduced legislation aimed at making sure decisions affecting the province’s natural resources are science-based, transparent and protect B.C.’s unique environment for future generations.

The Government of British Columbia is proposing to make temporary provisions for water use in mineral exploration and small-scale placer mining operations a permanent part of the Water Sustainability Act regulations, and has released an intentions paper for public comment.

George Heyman, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, and Michelle Mungall, Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, have decided to issue an environmental assessment (EA) certificate to IDM Mining Ltd. (IDM) for the Red Mountain Underground Gold Project (Red Mountain).

The Government of British Columbia has filed its registration as an intervener to ensure that British Columbians’ interests are represented in the National Energy Board’s (NEB) reconsideration of aspects of its recommendation report on the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project.

George Heyman, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, has issued the following statement, in response to the federal government’s direction to the National Energy Board to reconsider its recommendations for the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion project: