Historic protection for BC’s Sacred Headwaters Announced: Major victory in campaign that puts local communities over corporate profit.
Coalbed methane development to be permanently banned from headwaters of major salmon rivers VANCOUVER – The B.C. government announced today that Shell would be withdrawing its plans to develop coalbed methane in the Klappan-Groundhog tenure area in northwest British Columbia. The government will also not issue oil and gas tenures in the area in the future.
Read the full press release at Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition here.
Hat tip Dave McCoy at Scales / Emerald Water Anglers
