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It’s a lake so blue you would think you were in the Caribbean—until it freezes in the fall.

BLOODVEIN RIVER, MANITOBA—Rob Whaley and his friends just discovered something about one of Canada’s most pristine wilderness areas: just when you get away from it all, you can’t, because a provincial premier and 38 other people might drop in. That’s what Whaley, a Huntsville, Ont., family doctor, found out as

Canada’s most prominent environmentalist didn’t mince words Friday when he slammed Hugh McFadyen’s Progressive Conservatives for wanting to build the new Bipole hydro transmission line through one of the last intact wilderness areas in North America.

Here’s a partial transcript of what happened Monday night at the legislative building. It was sent to me by the NDP. The Selinger government sees itself increasingly under pressure from Hugh McFadyen’s Tories on the Bipole III file, and whether the line should be built down the short, and less

Imagine their surprise—a crew of grubby diehard wilderness canoeists on the Bloodvein River were welcomed to Manitoba by Premier Greg Selinger Thursday. They also met some 39 conservation scientists, dignitaries and major media from Toronto, Chicago, New York and Winnipeg, also on tour on the Bloodvein River.

DEAR EDITOR, In his May 6 column, Will Yanks pay for NDP mistake?,  Garland Laliberte gives the false impression that Manitoba Hydro faces no risks and no challenges when it comes to marketing and selling our power as a clean premium product in international export markets.  Nothing could be further

U.S. conservationists back NDP strategy A U.S.-based conservation group has weighed into the Manitoba Hydro Bipole III debate, arguing that moving the transmission line down the east side of Lake Winnipeg would harm the boreal forest. The Pew Environment Group’s report, which came out earlier this week, found Canada’s boreal

In response to commentary by Canadian Taxpayers Federation (Bipole III boondoggle no longer affordable, Feb. 8), we would like to provide the following perspective. Based on a spreadsheet prepared a number of months ago, recent media reports have indicated that the cost of Manitoba Hydro’s Bipole III project will increase

Study looks at what may come after Bipole III The not-yet built Bipole III will be maxed out once the next generation of dams is constructed, raising the spectre of a fourth mega-power line and reviving the idea of an underwater route. A 200-page report on the viability of a

A website launched a month ago to raise funds toward a United Nations world heritage site designation on the east side of the province has collected almost $25,000 and seen nearly 5,000 visits. Sue Barkman, director of development and community relations for the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), said

The letter Engineers united on east side (Dec. 8) states: “The two routes traverse the same length of boreal forest (about 400 kilometres).” This is true for the west side; absolutely false for the east side. If an east-side Bipole III was built according to the route that proponents suggest,

Today, 10 leading environmental groups gave the Manitoba government and Indigenous partners on the east side of Lake Winnipeg an award for their work to promote the creation of an UNESCO world heritage site in this spectacular tract of intact boreal forest.