Good news from my neck of the woods. Last week, BC Hydro announced a new generation projectrs from Independant Power Producers. Political objections about allowing business to control electrical energy resources aside… it *is* good that new generating capacity will be coming online in BC, and the majority of it is from renewable sources. A …
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Hotter than Hades – Climate Change vs. Global Warming.
So is this Global Warming? More precisely… is this Climate Change? We’ve set a number of temperature records in British Columbia over the past few days. My weather station at Alberni Weather.ca recorded a maximum of 41.1C on Friday (21st) and over 38C yesterday in the City of Port Alberni. Both would be records if …
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Letter re: Sustainable Forest Practices in BC
Dear Editors of the Alberni Valley Times and the Vancouver Sun, Blustery speeches and heart-felt complaints are all well and good, but they don’t get us very far. At the Public forum held by the Save Our Valley Alliance on May 4 in Port Alberni, I felt there was little in the way of a …
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