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Strathcona groundwater motion headed to AVICC vote
The Strathcona Regional District has asked the province to cease licensing groundwater for commercial water bottling and bulk water exports. It hopes all municipalities in BC will join the movement.
Father Charles Brandt: a long and winding journey
Hermit-priest Father Charles Brandt took a long and winding journey from a rural Missouri farm to a hermitage on the Oyster River. Now, he’s protected it forever.
Herring fishery hurts bi-national orca recovery efforts
Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans undercuts international, multi-million dollar efforts to boost salmon and Killer Whale populations with a massive herring fish kill in March
Will US/Canada recovery plans do enough to save orcas?
Canada and Washington state have both proposed measures and funding to help the southern resident orcas return to health in the Salish Sea. Will this be enough?
Are Neonicotinoids really just the new DDT?
Scientists have linked both the collapse of bee populations and the stunning decline in bird and bat numbers to a new generation of insecticides called neonicotinoids.
Directors challenge legitimacy of advanced recycling technologies
New directors of the Comox-Strathcona Solid Waste Management Board have called into question the legitimacy of a special committee exploring new waste-to-energy (WTE) technologies.
Sponging up the rain, taxing impervious surfaces — what other communities are doing
This is the sixth in a series of articles about how urban stormwater runoff has negatively impacted Comox Valley waterways, what local governments are doing to address the issues and what other communities have done.
These environment stories from 2018 could give us hope
Climate science reports released in 2018 all pointed to impending catastrophes. But there was also good news to savor, some of it originating right here at home.