British Columbia

07/11/19
Author: 
The Canadian Press
People sift through the 2019 budget booklet at a lockup session with experts and reporters in Ottawa on March 19, 2019. File photo by The Canadian Press/Fred Chartrand

November 6th 2019

Almost two dozen Canadian environment groups are urging the federal Liberal government to make sure its next budget acknowledges that climate change is costing the country hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

The groups are releasing their annual Green Budget document today calling for money for green skills training, funds to retrofit transport trucks with fuel-saving devices and a massive increase in spending on global climate mitigation projects.

30/10/19
Author: 
First Nations Leaders

INVASION: Share this trailer and organize a screening!

30/10/19
Author: 
Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions

Researchers with the PICS Transportation Futures for BC project have calculated how much electricity would be needed if only electric vehicles (cars, trucks, SUVs and buses etc) were driving on BC’s roads by the year 2055.

28/10/19
Author: 
Christopher Hatch
Montay Beaubein-Day, aged 12,Tahltan- Wet’Suwet’en, in Vancouver. Photo by Kris Krug for Desmog.

October 27th 2019

It dawned ominously, the day of the great Greta climate strike in Vancouver. Rain and wind pummeled the lower mainland while emergency sirens echoed across the city. Even the crows were nowhere to be seen, presumably riding out the storm in their Burnaby roosts, not willing to make their ritual morning migration across Metro Vancouver.

25/10/19
Author: 
James Peters
Chief Joe Alphonse (l) at the grand opening ceremony (Image Credit: Tŝilhqot’in Nation)
Oct 21, 2019

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — The Tŝilhqot’in Nation has opened the largest solar farm of its kind in the province.

According to a news release from the Tŝilhqot’in National Government, the facility lies on two hectares of land at the Riverwest Sawmill, about 80 kilometres west of Williams Lake.

The 1.25 MW solar farm consists of 3,456 modules that generate electricity to sell to BC Hydro.

25/10/19
Author: 
James Peters; Monica Lamb-Yorski
Chief Joe Alphonse (l) at the grand opening ceremony (Image Credit: Tŝilhqot’in Nation)
Oct 21, 2019

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — The Tŝilhqot’in Nation has opened the largest solar farm of its kind in the province.

According to a news release from the Tŝilhqot’in National Government, the facility lies on two hectares of land at the Riverwest Sawmill, about 80 kilometres west of Williams Lake.

The 1.25 MW solar farm consists of 3,456 modules that generate electricity to sell to BC Hydro.

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