Dry summer conditions, low snowpack have put town's prime water source at risk
The town of Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island will start using pumps to keep the local river flowing, due to one of the most severe droughts its watershed has experienced.
Water from Cowichan Lake will start being pumped into the Cowichan River on Thursday.
Catalyst Crofton, the company that will manage the process, says 11 droughts have plagued the Cowichan basin since 1998.
In Nova Scotia, water protectors have fiercely opposed a gas company’s plans for a decade, helped by a celebrity supporter.
Michael Harris, a Tyee contributing editor, is a highly awarded journalist and documentary maker. Author of Party of One, the bestselling exposé of the Harper government, his investigations have sparked four commissions of inquiry.
[Editor: A frightening account of the effects of climate change right now in India and the political, economic and social background to the suffering of people from climate change there.]
When I told people I was heading to northeastern British Columbia to check out fracking sites, the most common response was: “We do that here?”
Few southerners have any idea what goes on in the Peace region, and even fewer will ever see it for themselves. For all the hype about liquefied natural gas (LNG) the last few years, not many of us seem to know where it all comes from.
