Tag Archives: Environment
Alberta suspends environmental reporting requirements over COVID crisis
EDMONTON - Alberta has suspended environmental reporting requirements for industry. The move comes in a ministerial order signed on Tuesday by Environment Minister Jason Nixon. It says the suspension ...
Apr 02, 2020
Stage 2 water restrictions come into effect early for RDN communities
NANAIMO - Many mid-island communities are jumping right into alternating water days after a dry beginning of the year. Stage 2 water restrictions are now in place for the City of Parksville and nine s...
Apr 01, 2020 Restrictions are now in place about when you can water your lawn, depending on where you live in the Regional District of Nanaimo. (Pixabay)
Here fishy, fishy: Nanaimo lakes stocked with rainbow trout
NANAIMO - Fishing one of Nanaimo's stocked lakes can be a fun social distancing way to spend an afternoon.Even more so now, since the Freshwater Fisheries Society piped 7,000 trout into seven lakes in...
Mar 29, 2020 Freshwater Fisheries Society crews have been busy pumping rainbow trout into Nanaimo lakes lately. (Ian Holmes/NanaimoNewsNOW)
Kiwanis Village complaints resecures transit stop in front of Nanaimo care home
NANAIMO - A more direct bus route near Nanaimo Hospital reflecting public feedback and ridership trends was reversed when concerns were raised long after public consultation.RDN directors recently una...
Mar 27, 2020 Public transit has been restored to Nelson St. in front of Kiwanis Village. Residents, their family members, staff and volunteers raised concerns when this bus stop was temporarily shuttered. (Alex Rawnsley/NanaimoNewsNOW)
Former Nanaimo resident in Spain makes impassioned COVID-19 plea to Canadians
NANAIMO - When COVID-19 cases started regularly showing up in Europe in early February, Michelle Lorusso wasn't overly concerned. The former Nanaimo resident, now in her fifth year living in Spain, sa...
Mar 26, 2020 The streets are quiet in Pamplona, Spain, beneath the apartment of Michelle Lorusso. COVID-19 is an increasing concern in the northern Spain city of 250,000 near the France border. (Michelle Lorusso)
Man fined $10K for cutting down tree holding bald eagle nest in Comox
COURTENAY - A stiff fine was levied against a man responsible for cutting down a tree in Comox which destroyed an active bald eagle's nest.Russel Frederick Vida, 54, pleaded guilty to the March 5, 201...
Mar 24, 2020 Russell Frederick Vida was convicted after pleading guilty to cutting down a tree home to a bald eagle's nest in Comox. The case was resolved recently in provincial court in Courtenay following the March 5, 2019 incident. (BC Conservation Officer Service)
Parks Canada to close national parks, historic sites to vehicle traffic
Parks Canada is restricting vehicles in national parks and national historic sites after people flocked to the popular areas on the weekend.The federal agency said it's still noticing lots of visitors...
Mar 24, 2020
Front St. bike lanes given final approval by Nanaimo Council
NANAIMO - A major overhaul for a key road in downtown Nanaimo is officially approved. Nanaimo council endorsed the $400,000 project to narrow Front St. and install bi-directional bicycle lanes during ...
Mar 18, 2020 A conceptual view of Front St. looking north at the Church St. intersection. Revamping Front St. features narrowing the road and installing bi-directional bike lanes between the Gabriola Island ferry terminal to Cliff St. (City of Nanaimo)
Funding aimed at further snuffing out Nanaimo's wildfire risk
NANAIMO - A grassroots initiative in Nanaimo is armed with funding to better protect vulnerable neighbourhoods from potential wildfires.The City of Nanaimo received $25,000 to support a series of Fire...
Mar 14, 2020 VIU property just east of the Nanaimo Parkway will be the site of a FireSmart clean-up event this spring. (Ian Holmes/NanaimoNewsNOW)
Long-in-the-works solid waste management plan approved for Regional District of Nanaimo
NANAIMO - The goal of diverting more waste from the Cedar landfill is closer than ever. B.C.'s ministry of environment approved on March 5, 2020 the solid waste management plan put forward by the Regi...
Mar 13, 2020 Work can now move ahead to divert 90 per cent of waste in the Regional District of Nanaimo. (Ian Holmes/NanaimoNewsNOW)