Tag Archives: Environment
Strike-impacted forestry workers thrown a lifeline
ERRINGTON - The impact of a nearly five-month long strike between Western Forest Products and United Steelworkers Local 1-1937 is being temporarily relieved for some local forestry workers.They've bee...
Nov 19, 2019 An 80-acre lot in Errington is providing unexpected work opportunities for contractors impacted by the ongoing strike between WFP and USW. (Ron Chiovetti)
Bush cameras installed to deter backcountry vandals and thieves
PORT ALBERNI - A Vancouver Island forestry giant has turned to concealed bush cameras in response to thieves, vandals and illegal trash dumpers.Mosaic Forest Management vice president Domenico Iannidi...
Nov 17, 2019 One of an unknown number of hidden bush cameras planted on Mosaic Forest Management lands in response to property damage and illegal dumping. (Submitted photo)
Roadside parking and Witchcraft Lake boardwalk to be removed
NANAIMO - A troublesome parking lot leading up Mount Benson is set to be removed, while the floating boardwalk spanning Witchcraft Lake will also be decommissioned.The Regional District of Nanaimo (RD...
Nov 13, 2019 The boardwalk across Witchcraft Lake and 24-stall parking lot meters away will be removed. The RDN board made the unanimous decision at a Nov. 12 board meeting. (Ian Holmes/NanaimoNewsNOW)
Incoming turbulent weather elevates tree-toppling concerns in Nanaimo
NANAIMO - As storm season approaches, applications and inquiries from concerned citizens about potentially hazardous trees on their property are mounting at Nanaimo City Hall.The City's urban forestry...
Nov 11, 2019 Damage like this from a downed tree to a Labieux Rd. area home were all too common following the December, 2018 windstorm in Nanaimo (Brian Curley)
Clear and unequivocal: Thousands of scientists sign letter on climate crisis
An open letter signed by thousands of scientists from around the world may be the clearest demonstration yet of their near-unanimous agreement over the globe's emerging climate crisis. Published ...
Nov 05, 2019
City advances plans for East Wellington Park; wildlife viewing & raised trail among possibilities
NANAIMO - Options are being narrowed on what a proposed new 30-acre park bordering the Millstone River will look like.Council endorsed several draft concepts for East Wellington Park, setting the stag...
Oct 29, 2019 East Wellington Park features 30 acres of meadow-like wetland buffered by trees and the Millstone River. (City of Nanaimo)
Alberta tables climate plan for industry; retains key parts of old legislation
EDMONTON - Alberta has introduced a new climate plan for the province's big greenhouse gas emitters that it says will achieve similar emissions cuts as the former NDP government's plan and at less cos...
Oct 29, 2019 (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)
Conservation officers relying on fines to help keep bears at bay
NANAIMO - Conservation officers are vowing to fine people who don't do their part limiting human-bear conflicts in the Nanaimo and Oceanside regions.Ministry of Environment data supplied to NanaimoNew...
Oct 25, 2019 Conservation officers respond to a bear call in Port Alberni on Thursday, Oct. 24. (Stuart Bates)
Liberals: TMX pipeline could fund $500 million a year in clean energy projects
OTTAWA - The Liberal government expects to get $500 million a year out of the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline and is promising to spend it all on cleaner sources of energy and projects that...
Oct 24, 2019
Oilsands carbon liability at centre of closely watched New York fraud lawsuit
Alberta's oilsands are at the centre of a closely watched court battle in New York today. The state's attorney general is accusing Exxon Mobil of misrepresenting the risks the operations face as gover...
Oct 23, 2019