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As a report finds heat pump uptake isn’t uniform across the Capital Region, local installers say demand is strong on the South Island. (Courtesy of Sasquatch Heat Pumps)

Climate change drives growing demand for heat pumps: B.C. installers

Recently expanded rebates to help entice to more households off fossil fuel systems

 

Quesnel mayor Ron Paull (Frank Peebles photo - Quesnel Cariboo Observer)

Quesnel censures mayor in wake of residential school book controversy

Council disciplined the mayor for jeopardizing their relationship with Indigenous communities

 

Synagro, which built and operates a CRD facility that helps produce the region’s biosolids, has responded to a lawsuit brought on by Texas farmers who said the company’s product made them sick. Pictured is the CRD’s residuals treatment facility at Hartland landfill. (Courtesy of Synagro)

B.C. biosolids maker denies claims its products harmed Texas farmers

Synagro says treated sewage end-products met requirements and benefit agricultural lands

 

CRD chief administrative officer Ted Robbins, left, Pacheedaht First Nation Chief Jeff Jones and CRD board chair Colin Plant sign a memorandum of understanding. (Contributed – CRD)

Capital Regional District, Pacheedaht forge historic government partnership

Agreement outlines collaborative priorities, aiming to facilitate respectful decision-making

CRD chief administrative officer Ted Robbins, left, Pacheedaht First Nation Chief Jeff Jones and CRD board chair Colin Plant sign a memorandum of understanding. (Contributed – CRD)
The Ministry of Transportation completed repairs to a 50-metre stretch of Malahat highway on Oct. 31, almost two years after heavy rains and floods washed out the northbound lane and compromised the cliffside retaining wall. A campaign the CRD could look at joining wants to sue fossil fuel companies for climate-related costs taxpayers are paying. (Courtesy of B.C.’s Ministry of Transportation)

B.C. local leaders ponder lawsuit against ‘big oil’ over climate change

‘Sue Big Oil’ campaign hopes to help communities recoup costs related to the effects of climate change

The Ministry of Transportation completed repairs to a 50-metre stretch of Malahat highway on Oct. 31, almost two years after heavy rains and floods washed out the northbound lane and compromised the cliffside retaining wall. A campaign the CRD could look at joining wants to sue fossil fuel companies for climate-related costs taxpayers are paying. (Courtesy of B.C.’s Ministry of Transportation)
Years after it started operating, odour complaints about the $775-million McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant continue to come in. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

This $775M wastewater plant in B.C. is still seeing odour complaints

Neighbouring residents doubt the sewage treatment site’s smells will ever go away

Years after it started operating, odour complaints about the $775-million McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant continue to come in. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
A CRD master plan proposed to secure the future of water in the region is pegged at $2 billion. (File - Sooke News Mirror)

Greater Victoria waterworks improvement plan could top $2 billion

New filtration plant at Sooke Reservoir front and centre

A CRD master plan proposed to secure the future of water in the region is pegged at $2 billion. (File - Sooke News Mirror)
A celebration for a couple making a lifelong commitment to each other led to revellers being asked to make a lifelong commitment to environmental stewardship. (pixabay photo)

Unsanctioned Gulf Island wedding leads to restorative justice

Sensitive habitat mowed and trampled, revellers asked to commit to “lifelong stewardship’

A celebration for a couple making a lifelong commitment to each other led to revellers being asked to make a lifelong commitment to environmental stewardship. (pixabay photo)