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The video on the front page of ShapeVancouver.com suggests that by increasing the City’s density there would be significant environmental benefits. However, a recent article on Planetizen from Dr. Tony Recsei suggests that these claimed facts may not have empirical support…
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My photo of Dutch Creek from last Christmas graces the cover of the Columbia Basin Trust's 2010 Desktop Calendar. I only found this out when I received five calendars and a Christmas card from the CBT staff thanking me for the photo!
Technorati Tags: BC, CBT, Columbia Basin Trust, Dutch Creek, Fairmont, Kootenays, photo
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The BC Ministry of Environment recently established a wordpress blog for the Living Water Smart project. As far as I know, this is the firs example of a provincial ministry using blogging software, including permitting comments, (with moderation) on the site!
The first post, by Barry Penner, the Minister, requests comments, and at last count there [...]
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Over at the Castlegar Current, there is some venting over the unpaid property taxes owed the City by Mercer for the Celgar Pulp Mill site. Briefly, Celgar decided not to pay it’s property taxes and requisitions for other levels of government to the City of Castlegar by the deadline in August 2009. Now the battle is going to [...]
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The media reporting on the state of the TSX is pitiful. Daily we hear either that it is rallying, or that some commodity or other is to blame for a slump. And every day, the pundits are able to tell another story, spin out another reason to bet your savings against the promise of growth. But the general feeling in the news rooms seems to be that the recession is over – don’t mix this up with unbridled optimism in the general public though. Governments would have to be getting nervous as their budgets show red for years to come, and the need to spend our way out of this mess is ingrained deeper with every cheque that is signed.
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Having missed the most exciting transportation and engineering event on the Columbia River for 2009. I’ll resort to relying on other people’s accounts of the journey. As an aside, this is an example of the use of traditional transportation methods in BC, a province of lakes, rivers and large mountain ranges. Last century there were even train barges on the lakes around here, as the steep shorelines prevented easy access for rail.
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Many people I speak to around BC about Climate Change don’t realize how much research has been undertaken from a BC perspective on the impacts of Climate Change. For those of you who aren’t into reading lengthy government reports, check out the presentation series linked below.
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Mike Thomas