Carbon tax bad timing
Too bad the carbon tax hike that came into effect on April 1 wasn’t Justin Trudeau’s idea of a bad joke.
Tag: environment
Join National Lake Blitz in your region
Residents up for a little science project are invited to join the 4th annual National Lake Blitz in their area.
Canal Flats wastewater facility on notice
The Village of Canal Flats recently received a warning letter from the provincial Ministry of Environment and Climate Change about its wastewater treatment facility.
Climate Action Plan summary released
The Regional District of East Kootenay has just released a Climate Action Plan engagement summary, including the results of the recent public survey.
Ktunaxa First Nation responds to lawsuit
Last month Ktunaxa First Nation responded to Taranis Resources Inc’s lawsuit regarding the Thor copper project near Trout Lake in Ktunaxa’s traditional territory northeast of Nakusp.
Illegal dumping affront to Mother Earth
What a disgraceful blight on the landscape. What an affront to the environment, whittled away by irresponsible people. The audacity that some individuals show towards our ecology is shameful.
Golf balls don’t belong in the river
Letter to the editor In August and September this year we canoed 1,300 kilometres of the Columbia...
Biodiversity protection is key
Wildsight welcomes the BC government’s commitment to protecting biodiversity and ecosystem health and the creation of a law that would give overarching priority to biodiversity protection.
‘Playing beaver’ in drying of the wetlands
The Columbia Wetlands are drying — and they have been for many decades due to climate change. One solution may help wetlands adapt and safeguard their key ingredient. It involves mimicking the actions of one of the most iconic and ubiquitous animals across Canada.
Keen partnership protects habitat, forests
A keen partnership is watching over the forests and wildlife habitat in B.C.
Kat Hartwig receives conservation award
For the East Kootenay the 2023 award recipient is Kat Hartwig, who was recognized for her leadership with Living Lakes Canada.
Those determined Dragonflies
They say that dragonflies can see in all directions simultaneously — and that might be true because, in this way, they symbolize a change and a view of self-understanding in some Indigenous communities.
Falling into new season
The transition from summer into fall results in interesting and dynamic changes in lake ecology. Including temperature fluctuations, changes in the activities of various organisms, and changes in light availably to the water column. Let’s look at these aspects a little closer.
Invermere lobbies for issues at UBCM
Invermere representatives lobbied provincial officials on a range of issues of local interest at the Union of British Columbia Municipalities (UBCM) convention in the Lower Mainland last week.
What is flowing into Lake Windermere?
In addition to the Columbia River, there are several feeder tributaries that recharge Lake Windermere. The quality and quantity of water entering lakes from tributaries are influenced by the geology, activities, and infrastructure of the watershed they flow over or through.
Outdoor education advocates ‘shocked’ over CBT draft plan
The draft has already created a stir, not so much for what it contains as for what it does not contain, with local outdoor education advocates noting the plan does not refer to education or learning in broad or general terms, let alone to environmental education specifically.
Recovery fund boosts five local projects
Five local projects have received a monetary boost of $145,000 through the government of Canada’s Community Services (COVID) Recovery Fund.
Athalmer composting facility raises concern
An Invermere resident is raising concern about the potential environmental impacts of the new Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) composting facility, which is being built down in Athalmer, right next to the District of Invermere’s sewage lagoons and the Ray Brydon Park.
Council reviews application amidst concerns
Invermere council continues to review a local company’s application to expand its business in the industrial park amidst environmental and flood plain concerns.
BCWF offers free workshop
The B.C. Wildlife Federation (BCWF) is offering a Fish Habitat Stewardship Workshop to the community of Invermere on August 26 to 27 in Abel Creek from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
