According to the government’s 2022 Climate Change Accountability Report, B.C. is currently on course to reach 85% of its emissions targets for 2025.
“We are making progress. I don’t want to discount the effort the provincial governement has made, but they’ve made very clear climate commitments and they’re very clearly not on track to meet them,” explained Peter McCartney of the Wilderness Committee.
Continue reading BC on track to miss emissions targets for 2025 and 2030
Efficiency Canada has just released its 2022 Canadian Energy Efficiency scorecard and British Columbia leads the rankings for the fourth year in a row.
“BC’s updated climate plan includes several nation leading policies. Now the province needs to implement them,” it states in the report.
Continue reading BC leads in Canada’s Energy Efficiency scorecard for the fourth year in a rowThe Wilderness Committee has just finished a survey that shows gas and oil company lobbyists are contacting the BC provincial Government two or three times a day. This is not new, they were also making overtures to the previous BC Liberal regime, but it does raise the question of whether they are shaping the policies that determine the future of all British Columbians.
Continue reading BC Gas and Oil Lobbyists: Behind Victoria’s closed doorsThe opinions you are about to hear belong to the people expressing them and are not necessarily shared by Cortes Radio, it’s board, staff, producers, volunteers or listeners.
Extinction Rebellion Vancouver Island and Dr. David Suzuki will host a Funeral for the Future in Victoria this Saturday. It starts at 12:30 PM in Centennial Square, after which participants will march to Bellevue street opposite the Provincial Legislature.
Continue reading This Saturday in Victoria: A Funeral for the FutureNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Many remote West Coast communities rely on diesel for electricity generation, which poses a range of negative economic, social, and environmental effects.
But some sites along B.C.’s extensive coastline are ideal for tidal energy micro-grids that may well be the answer for off-grid communities to generate clean power, suggested experts at a COAST (Centre for Ocean Applied Sustainable Technologies) virtual event Wednesday.
Continue reading Is tidal energy the surge remote coastal communities need?
