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Energy

The Expanding Local Market For Solar Power

A Cortes Island based solar company has been installing more systems that tie into the grid. 

There is a lot of potential for solar energy production in British Columbia. It has been largely untouched because of the province’s reliance on hydro-power and natural gas. As of October 2023, BC Hydro had 8,500 net metering customers with a combined solar capacity of 71 MW. This was only a fraction of the 4,609.5 MW of solar capacity tied to Canada’s grid that year. 

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Transportation

Five car ‘near accident’ on Squirrel Cove Road

Around 10:15 AM on Saturday, I was involved in a five car ‘near accident’ on Squirrel Cove Road. It wasn’t a pile up because each of us managed to avoid hitting the other cars as we were sliding backwards. At least two of us went into the ditch to accomplish this.

Someone just sent in this photo which depicts four of the vehicles. The fifth was a little red car tucked in neatly behind the white truck at the back of the row.

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Forests

Confusion around the proposed Anvil Lake logging road

Cortes Currents published a factually incorrect story about the proposed Anvil Lake logging road on Tuesday, August 30, 2022.

Few people knew this, because I pulled the story before it was broadcast on Cortes Radio.

Nick Reed, a local resident, told me, “The concern is mainly the wetlands that this road has to go through, and what effect that will have on Gunflint (and Anvil) Lakes. It is the last wetland on the southern part of Cortes.”

Mark Lombard, general manager of the Cortes Forestry General Partnership (CFGP),  responded, “The CFGP never builds roads through wetlands.”

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