By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The city’s cemetery could be going green.
City council has put its staff on the path of reviewing and determining if green burials can be accommodated in the Memorial Park Cemetery, as well as City staff to complete a Parks and Cemetery Master Plan in 2024.
Continue reading Green burials: review and determination of natural burials to be made for Nelson’s cemetery
By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The province’s choice to continue to log old growth forest in B.C. is not only endangering mountain caribou but also the environment and its people, says a local conservation group.
Craig Pettitt, chair of the Valhalla Wilderness Society, said the provincial government has put the welfare and survival of the “deep snow” mountain caribou — otherwise known as the southern mountain caribou — and old growth forests behind logging profits.
Continue reading Logging continues in ‘critical’ mountain caribou old growth forest: Valhalla Wilderness SocietyBy Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
A Nelson activist group is calling for a province-wide travel coach system in order to dovetail into the Province’s Clean Transportation Action Plan.
The Nelson and Area Action Group for Better Public Transportation claims a public inter-city bus system is one of the more important aspects in lowering emissions in the province.
Continue reading Action Group advocates for province-wide transit serviceBy Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The nation’s Species at Risk Act is no law at all, says a local environmental group.
The Valhalla Wilderness Society contends that the Species at Risk Act (SARA) does not provide protection under the law for the endangered mountain caribou and its habitat, 30 years after Canada signed an accord — at the UN Convention on Biodiversity in Rio De Janeiro — to protect biodiversity, which spawned the enactment of SARA.
Continue reading Canada betrays its ‘Species at Risk Act’ while province wipes out mountain caribou habitat: VWSBy Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The song might remain the same but the tune has changed as COVID-19 cases decrease in Nelson and area but another fall virus is making its way through the population.
Although the number of COVID-19 cases has been on the decline, infection rates remain high with other respiratory viruses like respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
Continue reading From the frying pan to the fire: viral heat in Nelson still turned up but on a different channel
