From the desk of Regional Director Robyn Mawhinney
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This report is a round-up of info on road concerns & related advocacy, SRD committee news, and a bit about kelp.
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How a Comox Valley fossil discovery forever changed paleontology in BC
By David Flawse, The Discourse, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
In late autumn 1988, Richard Hebda — then head of botany at the Royal BC Museum — stepped into the living room of a man named Mike Trask following a report of an interesting fossil find on the Puntledge River.
According to Hebda, when he shook hands with the amateur fossil hunter, he was not expecting much. Before this, the paleobotanist had a call about dinosaur ribs in a dry creek bed near Chemainus that turned out to be dirtbike tracks.
But this stop at the Courtenay resident’s home would be different.
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Proposed B.C. coal mine gets axed over ‘significant’ environmental effects
By Natasha Bulowski, Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The federal and British Columbia governments have rejected a proposed open-pit coal mine over its environmental impacts.
The Sukunka open-pit coal mine near Tumbler Ridge, B.C., would have produced three million tons of coal per year to sell to steel manufacturers overseas, according to Glencore, the company behind the project. The federal government announced the rejection — based on B.C.’s environmental assessment process — on Dec. 21.
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