By Roy L Hales
This sounds like a golden week for the worlds leading electric bus BYD sold another 2,200 eBuses and electric taxis.
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Protesting Service Cuts to an Overpriced BC Ferry System
Thousands of people may be descending on Victoria on March 11, protesting service cuts to an overpriced BC Ferry System.
Notices have been posted in local webpages like the Salt Spring Exchange and Cortes Island Tideline Buses are accepting a $10 donation to transport passengers from Campbell River to Victoria, so that demonstrators can “make it back for dinner time!” Another bus will be leaving the Sunshine Coast at 6:20 am and will reach Victoria at 11:30. On April 1, 2014, the BC Ferries system intends to cut 7,000 sailings.
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Metro Vancouver Will have Canada’s Longest Transit System
“You know that it is a tradition in the tunnel boring industry to name the machine after woman,” British Columbia’s Premier, Christy Clark, began. “We are here today to christen this machine Alice, after Alice Wilson who was the very first woman they ever hired in the Geological Survey of Canada.” Once the tunnel it bores is operational, Metro Vancouver will have Canada’s longest transit system.
BC Hydro Files Application To Increase Nameplate Net Metering Capacity to 100 kW
On February 28, 2014, BC Hydro filed an application to the BC Utilities Commission to increase the nameplate capacity limit under Net Metering from 50 to 100 kW.
There are presently around 250 rooftop solar installations, generating around 2.1 MW, in the province.
How 204 US mayors spent their stimulus money
As part of the economic stimulus package five years ago, Congress allotted $3.2 billion for Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants (EECBG) to be spent by local governments. 204 US mayors filled out questionnaires explaining how that money was spent in their cities.
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