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COSCO Asks Gibsons Council to Prohibit HSPP Burning
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- Written by Administrator Administrator
- Category: News News
- Published: 02 January 2011 02 January 2011
The Council of Senior Citizens Organizations (COSCO) is asking the Gibsons Council to prohibit or limit the burning of toxic materials by Howe Sound Pulp and Paper. HSPP is currently seeking a amended permit to burn demolition waste at their mill.
Meat Regulations Hinder Small Farmers
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- Written by Lee Riggs Lee Riggs
- Category: I want to be an organic chicken farmer I want to be an organic chicken farmer
- Published: 24 November 2010 24 November 2010
I would like to take a moment and comment on a personal level concerning the meat regulations in general and how they pertain to me. For the past year or so I have been researching and deciphering the present meat regulations in BC and how can I work within the system.
Resident Fish Can Now Affect IPPs
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- Category: Uncategorised Uncategorised
- Published: 23 November 2010 23 November 2010
BC Hydro and AXOR, the company behind the Glacier/Howser power project, no longer have a power purchase agreement. Just what that means for the controversial hydroelectric generating project is unclear, but the Nelson-Creston MLA says it’s “great news.”
COSCO Asks Gibsons Council to Prohibit HSPP Burning
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- Written by Administrator Administrator
- Category: News News
- Published: 23 November 2010 23 November 2010
Community Food Hub - An Idea Whose Time Has Come
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: Green Economy Green Economy
- Published: 16 November 2010 16 November 2010
A Community Food Hub is an idea that is being proposed by the Food Action Network of the One Straw Society. A hub for the processing, storage and distribution of local food.would lend support to local farmers and food production here on the Sunshine Coast. The proposed facility will include a commercial kitchen, warehouse storage, space for workshops, meetings and farmer's markets.
No Sympathy for Campbell
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- Category: Uncategorised Uncategorised
- Published: 16 November 2010 16 November 2010
I’m an environmental activist trying to save our salmon, our rivers, and our farm land. Why should I get warm and mushy all over because Campbell has been pushed out of his office?
Elphinstone Forest & Water Group Advocates for Policy Change
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: News News
- Published: 26 October 2010 26 October 2010
Community members of the Roberts Creek area are raising concerns over their water quality as logging by BC Timber Sales takes place in their watershed. They have formed the Elphinstone Water and Forest Ad-hoc Community Group to bring attention to their concerns and to advocate for change in forestry policy.
Trial Deal a Disgrace
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- Category: Uncategorised Uncategorised
- Published: 22 October 2010 22 October 2010
When I opened the Vancouver Province this morning and turned to the editorial page I thought Wendy had thrown some strange potion into my cereal, as I read: “And what sort of a government do we have in BC when our top justice official, Attorney-General, Mike DeJong, can agree to pay the crooked officials' million legal fees as part of a deal between a supposedly independent special prosecutor and the defence lawyers? What is the point of hiring an independent prosecutor in the first place, if at the end of the process the attorney-general – a a politician in the very government whose integrity the case brings into question – will be needed to approve such a massive carrot in the plea bargain".
Gospel rock revised development plan to be unveiled
On June 28th the Gospel Rock Refinement Working Committee will present their "refined" development plan for public input at a public meeting, after a year of reviewing the development options of the original plan. Gibsons citizens rallied in Lower Gibsons on Sunday, June 27 in opposition to Gospel Rock waterfront development.