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How ocean acidification is reshaping marine food webs
Late afternoon view down the Strait of George / George Le Masurier photo By Gavin MacRae he depths of the ocean are slowing climate change, but at a cost. Seawater acidity is increasing as the oceans...
Island and BC coastal communities say “ban groundwater licenses”
Bruce and Nicole Gibbons, photograph from their Facebook page By George Le Masurier epresentatives of 53 municipalities on Vancouver Island and the British Columbia coast have endorsed a Comox Valley initiative for the...
Comox Valley man working AVICC to ban groundwater extraction
Vancouver Island Groundwater Rights Update Water rights advocate Bruce Gibbons is on a mission to end licensing of groundwater extraction for bottled water on Vancouver Island. And if that goes well, for all of BC
Comox Valley hears “Voices from the Sacrifice Zone’
By Gavin MacRae was a long rap sheet, but speakers from the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment detailed the dangers of fracking to people in the Peace region of BC, this Sunday at the Florence Filberg...
Five anti-fracking activists speak at CV forum
Anti-fracking activists tell Comox Valley audience that the LNG life cycle is worse for the environment than coal, and that BC project serve only export markets that soon may not exist
DFO allows herring fishery, despite wide protest
Conservancy Hornby Island has criticized a decision by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to allow the March herring fishery to go ahead. It undercuts efforts to protect Killer Whales and chinook salmon stocks.
Strathcona groundwater motion headed to AVICC vote
The Strathcona Regional District has asked the province to cease licensing groundwater for commercial water bottling and bulk water exports. It hopes all municipalities in BC will join the movement.
Father Charles Brandt: a long and winding journey
Hermit-priest Father Charles Brandt took a long and winding journey from a rural Missouri farm to a hermitage on the Oyster River. Now, he’s protected it forever.