Huge efforts underway to make temporary repairs to dozens of destroyed bridges and washouts, but designing and building better gets underway in earnest in 2022
VICTORIA — B.C. was still grappling with last month’s floods when the provincial government issued an invitation to construction and design firms to join in a plan to “build back better.”
B.C’s environmental assessment office has issued 11 orders to Coastal GasLink since the project began, including three in November
Jerry cans of gas in an overflowing pool of water. Oil barrels lying on the ground. A dumpster filled to the brim, its lid propped open and bags of garbage left out in bear country. Murky water flowing into wetlands, lakes, streams and rivers.
Canada pledged to protect 25 per cent of land and water by 2025, but British Columbia has added only one percentage point in the past decade. Many say Indigenous protected areas are the way forward. Will the province agree?
British Columbia still hasn’t endorsed the federal government’s promise to protect 25 per cent of lands and oceans in Canada by 2025, leading conservationists and First Nations to call on the province to support more Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss.
Editor: Note the date of this piece. So there were warnings.
May 10, 2012
Rapid runoff, scoured silt from B.C. Interior pose threats downstream.
The Fraser River is at risk of much more frequent and devastating floods because of the rapid pace of logging in the B.C. Interior to salvage vast stands of beetle-killed timber, according to a UBC researcher.
