Impact of Site C Dam on B.C. Farmland Far More Dire Than Reported
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The Environmental Appeal Board recently ruled B.C. was in its right to grant Rio Tinto Alcan a permit to increase sulphur dioxide emissions (SO2) from its 60-year old Alcan aluminum smelter in Kitimat.
The permit, granted in 2013, allowed Rio Tinto to increase sulphur dioxide emission as part of the company’s modernization of the aging Kitimat aluminum smelter. The modernization project, which nearly doubles the plant’s production, decreases the release of greenhouse gas emissions but raises sulphur dioxide emissions by 56 per cent.
The B.C. Ministry of Environment granted Rio Tinto permission to modernize the smelter but did not require the company to install scrubbers, commonly used in smelters to remove airborne pollutants from emissions. Read more.
Alberta Is Way More Progressive Than Alberta Thinks, According to New Poll
Albertans are more politically progressive than assumed, according to findings collected by Ottawa’s Abacus Data and published in a recent report titled “The Quiet Majority.”
Commissioned by Progress Alberta — a brand new left-leaning, non-partisan organization based in Edmonton and affiliated with the Broadbent Institute — the poll discovered that 59 per cent of Albertans self-describe as “progressive” and tend to vastly overestimate the percentage of other Albertans who self-describe as conservatives. Read more.
Impact of Site C Dam on B.C. Farmland Far More Dire Than Reported, Local Farmers Show
Clay and Katy Peck are just the type of young farming family that B.C. Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick says his government wants to support to ensure “a reliable food source for years to come.”
The Pecks own a 65-hectare farm in the Agricultural Land Reserve overlooking the Peace River, and are preparing for organic certification of a fruit and vegetable business to serve the northern area around Fort St. John.r0
