Articles Submitted from North Island - Powell River Members
Going Green in Sointula
By Jim MacDougall Sointula, January 2020 Several months ago I was loading a small box of recyclables into my truck for the weekly trip to the local drop-off depot, when it hit me how ridiculous it was to be doing this good thing in a carbon- spewing vehicle. That was...
Flushing Away All Their Troubles: Cruise Ships Lay Trail of Waste
By Jim MacDougall Sointula It’s time to put an end to needless polluting. I was sitting on my deck, watching a couple of cruise ships heading south (east actually), toward Vancouver or Seattle. No doubt returning from Alaska. What a sight! I reside in a small town,...
An Open Letter re LNG
An Open Letter To Governments of B.C. and Canada Regarding the LNG Canada project, environmental damage and global warming: The B.C. Government has entered into an agreement with a consortium of oil companies to build and extract LNG (liquefied natural gas), process...
Challenging a Colonial Inheritance
by Pat Carl for Fair Vote Comox Valley Usually I like to write about my successes as a teacher. But sometimes it’s healthy to confess failures. So, here goes. Bless me, readers, for I have sinned. While instructing at North Island College in Courtenay, I was assigned...
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