en-us Copyright Sightline Daily - all rights reserved newsfeeds@sightline.org newsfeeds@sightline.org Most recent British Columbia headlines from Sightline Daily, the Northwest news that matters http://daily.sightline.org Plone http://daily.sightline.org/logo.gif 427 69 The Gateway Program is at odds with the B.C. government's new Climate Action Plan, and one or the other will have to give, transportation planner Eric Doherty says. Doherty, an official with the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation, noted that the Climate Action Plan released last week, calls for reducing the number of kilometres travelled in vehicles as a way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. http://thetyee.ca/News/2008/07/03/FreewayJam/ Climate Environment Sprawl & Transportation British Columbia Canada 07/03/2008 The Tyee A lone commercial seiner combed waters around Frederick Arm north of Campbell River yesterday in a vain effort to catch 30,000 escaped farm-raised Atlantic salmon. The escape was one of the biggest for Marine Harvest Canada, the largest aquaculture business in the province. http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=e8e01e0c-c2ac-441a-ba8b-e05347585422 Environment Salmon British Columbia Canada 07/03/2008 Victoria Times Colonist Switching to more-fuel-efficient cars and trucks, teaching better driving habits and installing equipment to stop speeding and idling are at the top of the list of to-dos when it comes to B.C. companies lowering their fuel costs. http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=4e494ade-77dc-44f7-8d1c-5f9abe6cc44f Energy Environment Sprawl & Transportation British Columbia Canada 07/03/2008 Vancouver Sun Divers spent Wednesday morning inspecting two rail cars loaded with chemicals that landed in the Thompson River after a Canadian Pacific Railway train derailed Tuesday evening near the B.C. Interior town of Lytton. The CPR train was travelling on the CN track about 100 kilometres southwest of Kamloops when it was hit by a rock slide. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/07/02/bc-rockslide-train-lytton.html Environment Pollution & Toxics British Columbia Canada 07/02/2008 CBC BC Whether it's called a tax shift, a revenue-neutral tax, or a new tax, it will get people worked up. No one likes taxes, but we like roads and schools and hospitals and police services, so we pay them. We also pay about $90 a tonne to put garbage into landfills, so why are we so concerned about having to pay to put garbage into the air? http://www.straight.com/article-151948/lets-clear-air-carbon-taxes Climate Environment Green Taxes British Columbia Canada 07/02/2008 Georgia Straight British Columbia's goals for electricity conservation are aggressive but reasonable when compared to cutbacks achieved by other developed nations, BC Hydro president and CEO Bob Elton said Wednesday. Hydro is forecasting a major increase in infrastructure spending, including $3.4 billion in the next two years, as well as planning to meet half of new electricity demand through conservation over the next 20 years. http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=78793af8-73ef-41d3-8fe2-1fc7c7b9de96 Energy Environment British Columbia Canada 07/03/2008 Vancouver Sun Tens of thousands of farmed Atlantic salmon escaped from their pen into an inlet off the B.C. coast, a fish farm company said yesterday. If they survive, they could threaten already dwindling indigenous salmon stocks. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080703.BCESCAPE03/TPStory/TPNational/BritishColumbia/ Environment Salmon British Columbia Canada 07/03/2008 Toronto Globe and Mail Pollution charges have been laid in connection with last summer's Robson Bight barge spill in Johnstone Strait. Efforts to raise the sunken equipment will wait until fall though. http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/capital_van_isl/story.html?id=5cec156d-5eca-4b64-8d4d-9a3233809ab9 Environment Pollution & Toxics British Columbia Canada 07/03/2008 Victoria Times Colonist British Columbia has signed up four U.S. states for its Pacific Coast Collaborative initiative. The group, which also includes Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California, will focus on clean energy, regional transportation, research and development, a sustainable economy and emergency management. Most parties to the new collaboration are also core members of the Western Climate Initiative. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080702.BCPACIFIC02/TPStory/TPNational/BritishColumbia/ Energy Environment Policy Solutions Sustainable Living Alaska British Columbia California Canada Oregon US Northwest Washington 07/02/2008 Toronto Globe and Mail