New tree policy not supported
Councillor Kennedy requested that Council develop a policy to remove sick and dying trees, outline the cost of their removal and replacement, and that Council consider outsourcing the work to contractors. Council’s Acting General Manager clarified that Council is already in the process of replacing dying trees. Councillors voted to defer the formation of any further policies until Council’s Tree Management Plan is completed in April.
Water restrictions considered
Councillor Kennedy requested that Council write to Essential Water and ministers asking why the city was on water restrictions. The motion was supported despite water restrictions already being lifted yesterday.
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Updated: 31/12/20, 12:11 pm
Esther Brown and Donald McNicol, both trustees of Arran Eco Savvy and directors of Arran Community Renewables, visiting the Auchrannie Hotel.
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by Letters to the editor on Tuesday December 29 2020
To The Editor:
I have some concerns about the recent hype and media coverage from West Kootenay EcoSociety 100% Renewable Energy Plan , that is being brought by the NGO before a number of local municipalities for adoption.
In the next decade the BC NDP Ministry of Forest plans to clear-cut and truck at least 100,000 loads of old growth forest from the Lardeau-Duncan River drainages and Trout Lake.
The CO2 release from the exposed ancient forest soils is vast. The C02 release from the trucking is vast. The loss of these healthy intact ancient temperate ecosystems will cause extinction to dozens of endangered species.
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