A big battery is coming to Vancouver Island. What can it actually do?

B.C.’s first utility-scale battery could strengthen the Island grid by 2030—but its duration, cost and relationship to Island Generation remain unanswered

We will miss John Horgan

He will be remembered as a principled, pragmatic, and honest man, and a popular premier during uncertain times.

Killing 10 million fish & eggs “unfortunate”

Minister Jordan stands by her decision to cut 1,500 coastal jobs, knocking out almost 25% of BC’s salmon farming industry and culling 10.7 million fish and eggs.

Where do federal parties stand on BC aquaculture?

In December, the federal government shuttered nineteen fish farms on the Discovery Islands, putting over 1,500 Vancouver Island families out of work. With the future of BC aquaculture in question, Josiah Haynes compares where the federal parties stand.

Island communities left behind as 19 fish-farms shut down

“Scientists have spoken but the government prefers to listen to activists and not to the people who live and work here,” says Port Hardy Mayor Dennis Dugas. Phasing out open-net salmon farming would mean more costs on industry, less benefit to communities.