B.C.
The fracking frenzy in B.C and Texas is leading to record-breaking earthquakes
Standing in his living room, Richard Kabzems brandishes a thick binder stuffed with letters and notes of his two-year fight to stop fracking wells near his home in Farmington, B.C. Ovintiv, a multinational oil and gas company, announced two years ago that it would expand fracking for gas at a new site built on a hill about a kilometre from Kabzems’s home in the rural Lebell subdivision. The B.C. Energy Regulator (BCER) approved the permit. Over the last 24 months, Kabzems and his wife, Sandy Burton, have written six detailedRead more
Fears of more floods and fires in B.C. Interior as forecast shows temperatures topping 30 C

Heat building into weekend; smoky skies expected for swath of province over next 48 hours A spell of unseasonably warm weather forecast for most of British Columbia is raising concerns for further flooding and wildfires. Emergency Management Minister Bowinn Ma says the heat, which is expected to push past 30 C by the weekend in many areas, will affect the pace of snowmelt — which has already sent river levels over their banks in several parts of central and southeastern B.C. Dave Campbell with the B.C. River Forecast Centre told a briefing on Monday that above-seasonalRead more