Letters to the Editor
by Letters to the editor on 14 January 2020 - 6:24am
To The Editor:
A mindboggling 292 square kilometer open pit mine in norther Albertais quietly working its way through the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency’s approval process.
This behemoth relies on relentless growth in oil demand at a time of growing climate instability.
Frontier would pump out an annual 4.1 megatonnes of climate-...
by Letters to the editor on 9 January 2020 - 7:43pm
To The Editor:
I read the submitted article (published Tuesday, December 31, 2019) on the online (The Nelson Daily) site from the Nature Conservancy of Canada suggesting to leave Christmas trees in backyards to slowly decay.
While I...
by Letters to the editor on 16 December 2019 - 8:25am
To The Editor:
Last month, more than 11,000 scientists from around the world declared that our earth is facing a climate emergency. This news isn’t exactly new - alarming climate change trends have been noted by world scientists for over 40 years. Yet greenhouse gas emissions are still rapidly rising, with increasingly damaging effects on the earth's climate....
by Letters to the editor on 9 December 2019 - 7:23am
To The Editor:
As a candidate for the Green Party in the recent federal election I had the privilege of spending time in communities across the Kootenay Columbia Electoral District over the course of my campaign. What is striking and what we have in common across each of our communities is the incredible beauty of this region – a beauty that for many of us...
by Letters to the editor on 3 December 2019 - 7:28pm
To The Editor:
Civil Rights lawyer Gary Haugen is concerned with the human capacity for compassion. He says of the genocide in Rwanda, that it was one of the world’s greatest failures of simple compassion.
Today we are faced with another call for compassion.
(Recently) The Lancet, a prestigious...
by Letters to the editor on 1 December 2019 - 4:55pm
To The Editor:
Bill 41, the BC Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, is poised to pass (soon), having passed first and second reading with unanimous support. This is exceptionally good news for all of us.
The history of colonialism in BC is becoming more well known. It is clear that we new-comers have profited greatly from the...
by Letters to the editor on 27 November 2019 - 7:24pm
To The Editor:
Open letter Nelson city council:
In 1994 I gave Nelson city council details of organic waste management in Guelph Ontario, the first city in Canada to separate municipal organic waste for compost. I was literally laugh at by employees of the city, they told me there would never be real recycling in Nelson....
by Letters to the editor on 24 November 2019 - 7:13pm
To The Editor:
MP Morrison: Our children’s health at risk
(Recently), a special report by the prestigious medical journal The Lancet included sobering news about how climate change is impacting our children’s health: “The life of every child born today will be profoundly affected by climate change. Without accelerated...
by Letters to the editor on 18 November 2019 - 6:46am
To The Editor:
This new city council certainly has its climate emergency agenda proponents.
A day doesn't go by without another scary article announcing world ending global warming unless we do something immediately. Cities are signing on to 100% renewable energy by 2030.
What is Nelson doing?
Natural gas heating is one of our biggest uses...
by Letters to the editor on 11 November 2019 - 2:19pm
To The Editor:
On the November first weekend the Creston Curling Club held a benefit bonspiel for the Nelson Curling Club, to help Nelson pay for repairs to their ice plant.
The Bonspiel raised almost $10,000, and is a first of its kind in this area and perhaps anywhere in Canada. The Creston Club worked extremely hard using volunteers as usual to put on...
