Tag Archives: Environment
Winter tires now required on BC Highways
KAMLOOPS - October 1st is the first day drivers on many highways across British Columbia are required to have winter tires on their vehicle. While there are many options when it comes to winter tires,...
Oct 01, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Trucking industry looking towards greener pastures, with fuel efficient technology in its future
KAMLOOPS - Alongside a growing number of electric and non-gas dependent vehicles on the market, BC's trucking industry is taking steps toward implementing greener, more fuel efficient technology. Whil...
Sep 29, 2019 (Image Credit: File photo- CFJC Today)
Community comes out to support youth-led, climate change inaction protest
KAMLOOPS - More than 100 demonstrators gathered along Columbia Street in Kamloops today (Sept. 20), protesting climate-crisis inaction, and promoting environmental practices. Kate Nanson is one of the...
Sep 20, 2019 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
CHARBONNEAU: A brief reprieve from smoke-filled summers
I GAVE A SIGH OF RELIEF when this summer ended with no significant wildfires. The past two summers have been filled with eye-watering, throat-choking smoke so thick you couldn't see across the street....
Sep 19, 2019
Salmon swimming through Fraser River rockslide area using restored passageways
LILLOOET - Progress is being made on getting salmon through the section of the Fraser River blocked by a rock slide earlier this summer. In an update yesterday (Aug. 31), the Big Bar Landslide Informa...
Sep 01, 2019 (Image Credit: Courtesy of the Big Bar Unified Command)
Brazil, Bolivia assessing needs after Canada offers $15M aid for Amazon fires
OTTAWA - A Canadian official says Brazil and other Amazon-basin countries are considering Canada's offer of $15 million and equipment to help fight the fires destroying the South American rainforest. ...
Aug 27, 2019
Crews battling wildfires
KAMLOOPS - While British Columbians celebrated the B.C. Day holiday weekend, provincial wildfire crews were called into action in the Kamloops Fire District. The Eagle Bluff fire was spotted Sunday ap...
Aug 05, 2019
Public asked to avoid Big Bar landslide area ahead of long weekend
KAMLOOPS - The public is being asked avoid the area around the Big Bar landslide along the Fraser River through the B.C. Day long weekend. That's where officials are trying to rehabilitate the river b...
Aug 02, 2019
Salmon still blocked along Fraser River near Big Bar slide
LILLOOET, B.C. - Work to rehabilitate the Fraser River near Big Bar is continuing. A landslide narrowed the canyon and created a five-metre waterfall, making the area virtually impassable for migratin...
Aug 01, 2019
Work continuing to clear Big Bar slide for migrating salmon
KAMLOOPS - Slow and gradual success is being reported by officials behind work to restore the natural passage of migrating salmon past the Big Bar landslide north of Lillooet. More than a month since ...
Jul 31, 2019 Big Bar landslide
