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Pemberton’s Own: Schramm Vodka

Pemberton’s Own: Schramm Vodka

Posted on 18. Jan, 2010 by Rhonda May.

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For Schramm, the justification for placing a vodka distillery in the middle of traditional farm country was an obvious one. After all, his land was planted with acres of the liquor’s singular ingredient – potatoes.

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The Kootenays: Flathead Valley Controversy

The Kootenays: Flathead Valley Controversy

Posted on 18. Jan, 2010 by Dave Quinn.

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Grizzly rich and people poor, there wasn’t a lot of chatter about B.C.’s Flathead Valley – perhaps the single most important basin for carnivores in the Rocky Mountains – until someone proposed an open-pit mine.

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West Coast Air Makes It to Zero

West Coast Air Makes It to Zero

Posted on 18. Jan, 2010 by Bernice Paul.

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Here in lush, green B.C., the transportation sector accounts for more than a third of the province’s provincial greenhouse gas emissions. Passenger and heavy duty vehicles take the lion’s share of those emissions, with 39 and 26 per cent, respectively. And domestic aviation claims just 7 per cent of the transportation sector’s emissions, though there are, of course,opportunities to cut those

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Northern B.C.: The Last Wild River

Northern B.C.: The Last Wild River

Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by Dave Quinn.

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Local First Nations and conservationists such as David Suzuki and Wade Davis have united to “save the sacred headwaters” of the Stikine, Nass and Skeena, three of the province’s most important salmon-producing rivers. The collapse of B.C.’s southern salmon stocks this summer, resulting in closures to commercial and First Nations fishing on the Fraser and dramatic decreases in grizzly populations on the south coast, only reinforces the urgency of their struggle.

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