Bear Flat Dispatch: Changing the name
Frequent contributor Ken Boon is sharing his thoughts on a name for the Site C project.
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Peace region resident Evan Saugstad provides his thoughts on electric vehicles.
Evan Saugstad: My land, your land, our land … and now, no land?
Peace region resident Evan Saugstad provides his thoughts on legislation to give First Nations co-management rights for all provincial crown lands and its estimated 40,000 tenures.
Evan Saugstad: And, if elected, I promise to add some water to Site C!
Peace region resident Evan Saugstad is questioning the decision to not fill the Site C reservoir until later this year.
Evan Saugstad: Does common sense trump expert opinion?
Peace region resident Evan Saugstad is asking when Canadians will have the final say on how the country is run.
Evan Saugstad: Axe the Tax
Peace region resident Evan Saugstad has returned to providing writing opinion pieces. His first piece with Energeticcity.ca is on the carbon tax.
Bear Flat Dispatch: The ongoing drought
Frequent contributor Ken Boon is sharing his thoughts on the drought conditions in the Peace.
Watt’s Happening: Low carbon energy is getting cheaper and cheaper
Don Petit: "The price for energy produced from solar and wind has fallen so quickly that most people do not know that they have become cheaper than any other energy source. And the price continues to fall! "
Watt’s Happening: NOT THE END OF THE WORLD
We are the first generation to begin to feel the full effects of a changing climate, and we are the last generation that can do something about it. The good news is that we ARE doing something about it!
Letter to the Editor: More vote splitting and next steps
Tyler Holte continues to come back to the "Letter to the Editor" section to talk vote splitting.
Letter to the Editor: Conservative Party of BC listens
Tyler Holte continues to spark debate about vote splitting, and the rise of the Conservative Party of BC. Here is another Fort St. John resident's opinion.
Bear Flat Dispatch: Trade axe found
Frequent contributor Ken Boon found a little piece of history last December while hiking in the Bear Flat area.
Letter to the Editor: The topic of vote splitting in BC continues
A Fort St. John resident and a Kamloops resident continue their back and forth on vote splitting in B.C. through the Letters to the Editor.
Letter to the Editor: BC Conservative popularity aiding NDP victory
The topic of vote splitting in BC continues between a Fort St. John resident and a Kamloops resident in the Letters to the Editor.
Letter to Editor: People flock to fresh options offered by BC Conservatives
A Kamloops resident sent in a letter to the editor responding to a recent entry from a Fort St. John resident on vote splitting, claiming that the BC Conservatives will keep the NDP in power.
Bear Flat Dispatch: Concerted effort needed to achieve net-zero
Perhaps people have been saying this forever, but we do ‘live in interesting times.’ Lately, it seems that energy and where it will come from is top of mind for many.
Letter to the Editor: BC NDP’s best friend
It’s time to address the elephant in the room for the upcoming election: the fact that the BC Conservatives have handed the NDP a landslide victory for this next election.
Watt’s Happening: Is geothermal energy the next big thing?
Much like oil and gas, geothermal involves large scale directional drilling. The skills, equipment and expertise needed in both industries are very similar, opening huge clean energy opportunities in both northeast BC and across Alberta.
Watt’s Happening: The quiet revolution of cooperatives
I am just going about my day-to-day affairs, but each of my actions expresses a fundamentally different way of viewing the world. It is the way of the cooperative.
Letter to the Editor: Setting the record straight on judges and bail
Scott Morishita, the president of the Canadian Bar Association sent in a letter responding to comments made by Peace River South MLA Mike Bernier in a media report.
Evan Saugstad: Just Say ‘NO’, it Works!
Peace region resident Evan Saugstad provides his thoughts on electric vehicles.
Evan Saugstad: My land, your land, our land … and now, no land?
Peace region resident Evan Saugstad provides his thoughts on legislation to give First Nations co-management rights for all provincial crown lands and its estimated 40,000 tenures.
Evan Saugstad: And, if elected, I promise to add some water to Site C!
Peace region resident Evan Saugstad is questioning the decision to not fill the Site C reservoir until later this year.
Evan Saugstad: Does common sense trump expert opinion?
Peace region resident Evan Saugstad is asking when Canadians will have the final say on how the country is run.
Evan Saugstad: Axe the Tax
Peace region resident Evan Saugstad has returned to providing writing opinion pieces. His first piece with Energeticcity.ca is on the carbon tax.
Bear Flat Dispatch: The ongoing drought
Frequent contributor Ken Boon is sharing his thoughts on the drought conditions in the Peace.
Watt’s Happening: Low carbon energy is getting cheaper and cheaper
Don Petit: "The price for energy produced from solar and wind has fallen so quickly that most people do not know that they have become cheaper than any other energy source. And the price continues to fall! "
Watt’s Happening: NOT THE END OF THE WORLD
We are the first generation to begin to feel the full effects of a changing climate, and we are the last generation that can do something about it. The good news is that we ARE doing something about it!
Letter to the Editor: More vote splitting and next steps
Tyler Holte continues to come back to the "Letter to the Editor" section to talk vote splitting.
Letter to the Editor: Conservative Party of BC listens
Tyler Holte continues to spark debate about vote splitting, and the rise of the Conservative Party of BC. Here is another Fort St. John resident's opinion.
Bear Flat Dispatch: Trade axe found
Frequent contributor Ken Boon found a little piece of history last December while hiking in the Bear Flat area.
Letter to the Editor: The topic of vote splitting in BC continues
A Fort St. John resident and a Kamloops resident continue their back and forth on vote splitting in B.C. through the Letters to the Editor.
Letter to the Editor: BC Conservative popularity aiding NDP victory
The topic of vote splitting in BC continues between a Fort St. John resident and a Kamloops resident in the Letters to the Editor.
Letter to Editor: People flock to fresh options offered by BC Conservatives
A Kamloops resident sent in a letter to the editor responding to a recent entry from a Fort St. John resident on vote splitting, claiming that the BC Conservatives will keep the NDP in power.
Bear Flat Dispatch: Concerted effort needed to achieve net-zero
Perhaps people have been saying this forever, but we do ‘live in interesting times.’ Lately, it seems that energy and where it will come from is top of mind for many.
Letter to the Editor: BC NDP’s best friend
It’s time to address the elephant in the room for the upcoming election: the fact that the BC Conservatives have handed the NDP a landslide victory for this next election.
Watt’s Happening: Is geothermal energy the next big thing?
Much like oil and gas, geothermal involves large scale directional drilling. The skills, equipment and expertise needed in both industries are very similar, opening huge clean energy opportunities in both northeast BC and across Alberta.
Watt’s Happening: The quiet revolution of cooperatives
I am just going about my day-to-day affairs, but each of my actions expresses a fundamentally different way of viewing the world. It is the way of the cooperative.
