Texada funding
Texada Elementary School is one of 27 schools in BC to receive funding for energy efficiency in 2017.
The school, which has been considered for closure by School District 47 in the past, will receive nearly $95,000 for mechanical upgrades from BC’s Carbon Neutral Capital Program.
School districts across the province will use a total of nearly $5 million to fund upgrades that cut greenhouse gas emissions.
BC’s Ministry of Education approved School District 47’s application for the funding based on specific needs of the district, cost-saving potential for the Texada school and the energy service provider contributions it made.
The grant will be used to replace the school’s boiler, one of several eligible upgrades that fall under the program, according to School District 47 secretary treasurer Steve Hopkins.
Cut updates
BC is reducing the amount of allowable cut on Crown lands on Vancouver Island, in the Great Bear Rainforest and on the Sunshine Coast, minister of forests, lands and natural resource operations Steve Thomson announced Monday, August 29.
Effective immediately there will be a reduction of approximately 263,000 cubic metres for tree farm licence 39, covering more than 360,000 hectares with 148,879 hectares available for harvest.
The new annual allowable cut is set at 1,416,300 cubic metres, which is a reduction from the previous allowable annual cut of 1,680,083 cubic metres set in April, when the tree farm licence area was reduced by an area transferred to Tla’amin Nation.
