Crime trending downward in Penticton despite very active prolific offenders – Infotel Kelowna

“I want a dedicated nurse embedded with police to attend these calls with us, and we’re not there yet,” Supt. RCMP quarterly report stats comparing the first three months of 2022 to 2021 show an 8% decrease in criminal code files – from 1,613 to 1,755. To contact a reporter for this story, email Dan Walton or […]

Logging company’s deferrals of old-growth jewels bittersweet, environmentalists say | iNFOnews

The deferral areas represent seven per cent of the company’s holdings and are the largest such initiative in Canada. The reductions will be translated into carbon credits available for sale to reputable organizations to help offset emissions, generating both ecological and economic value for Mosaic, the company said. A number of deferrals are concentrated in […]

West coast carbon capture project aims to sink emissions in ocean floor and turn them to stone

The CO2 is injected into porous basalt, which is covered by a deep impermeable cap of sediment on the ocean floor, where it dissolves in water. There is enough sub-ocean basalt worldwide to potentially sequester 250,000 gigatons of CO2, said Tutolo. Scalable carbon capture and storage projects, such as Solid Carbon, are urgently needed to […]