Kendall Hanson

If you’re one of the thousands of British Columbians who purchased solar panels to cut down on your hydro bill, chances are you’re not thrilled about changes coming next week. BC Hydro is tweaking an incentive program that will result in less money in the pockets of solar panel owners. Port Alberni’s Bill Collette is among them. He installed 42 panels on his home in the summer of 2023 and hasn’t had to pay a hydro bill for more than two years under BC Hydro’s net metering program.

Neighbours on the Nanoose Peninsula are questioning the amount of water being spilled by the Regional District of Nanaimo during a drought that involves watering restrictions. In front of Claudet Road Community Park in Nanoose Bay is a four inch pipe that has been gushing water non-stop since last Thursday into a ditch that leads to Nanoose Harbour. Watch below: “This is going to be going 24 hours a day for three months,” said Dave Kuz, a concerned neighbour.

A team of conservationists and Snuneymuxw First Nation members are racing against warming temperatures as they rescue young salmon from the Nanaimo River that’s drying up at an alarming rate, says the nation. “This is one of the driest years that we’ve had so far that I can recollect from my own knowledge of working on the river for the past four years. It’s substantially drier than we’d normally see,” said Bartley Jones, the Field Supervisor for Snuneymuxw First Nation’s Marine Division.