Young Kwak photo Staying home had a noticeable impact on carbon emissions, which plummeted globally last year by nearly 2 billion metric tons in 2020. F
rom her home, under the flight path to the Spokane International Airport, Amber Lenhart usually hears the recurring roar of airplanes overhead. But that stopped a year ago. When the pandemic hit, days would go by without her hearing that familiar roar. It wasn t just that people weren t flying anymore. They weren t driving either. The streets were emptier. Parking lots were vacant. We saw that people can work remote, that we can do our jobs from home, says Lenhart, who at one time worked for Pew Charitable Trusts, a nonprofit that aims to improve public policy. In that job I would travel all over the country to Wisconsin, Hawaii, California, and I d drive across three or
RDEK Board Highlights
The following is a summary of some of the items covered during the April 9 Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) Board of Directors’ meeting.
Steamboat Jubilee Mountain Official Community Plan Adopted
The Board adopted Bylaw No. 3022, a new Official Community Plan (OCP) for the unincorporated communities in Electoral Area G. The new plan builds upon the first OCP for Area G that was adopted in 2006 and includes a number of updated land use polices, including new development permit requirements to mitigate the impacts of development on environmentally sensitive areas, and to help protect new construction from wildfire. Landowners proposing to undertake new construction or other land altering activities should consult the OCP and with RDEK staff to determine if their project is impacted by the new development permit requirements.
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Caerus Mineral Resources, the exploration and resource development company focused on developing mineral resources in Europe to supply the global Clean Energy drive, is pleased to provide Shareholders with an update on the exploration work carried out in Cyprus. Drilling began on 14 April ahead of schedule and will continue until a systematic grid of drillholes has been completed over the N. Mathiatis dumps. The dumps, estimated to be over 4 million tonnes of material, are being drilled to test for copper and gold mineralisation remaining following the historic mining of the N. Mathiatis pyrite orebody. Dumps located around the rim of the former open pit already display visible copper oxides in various locations together with copper sulphate leachate emanating from the base in some areas. The drilling programme is designed to broadly define areas within the dumps that contain copper mineralisation for more detailed
EPRI s Earth Week 2021 Webcast Series to Explore R&D to Accelerate Affordable and Reliable Carbon Reduction
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PALO ALTO, Calif., April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ In recognition of Earth Day, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) will host a week-long webcast series highlighting impactful research and development (R&D) important to accelerating carbon reduction across the energy ecosystem. The R&D EPRI unearths, tests and brings to market is the foundation of a net-zero energy future, said EPRI President and CEO Arshad Mansoor. Getting to net zero requires aligning on interconnected technology pathways spanning the entire energy system. EPRI is enabling a cleaner future by leading the development of broad-based technologies and tailored approaches, from advancing low-carbon resources to growing efficient electrification.