You’ve been randomly selected to start searching My family moved to Victoria from Tofino in 1986. My mother was pregnant with my sister and became the patient of a local OB-GYN.
I was 15 at the time and this doctor also took me on as a patient.
On Aug. 9, nine letters to the editor attacked this rational message about the motivations and methods of climate protesters. The tone of the complaints suggest a fear for loss of comfort, convenience and perceived personal security. There is nothing illegal about being a climate denier, or being a self-interested twit. Nor is there any reason why reasonable people should not hold these twits in utter contempt.Carbon-free buildings will come at a cost Re: “No natural gas for new buildings in Victoria by 2025, council decides,” Aug. 9.
Mayor Lisa Helps says each new building will last more than 50 years. That is frightening. Our house in Toronto was 97 years old and in its history had undergone conversion from coal to oil to finally gas. Forcing homebuilders to rely solely on one power source would be folly indeed if one studies home power trends over the years in Greater Victoria.
For the single-family-home builder, the choices of alternative power are limited and expensive. The cost of installing solar panels sufficient to serve an average-sized home would ramp up a building budget alarmingly. A geothermal system could provide heat, but would not function anyway without electricity.
The British Columbia Utilities Commission is considering whether newly defined renewable or low carbon gas could include a small percentage of actual renewable natural gas , with larger portions of hydrogen, syngas or lignin — if and when these gases are actually available at reasonable costs in the future.Gas pipes containing more than 20 per cent hydrogen must be replaced or adjusted, along with the furnaces, stoves and dryers they serve.