| Bylaw 280: Provincial Decision Bad News for Recycling in Metro Vancouver | http://www.metrovancouver.org/metroupdate/issue-2/19/Bylaw 280: Provincial Decision Bad News for Recycling in Metro Vancouver | Bylaw 280: Provincial Decision Bad News for Recycling in Metro Vancouver | <div class="ExternalClass485B8899CA414AEDB15397D4D6AC80E4">
<p>Having residential and commercial garbage delivered to regional disposal facilities operated by Metro Vancouver and the City of Vancouver is necessary for our region to meet its aggressive waste diversion goals, and to encourage a competitive waste management and recycling industry. Bylaw 280 would have facilitated this and ensured that a cost-effective and equitable waste disposal system continued to be available to all residents and businesses in Metro Vancouver.</p>
<p>However, an October 17 decision by the Minister of Environment has rejected Bylaw 280. </p>
<p>We believe that Metro Vancouver residents and business owners and operators care what happens to their garbage and want to work with Metro Vancouver to meet our ambitious recycling goals of 70 percent in 2015 and 80 percent by 2020. </p></div> | http://www.metrovancouver.org/metroupdate/PublishingImages/image-Bylaw280.png | Read About How the Provincial Decision on Bylaw 280 Will Affect Waste Management & Recycling | Solid Waste | Full | |
| hey! Food isn't Garbage! | http://www.metrovancouver.org/metroupdate/issue-2/20/hey! Food isn't Garbage! | hey! Food isn't Garbage! | <div class="ExternalClassAFE194539F9E46BBB2ED08071F3ACD37">
<p>Food scraps belong in your green bin! </p>
<p>In preparation for a ban on putting food waste in the garbage in 2015, that message will greet residents and visitors as they travel around the Metro Vancouver region between October and late November, and in shopping malls, public facilities, and office building elevators. </p></div> | http://www.metrovancouver.org/metroupdate/PublishingImages/organicsCampaign.png | Read About Our Food Is Not Garbage Campaign | Solid Waste | Full | |
| Waste-to-Energy Facility Emissions Getting Even Lower | http://www.metrovancouver.org/metroupdate/issue-2/25/Waste-to-Energy Facility Emissions Getting Even Lower | Waste-to-Energy Facility Emissions Getting Even Lower | <div class="ExternalClass36324021343C4AFA9F105EB44948BE57">
<p>Emissions from Metro Vancouver’s <a href="/services/solid-waste/about/wte/pages/04.aspx" target="_blank">waste-to-energy facility</a> are getting lower and lower thanks to an upgraded nitrogen oxide control system.</p>
<p>Smog forms when nitrogen oxides react with other air pollutants in the presence of sunlight. The greatest sources of nitrogen oxides in our region are cars, trucks, ships and non-road vehicles like bulldozers.</p></div> | http://www.metrovancouver.org/metroupdate/PublishingImages/wte1.png | Read About Emissions Upgrades To Our Waste-to-Energy Facility | Solid Waste | Full | |
| Seymour-Capilano Filtration Project | http://www.metrovancouver.org/metroupdate/issue-2/21/Seymour-Capilano Filtration Project | Seymour-Capilano Filtration Project | <div class="ExternalClass6F46D048FA7B4AB78D34A3CE3EE4360A">
<p>The Seymour and Capilano watersheds supply Metro Vancouver residents and businesses with 70 percent of their drinking water </p>
<p>A decade-long <a href="/services/water/projects-initiatives/construction-projects/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">construction project</a> to allow for the continued supply of safe, high-quality drinking water in Metro Vancouver is 99 percent complete. </p>
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| Metro Vancouver Awarded Climate & Energy Action Honourable Mention | http://www.metrovancouver.org/metroupdate/issue-2/22/Metro Vancouver Awarded Climate & Energy Action Honourable Mention | Metro Vancouver Awarded Climate & Energy Action Honourable Mention | <div class="ExternalClass88E9372EB932432BA3BE604A51B0C2E4">
<p>Metro Vancouver has earned an Honourable Mention in the Community Energy Association’s <a href="http://communityenergy.bc.ca/climate-and-energy-action-awards/" target="_blank"><strong>Climate & Energy Action Awards</strong></a>, which were presented by the Hon. Coralee Oakes, Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development, at this year’s Union of BC Municipalities Convention in Whistler. </p></div> | http://www.metrovancouver.org/metroupdate/PublishingImages/electricCar.jpg | Read About What Metro Vancouver Is Doing To Help Combat Climate Change | Air Quality | Full | |
| Metro Vancouver and Member Municipalities Strive for Carbon Neutrality | http://www.metrovancouver.org/metroupdate/issue-2/23/Metro Vancouver and Member Municipalities Strive for Carbon Neutrality | Metro Vancouver and Member Municipalities Strive for Carbon Neutrality | <div class="ExternalClass86878D0EA86740699A9C3FFD77C577CF">
<p>As required by the <a href="http://www.cscd.gov.bc.ca/lgd/greencommunities/carip.htm" target="_blank">BC Climate Action Revenue Incentive Program</a>, Metro Vancouver has published a <a href="/about/publications/Publications/2013CARIP_Public_Report.pdf" target="_blank">report</a> summarizing the carbon footprint of our operations for 2013.</p>
<p>The Climate Action Revenue Incentive Program is a provincial government conditional grant program that provides rebates on carbon taxes paid to BC Climate Action Charter signatories, which includes Metro Vancouver.</p></div> | http://www.metrovancouver.org/metroupdate/PublishingImages/highDensity.jpg | Read About How Metro Vancouver & Member Municipalities Are Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Air Quality | Full | |
| Non-Road Diesel Vehicles: Additional Emissions Enforcement in January 2015 | http://www.metrovancouver.org/metroupdate/issue-2/24/Non-Road Diesel Vehicles: Additional Emissions Enforcement in January 2015 | Non-Road Diesel Vehicles: Additional Emissions Enforcement in January 2015 | <div class="ExternalClass7FFA8B734C224F6DB49D42D59757BA89">
<p>Metro Vancouver’s Non-Road Diesel Engine Emission Bylaw has been in effect since 2012, and on January 1, 2015 important new operating prohibitions will come into force.</p>
<p>This bylaw protects human health by reducing emissions of harmful diesel soot from industrial and construction machines like excavators, forklifts, and generators.</p></div> | http://www.metrovancouver.org/metroupdate/PublishingImages/Hybrib.jpg | Read About the New Regulations Coming Into Effect in 2015 | Air Quality | Full | |
| Metro 2040: Annual Progress Report | http://www.metrovancouver.org/metroupdate/issue-2/26/Metro 2040: Annual Progress Report | Metro 2040: Annual Progress Report | <div class="ExternalClass28D2A80DFE274856A142B7AEFF554FE7">
<p>The first annual report for Metro Vancouver’s regional growth strategy, <em>Metro 2040: </em>Shaping Our Future, show that our region scores high as a place to live, work and play, and that many aspects of the strategy are being advanced and accomplished.</p>
<p>Combating urban sprawl by developing within the established urban containment boundaries, protecting agricultural land, and integrating land and transportation development are crucial elements of <em>Metro 2040</em>.</p>
<p>The first, and baseline, annual report - <a href="/services/regional-planning/PlanningPublications/Progress-toward-Shaping-our-Future-Baseline-Annual-Report-min.pdf" target="_blank">Progress Toward Shaping Our Future: <em>Metro 2040</em></a> – demonstrates that regional planning significantly affects the day-to-day lives of the region’s citizens. </p></div> | http://www.metrovancouver.org/metroupdate/PublishingImages/ProgressToward.jpg | Read About Metro 2040: Annual Progress Report | Regional Planning | Full | |
| Seymour River Estuary Restoration | http://www.metrovancouver.org/metroupdate/issue-2/27/Seymour River Estuary Restoration | Seymour River Estuary Restoration | <div class="ExternalClassC315FE7DF93640159267F1BDCD3D74A6">
<p>With inflows of both sea and fresh water, the Seymour River estuary should work as a productive natural habitat. Over the years, however, the estuary has been degraded by heavy industry and other development causing altered water flows, losses of gravel and woody debris, and the growth of invasive plant species.</p>
<p>Metro Vancouver and a number of partners are undertaking an ecological restoration project to improve the health of the estuary’s ecosystem and increase fish survival. </p></div> | http://www.metrovancouver.org/metroupdate/PublishingImages/salmon.png | Read About The Ecological Improvements to the Estuary | Ecological Health | Full | |
