The Coupeville Chamber of Commerce scored the lion’s share of the county’s basic 2 percent hotel-motel tax revenues for 2016, garnering $26,450 for use at its visitors’ center, according to a document approved Tuesday by the Board of Island County Commissioners. The 2 percent basic county hotel-motel tax revenues are earmarked for use promoting tourism. […]
The Goochland County Chamber of Commerce has announced a new partnership with Virginia Energy Sense (VES) in an effort to help reduce electricity consumption in Goochland and across Virginia. An energy education program, VES is managed by the Virginia State Corporation Commission and focused on reducing statewide electricity consumption by 10 percent by 2020. Virginia
NEW charges for disposing of some household waste could lead to an increase in fly-tipping according to a concerned countryside expert. Planned charges, announced by Surrey County Council on November 24, mean the disposal of tyres, large gas bottles and larger loads of non-household waste such as rubble and plasterboard will now incur a charge
First they went for the mattresses and now the Cowichan Valley Regional District has a proposal to take an estimated 1,800 couches and easy chairs out of its garbage each year. The Vancouver Island region, which includes the municipalities of North Cowichan, Lake Cowichan, Duncan and Ladysmith, is looking for a private contractor to recycle
Opponents of a contaminated soil disposal facility near Shawnigan Lake on Vancouver Island have turned up the volume on their campaign, co-ordinating helicopter flights for media and politicians and urging the province to pull the permit for the site. The helicopter flights, designed to provide a bird’s-eye view of the terrain and waterways around the
EXCLUSIVE: The Environment Agency has said it is “open to reviewing” its ban on the use of street-swept leaves in PAS 100 compost if there is “clear evidence that new technologies and approaches” can provide material of consistently high quality. This follows tests carried out by the Surrey Waste Partnership (SWP) last year which found
