BC floods.

[Hamloc]

Excellent article in the Financial Post: “Terence Corcoran: A human mistake-Why the B.C. floods are not a climate change issue.”

Lots of interesting history, talks about how many different studies were done on what was needed to protect Sumas Praire and as an example how B.C. implemented a carbon tax in 2008 and none of it has been used for adaptation and flood mitigation. Governments would rather fight a climate boogeyman 80 years in the future than actually do something today!

[TOM4CWB]

Excellent article in the Financial Post: “Terence Corcoran: A human mistake-Why the B.C. floods are not a climate change issue.”

Lots of interesting history, talks about how many different studies were done on what was needed to protect Sumas Praire and as an example how B.C. implemented a carbon tax in 2008 and none of it has been used for adaptation and flood mitigation. Governments would rather fight a climate boogeyman 80 years in the future than actually do something today!

Just a thought,
When the Oroville Dam spillway washed out… in California after the Atmosphere River filled that Dam to overflow…

They spent $1B to fix the spillways Double what the whole Oroville Dam 700’ high cost in the 1950’s.

Reconstructed dikes and modernization of the drainage systems in the Fraser Valley… which should have been being upgraded 20 years ago… is a multi Billion dollar plus project… If the Railways and Highway’s are hardened and upgraded to modern standards that would withstand another storm like happened 10 days ago in SW BC.

Better these upgrades be done when considering what we as Canadians have wasted 100$ of Billions over the past 2 years with no lasting benefits enduring in Capital capacity or assets.

Cheers