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The decision by Woodfibre LNG to run its operation off electric power was driven, according to the company, by feedback generated by community consultation and concerns about air quality.

Eoin Finn, an activist from Bowyer Island, presented information on the Woodfibre LNG project to Bowen Island Municipal Council last Monday and asked for the creation of a resolution to ban the passage of LNG tankers in Howe Sound.

Like most kids growing up in this part of the world, Luke McKenzie, Willem Young, and Angus Duguid, the chance to go to high school is a given.

Over the winter the Bowen Island Municipality undertook what it is calling the “first wave” of the clean-up of Mannion Bay, removing eighteen mooring buoys, four vessels and one fiberglass hull from the Bay’s waters.

Saturday May 10th is the B.I. Garden Club’s annual Plant Sale and Raffle. As usual it will take place at BICS, for one hour only starting at 11a.m.

In conjunction with the Phoenix Book Fair at BICS, May 12-14, BICS Student Council is launching a Radical Read-A-Thon to raise awareness and money for renovations to transform the worn and tired BICS library into a Learning Commons- a space that will

The group Bowen Islanders for Ferry Fairness (BIFF) will continue to work toward better ferry services and lower fares. “We came together in order to organize protests,” says BIFF organizer Maureen Nicholson.

The creation of two additional woodlots on the North-East corner of Gambier Island has opened up 25 percent of the island to active logging, anticipated to begin within the next year.

The dream of Snug Cove House, a supported living residence for Bowen’s seniors, has been twenty years in the making.

Since January, two new businesses have opened up at Artisan Square, and one business, Bowen’s Little Pet shop, has changed hands.