Eric Richards

Jan 9, 2025 | thediscourse.ca | Eric Richards

In August of last year, a major fish kill event involving thousands of invasive pumpkinseed fish and a few hundred juvenile coho took place in Somenos Lake. Photos of the dead fish circulated on social media as news outlets shared details about the fish deaths. Somenos Marsh Wildlife Society (SMWS) was one of the first organizations to document the fish kill, and its underwater monitoring sensors captured the drop in oxygen levels in the S’amunu/Somenos watershed.

Dec 5, 2024 | thediscourse.ca | Eric Richards

Earlier this year, the Cowichan Coalition to End Homelessness gathered its members, including the Cowichan Community Action Team, Lookout Housing and the Hiiye’yu Lelum Society, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic to learn more about who they are seeing without housing and what support they may need. From these discussions, the coalition came out with a list of solutions presented to North Cowichan Council last week.

Dec 5, 2024 | thediscourse.ca | Eric Richards

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Nov 19, 2024 | mycoastnow.com | Eric Richards

The City of Nanaimo and the BC Labour Heritage Centre unveiled a new plaque that will commemorate the victims of a 1951 plane crash. In October of that year, Queen Charlotte Airlines Flight 107 carrying workers from the Kemano Power Project near Kitimat to Vancouver crashed into the North Slope of Mt. Benson during adverse weather conditions. All 23 souls on board were lost, 7 bodies were shipped to their homes and the remaining 16 were buried in a mass grave in Bowen Cemetery.

Nov 18, 2024 | mycoastnow.com | Eric Richards

Plans for a new research station in Pender Harbour are one step closer to completion as the Federal Government announced a large boost of funding for the project. MP Patrick Weiler made the announcement alongside the Loon Foundation and shíshálh Nation Chief Lenora Joe over the weekend. Over $13 million in funding will go towards building a Net-Zero building to house the Pender Harbour Ocean Discovery Station (PODS).