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PREMIER WELCOMES CLIMATE ACTION CHAMPION AL GORE TO B.C.


September 29, 2007

Premier Gordon Campbell introduced former vice-president of America Al Gore at Gore's speaking engagements in Vancouver and Victoria Sept. 29, 2007. Gore delivered his global warning on global warming, underscoring his call for action to reduce the effects of climate change. Two days earlier, Premier Campbell signed a Climate Action Charter with dozens of B.C. municipalities, which commits local governments to work toward carbon-neutral operations by 2012, and announced the Province's intention to establish legally binding emission reduction targets for 2012 and 2016.

September 2007 Photos
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2007-09-28 - The Honourable Stockwell Day, federal Minister of Public Safety, attended the 2007 Convention of the Union of British Columbia Municipalities (UBCM) Sept. 28, 2007, to present $25 million from the Gas Tax Agreement that will help finance the purchase of 199 buses in 2008. Twenty-one articulated hydrid buses and 69 clean-diesel buses will be added to TransLink's fleet, while 109 alternative technology buses will replace older units. Accepting the cheque for the Province of B.C. and TransLink are (left to right) Premier Gordon Campbell; Susan Gimse, UBCM President Elect and a Director of the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District; and Malcolm Brodie, TransLink chair and Mayor of Richmond.
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2007-09-12 - Premier Gordon Campbell was joined by funding partner representatives and dignitaries to cut the ribbon opening the Port of Prince Rupert's new $170-million Fairview Container Terminal on Sept. 12. The terminal, to which the Province contributed $30 million, is creating a new high-speed, congestion-free trade corridor between Asia and North America, and is a major milestone in British Columbia's gateway initiative.
2007-09-12 - Premier Gordon Campbell toured the Port of Prince Rupert's Fairview Container Terminal while in the city to celebrate the opening of the new terminal with funding partners and the community. With the closest North American port to the world's fastest-growing economies in Asia, Prince Rupert and the Northwest will see thousands of jobs created as a result of the $170-million terminal project, with a design capacity of 500,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), and a planned second expansion phase, designed to achieve two million TEUs in container traffic by 2011.
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