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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.

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
2007-09-29 - 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.
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.
2007-09-26 - Premier Gordon Campbell introduced and handed out awards to winners of the Province's inaugural Green City Awards. Seven outstanding communities were selected as recipients for demonstrating leadership and action in a range of environmental sustainability initiatives. The Premier noted the vital role communities will play in helping the Province achieve its goal of a 33 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, to 10 per cent below 1990 levels. Following the awards ceremony, the Premier was joined by representatives of local governments from across B.C. to sign a Climate Action Charter with the Province and the Union of BC Municipalities, committing to a goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2012.
2007-09-23 - Premier Gordon Campbell and Sindi Hawkins, MLA for Kelowna-Mission, prepare to put their mettle to the pedal as they join celebrity cyclist and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong for the BC Cancer Foundation's Tour of Courage community ride Sept. 23. Monies from the Tour of Courage will finance research into blood cancer. Hawkins, a blood cancer survivor herself, was instrumental in bringing Armstrong to Vancouver for the event. She credits his book with inspiring her in the fight of her life.
2007-09-20 - Premier Gordon Campbell was joined by more than a dozen B.C. celebrities Sept. 20 to help launch Team Power Smart, a BC Hydro campaign to help build awareness of ways everyone can help make a difference by conserving energy. In the face of growing electricity consumption across B.C., the Premier is encouraging all British Columbians to help restore the province to electricity self-sufficiency by 2016. Simple steps like replacing conventional light bulbs with compact fluorescents can help reduce environmental impacts while saving families money.
2007-09-17 - On Sept. 17, Premier Gordon Campbell and Bill Bennett, MLA for East Kootenay, officially opened Summit Hall and Pinnacle Hall on the Cranbrook College of the Rockies campus. Summit Hall will house nursing and community care labs, as well as spaces for study and administration. As a new trades building, Pinnacle Hall will accommodate automotive and heavy-duty mechanics. The two new halls will bring the college's trade programs together in Cranbrook.
2007-09-17 - In Cranbrook Sept. 17 to open the Gold Creek Campus of the College of the Rockies and new facilities at the college's existing local campus, Premier Gordon Campbell and East Kootenay MLA Bill Bennett heard from apprenticeship student in heavy duty mechanics, Cassie Anderson. The Province invested $2 million in the college's new Gold Creek campus and contributed $15.4 million toward the $16.2-million construction cost for two new buildings on the existing Cranbrook campus. The college provided the balance.
2007-09-17 - Grade 4 and 5 students exercising at a new track on the College of the Rockies campus in Cranbrook were delighted when Premier Gordon Campbell stopped by to hand out pins bearing the logo of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The Games will open 879 days from the date of this Cranbrook visit, Sept. 17. The Premier was in Cranbrook to celebrate recent renovations to the East Kootenay Regional Hospital and to open the new Gold Creek Campus of the College of the Rockies and new facilities at the college's existing local campus. The Province provided $90,000 toward upgrading of the track, which is on the main College of the Rockies campus in Cranbrook.<br>
2007-09-17 - Premier Gordon Campbell was joined by Dr. Joe Kotlarz, medical director for East Kootenay Regional Hospital District (left), Scott Manjak, chair of the district, Bill Bennett, MLA for East Kootenay, and Minister of Health George Abbott at the opening of the $32-million upgrade to Cranbrook's East Kootenay Regional Hospital. The renovations included new sections for radiology, ultrasound, CT and nuclear medicine, plus accommodations for a mobile MRI unit.
2007-09-17 - Premier Gordon Campbell was joined by Scott Manjak, chair of the East Kootenay Regional Hospital District (left), Dr. Joe Kotlarz, the district's medical director and Health Minister George Abbott (right) as Bill Bennett, MLA for East Kootenay, explains how the revitalization project will improve patient care. These advancements, along with the region's strong economy, will attract talented healthcare professionals to Cranbrook and the East Kootenays.
2007-09-14 - Premier Gordon Campbell was at Vancouver's Great Northern Way campus, alongside his Second Life virtual representation or "avatar," to launch the new Centre for Digital Media and Canada's first Master's Degree in Digital Media. The centre will help to establish B.C. as a global leader in the fast-growing digital media industry, which has more than 1,000 companies and employs more than 15,000 people in B.C. alone. September's inaugural class for the two-year graduate degree program includes 21 students from around the world, including Canada, the U.S., India, Egypt and China.
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.
2007-09-11 - At a reception Sept. 11 on the expansion site of the Vancouver Convention Centre, Premier Campbell joined local and international Olympic officials to celebrate progress on venue construction and other groundwork for the 2010 Games. Left to right: David Podmore, president and CEO of Concert Properties Ltd. and chair of a volunteer capital works committee assisting in planning the 2010 Games venue development program; Hon. David Emerson, Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics; Rene Fasel, chair of the IOC Coordination Commission and head of the Association of International Olympic Winter Sports Federations (AIOWF); Premier Gordon Campbell; John Furlong, VANOC CEO .
2007-09-07 - Premier Gordon Campbell joins a proud elder at the Pawatts Centre on Sept. 7 in Anacla, during his visit to celebrate the July 28 vote to approve the Maa-nulth First Nations Final Agreement by the Huu-ay-aht First Nation. The Pawatts Centre celebrates the language of the Huu-ayaht people, and serves to teach the First Nation's youngest members about their heritage. The Premier toured the facility, where 6-7 elders teach six children aged 4-5.
2007-09-07 - Premier Gordon Campbell joins in childrens' activities at the Pawatts Centre in Anacla, during his visit to celebrate the July 28 approval of the Maa-nulth First Nations Final Agreement by Huu-ay-aht voters. Huu-ay-aht children are taught their traditional language and customs at Pawatts, where 6-7 of the tribe's elders proudly instruct the children in their First Nation heritage.
2007-09-07 - Premier Gordon Campbell tours the Anacla area with Chief Robert Dennis during his visit Sept. 7 to celebrate the Huu-ay-aht First Nation's approval of the Maa-nulth First Nations Final Agreement on July 28. The Huu-ay-aht First Nations voted to approve the agreement, bringing the west coast of Vancouver Island area one step closer to a final treaty. Years of hard work at the treaty table brought about this historic agreement, and the Premier was delighted to be on hand to congratulate the Huu-ay-aht personally for their commitment, leadership and determination in taking this important step.
2007-09-06 - Premier Gordon Campbell hugs Taylor Balagno, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's youth ambassador, at the Sept. 6 kick-off party for Team H2V's fundraising ride. Taylor's father, Kyle, and four other elite recreational cyclists from the Vancouver area intend to ride in a continuous relay for nine days from Halifax to Vancouver, arrive in Stanley Park on Sept. 23 and setting a Guinness record for fastest Trans Canada cycle by a relay team. They are also well on their way to raising $1 million for the JDRF.
2007-09-06 - Premier Gordon Campbell joined members of Team H2V Sept. 6 in Vancouver at the kickoff party for their cross-Canada fundraising ride. The five elite recreational cyclists have so far raised $700,000 toward their goal of $1 million for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The ride was inspired by Taylor Balagno (pictured, in front of the Premier), a 12-year-old B.C. girl who was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes at age 18 months. Her father is one of the riders, who promised his daughter he would do everything he could to find a cure before she graduates from high school.