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Santa stops to chat with some of the thousands who lined Oak Bay Avenue for the annual Light Up festivities Sunday night. Dan Ebenal/News Staff
Climate change will prove costly for Oak Bay Community must adapt to new realities Christine van Reeuwyk News Staff
Oak Bay must be ready to adapt to the effects of climate change, according to Mayor Nils Jensen. “We have to be realistic as to what climate change will do to our environment, our immediate environment.
We can’t just hide our head in the sand and pretend it’s not going to happen,” he said. “There are significant implications financially and socially that we have to become aware of and we have to plan for.” A request from the province for Capital Regional District input on new proposed flood hazard guidelines triggered the conversation. “There are guidelines in effect now, but they’re going to reflect the recent science which shows a sea level rise of some significance over the next 100 to 150
years. That needs to be planned for now,” Jensen said. A Nov. 20 CRD report in response to the request outlines the considerable infrastructure and land in the region that could become part of a flood hazard area. For Oak Bay that includes total current land and improvements valued at $740 million. “The rise in our sea level will impact many properties throughout the coastal communities, including Oak Bay … particularly the low lying areas,” said
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Jensen. “We have to be ready. If the ocean is going to rise by a metre by the end of the century, what’s the impact on Oak Bay? What do we do as a result?” In 2008 the municipality established the Oak Bay Climate Change Task Force and as a result signed on to the climate change charter pledging to be essentially greenhouse gas neutral by 2012. PlEASE SEE: CRD wants province to play a more active role, Page A3
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