A striking sky captivates locals around the region last Friday
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The CRD quotes the Lifesaving Society's estimate that it could cost approximately $270K per beach to staff lifeguards from May through September or $1.35M for lifeguards on the region’s five busiest beaches.
The closest gas station is the Shell on Esquimalt, over the Johnson Street Bridge, 2.1 km away. The Petro-Can in Fairfield by Ross Bay Cemetery is a 3km+ drive.
Southern residents, dependent on dwindling Chinook salmon for food, are expected to face a seven-fold increase in TMX tanker traffic through their critical habitat in the Salish Sea when the expanded pipeline reaches peak capacity this summer.