Over the last couple of years we’ve worked with half a dozen communities on the development of risk assessments and resilience plans for flood and other natural hazards. With each project, and with each international news story highlighting a disaster, we have become increasingly interested in better understanding the ‘intangibles’ – the things that are […]
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We know that it is the middle of summer, and that winter storms and coastal flooding are not top of mind…but we are glad to say that they were top of mind at this week’s City of Vancouver council meeting. On Tuesday, Council unanimously passed a staff report that provided an update on sea level […]
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In the wake of floodwaters across the Province – the Globe and Mail spoke to our principal, Tamsin Lyle, last week. Check it out here.
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Ebbwater Consulting has been working with the City of Vancouver on various aspects of sea level rise planning for the last five years. Last fall, our principal, Tamsin Lyle, was asked to speak about some aspects of this at an event put together by SFU (ACT), the City, and the Vancouver Aquarium. The City has […]
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Ebbwater’s principal was recently invited to participate on a Sea Level Rise panel event with Henk Ovink, Special Envoy for International Water Affairs for the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and Deborah Carlson of West Coast Environmental Law. One of the interesting take-aways was that the Lower Mainland region in British Columbia has some excellent examples of best […]
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