Rochelle Baker
Journalist | Quadra Island |
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About Rochelle Baker
Rochelle Baker is the Quadra and Cortes Islands reporter for Canada's National Observer, thanks to a grant from the Local Journalism Initiative of the Government of Canada. Rochelle has worked as a newspaper reporter and photographer in BC's Lower Mainland for over 10 years.
B.C.'s new clean-energy czar is a climate 'wild card'
B.C.’s new Energy Minister Adrian Dix could electrify the province’s low carbon economy if Premier David Eby’s NDP government opts to wean itself off LNG.
BC NDP and Greens ink new deal to stave off provincial Conservatives
The BC NDP Government and Green Party have hashed out new confidence and supply agreement focused on common ground rather than points of contention to bolster the NDP’s slim margin in the legislature after the recent election.
Vancouver Island community wants government held liable for ship-breaking pollution
Deep Water Recovery is facing another warning and threat of fines for its controversial Vancouver Island ship breaking operation on the shores of Baynes Sound.
Nine wind projects rolled out to meet B.C.’s surging clean energy demands
The province's new renewable initiatives are historic step forward in energy partnerships with First Nations, says BC Hydro.
New catch-and-release guidelines will up salmon survival
The estimated mortality rate for released chinook can reach up to 40 per cent depending on the fishing tactics, gear, and injuries from over-handling, the study found.
Charting a path for boaters to clean up toxic ocean impacts
Boaters can use a innovative new online tool to choose eco-friendly products and clean up their act when it comes to washing toxic chemicals into waterways and oceans while maintaining their vessels.
Canada's concern about illegal shark finning by fishing fleets in the North Pacific surging
Overfishing, combined with finning — a cruel and wasteful practice where live sharks are caught during targeted fisheries or as bycatch, then have their fins sliced off before discarded overboard to die are pushing shark populations to the brink of extinction.
Global blueprint evolves to save minuscule marine creatures pivotal to life on earth
Plankton, the key ingredients of the primordial ocean soup that allowed all life to flourish, are central to a new UN manifesto highlighting the big role the microscopic creatures can play in tackling the triple threat of global warming, biodiversity loss, and pollution.
Audit shows just one in three Canadian fisheries is healthy
Climate change and over harvesting continue to put Canadian fisheries at risk along with Indigenous and coastal communities’ food security and economic wellbeing, a new report indicates.
Federal documents surface on plans to protect endangered orcas from oil spills
West coast environmental groups argue no measure would save southern resident whales from a catastrophic oil spill.