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Heavy equipment is used in the demolition of three-storey walk-up apartment buildings where high-rise towers will be built, in Burnaby, B.C., on Wednesday, December 18, 2024. Light House, a Vancouver-based non-profit launched the Building Material Exchange (BMEx) in November, aimed at getting the word out to the construction and development community that their excess or salvaged construction materials have value. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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‘Tinder of construction’ aims to keep B.C. building waste out of landfills

A Canada-based non-profit helps reuse building materials to cut waste and greenhouse gases.

A news helicopter flies by as a 130-ton all-terrain crane prepares to place the giant blades onto a massive wind turbine on the top of Grouse Mountain ski resort in North Vancouver, B.C., Friday, Sept. 25, 2009.    THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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B.C. selects nine wind power projects to boost energy supply by eight per cent a year

B.C. has okayed nine wind energy projects that will boost its hydro-electric grid by eight per cent a year, enough to power 500,000...

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Rescuers plan helicopter airlift of orca calf stranded in B.C. lagoon

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