A Canadian company has asked the state Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council to overrule a Central Washington county and allow a 470-megawatt solar-power plant on farmland.

Members share best practices that lessen climate change impacts in vineyard and winery operations so that the global wine industry can act collectively to decarbonize, applying direct solutions that avoid purchasing carbon offset credits.

The man who built Black Hills Estate Winery and elevated one of B.C.'s first ultra-premium wines has shifted into a retirement that will include some consulting work.

For 30 years they had been coming up to the Okanagan from the Lower Mainland to taste and enjoy the local wines.

The national grapevine germplasm repository project, led by Sudarsana Poojari, Senior Staff Scientist at Brock University's Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (CCOVI), is funded by the Ontario Grape and Wine Research Inc. (OGWRI), Canadian Grapevine Certification Network (CGCN-RCCV) and Brock University.

Talk about a fun guy -- Dawson Creek-born Jinx Pollard-Flamand has discovered two species of fungi in his Master's thesis, which are proving to be highly effective against grapevine trunk disease, a major threat to orchards and wine producers across the province.

"Well, it was a chain reaction of events that led us to open a winery on the Naramata Bench," said Joel Chamaschuk, who owns and operates Chain Reaction with his wife, Linda.

is laying off 250 people, about a 10th of its staff, in a cost-cutting plan to save the company $100-million to $150-million within 12 to 18 months in order to reach profitability.

This year, 14 wineries are producing a Tidal Bay, Nova Scotia's appellation wine.

"We are thrilled to be back to events and doing the important work of putting our B.C. wineries on the stage they so well deserve," said Morris.