Local Aboriginal Group's Sustainability Push

This is an article from today's Victoria Times Colonist paper regarding a local first nations community push into solar and self-sustainment.

"There's an evangelistic gleam in Chief Gordon Planes's eyes as he climbs up a small ladder onto banks of solar panels overlooking the water where the Sooke River runs into Sooke Harbour.

The futuristic energy source, with a solar system twice the size of anything else in B.C, reflected in the timeless tide pools of the estuary, are a perfect metaphor for Planes's back-to-the-future agenda for T'Sou-ke First Nation.

"The whole territory used to be used in a way that was sustainable. We only took what we needed and we need to get back to that," he said.

Three years ago T'Sou-ke embarked on an ambitious plan to use solar power as the kickoff point for creating a sustainable community..."

http://www.timescolonist.com/life/Island+First+Nation+solar+energy+gives+power+back+people/6155417/story.html