Dryden Resident Will Head To Capitol Hill

One Dryden resident will head to Washington, D.C. to put a price on carbon pollution.
Catherine Keiwning will attend the 5th annual Citizen’s Climate Lobby (CLL) International Conference on June 22.
The purpose of the trip is to get a price on carbon emissions through policy change.
Keiwning says climate change is impacting the northwest in more ways than one.
She says it’s causing frozen and bursting pipes, flooding, excessive rainfall, forest fires and poor growing seasons.
She says these events will become more intense and more frequent over time.
Progress is being made locally, with Dryden working on the solar farm.
She adds there is progress being made locally, with Dryden working on the solar farm which will bring some coin into the city.
The conference goes until June 24 and two others from northwestern Ontario will join Keiwning.