TWO deaths, September 22, 2008; Posted on the BC Coroners Website 2013 TBA=MIA; Killer sentenced???? Ask Shirley Bond or Suzanne Anton

Sawmill workers, survivors of dangerous working conditions in British Columbia don't have a hope in hell in getting protection from weak kneed politicians, Shirley Bond the BC Liberal GOVERNMENT.

Reminds us of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.   Not much has changed in 103 years.

Before

After

The owners of the Triangle got off scott free because they claimed they didn't know there was a dust problem!!!!

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PBS Video

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2014

Inquest Date	Location	Deceased	Type of Death	Posted Documents
January 20 - 24, 2014	Burnaby	Malhi, Surinder Singh	Police Custody	JURY FINDINGS
Recommences January 27, 2014	Prince George	MATTERS, Gregory John	Police Shooting	JURY FINDINGS
March 3, 2014	Duncan	Richardson, Jeremy David	Police Custody
March 10 - 14, 2014	Burnaby	Allen, Warren Robert Cayer, Gerald Joseph Tombaugh, Kyle Darren	Federal Corrections
March 24, 2014	Burnaby	Cuthbertson, Kevin Neil	Federal Corrections
March 31 - April 4, 2014	Vernon	Haslam, Bradley Michael Thomas	Workplace
March 31, 2014	Burnaby	Vandenberg, Kyle Martin	Police Related
July 7, 2014	Burnaby	Ray, Christopher	Police Shooting
July 28, 2014	Burnaby	Jacob, Ryan	Police Shooting
Sept. 29, 2014	Burnaby	Jimenez, Lucia Vega	CBSA custody

Inquests – To Be Announced

Inquest Date	Location	Deceased	Type of Death
TBA	TBA	DUDLEY, Lisa MCKAY, Guthrie
TBA	TBA	SCOTT, Steven Joseph	Police Custody

March 4, 2010
Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General
MEDIA ADVISORY ATTENTION: ASSIGNMENT EDITORS BURNABY

 – The B.C. Coroners Service will hold a public inquest into the deaths of Lisa Dudley and Guthrie McKay who died on or about Sept. 22, 2008 in Mission. The presiding coroner and a jury will publicly hear evidence from subpoenaed witnesses in order to determine the facts surrounding the deaths. The jury will have the opportunity to make recommendations aimed at preventing deaths under similar circumstances in the future.

This inquest will be held in Burnaby. The presiding coroner, schedule and location will be determined in the coming months. The inquest date will be announced once confirmed. No further information is available at this time. An inquest is a formal court proceeding that allows for public presentation of all evidence relating to a death.

The B.C. Coroners Service is an independent fact-finding agency that may not make any finding of legal responsibility. -30- Media Contact: Media Relations Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General 250 356-6961

Bruce Main Sentenced in the deaths of Lisa Dudley and Guthrie McKay

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 2013

BC Speaker's Spending Spree $48,412: Active Administrative Forfeiture? Director?

Bills include $48,412 for a custom touch-screen computer terminal, $13,449 to convert half the legislature library into a MLA-only TV lounge and and $13,965 for new drapes at the legislature dining room.  Times Colonist

Now where did the Forfeiture Director leave the File on politicians spending....

Could the $ number values be criminally inflated

Excel

Active Administrative Forfeiture Files

A list of Active Forfeiture Files including property type, unlawful activity, and seizing agency.Under the Civil Forfeiture Act, the director (Minister or delegate) may apply to the court for an order forfeiting to the government, (a) the whole of an interest in property that is proceeds of unlawful activity, or (b) the portion of an interest in property that is proceeds of unlawful activity. The director may also apply to the court for an order forfeiting to the government property that is an instrument of unlawful activity. Whether proceedings are initiated in court or administratively, they are not reliant on criminal charges or convictions arising from the alleged unlawful activity and apply only with respect to property or an interest in property located in British Columbia.

Page 77: BC Liberal Election Platform: Work with the Legislative Assembly to ensure that the Assembly is subject to the annual audits by an independent auditor and are made public at the same time as public accounts.

BC Liberal's LNG Strategies fueling Lies and More: Crisscrossing data from non-existent sources within the House

Christy Clark

Rich Coleman

Bill Bennett

Asphalt damages the Environment

whether it's our driveways

or

Launch pads for burning off methane gas at LNG well bores

BC Liberals LNG Strategies

 Well? Boring?   Here we are at March 2014, in less than Nine (9) months Christy Clark will have her first LNG plant up and running!  Advertising created November of 2012, must have played a large part in the Strategy of an Election platform.

ONE LNG Plant & Pipeline by 2015..... and what was Christy promising in the BC Legislature in 2011, a Wait and See when it came to allowing the NEB panel to run roughshod over the Northern Gateway (Enbridge) application?????  

Strategy

Buying Votes by supplying non-existing WorkSafe BC statistics:  20,000 jobs for Fort St. John, Dawson Creek, Fort Nelson ... Pat Pimm's riding.

WorkSafe BC  =  20,000 jobs in Oil and Gas alone.... Black and White version

 Deaths, Injuries, Long term Diseases

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There is a Vague reference to WorkSafe BC 20,000 jobs in GeoScience BC  which turns out to be a an Animal, .... a conduit... for spreading ... lies... somewhat along the lines of BCTF teachers making $10,000 over Alberta ..... Gary Mason of the Globe and Mail being fed incorrect data from ..... the BC Liberals.

BC Liberals OWN GeoScience and run WorkSafeBC which came up with 20,000 jobs figures when WorkSafe BC are obviously in the service of Preventable accidents, NOT forecasting jobs in the LNG sector.  Go back and look at the Statistics from WorkSafe BC in regards to DEATHS  961, for the Oil and Gas fields.

If just ONE of Five is non-existence, what about others:  Natural Resources Canada, PriceWaterHouseCoopers, BC Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources and BC Ministry of Finance.

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At least we now know where the statistics are coming from  110,000+ jobs: 

Canadian Energy Research Institute

CERI

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Direct, Indirect, Induced

 Yeah, but, Christy, Rich, Bill, the 100,000 jobs are for all of CANADA

If this next image source does NOT load, Save file, and enjoy the forbidden fruits that the BC Liberals have been consuming and scatting scattering:

100,000 jobs by 2020

Are we talking about Induced, Indirect or are we talking about DIRECT, in the field, hard at it, with dirty gritty hands and lands covered in PAHs?

Unconventional or Conventional means of extracting Royalties from .....

Royalties Hey Days are over:

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Going back to the First Image, just how much damage are the asphalted, sticking down the Gumbo, Well Bore Pads damage?

Mixing Asphalt, with PAHs, with Tailing Ponds with Methane burning

59° 44.309'N 121° 53.434'W

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Is your driveway toxic?

The Dirt on asphalts polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)

 "We thought that concentrations of PAHs were so high in parking lots that they may be affecting house dust," says Barbara Mahler, a hydrologist involved in the research, which was published in Environmental Science & Technology in November 2008.

Do you remember:

 Back in the 1940s, manufacturers began chemically treating lumber used in playgrounds and decks with a preservative called chromated copper arsenate to protect against rot and insect damage. CCA contains chromium and arsenic, toxic compounds that leach out of the wood and into soil — as with PAHs, putting children who crawl in the contaminated area at risk. After an EPA assessment, manufacturers phased out the use of CCA for virtually all residential wood products by the end of 2003.

Google Search Criteria:  polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)

1.2 What happens to PAHs when they enter the environment?

PAHs enter the environment mostly as releases to air from volcanoes, forest fires, residential wood burning, and exhaust from automobiles and trucks. They can also enter surface water through discharges from industrial plants and waste water treatment plants, and they can be released to soils at hazardous waste sites if they escape from storage containers. The movement of PAHs in the environment depends on properties such as how easily they dissolve in water, and how easily they evaporate into the air. PAHs in general do not easily dissolve in water. They are present in air as vapors or stuck to the surfaces of small solid particles. They can travel long distances before they return to earth in rainfall or particle settling. Some PAHs evaporate into the atmosphere from surface waters, but most stick to solid particles and settle to the bottoms of rivers or lakes. In soils, PAHs are most likely to stick tightly to particles. Some PAHs evaporate from surface soils to air. Certain PAHs in soils also contaminate underground water. The PAH content of plants and animals living on the land or in water can be many times higher than the content of PAHs in soil or water. PAHs can break down to longer-lasting products by reacting with sunlight and other chemicals in the air, generally over a period of days to weeks. Breakdown in soil and water generally takes weeks to months and is caused primarily by the actions of microorganisms.

The Forked mouth of the Capilano River has had a Tuck or Two taken in

Sure hope the Salmon remember how to get to their spawning grounds, With the Dam dam in the way.

Right Link

What is even more interesting is the creeks running down to the shore, west of the Capilano.  They seemed to have ALL disappeared, underground, ...... for the sake of a few homes and businesses.  River Habitat, my ass!

Does the IOC have the will to prevent Putin from using Paralympic athletes as shields?

Paralympics 2014?  Will they happen? or are we looking at an eight year World WAR?

Re-Tool thin-skinned Dilbit Tankers to haul Humanure to the Wheat fields? Production increases: 6 fold

Tip of the Hat to those people who use Pod-Casts to drift off to sleep (at night) and then come up with great ideas for this Blog, like Graphite Accumulators,  Nelson "Galvania iron fertilization, Super Heated Chicken Feathers to store Hydrogen for cars, Digital Decoders for Ship Locations, and last but not least a Meeting place for Brunch:  Burnaby's End of the Universe  (not it's real name).

Metro Vancouver wants to incinerator it's waste.....

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and New York City got it right, when it came to stop dumping waste products into the Atlantic Ocean.   The result, a transformation of the North River wastewater treatment plant, located on the Hudson River.  

The result was FREE fertilizer to the Wheat fields of Colorado, increased production by SIX Times until the Railway companies, greedy little bastards that they are, upped their rates and killed the goose laying golden eggs.    However, maybe the czars of railway transport will be taking a SECOND look at their DISPOSAL costs for their thin skinned Dilbit tanker cars, and use, even a small portion of them, to reinstate a GOOD FOR THE EARTH attitude with the Poop Train.  Humanure concerns???? relax, the Heavy Metals in the poop are NOT picked up by Wheat!

The Scoop on the Poop Train at RadioLab PodCast Articles

A bit of a backgrounder:

 Chris Tackett
Science / Sustainable Agriculture
September 25, 2013

Few radio shows could make a report about human waste both entertaining, educational and inspiring, but Radiolab is no ordinary radio program. This week, host's Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich tell the fascinating story of the New York City Poop Train, which used to ship tons of human waste sludge from New York City to farmers in Colorado, 1,600 miles away.

Wait, what? I was surprised to learn about this, so it was interesting to hear the history of how much New York City's approach to sewage has changed in the past few decades. The segment also includes an interesting tour of Manhattan's North River Wastewater Treatment Plant, which currently treats approximately 125 million gallons of wastewater every day.

I don't want to spoil the ending of the story for you, but there is also a good lesson on sustainability and how we can be doing a better job of putting human waste to beneficial use (once it is properly processed for safety).

BC "Community Facts" database: eg. Burns Lake/Kelowna etc. 2001!, 2006!, 2011?, 2014???

586 pages long

 Community Facts

Local indicators of economic activity tell us about the vitality of a community, as well as the specifics of certain activity. The Community Facts offer a comparison to provincial figures of various socio-economic indicators. Some of these indicators are: population, census characteristics, new business incorporations, bankruptcies, income assistance and employment insurance beneficiaries, construction activity, counts of business establishments, and value/taxes on a 'representative' house. This three-page snapshot in time displays a variety of data specific to each municipality and regional district. Our latest iteration in this series includes the comparison of 2001 and 2006 census data for each location.

Explanatory notes for data   (DEAD LINKed)

ETC.

 However the LINKS to the Maps for each community  are functioning: eg.  Burns Lake

2001 and 2006 Database available in PDF and/or EXCEL

4.3% decrease in Unemployment Rate

Links to the umbrella: Union of British Columbia Municipalities

Municipalities   eg. Burns Lake

Regional Districts eg.  Bulkley-Nechako

Regional Hospital Districts  eg. Skeena-Queen Charlotte / Kitimat-Stikine / Bulkley-Nechako*

*   Part of the Regional District falls in two Regional Hospital Disctricts


eg. Kelowna

4.3% Decrease in Unemployment Rate

Exactly the same rate between Burns Lake and Kelowna.... Amazing, just a few thousand more for Kelowna compared to a handful at Burns Lake.

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Population {by citizenship}:

   Non-Immigrant
   Immigrant

Why hasn't the Temporary Foreign Worker been included?

Page 5  of 586      NOTE:  Population Estimates

Produced by the Population Section of BC Stats on an annual basis, the population estimates are referenced to July 1, and include estimates of the net census undercount (persons missed in the Census), for Census years

900 years to Grow old; 800 years to Go for North Shore trees

on the way UP to Brother Creek

900 year old trees were cut down, North Shore of Burrard Inlet, shipped off to foreign ports 100 years ago.   Doesn't look like the "newbies" will make it to 150 years.

There is a BIG Tree Registry

There's also a UBC Website    Gallery

There's our Post on Vancouver Landscape Resources 41 Trees (2011)

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Scotty on Denman:

Vancouver Island Big Trees with  Champion Tree Society

Maybe the trees in the article aren't actually the biggest of their kind. One story I heard was that when representatives of the Champion Tree Society went to verify the size of a candidate for biggest Sitka spruce (somewhere in Washington, I think), there was initial disappointment that the specimen was somewhat smaller than the biggest spruce known. Then they just happened to find a vine maple nearby: four feet in diameter! Lucky or what?

Property = ONE; Propeerties = ??? a Oscar Wilde discourse on peer ownership of many properties, in Kelowna?

Peer     1.    a group of people of approximately the same age, status, and interests.

Communal  1.     shared by all members of a community; for common use.  "a communal bathroom and kitchen"        collective, cooperative, community, communalist, combined    "they farm on a communal basis"
2.    (of conflict) between different communities, esp. those having different religions or ethnic origins.

Kelowna City Planners seem to have found a unique way of plagiarizing  pluralizing the word "Property" so that Council can keep track of all the exemptions being requested by Developers:

Page 3 of 5

 

City Planners version     I                         Google            

Don't know why, but the manipulation of the new word,   Propeerties   sort of reminds us of what George Bernard Shaw once said about Oscar Wilde:

 “incomparably the greatest talker of his time — perhaps of all time.”

Wilde claimed he could discuss any subject at any time prepared or not. A companion once took him up on this claim, asking that he discourse on the subject of “The Queen.” Responded Wilde: “The queen is not a subject.”

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Oh yeah, it was the Kelowna road called Berard which led to Bernard then to Oscar....  because of  looking for anything to do with the Silo(s).... like the one on Berard ALR, which sounds a lot like Burrard Street and Inlet (Vancouver), of course.

Silo-filling demonstration at Kelowna, B.C., 
1916

Fair Incendiary Commentary Reality to North Shore of Vancouver: Natural Gas Leak!!!!

Something is rotten in Den......... District of North Vancouver

100 FORESTER STREET, NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C.M V7H 1W4

ERCO Worlwide

It must be typical, not wanting to phone 911 because of the smell of rotten eggs around your house.  Fortis gas Meters do bleed, not huge amounts, it's a balancing act.    This morning, Canada Hockey Team wins Olympic GOLD, and .... , Snowing heavily, shoveling snow, and there's this smell permeating the neighbourhood.

Called Fortis line, and was put on "HOLD"

"We are busy with other calls, HOLD"

Hung up, and took the Fortis Website at their word of HOLD, if they were not available, WE dialed 911.

Had misgivings after one ring; thought about it again and re-dialed 911.  IMMEDIATE pick-up, transferred to CNV Fire Department:  "ADDRESS PLEASE" within five minutes, or less, the information came back that there was a leak, the other side, east of, the Second Narrows Bridge.

RCMP phoned back about the "Dropped Call", the One Ring.  They had to send out their Officer.

RCMP Officer was very pleasant.   and before she made it back to her car she was being corralled by other neighbours about the smell of Rotten Eggs around their HOUSE.

8 kilometer Rotten-Egg-Smell Radius

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Earlier this year the RCMP were calling the North Shore residents via an AMBER ALERT asking that we keep an eye out for a Senior who had walked away from a Nursing Home.

The RCMP today said that they would be out all night because the SMELL would linger.

 There goes their Budget.  Lots of overtime.

Why not an AMBER ALERT?

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The Natural Gas Leak today was NOT included with our Post of Fair Incendiary Comment

Chlorine Plant next door.......

GREEN line to Hell

PS:   Is this smell, the same smell that is being VENTED, intentionally, in Christy Clark's Field of Dreams to generate  ONE TRILLION dollars to balance her Deficit?

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Property Lines, so important, keeps thin skin rail tankers a stone's throw away from Natural Gas supplier.... for the Storage of Chlorine.  Sure wouldn't want to be the Rescue crew going into that area.

BC Government Kills Ferry Routes: Fresh Produce is Not Available. Coastal residents rescued by the Veterinarian Health Minister: Grow your own.

The BC Liberals: cut Ferry service to save money, and all because the Duke to Delta route, is a BUST.

Then the Veterinarian Health Minister gives the okay to have a book written that shows the Coastal Residents growing their own fresh food.

Government of British Columbia,

Heart Stroke Foundation,

Context Research Ltd.

and

Transport Minister Todd Stone: 

  The Story of the Produce Availability Initiative 

Imagine you are in the grocery store and in the fresh produce section you find only one onion and a withered head of garlic.

There are no apples, no carrots; not a single head of lettuce.

For many of British Columbia’s remote communities, this is a daily reality.   Tucked in isolated northern corners of the province and along rugged coastlines, people have to travel hundreds of kilometres down rough roads just to buy a bag of oranges or a bunch of carrots.  And when the only road in and out of the community is closed due to floods or fires, or when ferries are cancelled during the storm season, finding fresh vegetables and fruits becomes impossible.

If ferries are cancelled for a Storm, a three day Storm at that, what happens when the "Storm" is in a political teapot that lasts all year long?  Vet to the Rescue!

Harvesting change in B.C.'s remote Coastal Communities


 
Fresh vegetables all summer; but for the other three seasons, starve

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 From our Haida Gwaii Galvania Post:

Daylight to Night, Summer to Fall and back to Summer,at the Equator (Galapagos), is an almost even split of 12 hours on, 12 hours off

Daylight to Night, at Haida Gwaii, in the Winter .... :

Being as far north as we are (above 54 deg N), the Winter daylight is very short with the Sun (if we see it at all) after 8:30AM local, and Setting shortly after 3:00 PM. The sun doesn't Rise more than about 20 degrees above the horizon.   Six and half Hours!

..... the middle of summer, the Sun rises before 5:00am with Sunset not until after 10:00pm.  Seventeen Hours!  DX-er.ca     DX is ham radio shorthand for "distance"

Haida Gwaii  Temperature range   32°-64.4°F  /  0°-18°C
 Haida Gwaii has .... Four Seasons

BCs' FII Advertising: it's all in the presentation: Burns Lake sawDUST is good, sandDust would be safer

We thought that with this advertising by FII (Forestry Innovation Investment) wholly owned by British Columbians) would be about SawDust.   With BC Government deep deficit pockets, the FII really pulled out all the stops to showcase their products, made from SandDust to show off how SawDust is used.

Why not SawDust as the medium?
 
Naturally Good  naturally:wood 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3FAQgQZgieE

$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ??????

6-story building

A 2011 pre-election promise by Premier Christy Clark forced Finance Minister Kevin Falcon to vacate - capitulate, from Office.   The Premier went Way beyond the Budgeted $25 million, $75 million higher for a six story / 10 story experimental building in Prince George.... which is now two stories high (started November 2013)

Falcon says it was clearly not something the province could deliver, because the province had only committed $25 million to the project.   CBC