Stephen Brown: PR damage control after Simushir's left USA docks for Haida Gwaii's rocks

Not a peep, not a whimper from The Chamber of Shipping of British Columbia during the Simushir loss of propulsion, and then once the vessel is towed and repaired at Prince Rupert, she leaves Canadian waters.   The Vancouver Sun allows an opinion column that should have been labeled in bold letters: "Advertorial - Do Not Pay Attention"

Stephen Brown

Opinion: More inconvenient tanker truths           Shipping: Marine rescue response to disabled Russian freighter worked as it should have   By Stephen Brown, Special to The Vancouver Sun November 2, 2014

We checked out those who he represents, their website:

Sailing distances to British Columbia's ports can be up to 68 hours shorter than calls to US west coast ports.  Efficient rail service connect customers to major urban centres in Canada and US mid-west.

The Chamber of Shipping of British Columbia represents vessel owners, operators and shipping agencies engaged in international trade through Canada's Pacific gateway.  The association fosters the development of collaborative solutions and promotes the development of effective and responsive legislation that continues to support a robust and sound shipping industry.

Efficient rail service eh?  Every RED dot is a 'pinch point', a 'bottle neck' for the BNSF railway company.  One red dot is the Surrey Thornton Yard, not to be confused with the Thornton Tunnel which links Vancouver/Burnaby to the North Shore of Burrard Inlet, at the Second Narrows.

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Keywords to look for are Pinch Points, Bottlenecks

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Thornton Tunnel is the Next Post, and it will be labeled Fair Incendiary Comment.

Someone should create a blog called that, simply because Transportation Canada doesn't have a Tip Line......

Pssssst!  Warning.  Attention Danger

CN Radio Possessors: Hikers, Strollers (baby buggy type with Grandparents), cyclists, Dog Walkers

298-3348???? is that a Direct Line like Bell or Telus or is there a 517,   604   778  missing

BC Hydro should know to Never, NEVER, mix electricity with water AND Children (or the children in us)

BC Municipalities practice due diligence when it comes to the safety of their communities, but why is it that Crown Corporation BC Hydro can run amuck like it's a Kinder Morgan / Enbridge corporation.

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Buried beneath busy  West Vancouver's Marine Drive, between 17th and 18th, there's Larson Creek salmon habitat complete with a mural-on-the-pavement camouflage to the north.

and this:

Grating covers reveal a free to flow Larson Creek below

and this:

Further downstream, between 17th and 18th, between Bellevue and waterfront, BC Hydro has their Cypress Transmission substation with it's own generating plant waiting for the moment when Rich Colman's Billion Dollar Smart Meter program is called upon because of the ever inevitable windstorm.

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BC Hydro has it's way of cordoning of their dangerous components like:

Barb wire topping a chain link fence:

A chain link fence separating Mother and Child from ..... in West Vancouver ..

Isn't there a required setback between pedestrians, motor vehicles (metal)?

that should look like this one in South Vancouver?

Vancouver: north-west of Knight and East 49th

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.... Plastic to keep the heavy oil from leaking out of the 45 gallon barrel drums, and onto, into, the gravel beneath. 

And then seeping into the ground water, to Larson Creek Salmon run. Why store it here at all?

A River Runs through Cypress Substation

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Serene green setting?????  Guard rail separating sidewalk from .... Larson Creek

Looking to the South East

Looking South-ish

BC Hydro Cypress Substation to either side

There's a readily available pedestrian bridge, no guard rails, just north of the BCRail Right-Of-Way.    No guard rail either side of Larson Creek to stop children from falling in, not climbing out.  And what about those pesky trees ?????? ...... within a BC Hydro Facility?

According to BC Hydro's Pest Management Plan     report:

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Putting aside the missing razor topped chain link fence around the WHOLE facility, why is it still situated a half block away from a million dollar waterfront views, " blocked" by two privately held residences no more than two stories high, when it should be sitting in an industrial area or UP THERE near the Hillcrest Substation?

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BC Hydro  Secured Facilities List 2013

Copy Names from the list and put it into Google Earth

With a 8.0 tremor, would the Williston Reservoir create a Grand Canyon II in Alberta/NorthWest Territories?

2015-12-29: M=4.7 - 8 km ESE of Sidney, BC

2015-12-16: M=3.4 - 18 km ENE of Ashcroft, BC - felt

2015-11-20: M=3.5 - 181 km NE of Keno, YT

2015-10-31: M=3.3 - 73 km W of Village of Queen Charlotte, BC - felt

2015-10-22: M=4.7 - 204 km W of Port Hardy, BC  

I was thinking the sides would continue collapsing to the point where the reservoir would enter the hole -  and then the game would be over  - BC Hydro's John Baker

The World Trade Centre was safe until an Engineer suggested that the only thing that could bring it down was a fully fueled passenger airliner.

Now we have Engineers for BC Hydro giving the proposed Site C dam, in Northern British Columbia, a "clean bill" of health on safety because it will be able to withstand a 7.6 earthquake.

But what if it were 8.0?

Would the upstream WAC Bennett dam, holding back the flood waters of Williston Reservoir be a prime target for a WTC class passenger airplane, hitting just below the reservoir highest water belt, thereby creating a breach which would send it's 74 km³ capacity flowing, knocking out the Site C which is rated at 7.6?  In essence, an infamous Domino effect that Christy Clark and her BC Liberals claimed during the 2013 provincial election would never happen to our Economic engine, ELECTRICITY.

Were the instructions by Coleman, and then Bennett, shy when it came to the terms of reference directing BC Hydro Engineers creation of a short list on worst case scenarios?  Were they told NOT to include a Tsunami.   Tsunamis are associated with the ocean, but even the mighty Mica Dam builders were concerned of a "tsunami" because of a rockface (mountain) directly upstream, was slipping down to the reservoir..... still is... slipping.  The Downie Slip:  Google Search Criteria: Mica Dam rock face upstream

Introduction to Coastal Engineering and Management
books.google.ca/books?isbn=9812834850
J. W. Kamphuis - 2010 - ‎Nature
Geologists had discovered that a 1.5 km3 (2 km x 2.7 km x 300 m) rock face was ... the power generating facilities at the Mica dam upstream, which would cause ...

Here's all the information ever written on the Downie Slide.

The Columbia River Treaty participating Dams both in Canada and USA (map generated).

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A cubic meter of pure water at four degrees Celsius weighs 1,000 kilograms, or one tonne (a metric ton). The temperature of the water is significant because the density of water varies with temperature. It is at its densest at four degrees Celsius.

One thousand kilograms is equivalent to 2,204.6 pounds (lb).

74 km³  =  1000 million tons!

Would the resulting flood cause the Earth to wobble on its axis?

Data is of December 18, 2013

 North America ..... Canada ..... data/images

Before the naysayers rise up, the ONLY place that the earthquakes/tremors are happening, inland, in BC, is on a line, running north and south of ......WAC Bennett Dam, Peace River Dam, Proposed Site C Dam!!!  Is it the weight of the water....

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Google Search Criteria:  WAC Dam Leaking

The Sixty-Story Crisis by Anne Mullens

....... All that is known is that in the middle of the dam, he spied a hole in the asphalt and knew it ought to be reported. The tour guide thought so,too, and called the control building of the G.M. Shrum Generating Station nestled in the east shoulder of the dam. 

SinkHole One and SinkHole Two (out of sight, but not out of mind)

Unless you’ve seen the Bennett Dam, it is hard to fathom its size. High as a 60-storey building and two kilometres wide, it’s an enormous earth and gravel wedge that holds back 360 kilometres of Williston Lake, the largest reservoir in North America. In a word: massive – and with massive water pressure behind it............

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B.C. Hydro's sinking credibility: an unexplained 18-foot cavity in the W.A.C. Bennett Dam has already cost $100 million.  -  Highbeam Business

At stake was the very integrity of the structure and the lives of thousands of people downstream.
Emotions ran high the first few days. Some Hudson's Hope parents, a mere 15 miles below the headworks, kept their children out of school so they could make a fast getaway should the worst happen. In addition, town officials visited an old-persons' home to prepare residents in case they had to be moved; communities went on alert as far away as Peace River, Alta., over 200 miles downstream.

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Globe and Mail

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WAC Bennett Dam and Williston Reservoir

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Looking south, as the Crow flies from the Alberta border to the West:

Alberta to proposed Site C Dam 55km





Alberta to Peace River Dam 114 km




Alberta to WAC Dam  127 km




Alberta to Western most edge of Williston Reservoir 318 km

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JRP Question B:If either or both of the upstream dams fail, will the result be the same with and without the Site C dam?

BC Hydro Response: The volume of Williston Reservoir is about 32 times that of the Site C reservoir. Due to the smaller volume of the Site C reservoir, in the event of a cascading dam failure, there would be small increases in  flood levels and flows downstream of Site C. The volume of Dinosaur Reservoir is about one tenth that of the Site C reservoir. The volume of the Site C reservoir between the maximum normal level and the maximum flood level is about twice the volume of the Dinosaur Reservoir. Failure of Peace Canyon Dam is very unlikely to result in a failure of Site C due to the large spillway capacity and freeboard. For a failure of Peace Canyon Dam during the probable maximum flood peak flows and water levels downstream of Site C would be fairly similar with and without Site C.

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 As to the Transmission line routes, they go right along The First Nation Heritage trails:

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Peace River Site C Hydro Project Heritage Resources Data Gap Analysis 

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There is now compelling evidence for many gigantic ancient floods where glacial ice dams failed time and again: At the end of the last glaciation, some 10,000 years ago, giant ice-dammed lakes in Eurasia and North America repeatedly produced huge floods. In Siberia, rivers spilled over drainage divides and changed their courses. England’s fate as an island was sealed by erosion from glacial floods that carved the English Channel. These were not global deluges as described in the Genesis story of Noah, but were more focused catastrophic floods taking place throughout the world. They likely inspired stories like Noah’s in many cultures, passed down through generations.

 By David R. Montgomery|Wednesday, August 29, 2012

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Dickinson hopes at least to lay to rest one hypothesis: That an ancient lake carved the canyon through a cascading series of waterfalls. A favored concept for two decades, "I don't think it's a valid story, and my main purpose is to dismantle it," Dickinson said of his new study, published Dec. 13 in the journal Geosphere. Here's the gist of the idea: A giant lake covering eastern Arizona ate through a limestone ridge called the Kaibab uplift, near the eastern end of the present-day Grand Canyon. A torrent of water spilled through the crack, cutting the canyon we see today. The Colorado River then followed the new course that was set.   Becky Oskin, OurAmazingPlanet Staff Writer | December 18, 2012 02:13pm ET -

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Perhaps Site C Dam should be built between WAC Bennett Dam and Williston main Lake.... topple a mountain or TWO into the ravine.... would leave room for the lake to filter through, and stop the WHOLE of the Lake from draining into Great Slave Lake.

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The Project would be located at straight line distances of 71 km and 85 km from Peace Canyon Dam and WAC Bennett dams, respectively. The probability of a major earthquake that could produce design level ground motions simultaneously at the Project and one or both of the upstream dams has not been evaluated, but given the distance between these dams, the probability would be significantly lower than 1/10,000

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Index for below locations:
   

Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5

Volume 2 leads to here:

Environmental Assessment Office
Environmental Impact Statement for Site C Clean Energy Project

Eg. 

MUST SEE  READ   Everything you wanted to Know about Site C dam that BC Hydro and BC Liberals refuse to publish......

Volume 2 - Figure 11.2.14 - Map of faults from geologic map of North America (2005) and crustal seismic zones

Red lines Fault Zones  Page 1 of 1

Red Stars   BC Hydro dams

Index to colours

Bill Bennett is perfectly happy with LNG compression being done with Natural Gas driven turbines

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The Project demand for skilled labour during construction would exceed the local labour supply, resulting in an in-migration of workers and a resultant change in local population and demographics. Population change is a determinant of other potential Project effects on housing and on community infrastructure and services. The key indicators for population and demographics are number of persons (gender, age profile, labour force participation), households, and demographic characteristics, including marital status and dependents.  Page 1 of 23

Do you want to know why CN Rail blames the hardworking beaver for the loss of seven hopper loads of Coal?

Canadian Pacific Railway knows the value of the beaver and would never, ever, consider blaming a poor defenseless animal as being responsible for the derailment of seven railcars in an Urban area, or anywhere in fact (except for that minor little detail that they want their stolen property on either side of their rail line back, Christy)

CN Rail, are they still required to send scooters out to check the rails before a passenger or freight trains roaring down the track.    Plaster Creek report

And More NOT Burnaby 2014

 Amazing what Beavers can do, eh.

Has CN Rail already cut that scooter operators out of the mix, like their suggestion, their Threat, of removing operators from the lift spans in Burrard Inlet, even though Kinder Morgan is going to be quadrupling the amount of Crude Oil leaving from the east side of the Second Narrows Bridge, and coincidentally the same number of vessels, empty, coming in to Burrard Inlet.

CPR

A beaver was chosen as the railway's logo because it is one of the national symbols of Canada AND represents the hardworking character of the company.

CPR

The hard working nickel of Canada:

Nickel

de Havilland DHC - 2 Beaver

Five cent Canada Postage Stamp

Three cent Canada Postage Stamp

The original 'Canada Dry' logo  Suggestion From Anon 9:27am

More images from Canada Dry

CNRail???? they're the guys who stole our BC Railway for 990 years for a pittance of $990,000,000!!!   Their Symbol:  A Maple Leaf

Canadian National Railway or CN Rail has not been keeping up with the times where they continue to expand into the realm of double tracking, but not going the extra mile and "protect" the weight traveling atop the rail bed from pushing down and out  <  ---------  >

Protesters now have a new weapon in the transport of Crude oil, Dilbits, LNG... Beavers!!!   All they need, is TWO Beavers M/F, a wet area, plenty of nearby greenery and a railway forming one side of a dam.... helps.    Current protest is happening near Government and Caribou, Burnaby

CHECK IT OUT

and

Stanley Park's Beaver population working harder than clean-up crews

Miniature train threatened

In the case of beaver "infested areas", rail companies now knowing that even one of the smallest creatures on Earth can bring down their mighty steel machines, should be required to build concrete retaining walls to hold their rails in place, down, sideways, ......a  Capital U  channel.   Those construction activities would probably do more to harm the beaver and other wildlife in the wet areas, but they, the beavers, could be trapped, not for their pelts or their lives, but to be cared for .... like Hope for WildLife Society, and then returned to their natural habitat once the construction is completed.

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