Fair Incendiary Comment? Don't Mix three items: 1) Conservative/BC Liberals Jobs; 2) $8 Billion Shipbuilding; 3) Sulphur/Coal/Chlorine/Wood Chips

UPDATE July 11, 2014 at bottom:

Transportation Act Provincial Public Undertakings Regulation on Bridges, Tunnels, Highways

 Explosives, flammables and corrosives

UPDATE September 20, 2013,  at bottom:  WOOD CHIPS
UPDATE September 22, 2013, right here:
      Table of Initial Isolation and Protective Action Distances
                First Isolate in all directions   
                Then Protect Persons Downwind During Large Spills Day/Night
Google Search Criteria for more info

UPDATE September 25, 2013 Wikimapia of CNR Thornton Tunnel

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Photo Source 2010

In 2010, West Vancouver Fire Department utilized 16 of 89 of their Firefighters from three Fire Halls to put out a Sulphur fire.  Evacuations alerts to nearby businesses and homes were performed with the use of PAs (Public Address loud hailers).  They even considered implementing a Canada Amber Alert.   The Amber alert would be displayed on overhead signs for the benefit of Motorists.

Where to go, where would they go, to escape.

Currently, Open hopper sulphur cars are stored between Fell to MacKay and east of the Lions Gate Bridge, North Van

Shipyard Left - Kinder Morgan Vancouver Wharves ahead  SULX 1389

"The sulphur in there was smouldering and causing a moderate amount of smoke.  It wasn't free flaming.  We went in and put it out.  The Squamish Nation and Norgate were put on evacuation warning.  Police went througn with their PA systems and asked residents to shelter in place." Assistant Fire Chief Martin Ernst of  West Vancouver Fire and Rescue played many roles today: media relations manager, firefighter, and coordinator, as sixteen fire fighters worked to extinguish smouldering sulphur in an open box car on the Capilano Reserve.

"We were mobilizing the Can Alert system because the smoke was starting to drift and increase."..... and we also brought in NSEMO.

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About 500 homes are on the reserve. As the West Vancouver Fire Department got the situation in hand, Mason said,  the phone campaign to alert residents stopped.

The area of concern covered an 800 meter radius around the spill. Indian and Northern Affairs and the Provincial Emergency Program were kept up to date on the fire. There were no  transportation impacts.

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"But what if it had been chlorine?" Shaw asked. (Chris Shaw, a neuroscientist and professor at UBC)

"Had it been a rail accident with chlorine, they'd be evacuating everyone within a couple of kilometers.  Potentially thousands of people.  Let's be happy that's not what happened today.  But it calls into question the transport of dangerous materials through residential areas." - VancouverObserver - Aug 10th, 2010

It's that last sentence, three years ago, that speaks volumes, prophetically:

 "But it calls into question the transport of dangerous materials through residential areas."
 

Lac-Megantic disaster
Dilbit EpicCentre

45°34'39.47"N 70°53'2.77"W

Red Lined 800 Meter Radius

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Port of Vancouver

 Has BC Disaster Response personnel got it covered, because right now, the highways are out of bound as evacuation routes.  Those highways are the means by which First Responders have jurisdiction.  

North Vancouver Evacuation Radius coloured by stockpiled resource.

Green Ship - Chlorine manufacturer Canexus
Green Line - Chlorine Two Kilometre evacuation Radius

Blue Ship   -  $8 Billion Shipbuilding location

Yellow Bar -  Sulphur open hopper cars
Red Line    -  Sulphur 800 Metre evacuation Radius

Black Ship  -  Coal

Maroon Vent A- 49°16'46.42"N 123° 1'6.12"W
                          CNR Thornton Tunnel Vents into residential area
Thornton Tunnel adits:
South: from Second Narrows Rail Bridge.
North: from one and half blocks West of Willingdon, one and half block south of Lougheed Highway

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Or another way of looking, with an interactive map

Wikimapia Thornton Tunnel, North Leg, highlighted with hovering mouse

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North Vancouver's Neptune Terminal keep their piled-high-Coal-at-bay by pressure washing the road between CNR rail lines .... but we own the Right-of-Way (BC Rail Deal) and the Administration building's parking lot.  They also have high towers watering the coal, where one is visible in this image from Google Earth.    49°18'24.48"N 123° 3'6.00"W

As to the $8 billion, 30 year possible contract of building Coast Guard and Naval vessels on the North Shore of Burrard Inlet, has anyone, government officials at the Federal and Provincial levels done their homework on Sulphur being a stone's throw away from the $200 million upgrade to the Washington Group's SeaSpan Vancouver Shipyard?

Has Municipal governments been involved?

Has Transport Canada's Rail Investigators been involved?  Or, are they still busy working on the:

Lac-Megantic disaster

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Wayback Machine to FOLC Additional Info

Additional information: Sulphur handling related incidents/evacuations

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Conveyor Belt from Three piles of Wood Chips to waiting ship.
  $8 billion worth of shipbuilding to the Right

Piles of Sulphur to the left, Wood Chips (FIRE) side by side to $8 billion investment in Vancouver Shipyards at the foot of Pemberton.

There's a Win/Win situation here.  Ask Wood Chips company Fibreco, directly west of Vancouver Shipyards, to shift their Vancouver Port business to Robert's Bank and Fibreco would benefit, Canada too.   Shorter distance for Overseas Bulk Carriers to a Fibreco Dock, less time for Truckers hauling chips from the Interior of British Columbia thereby avoiding the congestion on Metro Vancouver Highways, and the overloaded traffic on the Second Narrow Bridge.


The Canadian Government owns the Japanese built Panamax Floating Dry Dock, not Burrard Dry Dock, not Versatile Pacific, and not Seaspan. Write your MP asking that Seaspan's Vancouver Dry Dock needs to shift on over to the foot of Pemberton, West side (Currently Fibreco).  The floating Panamax Dry Dock Repair business would then be side by side to Vancouver Shipyard's $8 Billion New ship building Contract, for 30 Years.   There's a lot of benefits for Seaspan, their workforce wouldn't be split in Two, therefore greater control, with less management involvement.  One warehouse too.

This photo isn't quite clear as to the size of the Vancouver Dry Dock but it's one third of the original facility.   One third!

Seaspan Vancouver Dry Dock Photo

Preferably, for the Residents and Visitors to the North Shore, more open space to the waterfront would be better than having a fully operational shipyard right next to Condos.  The Black highlighted upside down "U" is Vancouver Dry Dock property.  The area to the Right, the white topped building, is a temporary structure that was built solely to house the Three Fast Cat Ferries under the flag of Catamaran Ferries International.

City of North Vancouver  Waterfront Project

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Transportation Act Provincial Public Undertakings Regulation

 Explosives, flammables and corrosives

6 (1)  In this section, "contaminated vehicle" means a vehicle that

(a) is transporting any of the following:

(i)  gasoline, distillate or kerosene in tanks, drums, barrels or cans;

(ii)  oxygen, acetylene or butane;

(iii)  fuel oil, road oil, hot roadmix, lubricating oil or grease or solid or liquid asphaltum;

(iv)  explosives or corrosive liquids, or

(b) is transporting empty tanks if those tanks

(i)  had contained gasoline, distillate or kerosene, and

(ii)  have not been thoroughly cleaned with steam or filled with water.

(2)  A person must not operate a contaminated vehicle on or within any of the Agassiz-Rosedale Bridge, the William R. Bennett Bridge, the Nelson Bridge, the Pattullo Bridge, the First Narrows Bridge, the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Bridge, the Oak Street Bridge, the Knight Street Bridge, the Queensborough Bridge or the Port Mann Bridge other than during the time or times specified for that operation on signs posted by the minister on the approaches to the structure.

[am. B.C. Reg. 81/2008.]

Is Reading (including Monopoly's railway) Brands on a "Critter" similar to deciphering Tattoo Branding?

 There's a record of George Washington, the first president of the United States, having branded his cattle using the brand G W on either the shoulder or the hip of cattle.

 And here we thought G W was a Brand for a Jean manufacturer.

Branding Critters (1972)

 

BC Government Database search Criteria:  Why Brand

File Name:  captm120-05 (Marking Procedures)

Branding

Hot branding has been used in a number of instances to imprint identification numbers on the horns and skin of wild mammals. This method produces third-degree burns which lead to the production of visible scar tissue. Because of the pain associated with this procedure, this method is not commonly recommended.
Freeze branding (cyro-branding) appears to be more acceptable than hot branding for marking wildlife because it is less painful and the possibility of infection is minimized. This technique, which was originally developed for the identification of livestock, has been used with varying results in several wildlife species.

Tattooing

Tattooing is a common method of identification and has been used successfully in many species. Tattoos have been applied to the inside of the lip, the ear, and the thinly-haired area of the groin. The location and proper application of the tattoo will influence its future readability. In most cases, the animal must be recaptured or examined after death in order to read this type of mark.

Toe, Ear and Tail Clipping

Techniques that involve the removal or damage of tissue, such as toe, tail, or ear clipping are forms of mutilation. These procedures may have adverse effects on the behaviour and survival of wild animals and their use in marking free ranging wild species cannot generally be condoned. It is strongly recommended that alternative marking techniques be used in field research. However, in those few instances where removal of tissue is not judged to impair the normal activities and survivability of the marked animal and does not cause bone damage, pain or severe blood loss (e.g. ear notchings of small rodents), these marking techniques can be utilized. When toe or tail clipping are felt to be the only methods that can meet the requirements of a particular study, their use should be appropriately reviewed and approved by a review or animal care committee before implementation.
The removal of toes must never be performed on animals that use them for activities such as burrowing (ground squirrels) or climbing (red squirrels), or on animals where important bone structures have to be removed. When toe clipping is used is used as a marking technique, no more than one toe per foot should be removed.

Chisel, Chisel, Chiselers of the high standards of Canada's National Parks via portable fossil saws and helicopters

In the Globe and Mail newspaper this morning (August 9, 2013) is an article written by Carrie Tait on the findings of a NEW fossil bed found in Kootenay National Park, at the foot of Stanley Glacier:

Fossil hunters Jean-Bernard Caron and Robert Gaines walk through the wreckage of a forest fire, cross a creek by balancing on logs, hike up loose mountain rocks and lateral moraines above the treeline – all to reach the bottom of an ocean.

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Sounds like they are pretty prudent, respectful, of their surroundings, eh?

They chisel, chisel, chisel the length of the middle of a rock until they see a fracture. Then they do the same at the fracture until the grey rock splits in two. The researchers inspect the face of the split rock, and if nothing excites them, they toss it aside and repeat the process. The repetition can be dull until they find new shapes – forms of life last spotted half a billion years ago.

“Usually there is a swear word and everyone turns around,” Prof. Caron says.

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 Profs. Caron and Gaines are even more keen on another new fossil find. This new discovery, however, makes them cagey. They won’t reveal its location, save for hinting it is near the Stanley Glacier site. The newest Burgess Shale-like discovery further increases diversity in this neighbourhood of the animal kingdom, they say, and the quality of the preservation makes them giddy.

Even at the Stanley Glacier site there is plenty more work to do. A German adventurer found the first fossil here in 1996 and reported it to authorities. Preliminary scientific legwork followed in 2007, and the first expedition, led by Prof. Caron, started chiseling away here in August, 2008.

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Profs. Caron and Gaines believe that expedition only scratched the surface. They did not have permission to camp near the site, so they had to trek to the fossil find, about two hours each way. The daily hike meant they returned home with fewer fossils, and fewer inches around their waists – they dubbed it the Burgess Shale Workout.

Next time they are allowed back to the field – they need Parks Canada’s permission to search for and remove fossils – the scientists would love to trade their chisels for jackhammers to get further inside the mountains. Prof. Gaines, who conducted his PhD research in western Utah, puts the potential in perspective.

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UNESCO World Heritage Centre

World List UNESCO long list

Canadian Rocky Mountains UNESCO short list



Now here's the rub, with the Globe and Mail story, because of an earlier story on the same "Chisels", in 2010.  In the report above, the scene is set whereby the scientists are using hard labour to get to and from the site AND not leaving anything behind at their campsite .... that might damage the environment.... nothing foreign to taint the high standards expected from a UNESCO billing... 

Pomona College

New Fossil Bed Discovery by Royal Ontario Museum/Pomona College Team Challenges Assumptions

About Famous Fossil Site  By Cynthia Peters 4:09 pm September 2, 2010 Research, Faculty

Robert Gaines, professor of geology at Pomona College, is part of an exploration team that discovered a new fossil deposit whose existence challenges long-held assumptions about the Burgess Shale, which is famous for its exceptional preservation of soft-bodied fossils of the Cambrian-era, during the dawn of animal life.

The discovery, “A new Burgess Shale-type assemblage from the ‘thin’ Stephen Formation of the southern Canadian Rockies,” was reported in the September 2010 issue of Geology. (Abstract)

“The classic Burgess Shale deposits,” explains Gaines, “are found at the base of a large underwater cliff. What is preserved there is extraordinary: We find eyes, antennae, guts and other soft body parts that normally stand no chance of fossilization. The cliff was thought to be important in producing mudslides that transported the organisms from their living environment to a habitat that was hostile but great for preservation. The new locality challenges that assumption.”

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Chisel, Chisel, Chisel

Fossil hunters Jean-Bernard Caron and Robert Gaines walk through the wreckage of a forest fire.....

If you've clicked on the link to "Pomona", the article is all fine and dandy.... for Kootenay National Park... but the two bottom images included with that article and copied here...above..... are from Yoho National Park!  Beyond and below the helicopter, the valley bottom, is the Kicking Horse River, that flows out of Wapta Lake, which is hemmed in to the east, by the Continental Divide.  The "loop", down below, to the left of the helicopter, on the other side of the river, is the road for the overflow camping area of Kicking Horse Campground.



Now contrast all of the above to what we observed on a trip into Lake O'Hara this past month: No transportation (no bikes either) except for two shuttle Private buses managed by Yoho National Park staff, on a Private road owned by a Private Lodge in a Public park, with a Jasper National Park like quota system on visitors, 42 day timers not including overnighters (campers/lodge and bungalow guests).

Once a week scientists billeted in Canmore, take the bus up to Lake O'Hara, with all their gear.... then backpack all of their computer equipment, cables, inflatable 2 person zodiac, oars too, up to Lake Oesa, take their readings from the depths, and then cart all of their equipment back down again.  one way = 3.2 Kilometers (2 Miles); 240 Metres (787 feet) .... A helicopter carting the fossil spoils would be fine... but.... this isn't Kootenay National Park.


The scientists are NOT permitted to leave any of the equipment on site.  They're not even permitted to STAY in the Park because of the Quota system.... which is great... for the environment.

Helicopters are a No go.  Outboard engines..... are a No go.

The apparent difference between Yoho/Kootenay Park's fossil beds and Yoho's Lake O'Hara is that the Lodge owner has it in writing that their pristine surroundings remain out of bounds for airborne  equipment, ......  a no-fly-zone.

Google Search Criteria:  Jean-Bernard Caron and Robert Gaines

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Heaps of Fossils From Evolutionary ‘Big Bang’ Discovered

souggy,  Aug 31, 2010 16:09 EDT (2 years ago)  on  AllDeaf.com  (Original Article) 

---Quote--- By Alexandra Witze, Science News August 30, 2010 | 5:28 pm | Categories: Biology, Earth Science Image: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2010/08/4885667304_776be41489_b1-660x493.jpg 

One of paleontology’s most revered fossil sites now has a baby brother. Scientists have discovered a group of astonishing fossils high in the Canadian Rockies, just 40 kilometers from the famous Burgess Shale location. A paper describing the find appears in the September issue of Geology. Since its discovery in 1909, the Burgess Shale has yielded many thousands of fossils dating to 505 million years ago — a period often called “evolution’s big bang,” when animals were exploding in diverse body plans. 

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....the creatures unearthed also include eight taxa previously unknown to science. They include an unnamed worm; Stanleycaris hirpex, a segmented shrimp-like critter known as an anomalocarid; and an arthropod with big eyes dangling on stalks from its head shield. Until now, paleontologists had thought one reason the Burgess fossils were so well preserved was because they settled in thick deposits at the bottom of an ancient ocean protected by a submarine cliff. But the Stanley Glacier fossils weren’'t formed in the presence of such a cliff, suggesting that creatures can be fossilized in amazing detail in other environments. 

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In May, after studying new Burgess fossils from one of the original sites, Caron and colleagues reported new details on a creature that may be one of the earliest known relatives of octopuses, squid and other cephalopods. 

Image: Looking towards Stanley Glacier, site of the new fossil deposit. Flickr/judemat. Read More Heaps of Fossils From Evolutionary ‘Big Bang’ Discovered | Wired Science | Wired.com ---End Quote--- Burgress Shale is on one of my destination lists. :hmm: Maybe this one as well.

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Walcott Peak

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Parks Canada

Yoho National Park

The Burgess Shale
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Quincunx System: "Planting Plans and Distances" 1924 M.S. Middleton B.S.A.

Commercial orchards are staked out and planted according to one of our systems. Square, Quincunx, Rectangular or Hexagonal

 Ever wonder how, orchards, gardens, were laid out, in Kelowna and the rest of the Okanagan Valley?

Planting Plans and Distances

Quincunx ??????? ... images .... Google

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Link Updated 2017-07-19

 Cawston (BC) Bench Reclamation Project 1945

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Quincunx .....  ferrebeekeeper    examples of Quincunx  ... a roll of a die.... five dots or a coat of arms decoration:

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M.S. Middleton (Morrice Middleton), the author of the above Bulletin. .... piqued our interest.... what else has he left for us.

Mr. Middleton... no relation to "Our Kate"?

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(Lady) Tweedsmuir History of Oyama BC

compiled by Kalamalka Women's Institute 1951

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Janet Middleton, Water Colours and Silk Screen prints, Instructor at the Banff School of fine Arts

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Old Indian Settlement .... Map Page 18 of 38

Page 28 of 38

The late Morrice MIddleton, District Horticulturist for the Okanagan Valley, fathered the standardization of commercial varieties of apples.

Page 31 of 38

Art and Treasury Gallery at Jadebay: local pottery, weaving, silvercraft and paintings displayed and sold

"Archaeological Impact Study" Patterns of change.... for Coast Tsimshian people

THE Study of Archaeological Impact

KITKATLA VILLAGE, DOLPHIN ISLAND

Photographed by Edward Dossetter, 1881.

Credit - American Museum of Natural History, Negative f42294.

Kitkatla is the oldest continuously occupied village on the Northwest Coast. Today it is the only Coast Tsimshian village with standing traditional poles. The steep rise of the midden to the large house structures would have been typical of winter village sites in the area.

 Archaeological Impact Study: Bulk Loading Facility Environmental Assessment, North Coast B.C.    198?

 Page 116 of 131

...... With the founding of Prince Rupert in 1906, it was generally felt that the harbour would become a major shipping centre.   Accordingly in 1912 a quarantine hospital was built in the harbour on Dodge Island (32) (GbTo-18). The doctor's residence  was built on adjacent land on Digby Island (GbTo-30) and connected to the hospital by a boardwalk.

The expected developments failed to materialize and the facilities were never utilized.  The hospital became a gutted  ruins and the boardwalk collapsed. The doctor's house was maintained as a residence until the l950's when it also was  abandoned.   In recent years, the building has on occasion been used by National Museum of Man  (refined search for Man) field crews as a base of operations.

A native tuberculosis sanitarium was built on Kaien Island in Miller Bay ( 33), south of the city. A number of large institutional buildings still stand on the site.  In his novel, Mist on the River, Hubert Evans (1954) gives a poignant description of the Indians' dilemma in dealing with  this disease and the sanitarium while still living very much a traditional life style in their villages. Today the  hospital is no longer used as such, but some of the buildings have been adapted as homes by residents of Prince Rupert.

3.8 World War II Facilities

During the Second World War, Prince Rupert, as the closest major North American port to Japan, was considered a likely target of invasion forces. To protect the harbour a number of fortifications were built, submarine nets were  strung across the entrances, and the harbour was mined.  Cement gun emplacements can be found at Barrett Rock (34) on the southern tip of Kaien Island and at Casey Point (35) farther up the island near Prince Rupert.

An observation point was built on the summit of Mount Hays (36) with a wooden stairway up the slope. In 1942-43, major gun emplacements were built at Frederick Point (37) on the southern end of Diqby Island.  Situated on high ground they commanded an excellent view of the harbour entrance. A number of barracks were built at the site to house troops for  manning the operations. This location was connected to a base camp in Casey Cove (38) by a corduroy road, much of which  still exists today.

A submarine net crossed the harbour mouth south of Casey Cove. The camp, a former D.O.T. headquarters, consists of a number of large barracks and administrative buildings. These are at present empty shells though one building is at  present occupied by a civilian family. No military interests remain.  In the Venn Passage a submarine net was put in from Verney Island to Dundas Point (30) (GbTo-35) on Digby Island. 

Barracks were constructed on the point and numerous trenches run across the point, Verney Island, and the mainland by GbTo-34.  Barbed wire and collapsed structures are scattered in the area.

4.  Conclusions

"The history of the northern northwest coast area is one of continuity with the past and adaptation to the present. It is readily apparent that the Coast Tsimshian people have managed to relate their traditional economic pursuits to the introduced European wage economy through continued exploitation of traditional resources for white markets.

Patterns of change can be traced in the varied uses and declining importance of prehistoric territories.

In terms of the white settlers, an inventory of historic locations provides a record of economic developments, failures, and gradual growth in and around Prince Rupert.

Again a continuity can be traced between prehistoric exploitation patterns of important natural resources and the emphasis on development of similar resources today.

5.  Recommendations

As this is only a brief inventory of various historic locales within the terms of reference, it would be of considerable value to have a professional historian evaluate their importance as records of past lifestyles and early industrial developments.

Are Metro Vancouver Bridges protected from trucks hauling Gasoline, petroluem, oxygen, acetylene?

Downright dangerous, all that explosive material being transported over our Bridges, and before you say it ..... Kiewit Highway construction workers, using Explosives are exempted, because of this:

(2)  Subsection (1) (h) does not apply to construction or maintenance equipment that is

(a) owned or hired by the minister, and

(b) working on, or travelling to or from, a worksite.

How many times have you seen a truck rolling along the highway/bridges carrying acetylene tanks, or empty tanks??? that had recently filled with gasoline?   and if they have, and not been steam cleaned, then the alternative for the tanks is that they must be filled with WATER!  Who's checking the payloads?

That water would weigh more than the petroleum products, AND the cost of hauling that water, based on diesel prices, would cut into the trucking company's bottom line.       LNG anyone?...... or is a truck transporting LNG barred from using Metro Vancouver's bridges as well?

Transport the hazardous material by barge?  across Burrard Inlet???? That would drive up the costs to consumers in West Vancouver and Whistler!!!

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BC Ferries have their set of rules when it comes to transporting contaminated tanks, and explosive materials:

Pre-Arranged Clearance (Dangerous Goods Information)

Carriers desirable of pre-clearing their dangerous goods must submit their manifests at least 48 hours in advance of the intended sailing time. For such carriers the strict application of the time limit can be waived, providing the document accompanying the shipment is identical to the document submitted for pre-clearance. Ensure that phone and facsimile numbers are included with your faxed document. Terminal facsimile numbers are available through the link provided below.
There is an exception to the regulations..... "contaminated vehicle" is restricted to specific times, AND that "operation" has the Minister Responsible posting a sign on the approaches to the structures.

Definitions of Certain Dangerous Goods Terms

   A propane tank, but is it carrying propane, ...... 30 Litres,  stowed on the car deck... over the engine room.... or how about beside the Anchor Windlass.   How many passengers are permitted to carry their one tank of Propane onto a BC Ferry?

A foot passenger may carry not more than one cylinder of Propane not exceeding 15 kg (30 litres). The cylinder will not be transported as baggage, but must be carried aboard by the customer and must be stowed on the car deck in a location designated by the vessel's officer.

Wheelchairs (motorized): There are no restrictions on wheelchairs when they are in use, but when they are carried as cargo or freight there are some precautions that must be taken. The battery must be securely in place, disconnected, with the terminals insulated to prevent short-circuiting, and the chair itself must be securely anchored so that it will not move.

  

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 Transportation Act Provincial Public Undertakings Regulation

 Explosives, flammables and corrosives

6 (1)  In this section, "contaminated vehicle" means a vehicle that

(a) is transporting any of the following:

(i)  gasoline, distillate or kerosene in tanks, drums, barrels or cans;

(ii)  oxygen, acetylene or butane;

(iii)  fuel oil, road oil, hot roadmix, lubricating oil or grease or solid or liquid asphaltum;

(iv)  explosives or corrosive liquids, or

(b) is transporting empty tanks if those tanks

(i)  had contained gasoline, distillate or kerosene, and

(ii)  have not been thoroughly cleaned with steam or filled with water.

(2)  A person must not operate a contaminated vehicle on or within any of the Agassiz-Rosedale Bridge, the William R. Bennett Bridge, the Nelson Bridge, the Pattullo Bridge, the First Narrows Bridge, the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Bridge, the Oak Street Bridge, the Knight Street Bridge, the Queensborough Bridge or the Port Mann Bridge other than during the time or times specified for that operation on signs posted by the minister on the approaches to the structure.

[am. B.C. Reg. 81/2008.]

Geology Field School, University of British Columbia

Vacation is just about over, back in Kelowna for a couple of days, decided to take a drive down to Osoyoos..... and on the way.... just before Okanagan Falls, turned Right.... and kept on going.... and going .... past the drop zone for the hang gliders, past the     Mahoney Lake       Ecological Reserve, kept on going.... to this.

A little bit closer.... to the Signage.....

Geology Field School

With the amount of names containing the word OIL, or a derivative of OIL.... could it be that there might have been a spill here, a spill there?

This camp was built with the generous help of the following companies and individuals

 1 Banff Oil Ltd. 
 2 The British American Oil Co. Ltd.
 3 The California Oil Co. Ltd.
 4 Consolidated Mining and Smelting
 5 Dome Petroleum Ltd.
 6 Fargo Oils Ltd.
 7 French Petroleum Co. of Canada Ltd.
 8 John G. Grey
 9 Great Plains Development Co. of Canada Ltd.
10 Gulf States Oil Co. of Canada
11 Honolulu Oil Corporation
12 Hudson's Bay Oil & Gas Co. Ltd.
13 Imperial Oil Ltd.
14 S. Aubrey Kerr   Petroleum Industry Oral History Project (PIOHP) 1980
15 George A. Lundy
16 Mobil Oil of Canada Ltd.
17 Phillips Petroleum Co.
18 Shell Canada Ltd.
19 Union Oil Co. of Canada Ltd.
20 William H. White


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Oliver Field School (Link Updated 2019-03-12)- Kitchen and Sleeping Accommodations 

Page 7 of 28  very interesting....

From the 1920s on a variety of arrangements were made for instruction of geology students in field techniques. In 1949, field school was run from old mine cabins near Twin Lakes, 15 miles NW of Oliver by W.H. White and R.M. Thompson. The area was considered too high and too wet. From 1950 on, the field school was on land leased from George Lundy on Victoria Creek near Oliver. Geology and Geological Engineering students spent three weeks in camp at the end of third year. Land (90 acres) was eventually purchased by UBC on this site, on the west side of the north-south Fairview-White Lake Road, a few hundred metres north of the entrance to the Suzy Susie Mine, at that time an operating mine. The field school was later directed by R.V. Best until his retirement in 1981 and then by a variety of faculty members.    snip 

Google Map link

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Geological Engineering students to benefit from UBC’s South Okanagan award-winning field school

An ecologically friendly, small-footprint design for rebuilding UBC's 60-year-old geological field school near Oliver, BC has received a 2012 Award of Excellence from Canadian Architect magazine.

The award winning designs by Battersby Howat Architects will help create a permanent ‘camp campus’ and geological training resource for institutes of higher education in Western Canada, and potentially, internationally.

The new field school will be a complete rebuild of the facilities. Old buildings will be replaced by new wood frame and plywood/sheet metal cladding construction that expands the capacity of the school to 90 people while minimizing the impact of the site, which is adjacent to a provincial park???????. Buildings will be consolidated and a novel canted wall design staggers sleeping bunks and maximizes use of the building volumes.

Since the 1950s, UBC has based its primary geological field school on a site near Oliver. Thanks to the generosity of alumni and industry partners (including companies such as Mobil and Shell) the University was able to formally purchase the property in 1961. Facilities on the site range in age from 35 to 60 years, and are in urgent need of replacement.

Making the project possible is a planned $3 million UBC Geological Field School redevelopment and teaching and learning fund, which will not only revitalize the current site, but also ensure that students have increased access to the training opportunities prized by the minerals industry.

Link to FULL STORY

An artist’s concept of the award-winning design of the South Okanagan field school
A high-resolution version of this photo is available for download here.

An artist’s concept of faculty offices at the South Okanagan field school
A high-resolution version of this photo is available for download here.

An artist’s concept of a dormitory at the South Okanagan field school
A high-resolution version of this photo is available for download here.

An artist’s concept of the dining hall at the South Okanagan field school
A high-resolution version of this photo is available for download here.

Award winning design worth $3 Million: in 2012 Dollars hasn't changed .... it's more like....

TWISTED Dinosaur fossils are often found with sharply curved necks, but that doesn't mean that they died in agony. Credit Mike Beauregard New York Times

Yeah, but, how did a Terrorist get to sit in the BC Liberal section of the Gallery in 2012?

Nothing to see here, walk on.  Look out for that Podium will ya!

...... Security at the legislature has been tightened over the years, especially after a mob of environmental protesters broke through security barriers in 1993, and again after the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States.

Following those events, computer security locks were installed on legislature doors, preventing public access to parts of the building. Gates and video cameras were also installed on vehicle access driveways. ....... Michael Smyth - the Province

Jaspal Atwal walked into BC Legislature Gallery on February 21, 2012, slipping under the elite radar software program called Prime-BC.   Didn't stop him from gaining access, .... just like Mr. Nuttall .... both should have been on Prime-BC list, or would they?

Rest assured, Mr. Nuttall's name is at top of the list, now.

These are TWO incidences on Premier Christy Clark's watch.

If the RCMP have been tracking these two individuals for so many months, what's with the Grand Standing, the Photo Op, the Churchillian speech .... "we will fight them on the beaches ...."  why allow them to just walk right in?


Rumours have it that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is about to shuffle his Cabinet because of the unrest with the Canadian people over HIS Senate appointees spending scandal .... first to be going, reportedly, is Public Safety Minister Vic Toews.

Does CSIS need evidence?

A Catch them in the Act scenario?

Why let two individuals show the world how easy it is to target our communities?

CSIS,

RCMP co-operation key Federal Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said the arrests were the result of close work between police and security agencies.

INTERACTIVE

Evidence in alleged B.C. terror plot

The investigation, dubbed Project Souvenir, was launched in February 2013 and co-ordinated by the RCMP-led Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams, which include investigators from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Canada Border Services Agency.

"The success of this operation was due to the close collaboration of our security and law enforcement agencies, including CSIS, said Toews in Ottawa on Tuesday afternoon.

"I would like to applaud the RCMP-led Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams — known as INSET — and all of the partners for their outstanding work on this investigation." Ah, could it be the WestSide-Kelowna By-Election that's the driving force?

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That "mob" breaking into the BC Legislature in 1993:

JULY 27-AUG. 2, 1983

Restraint program prompts massive union backlash

In one of the largest demonstrations in the city's history, more than 20,000 people gathered in downtown Victoria Sunday to protest the Bennett government's restraint program.

The defiant mob filled the legislature lawn and spilled into the surrounding streets as union leaders vowed to fight the Socred government's bid to downsize the civil service. 

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Premier Bill Bennett started that Riot, will Premier Christy Clark's Restraint program send 40,000 to the Sick Culture of Victoria?

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Could it be that the reason that RCMP delayed the arrest until July 1, was due to a Conspiracy involving the Americans...... and their bomb experts?

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Down in the USA, it's being reported:.... more pressure cooker "bombs", which turned out containing food:

An abandoned pressure cooker closed down a stretch of Highway 50 in Northern California near South Lake Tahoe for two hours earlier this week.

Two pressure cooker bombs were detonated at the finish line of the Boston Marathon two and a half months ago, killing three and wounding hundreds.

A local dispatcher received a call about the pressure cooker at the Lakeview Commons beach on Sunday near Highway 50, reported the Sacramento Bee.

Security staff and police cleared the beach and traffic was diverted.

A local bomb squad unsuccessfully attempted to detonate the pressure cooker with a robot. However, the cookware was ultimately destroyed with by a bomb squad member with a P.A.N. Disrupter water cannon, reported KOLO-TV.

Authorities said that the pressure cooker was not a bomb and had food inside.

Last week, a pressure cooker was placed near a fuel pump in Concord, New Hampshire, which also triggered the evacuation of homes and businesses, reported the Union-Leader.

Officials found that the device was a small deep fryer and was not a bomb.

Spelunking, Karst, Fracking: the first two mix, the last two don't mix

Each one of these little red dots represent a known cave, or a Karst... which is okay by those of our communities that just love to go underground....

Updated below on December 2, 2014

Google Search Criteria:  karst vulnerability mapping north eastern British Columbia

As you can see, Vancouver Island has more that their fare share... and if you're thinking that it's directly related to ... volcanic activity... or earth quakes....... Karst is having to do with carbonated bedrock...

Source of map Page 4 & 5 of 28

The BC Minister of Forest has this to say about Karst:

In British Columbia, the responsibility for managing karst resources in provincial forests lies with the Ministry of Forests. Under the Forest Practices Code, several provisions have been made for managing sensitive areas such as karst. The Code requires identified sensitive areas to be treated in a way that protects or conserves special resource values. To accommodate some of the unique requirements of managing karst, the ministry is developing interim karst management guidelines that will provide direction on managing forestry and recreational activities in karst landscapes.

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Karst is recognized as a highly valuable, non-renewable resource that can be especially vulnerable to disturbance, more so than many other land resources. The primary reason for this higher level of sensitivity is the three-dimensional nature of karst. The intricate relationship between karst's unique surface characteristics and the subsurface caves and hydrology make for a delicately balanced system. Industrial activities, such as rock quarrying or forestry, if not properly conducted, can lead to excessive soil erosion, destruction of surface and subsurface karst features, changes in groundwater flows, and contamination, sedimentation, or clogging of underground and surface streams.

Enbridge's Northern Gateway Pipeline has been turned down by the BC Liberals, so far, although it's not an outright complete rejection.  At the Federal level, they've already made up their minds, haven't they.

There was a very detailed study done regarding the watersheds that the pipeline will be going through, fish counts too ... but did the Minister of Forests step up to the plate and talk about Karsts?

No!

LNG Hydraulic Fracturing  (Fracking) doesn't mix with Karst......

the leaching of calcium carbonate from bedrock has important buffering effects on acidic streams,

the groundwater associated with karst results in cool, even stream temperatures throughout the year,

the storage capacity in karst stream systems buffers seasonal flow rates to produce lower peak flows and higher low flow periods,

karst streams tend to supply more nutrients and encourage more algae and moss growth, aquatic insect populations within karst streams are larger and more diverse,

karst stream systems provide more protective sites for fish to rest, breed, and avoid predators

In 2003 the BC Liberal Government put together this little document: Karst Inventory Standards and Vulnerability Assessment Procedures for BC  BROKEN   New Link at bottom  September 24, 2014 Updated

Reconnaissance-level karst inventory work for the entire province of British Columbia was completed in 1999. The result of this work is a set of 87 map sheets (1:250 000 scale) outlining those areas in the province that have the potential for karst development. These maps can be used to assist with strategic planning and for directing more detailed karst inventories.   Page 4 of 123

Karst Inventory and Vulnerability Assessment Procedures in the Forested Karst Landscapes of British Columbia, Canada - ABSTRACT


Last but by no means Least, there's The First Nations concerns about Karsts:

As the archaeological evidence suggests, karst played a significant role in the lives of many aboriginal peoples in the past. Karst caves were not only used for shelter, but were also considered by some groups to be sacred places for burial and ceremonial purposes. .... snip

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June 7, 2013

 Protecting karst in coastal BC : special report
Forest Practices Board, 2007.

http://www.llbc.leg.bc.ca/public/PubDocs/bcdocs/407852/Protecting_Karst_in_Coastal_BC.pdf

http://www.fpb.gov.bc.ca/special/reports/SR31/Protecting_Karst_in_Coastal_BC.pdf

http://www.fpb.gov.bc.ca/news/backgrounders/Protecting_Karst.htm

Updated   December 2, 2014

It seems that the Province via the Forest Practice Board is no longer interested in protecting Karsts, the link above is broken, ........ However there is the Wayback Machine for May 26, 2007:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070526054106/http://www.fpb.gov.bc.ca/news/backgrounders/Protecting_Karst.htm

and the Wayback Machine for the year of 2007 on Karst
 http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.fpb.gov.bc.ca/news/backgrounders/Protecting_Karst.htm

How effective will licensees be at protecting karst in coastal BC from damage due to forest practices? The answer remains unknown. We know that karst is a resource that, particularly on the BC coast, is sensitive to damage from forest practices. Government no longer protects karst by checking and approving forest practices. Instead, those who carry out forest practices must themselves determine how best to carry out forest practices in a way that avoids damaging identified karst features. 

This shift of responsibility for karst stewardship, from government to industry, requires that licensees, their professionals, contractors and equipment operators all learn about karst, its identification, its sensitivity and its protection. More information on karst can be found in an on-line training course on the Ministry of Forests and Range website at http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/training/00008. <--- arst="" bc="" br="" handbook="" management="" of="">

Dr. Bruce Fraser, Chair

Update: December 2, 2014:

B.C. researchers dive underwater caves to solve salmon mystery (with video)

They donned scuba gear to follow the salmon, which seemingly swim through mountains near Bella Bella

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Acta Carsologica

Karst areas occupy 10-20 % if ice free land. Dissolution of rock by natural waters has given rise to specific landscape and underground.  Karst surface features and caves have attracted man's curiosity since the dawn of humanity and have been a focus to scientific studies since more than half of milenia.

Acta Carsologica publishes original research papers and reviews, letters, essays and reports covering topics related to specific of karst areas. These comprise, but are not limited to karst geology, hydrology and geomorphology, speleology, hydrogeology, biospeleology and history of karst science.

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Speleo ... Caving.... Link     Curated by PAUL

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Management of Karst Resource Features on Northern Vancouver Island

Special Investigation

April 2, 2014

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September 24, 2014

Google Search Criteria:  Reconnaissance-level karst inventory work for the entire province of British Columbia was completed in 1999