There's a history of the Peace River's clay and silt Slip, Sliding, Away

A rapid flow slide on the Peace River, north-eastern B.C., involving 7 million m³ of overconsolidated clay and silt.  The deposit is approximately 1 km long 

(Fletcher et al., 2001, in review).

Failure behaviour of landslides in clay and silt:                                                   Top

Two large landslides in overconsolidated glacio-lacustrine clay and silt deposits of British Columbia river valleys have been examined.  Both cases are quite similar in their main aspects.  However, their failure behaviour was very different.  One continues to exhibit intermittent, manly ductile deformations with limited mobility, which are typical of compound landslides in stiff clay.  The other suddenly developed into a catastrophic, extremely rapid flow slide of 6.4 Mm3, damming a large river in the course of a few minutes and projecting a wave onto the opposite bank.  A comparison of the two cases has been made and possible mechanisms for brittle flow slide formation have been proposed (Fletcher et al., in review).

 

https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/research/landslides/landslides.htm#lan

Fletcher, L., Hungr, O., Watson, A. and Thomson, B., 1999.  Failure mechanism and behaviour of a large landslide in glacio-lacustrine silt and clay, Chilliwack River Valley, B.C.

Proceedings, Slope Stability and Landslides, Vancouver Geotechnical Society Symposium May, 1999, 55-62.

August 2001

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FLOW SLIDES AND FLOWS INVOLVING GRANULAR SOILS

If this profile looks familiar, its just upstream from Fort St. John -- Site C?

 Google Search Criteria: Attachie Slide

 .... Starting about rive kilometer 63, low-lying terraces on the north sied of the valley could potentially be affected by waves caused by landslides orginating from the slopes adajcent to the 1973 Attachie landslide.

Map 8 of 26 – Attachie Slide - Site C

Laila Yuile  Site C aerial photos show mess of mud,water and slides.

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The Proceedings of past Vancouver Geotechnical Society Symposiums can be found at the links below.

• 23rd Symposium - Soil Structure Interaction (2015)
• 22nd Symposium - Foreshore Engineering (2014)
• 21st Symposium - Foundation and Lifeline Engineering (2013)
• 20th Symposium - Soft Ground Engineering (2012)
• 19th Symposium - Geosynthetic Reinforced Walls, Slopes, and Earthworks (2010)
• 18th Symposium - Risk and Liability in Geotechnical Engineering (2008)
• 17th Symposium - Geotechnical Engineering for Geoenvironmental Applications (2003)
• 16th Symposium - Foundation Engineering (2002)
• 15th Symposium - Land Reclamation Geotechnique (2001)
• 14th Symposium - Lifeline Geotechnical Engineering (2000)
• 13th Symposium - Slope Stability and Landslides (1999)
• 12th Symposium - Site Characterization (1998)
• 11th Symposium - Forestry Geotechnique (1997)
• 10th Symposium - Earth Retention Systems (1996)
• 9th Symposium - Construction on Peat and Soft Soils (1995)
• 8th Symposium - Deep Foundations (1994)
• 7th Symposium - Ground Improvement (1993)
• 6th Symposium - Geosynthetics: Design and Performance (1991)
• 5th Symposium - Geotechnical Aspects of Contaminated Sites (1990)
• 4th Symposium - Geotechnical Aspects of tailing Disposal and Acid Mine Drainage (1989)
• 3rd Symposium - Risk and Liability in Geotechnical Engineering (1988)
• 2nd Symposium - Earthquake Engineering (1987)
• 1st Symposium - Transportation Geotechnique (1986)

 History of

Vancouver Harbour, B.C. (Canada). - A. D. Swan, 1925

Railway and Vehicular Bridge Across Vancouver Harbour, B.C. (Canada). - A. D. Swan, 1928
First Narrows Water Tunnel: Engineering News Record January 1, 1933 and July 6, 1933, and a paper (author unknown)
The Lions' Gate Bridge - S. M.  Banks, 1942

Granville Bridge Test Hole Logs - City Engineer's Office, City of Vancouver, 1950

Report on Preliminary Investigation of Foundation Conditions of Proposed Port Mann Bridge - R. A. Spence, 1958
Preliminary Geologic Report on Glacial Till and Till-Like Sediments Beneath Piers S4 and S2 of the Port Mann Bridge - W. L. Brown, 1960
Design of the Main Foundations of the Port Mann Bridge - H. Q. Golder and G. C. Willeumeir, 1964
Peat Symposium - Vancouver Soils Group, February 27, 1967
The Function of Shotcrete in Support and Lining of the Vancouver R.R. (Thornton) Tunnel - E. E. Mason, 1968
Earthquake Design in the Fraser Delta - Task Force Report, June 1991 (for comparison the 2007 Report)
Breaking New Ground - Women in Geotechnical Engineering - Anna Lankford Burwash, Geotechnical News, 1997

Trans Mountain Expansion Project: First Nations Separate Submission to Ministers

Lack of consultation appears to be the consistent theme when it comes to Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project  ..... the BC Liberal Government and   Liberal Government

Part I

British Columbia     EA Certificate

 Adams Lake Indian Band


Scia'new First Nation (Beecher Bay Indian Band)


Chawathil First Nation


Cheam First Nation


Coldwater Indian Band


Cook's Ferry Indian Band - BC only submission


Cook's Ferry Indian Band


Ditidaht First Nation


Esquimalt Nation


Katzie First Nation


Kwantlen First Nation


Kwikwetlem First Nation


Lower Nicola Indian Band


Lyackson First Nation


The First Nations of Maa-Nulth Treaty Society


Matsqui First Nation


Musqueam Indian Band


Nlaka'pamux Nation Tribal Council


Pacheedaht First Nation


Pauquachin First Nation


Shxw’ōwhámel First Nation


Simpcw First Nation


Siska Indian Band - BC only submission


Squamish Nation


Sto:lo Collective


Tsawout First Nation


Tsleil-Waututh Nation - BC only submission


T'Sou-ke Nation


Yale First Nation

Last Updated: 2017-01-12

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Part II 

Joint Federal/Provincial Consultation and Accommodation Report for the Trans Mountain Expansion Project and Appendices

Commitment Tracking Table

Joint Federal/Provincial Consultation and Accommodation Report

Appendix A.12 - Horse Lake First Nation
Appendix B.1 - Lheidli T'enneh First Nation
Appendix B.2 - Lhtako Dene Nation (Red Bluff Indian Band)
Appendix B.3 - Ashcroft Indian Band
Appendix B.4 - Boston Bar First Nation
Appendix B.5 - Cook's Ferry Indian Band
Appendix B.6 Kanaka Bar Indian Band
Appendix B.7 Nicomen Indian Band
Appendix B.8 Siska Indian Band
Appendix B.9 Nlaka'pamux Nation Tribal Council
Appendix B.10 Coldwater Indian Band
Appendix B.11 Lower Nicola Indian Band
Appendix B.12 Nooaitch Indian Band
Appendix B.13 ? ackan Indian Band
Appendix B.14 Okanagan (Syilx) Nation
Appendix B.15 Adams Lake Indian Band
Appendix B.16 Bonaparte Indian Band
Appendix B.17 - Canim Lake Band (Tsq'escen)
Appendix B.18 Little Shuswap Lake Indian Band
Appendix B.19 High Bar (Llenlleney'ten) First Nation
Appendix B.20 Neskonlith Indian Band
Appendix B.21 Shuswap Indian Band
Appendix B.22 Simpcw First Nation
Appendix B.23 Splats'in First Nation
Appendix B.24 - Stk'emlupsemc te Secwe'pemc Nation
Appendix B.25 - Stswecem'c Xgat'tem (Canoe Creek / Dog Creek Indian Band)
Appendix B.26 - Ts'kw'aylaxw First Nation (Pavilion Indian Band)
Appendix B.27 Whispering Pines/Clinton Indian Band
Appendix B.28 Williams Lake Indian Band
Appendix B.29 Xats'ull First Nation (Soda Creek Indian Band)
Appendix B.30 Toosey Indian Band
Appendix C.1 - Kwikwetlem First Nation
Appendix C.2 Musqueam Indian Band
Appendix C.4 Squamish Nation
Appendix C.5 Tsawwassen First Nation
Appendix C.6 Tsleil-Waututh Nation
Appendix C.7 Chawathil First Nation
Appendix C.8 Cheam First Nation
Appendix C.9 Katzie First Nation
Appendix C.10 Kwantlen First Nation
Appendix C.11 Matsqui First Nation
Appendix C.12 Peters Band
Appendix C.13 Popkum Indian Band
Appendix C.14 Seabird Island Indian Band
Appendix C.15 C Shxw’ōwhámel First Nation
Appendix C.16 - Sts'ailes (Chehalis) Nation
Appendix C.17 Union Bar First Nation
Appendix C.18 Yale First Nation
Appendix C-19 - St':l' Collective
Appendix D.1 Cowichan Tribes
Appendix D.2 Ditidaht First Nation
Appendix D.3 Esquimalt Nation
Appendix D.4 Halalt First Nation
Appendix D.5 Hwlitsum
Appendix D.6 Lake Cowichan First Nation
Appendix D.7 Lyackson First Nation
Appendix D.8 Maa-nulth First Nations
Appendix D.9 - Malahat Nation
Appendix D.10 Pacheedaht First Nation
Appendix D.11 Pauquachin First Nation
Appendix D.12 Penelakut Tribe
Appendix D.13 Scia'new First Nation (Beecher Bay Indian Band)
Appendix D.14 Semiahmoo First Nation
Appendix D.15 Snaw-naw-as (Nanoose) First Nation
Appendix D.16 ? uneymuxw (Nanaimo) First Nation
Appendix D.17 Songhees First Nation
Appendix D.18 Stz'uminus First Nation
Appendix D.19 Tsartlip First Nation
Appendix D.20 Tsawout First Nation
Appendix D.21 Tseycum First Nation
Appendix D.22 T'Sou-ke First Nation
Appendix F Aboriginal interests and concerns that influenced project design
Appendix G - Commitments Tracking Table
Appendix H - NEB Panel Terms and Conditions
Appendix I - Other Crown Measures Related to West Coast Energy Infrastructure

81 Pages    151 items

Last Updated: 2017-01-12

What does Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and former Defense Minister Peter MacKay have in common? The same helicopter for island hopping

Different islands but for the same use .... vacationing

Defense Minister Peter MacKay, helicopter

OTTAWA—The Conservative cost-cutting agenda has spilled more blood as the defence minister was alleged to have used a military aircraft to pick him up from a fancy Newfoundland fishing lodge.

After the Tories abandoned Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Walt Natynczyk earlier this week to explain why he used a Challenger jet to catch up to a family vacation in the Caribbean, Defence Minister Peter MacKay was targeted for retribution.

Citing a military source, CTV News reported Wednesday night that MacKay’s office ordered one of three Cormorant search-and-rescue helicopters to pick him up from a salmon-fishing lodge on Newfoundland’s Gander River in July 2010.

The choppers are on round-the-clock standby at CFB Gander, ready to perform offshore rescues or to respond to distress calls around the province and in northeastern Quebec.

MacKay said in the House of Commons that he was on a four-day fishing trip with friends but had to cut it short to attend a government news conference. The decision was made then to schedule a quick demonstration of the aircraft’s capabilities.

 

 Natynczyk travels with up to six or seven people, sometimes including a close protection team with automatic weapons. He also needs the secure communication lines provided on government aircraft that allow him to work while he's in the air.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau .... no close protection team with automatic weapons.... or secure communication lines.

Aga Khan's double duty: pall bearer to Pierre's end of life and to Justin's political life: Appalling

Charting Canada's Elites by jjmccullough

Justin Trudeau

Son of Pierre and Margaret

CBC personality

Liberal MP candidate 

PRIME MINISTER of CANADA (2015- )

Insert pall bearer

Red means political ties, yellow means family ties, green means business ties, and purple means media ties.

Paradise Papers means .... think Panama Papers

Aga Khan

Asper, Israel
Burney, Derek
CANADA STEAMSHIP LINES  (Paradise Papers)

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION

CANWEST GLOBAL

Chretien, France
Chretien, Jean (Paradise Papers alleged) 
Chretien, Raymond
Clark, Catherine
Clark, Joe
CONSOLIDATED BATHURST

Coyne, James
Coyne, John M.E.
CTVGLOBE MEDIA
Desmarais, Andre
Gregorie, Sophie   (WIFE of Justin Trudeau)
Hampton, Howard
Harper, Stephen
Jackman, Henry (& Ruth, Nancy)
Layton, Jack
Layton, Robert
MacKay, Elmer
MacKay, Peter
MACLEAN'S MAGAZINE
Martel, Shelley
Martin, Paul  (Paradise Papers)
Martin, Paul Sr.
Mazankowski, Don
Mulroney, Ben
Mulroney, Brian  (Paradise Papers)
NATIONAL POST, THE
Pearson, Geoffrey
Pearson, Landon
Pearson, Lester B. (founding conference United Nations)
Rae, John
Rae, Robert
Rae, Saul

ROGERS CORPORATION

Ruth, Nancy (and Jackman, Henry)
Sauve, Jeanne
Sauve, Maurice
Sinclair, James
Sinclair, Margaret
St. Laurent, Louis
Thompson, Kenneth
THOMSON CORPORATION
Thomson, David
Tory, John A.
Tory, John A.
Trudeau, Alexandre
Trudeau, Justin (Husband of Gregorie, Sophie)
Trudeau, Pierre (Father of .... )
Valpy, Michael

 

If you are wondering why Justin Trudeau has such high regard for Fidel Castro .... he was one of Pierre's pall bearers

Wikipedia

Foreign dignitaries included Cuban President Fidel Castro, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and the Aga Khan, who were honorary pallbearers together with Leonard Cohen and Trudeau's cabinet colleague Marc Lalonde. Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, President of Greece was also in attendance. 

Official State Funeral of former Canadian Prime Minister

Pierre Elliott Trudeau (18 October 1919-28 September 2000)

The photograph shows former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau's family, friends, colleagues, and official guests in attendance to observe his passing. His son, Justin, rests his head on the casket of his father. Margaret Trudeau, in the front pew with son, Alexandre, is flanked by the beloved prime minister's later life partner, Deborah Coyne, and their daughter, Sarah. The former prime minister's sister, Suzette Rouleau, is on the far side of the same first row. Leonard Cohen on the right. In attendance next to Cuban President Fidel Castro are Prince Aga Khan, former Governor-General Romeo Leblanc, and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Other notables present at the ceremony not shown in this photograph include past Canadian Prime Ministers John Turner, Joseph Clark, Brian Mulroney, and Jean Chretien.

Globe and Mail

Requiem brings foes togetherPolitical enemies put differences aside to join family and friends in praise of Trudeau

By INGRID PERITZ
Wednesday, October 4, 2000

Mr. Carter and Mr. Castro were both honorary pallbearers for Mr. Trudeau's casket and were spotted inside the cavernous Notre Dame Basilica chatting amicably. Mr. Carter was even captured on camera as he laughed at something Mr. Castro, a political pariah in the United States, said.

Sergei Polunin 'Take Me To Church': Quiet on the set.... Roll sound.... Roll Drone .... Roll camera.... Roll marker .... Action!

Christmas is over, visitors from the States have left for another year, but before they departed there was an introduction to Sergi Polunin, Pink and Rihanna video's ..... in that order

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 Sergei Polunin "Take me to Church" by Hozier Directed by David LaChapelle 

 Behind the scenes of Take Me To Church

No Camera is visible in the final CUT, not even the Drone

3 second Prep Rehearsal Cut Paste Cut Paste Cut CUT

Superb Editing

1:51

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1:58

One Second Transition from a camera crew backdrop to no crew backdrop

1:59

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2:00

 How many times did Sergei Polunin have to perform to get it right   ?

How many takes, .... emotional, Nine Hours in Santa Monica

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I started to lose track because of the One True Source of Light, was moving on the walls and floors in the space of just over four minutes.

 Take Me To Church

0:09

0:17

0:31

1:02

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Vs

One Camera

Confrontationist Peter Fassbender is still the Minister of Education

Four Twenty    663 views

Peter wears two rings on his fingers, one on each hand.  To know when he lies, his nervousness drives him to use his left hand (wedding band) to constantly twist his signature ring on his right hand, eh.

Typically when the BC Liberal government makes a change they dump the old and bring in the new.

This video is during the governments initiative Appealing to the Griffith decision. 

Uploaded on Apr 14, 2014

Peter Cameron, Chief Negotiator for the BC Public School Employers' Association (BCPSEA) provides his perspective on the current negotiations with the BC Teachers' Federation and merits of each of the parties' positions on class size and composition, monetary proposals and the relevance of Justice Griffin's decision in this round of collective bargaining.

Supreme Court of Canada took 20 minutes to agree with Griffith, and the BCTF

Peter Cameron, Chief Negotiator for the BC Public School Employers' Association (BCPSEA

In light of the BCTF Supreme Court win + BC Liberal full time In-House/Out-House lawyers lost ...

how much money have the lawyers donated to the BC Liberal Party election coffers when the lawyers source of income came from the taxpayers of British Columbia? 

The one hitch to the question is that the BC Liberal are keeping their Government lawyers (In-House/Out-House) fees close to their chests, the cost of a 15 years fight with the BC Teachers Federation, because it is NOT in the Public's interest just before an election.

The BC Liberals said the same thing when .......

A former BC Liberal MLA now working as a director at Simon Fraser University has been giving public dollars from his university expense account to the BC Liberal Party. - Vancouver Sun - WayBackMachine

FRPC - Wilfred L Hurd

Elections BC records show that, in addition to the expenses, Hurd also donated $18,766 to the BC Liberals between 2005 and mid-2011. The records show no donations to the New Democratic Party, and it is not clear if the donations were reimbursed by the university.  - Vancouver Sun - WayBackMachine

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e.a.f.

re Norman Farrell's Posts  .. 

Sunday, April 10, 2016

What’s good for the BC Liberals may not be good for BC Hydro

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