BCNews Alert 2014: BC Liberals built, then filled, 480 Olympic-sized pools with 1.2 millon cubic metres of Debris in Bear Pass

 56° 6.943'N 129° 44.790'W

30 kilometers NorthWest of Stewart, BC

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100,000 elephants in 480 Olympic-sized Swimming Pools

480 Swimming pools of debris per avalanche 

1.2 million / 480 = 2500 cubic metres of debris per pool

or

600,000 / 480 =  1250 Tonnes per Elephant:

"The weight of an average elephant will depend on which species that it is. There are two species of elephants, the African elephant and the Asian elephant. The African elephant is the larger of the two.The African elephant can weigh anywhere from two to seven tons with the average weighing about three tons. The African elephant is characterized by two finger like parts on the end of its trunk.

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Poached

100,000 elephants / 480 = 208 Elephants per swimming pool

BC Transport Minister Todd Stone claims that 100,000 elephants can be cleared off Highway 37A in under two hours!

However, according to a former (2008) Transport Minister a slide between Penticton and Kelowna contained 200,000 to 300,000 cubic metres of Rock, not Snow, not Debris like Bear Pass.  That road was closed indefinitely.


Answers:  Not Answered!!!!    but maybe the PABs GCPEs can, because they are the ones that introduced Elephants (not native to BC.... although there was some talk that Kelowna's Ogopogo monster WAS a bathing circus Elephant) as a means for the public to determine the size of the problem when maintaining British Columbia highways

Then again, maybe the BC Government Caucus misread this advertisement from Botswana:

..... During a good day more than 400 elephants will come and go.  To the right of the waterhole there is an “Olympic size” elephant swimming pool.  This is basically a “donga” pool of mud where the elephants bathe and socialize.

 One pool aka waterhole, is filled by one elephant, not the whole Herd of 400, or even 208 (BC)

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 Google Search Criteria: Could 208 elephants fit in an Olympic Sized swimming pool

Many online sources give essentially the same value for the total stocks of above-ground gold; it was about 157,000 metric tons by 2007.   If the density of gold is 19.3 grams per milliliter, or 0.0193 tons per liter, then we need to divide the total number by the density (remember the density formula from school? It’s Density = Mass/Volume, so just flip it around).  Thus we get about 8.2 million liters of gold.  If an Olympic-sized swimming pool has a volume of 2.5 million liters, then we divide and get our answer.

..... So we would need 3.27 swimming pools to hold the entire global supply of gold, which some argue is the entire amount of gold mined since before the Egyptians began mining gold before 2000 BC.  Sixty-six per cent of that is said to have been mined since 1950. ......

If anyone is still interested in pursuing this topic today, consider, why did the BC Liberal's use an elephant as a comparison factor in relation to the maintenance of highways in the Province of British Columbia, because of this:

It is based on the idea that an elephant in a room would be impossible to overlook; thus, people in the room who pretend the elephant is not there have chosen to avoid dealing with the looming big issue.
Wikipedia

For good measure, why would the BC Liberals hatchets throw the public off guard by using 480 Olympic-sized swimming pools for 100,000 elephants to frolic around in?  Get the picture?  tourism?  Two hours to Stop the Traffic; Trigger the Avalanche; Clear the highway... and move the debris to WHERE?  the river? the ocean 30 kilometers away?  inland?

Q. What train can travel 70 possible routes over a glacier, from 2,500 metre-high mountain tops down to near sea level, in about 20 seconds? 

A. An “avalanche train” in Bear Pass. 

 Oh!!!

 Most avalanche control missions in Bear Pass can be performed in two to four hours, however when conditions become more severe, longer highway closures are required. During an average winter, closures total about 95 hours. Video

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Once more, the BC Liberals use of Olympic sized swimming pools

Mining company Tech Cominco sold the cylindrical vessels and shipped them off to a buyer in North Dakota.  Bakken oil fields.

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To distribute the weight, each tank would ride on two hydraulic platform trailers – a small trailer known as a jeep, and a manned steering dolly. Between the semi truck and the trailers, each vessel was supported by 46 wheels turning around 12 axles. From the front of the tractor to the back of the rear trailer, the load measured 42 metres long – almost the length of an Olympic-size swimming pool. The tanks themselves were 5.18 metres high and 4.27 metres wide.

Myth Buster: Kinder Morgan (CEPA) Facts or Factoids

Kinder Morgan, supposedly, doesn't believe in "Myths" because they have their own way of explaining to the Public the "Facts" on the benefits and movement of their resources.

Fact is, Kinder Morgan and twelve of their brethren Petroleum giants, along with their Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA), believe strictly in "Factoids".  Factoid files are neatly stacked on their Library shelves:

Fact:                  http://www.cepa.com/library/factoids

For your reference, one definition of a "Factoid"  is in the Compact Oxford English Dictionary:

"an item of unreliable information that is repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact"  

Fact:               Factoids defined by Wikipedia:

A factoid is a questionable or spurious (unverified, false, or fabricated) statement presented as a fact, but without supporting evidence. The word can also be used to describe a particularly insignificant or novel fact, in the absence of much relevant context.   The word is defined by the Compact Oxford English Dictionary as "an item of unreliable information that is repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact".

Factoid was coined by Norman Mailer in his 1973 biography of Marilyn Monroe. Mailer described a factoid as "facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper", and created the word by combining the word fact and the ending -oid to mean "similar but not the same". The Washington Times described Mailer's new word as referring to "something that looks like a fact, could be a fact, but in fact is not a fact".

Factoids may give rise to, or arise from, common misconceptions and urban legends.

A Kinder Morgan Website asks "Did you know" (without a question mark) and then proceeds to lay the "Facts" out cold,      hard, and fast.

3 million

Approximately three million barrels of crude oil travel through Canada’s crude oil pipeline network every day, enough to fill more than 475 million one-litre milk cartons or almost 200 Olympic-sized swimming pools.   Learn More

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URL Fact:   Top LEFT corner:

http://www.cepa.com/library/factoids

 Facts   

$83.5 billion

Value of Canadian crude oil and natural gas exports in 2012 — most of which was transported by pipeline

94%

Percentage of transportation demand in Canada supplied by petroleum products

4,200

The number of rail cars needed to transport the 3 million barrels of crude oil transported each day by pipeline in Canada

More than half

The homes in Canada are heated by natural gas

5.5 litres

The amount of liquid spilled per million litres transported by pipeline in Canada between 2002 and 2011

3 million

Barrels of crude oil transported by transmission pipelines in Canada every day — the equivalent of 200 Olympic sized swimming pools  (other mediums using Olympic Sized Pools)

97%

The percentage of Canadian natural gas and crude oil production transported by transmission pipelines

More than two thirds

Of Canada’s energy demand is met by natural gas or products made from crude oil

2.5

Number of times Canada’s natural gas and liquid transmission pipelines would circle the earth if laid end-to-end

30 – 35

Number of days it takes for oil to travel by pipeline from Alberta to southern Ontario

More than 60%

Percentage of Canadian natural gas production transported by pipeline to US markets in 2011

Up to 40 km per hour

Speed natural gas moves through a pipeline

99.9994%

Percentage of liquid product transported safely by pipelines between 2002 and 2011

3 teaspoons

The liquid spilled from pipelines in Canada over the past ten years is equivalent to three teaspoons dripped out of a gasoline nozzle over the course of 50 fill-ups of 50 litres each

75 kilometers

The length of train that would be required to transport the 3 million barrels of crude oil transported by pipeline in Canada every day

18 metres

The size of the permanent right-of-way for a large diameter transmission pipeline

500 BC

The first recorded use of pipelines to transport natural gas — the pipelines were constructed of bamboo

830,000 km

Estimate of Canada’s underground natural gas and liquids pipeline network (gathering, transmission and delivery lines)

Fact:        Google Search Criteria:   factoids  CEPA

Fact:   CEPA Membership:

Detailed Member Statistics

• 2012 Member Statistics (PDF)
• Pipelines Fact Book (PDF)

CEPA 13 Member Companies

• Access Pipeline  Inc.
• Alliance Pipeline Ltd.
• ATCO Pipelines
• Enbridge Pipelines Inc.
• Inter Pipeline Fund
• Keystone Pipeline TransCanada
• Kinder Morgan Canada
• Pembina Pipeline Corporation
• Plains Midstream Canada
• Spectra Energy Transmission West
• TransCanada PipeLines Limited
• TransGas Limited
• Trans-Northern Pipelines Inc.

Fact:

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One expert's book uses CEPA Factoids as a Reference Page 5 of 6

TMI: A new Measurement of Volume: Olympic Size swimming pool

TMI

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This morning, the Press is reporting on "Canada not ready to dispose of mercury-laden light bulbs" - Vancouver Sun  from   The Canadian Press  Dean Beeby 

Mercury-laden CFL:

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Beginning next January, a new regulation will effectively ban the sale of standard incandescent bulbs in favour of energy-efficient versions, most of which contain mercury.

So-called compact fluorescent lamps, or CFLs, will also enter the waste stream as they break or burn out, many destined for landfills where their harmful mercury can get into the water.

Environment Canada (Pages 3 and 11) says the MERCURY contained in a typical thermometer can contaminate five Olympic-size swimming pools to toxic levels.                                         Snip

Imagine that, one Typical thermometer can contaminate FIVE OLYMPIC-SIZE SWIMMING POOLS!   There's no mention, however, of how many Compact Fluorescent lamps can fit into a Typical thermometer............

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From Christy Clark's Minister of Environment, Terry Lake's (fitting last name) desktop:

Did you know that the average British Columbian uses about 490 litres of water each day? If you include the water that is embedded in the food you eat, the clothes you wear and the products you use every day, your “water footprint” may be over 6,000 litres a day. Over the course of a year, that’s almost a full Olympic-sized swimming pool of water per person!  - Living Water Smart

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Maple Ridge uses 4,200 full Olympic sized swimming pools per year, that's 10.5 million cubic meters   .... population 69,000 to 75,000.

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Olympic-size swimming pool is the type of swimming pool used in the Olympic Games, where the race course is 50 metres in length and 25 metres in width. - Wikipedia

Success story

Approximately 2.9 million litres of municipal drinking water is conserved annually with a very basic pipe configuration.  This exceeds the volume of water required to fill an Olympic size Swimming Pool.  Page 4 of 4

There are Three watersheds (drainage and catchment areas) in Metro Vancouver Water District, and whereas they are different in land area, the volume of water is essentially the same.  Population: 2,000,000... Two Million......

Capilano Lake held back by Cleveland Dam....... from an earlier Post.

The math should be easy here, based upon Minister Lake's calculations...... of one full Olympic-sized per person...   Maple Ridge's population versus 4,200 pools....

2,000,000 X 1 = 2,000,000 Olympic Size swimming pools

However:
ONE THERMOMETER can contaminate to toxic levels FIVE Olympic Size Swimming Pools.

400,000 thermometers would be needed to contaminate 2 million Olympic swimming pools

One/Third of Four Hundred Thousand ...... approximately 12,000 thermometers per watershed.

2,400 visitors carrying five thermometers each......

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TMI

Could someone please explain why the Federal and Provincial governments are introducing a product that will ... allow terrorists  to contaminate our drinking water with mercury without the means to dispose of the toxic material (mercury), to stop "them", or us?   This insanity must STOP

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 UPDATE  September 26, 2013

The Canadian Press

Published Sunday, April 1, 2012 7:53PM EDT

OTTAWA - Enough nuclear waste to fill more than a hundred Olympic-sized swimming pools could be buried in an underground chamber near the Ottawa River.

The federal government is eyeing the site of the Chalk River nuclear reactor, 160 kilometres northwest of Ottawa, as a radioactive waste site.

Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. says 267,000 cubic metres of low- and medium-level nuclear waste is now stored above-ground in metal containers at the Chalk River site.
   
The Crown corporation is looking at building an enormous depository 500 to 1,000 metres underground to bury the detritus of six decades of nuclear testing at the Chalk River site.

UPDATE October 4, 2013

Sir Adam Beck Generating Stations downstream at a rate that would fill an Olympic sizedswimming pool every five seconds

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UPDATE November 3, 2013

Trans Mountain Pipeline aka Kinder Morgan   "Did you Know":

Approximately three million barrels of crude oil travel through Canada’s crude oil pipeline network every day, enough to fill more than 475 million one-litre milk cartons or almost 200 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

Factoids

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UPDATE  November 13, 2013

 Natural gas industry accused of illegal water use in B.C.
Environmental groups say Encana should have to pay for water used in fracking process

The environmental groups say as Encana proceeded with the fracking process to extract natural gas from underground reserves, it drew 880 Olympic swimming pools worth of water over three years from the Kiskatinaw River, which supplies drinking water to the city of Dawson Creek.