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BC LNG deemed a risk to Asian Renewables Development

BC LNG deemed a risk to Asian Renewables Development - #bcpoli #bclng #cdnpoli

Study indicates rising world LNG supply may drop natural gas prices causing governments to build new greenhouse gas emitting natural gas fired electrical capacity rather than renewables.

A paper published last year in Environmental Science & Technologycompares greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of various energy sources in Asian countries to emissions if BC exported LNG is used. The abstract…

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Earth Day 2019 - Letting go of the past is hard but exciting!

Earth Day 2019 – Letting go of the past is hard but exciting!

It’s Earth Day! On this special combination of Earth Day and Easter Monday I find myself reflecting on how it can be hard to let something go. I had a big reminder of that this week.

14 years ago, on the 22nd of June 2005, I had to let something go that was dear to me and special to my family when I was growing up.

The Fiat Spider leaving the family. June 22, 2005

We put this 1975 Fiat…

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Where did the Banners go?

Where did the Banners go?

A letter sent to the AV News on Monday. We’ll file this under business to community relationships. 🙂

Image From Google Street view Captured April 16, 2019. Date of image unknown likely after 2016.

Dear Editor, It’s funny how you get so used to seeing things in a certain place and in a certain way that when they disappear it can take a while to realize it. Such as it has been with the poles…

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Time for a Protest March! Cherry Creek Rd Forest Office. 10AM April 6

Time for a Protest March! Cherry Creek Rd Forest Office. 10AM April 6

Just wrote this thread about it on twitter so I might as well put it up here and encourage y’all to come along. We will walk down Johnston to Scott Fraser’s office.

https://twitter.com/chrisalecanada/status/1114376146458529793 https://twitter.com/chrisalecanada/status/1114377600091090945 https://twitter.com/chrisalecanada/status/1114381731723907073 https://twitter.com/chrisaleca…

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A Letter to Charles Adler re: the Jason Kenney Interview

A Letter to Charles Adler re: the Jason Kenney Interview

If you haven’t listened to the interview between Canadian conservative talk show giant Charles Adler and United Conservative Party of Alberta (UCP) leader Jason Kenney last night, you should. (Podcast listings here – Direct MP3 Download here). It is a barn burner, and it is exactly what there is too little of right now in all political media. I sent him the letter below. We can only hope that his…

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Climate Action can start at home but it won't take off until corporations and government make it fly like Harbour Air.

Climate Action can start at home but it won’t take off until corporations and government make it fly like Harbour Air.

I had to put up a blog on this right away because I was just so excited by the innovation of this B.C. company!

Here is the news:

Top seaplane airline Harbour Air switching to battery-powered aircraft

Seaplane operator Harbour Air, which regularly shuttles B.C.’s political class to and from Victoria, is looking to become the first all-electric fleet of commercial planes in Canada…

Greg…

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Compromise solution for Harbour View Lands

Compromise solution for Harbour View Lands

Submitted to the Alberni Valley News this morning:

Dear Editor, There is a simple solution to the Harbourview Lands question.  The treed “park” area which has stood the same for most of the past 100 years (if not much longer) and has an active eagle’s nest right now, is only one portion of the area under consideration.  

As far as following current use, I’d argue the proposed area can be seen as…

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A Letter for the Maplehurst Trails and ecosystems in Port Alberni

A Letter for the Maplehurst Trails and ecosystems in Port Alberni

Re: Maplehurst trail proposed logging – urge Province to provide alternative areas

To Whom it May Concern,

On behalf of my family, my wife and two kids I want to urge you to use this letter and the many others you receive to take to the government or whomever you must in order to show the very strong opposition to any logging whatsoever in these lands in and around Kitsuksis Road, and the…

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Re-assessing my screen time after turning off notifications and #resistfacebook

Re-assessing my screen time after turning off notifications and #resistfacebook

Back in November I wrote a blog about discovering the “screen time” monitoring and managing service that Apple provides on its devices.

I knew I was in front of a device screen (and this doesn’t count laptop time at work or home) a lot but it was still amazing to see just how much. That pushed me to try to start a change I had already been considering for a long time.

I turned off…

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13 Decades of Pictures of the Trees at the Bottom of Argyle

13 Decades of Pictures of the Trees at the Bottom of Argyle

In the gallery below I have compiled at least one photo from nearly every decade since the 1890s that features a picture of the trees at the bottom of Argyle in what is now commonly known as “Sea Cadet Park”. All pictures are from the Alberni Valley Museum digital archive. If you click on a picture you will be taken to its original page at the AVM with a further description.

At one point…

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“Jobs, Jobs, Jobs” - Stop using workers to excuse your bad behaviour.

“Jobs, Jobs, Jobs” – Stop using workers to excuse your bad behaviour.

“Just think of the jobs this will create.”

“If we do that, we will lose jobs.”

Those are the two basic themes. The two sides to the same coin. Politicians and corporations will invariably use the hammer of “jobs jobs jobs” as the reason, to do, or not do, anything. This could include making unsavoury backroom deals, ignoring or doing the opposite of good policy, destroying the environment,…

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In Memory of and Gratitude for Dr. Don A. Sander

In Memory of and Gratitude for Dr. Don A. Sander

On February 16, 2019, Port Alberni lost a most critical and amazing citizen (obit). A man who took care of countless others in 39 years. Be they young or old, at West Coast General Hospital or at his office on 9th Avenue, Dr. Sander looked after them all…

Including me.

From the day I was born in the big old WCGH on 8th Avenue, November 9, 1977, 5lbs and yellow, he was there.

When I came…

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Steelhead LNG lays off all staff while calling "pause" to Kwispaa project.

Steelhead LNG lays off all staff while calling “pause” to Kwispaa project.

You have no doubt heard that Steelhead LNG announced a “pause” in pursuit of their large floating LNG plant at Sarita Bay in partnership with Hu-ay-aht First Nation. Their website “news” area has not been updated since December and contains no update on this event.

Huu-ay-aht First Nation released an open letter to their members dated February 15, 2019 expressing that it was “deeply…

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Resisting Zuck

I posted this on my Facebook Profile this afternoon, so here it is, reproduced in full on the the real Internet.

This is going to be my last personal facebook post for the foreseeable future.

The TLDRversion of the letter below is; I’m out, as out as I can be anyway, and I’m going to resist this corrupt corporation. I’ll be available on Messenger, and on my blogs which are re-posted on…

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Cities, Solar panels, Cars, IPPs, and a new BC Hydro power purchase scheme for communities.

Cities, Solar panels, Cars, IPPs, and a new BC Hydro power purchase scheme for communities.

On Tuesday February 19, the City Council of Port Alberni will be having one of its many Budget deliberations. The meeting is at 7:30PM after the Committee of the Whole at 2:30PM and McLean Mill meeting at 6:30PM. Agendas here.Item #2 on the agenda is: “Director of Finance – 2016 Solar Installation Project/Carbon Trust Reserve Fund “. The recommended motion is:

That the report from the…

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BC Local Election Campaign Expense reports... what if they're all wrong? (well a bunch)

Protected: BC Local Election Campaign Expense reports… what if they’re all wrong? (well a bunch)

I like spreadsheets…. lol.

Below you’ll find images of a spreadsheet I have compiled with every candidate in the ACRD including Port Alberni, Tofino, Ucluelet and area Directors and SD70 Trustees. You can download the full spreadsheet in Apple Numbers and Microsoft Excel format.

You will see what everyone spent, the value of the entire enterprise of campaigning for nearly a year, the…

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PA Council moves to closing meetings while in progress and it is good.

PA Council moves to closing meetings while in progress and it is good.

I would argue Yes, and here is why.

Background

First a little background. With today’s January 28, 2019 meeting. The City Council for Port Alberni appears to have quietly changed the way it is handling “in-camera” meetings of Council. In the past, all in-camera meetings were held as completely separate “Special Meetings” of Council. Under the Community Chartera Special meeting is defined…