Eagle Valley News, April 23, 2014

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NEWS Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Vol. 59 No. 17 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.comPM40008236

Council opposes reduced services

at post officePage 2

School set to lose playground

equipment Page 6

Happy hunt: D Dutchmen Dairy was hopping on Sunday during the community Easter egg hunt. Clockwise from top left – Kruz Dirks pauses for a pic with the Easter bunny; Natalia Suk, Alegria Koch and Ella Suk are on the lookout for Easter treats; Ala-nia Rich is distracted from the hunt by some farm animals; Alexa Pasacreta feeds one of the cows; Courtney Warger paints whiskers on Randee Unruh. Photos by Victoria Rowbottom

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April 25 & 26 $2 Bag sale at Sicamous United Church Thrift Shop. 10:00 am - 3:00 pm. Clothing & ShoesMonday to Friday Community Access Site at the Senior’s Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Internet & related services. Call Diana. 836-2446Every 1st & 3rd Wed. - Parkinsons Support Group at First united Church. 20 - 4th Street SE, Salmon Arm at 10 am. Contact Doreen at 250-836-2509.Every Tues. Stopping the Violence Program in Sicamous - counselling for women who have experienced abuse during childhood or adult relationships. No charge. Call Kathy at 250-832-9700.Every Tues. - Sicamous Amateur Drama Club rehearsals, 7:00 p.m., Red Barn Arts Centre. 836-4705.Tues. & Thurs. - Carpet Bowling at the Seniors’ Activity Centre at 1 p.m.Every Tues. & Thurs. - Seniors Meals provided, 12 noon in Common Room at the Haven. Every Wed. Wednesday Arts for Everyone. 10

am - 3 pm. For info contact Juanita at 250-836-3019 or Gail- at 250-836-5472Every Wed. Girl Guides of Canada. Sparks - 3:00 pm. Brownies - 4:00 pm. Girl Guides - 5:30 pm. New members welcomeEvery Wed. Lunch by a donation at the Seniors Activity Centre, 1091-Shuswap Avenue at 12 noon.Every Wed. - Seniors Crib, 7:30 p.m., Haven seniors building. Everyone welcome - you don’t have to be a senior. Socializing and coffee served after crib. Info: Esther 836-4373.Every Wed. - T.O.P.S. (Take off Pounds Sensibly) meets every Wednesday morning at the Sicamous Rec. Centre (arena). Weigh in at 9:00 am and meeting at 9:30. Everyone Welcome. Ph: 250-836-4041 for infoEvery Wed.-Sat. United Church Thrift Store 10:00 am to 3 p.m.1st & 3rd Wednesday - Eagle Valley Photographic Arts Club meets at the Red Barn at 7 pm. Everyone Welcome.Every Thurs. - Sicamous Crokinole Group meets at 7pm at the Sicamous & District Recreation Centre - upstairs for more info and to join call Dave

Reed @ 250-836-3652Every Thurs.-Ladies shuffleboard at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #99 in Sicamous. 1pm-3pm. All ladies welcome.Every 2nd Thurs. - Sicamous Lions Club meeting at the Seniors Activity Centre, 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Doors open at 6:15 and meeting starts at 6:30. Anyone interested in being a volunteer for the community, please feel free to call Mary at 250-517-8107, Joan at 250-836-4876 or Pam at 250-836-4788 or just drop in to one of our meetings where you will be welcome.Every 1st, 3rd, 4th Thurs. - Keepsake Kwilters meet at the Haven Common room 1095 Shuswap Avenue at 7:00 p.m. For info call 250-836-2695.Every 2nd and 4th Thurs. Options For Sexual health from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., The Learning Centre LibraryEvery 4th Thursday monthly meeting of the Malakwa Community Association at 7:00 in the Learning Centre Library.Every Fri. - Parents & Tots, 10-12 noon at the Eagle Valley Resource Centre. 836-3440.

Every Fri. - Eagle Valley Brush & Palette Club meets at the Red Barn, 10am-3pm, Everyone welcome! For info call Carol 250-836-3135 or Amy 250-836-4756. www.eaglevalleybrushandpaletteclub.comEvery Friday - Pool Tournament at the Legion at 6:00 pmEvery 2nd 3rd and 4th Fri. Wii Tournament at 10 am at the Sicamous Seniors Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Everyone Welcome.Every 2nd 3rd and 4th Fri. Lunch at noon. Everyone Welcome. At the Sicamous Seniors Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue.Last Sat. of the Month - Ladies’ Auxiliary Dinner at the Royal Canadian Legion at 6 pm. Tickets sold until the Friday before at the Legion. No tickets at the door.Sundays - Candlelit Karma 6:30 pm. Warm & Gentle. Class by donation. Funds go towards community causes.Every 4th Sun.- Royal Canadian Legion Br. #99 general meeting, 1 p.m.Every 4th Sun. - OAPO Birthday Tea for members & friends, Seniors Activity Centre, 2 pm

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A re-evaluation of priorities has Colin Mayes preparing to leave the federal scene.

The Okanagan-Shus-wap MP announced during a Conservative gathering in Enderby April 12 that he will not run in the next federal election, Oct. 19, 2015.

“If I go into another term, I would be in my 70s and I thought, ‘Would I want to be

there in my 70s?’ It’s time to focus on my wife and family and to be closer to home,” said Mayes, who turned 66 Friday.

“I really thought and prayed about it and I’m comfortable with my decision.”

Mayes was first elected as MP in 2006 and was re-elected in 2008 and 2011.

He says he will com-plete his term in Ottawa but he hasn’t quashed

speculation that he will run this November for Salmon Arm mayor, a position he held for nine years.

“I don’t think I would do that, it’s about 80 per cent no.”

He hasn’t considered his long-term plans after politics.

“I have thought about doing some writing and taking courses at univer-sity. I want something to keep me active,” he said.

Mayes’ announce-

ment about retirement came two days after for-mer finance minister Jim Flaherty died of a heart attack. The 64-year-old had resigned as minister last month. Mayes says the death of Flaherty and the loss of friends and acquaintances has reinforced his decision to retire and consider “every day as a bless-ing.”

Mayes admits that he will miss being an MP once the term comes to

an end.“Serving people in

the constituency and seeing things get done, like the swimming pool in Armstrong, and knowing you and your staff played a part in that happening, that’s where I get my high,” he said.

While there isn’t an election until 2015, Mayes decided to an-nounce his intentions so the Conservative Party has time to find a can-didate.

Canada Post can expect a letter from Sicamous council pro-testing the potential closure of the commu-nity’s post office on Saturday.

At its last meeting, council received a no-tice from the Canadian Postmasters and As-sistants Association, warning Canada Post plans to cut hours of service at its Sicamous branch. Saturdays would be eliminated entirely, and weekdays would be reduced by a half hour, resulting in the office opening at 9 a.m. instead of 8:30.

“If these reductions are implemented, there will be a negative im-pact on the services as well as the earnings of the affected employ-ee… ,” the union body warns, emphasizing it

is not in favour of the reduction in service.

The CPAA’s letter followed on the heels of an earlier letter to council from Canada Post local area manag-er Karen Plessis, warn-ing of the potential Saturday closure and realignment of hours

during the week. Responding to the

CPAA’s release, Coun. Joan Thomson asked council write a letter to Canada Post, asking that no hours be cut.

“I usually don’t go on Saturdays, but some people do, and I think once they start cut-

ting that, then they’re going to start cutting more hours, and pretty soon we won’t even have a post office,” said Thomson. “I’m re-ally worried about that, and I think we need to send a letter to them stating we really don’t want them to cut these

hours.” Coun. Suzanne

Carpenter said when she worked in Salmon Arm, the only time she could access the post office was on Saturday.

“I think we would be doing a great dis-service to our commu-nity by not supporting Coun. Thomson and the community, be-cause I’ve been hearing complaints for years and years from people who work in Salmon Arm not having access other than Saturday mornings,” said Car-penter.

CPAA also wants to hear from those who take issue with hours being cut at the Sicamous post of-fice. Anyone wishing to voice their concern may contact CPAA president Barb Lincoln at [email protected].

Mayes not running in next federal election

Council protests proposed service decreaseBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Access issues: Closing the post office Saturdays may make it difficult for residents to access postal services. Photo by Lachlan Labere

By Richard RolkeBlack Press

Canada Post: Reduced hours, Saturday closure being considered.

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An Enderby man will be serving jail time in connection to the theft of a pickup truck and two snowmobiles, stolen earlier this year.

On April 15, Mitch-ell Szekely, 34, was sentenced in Salmon Arm Supreme Court to serve 128 days in prison for possession of stolen property, and a month for dangerous operation of a motor vehicle. In addition, Szekely is pro-hibited from driving for three years, and was or-dered to provide a DNA sample.

Szekely was nabbed by authorities in Si-

camous on Feb. 23, af-ter police tried to stop a suspicious pickup truck and trailer carrying two snowmobiles Instead of pulling over, the driver attempted to evade po-lice. A pursuit ensued over a short distance, until the suspect lost control of the vehicle and drove into a ditch.

The suspect then fled on foot, and was later tracked by police dog to a nearby property where he was found hiding in a motorhome.

The truck, trailer and snowmobiles were reg-istered out of Saskatch-ewan, and has been stolen from Revelstoke earlier that morning.

Szekely was charged with breach of proba-tion, possession of sto-len property over $5,000 and attempting to evade police.

Throughout this sled-ding season, Sicamous, Revelstoke and Salmon

Arm RCMP have been making a co-ordinated effort to crack down on snowmobile thefts in the region. This has includ-ed frequent road checks of trucks and trailers, as well the use of police bait sleds.

Houseboat owners and companies will be paying more per vessel to utilize the District of Sicamous’ sewage sys-tem.

Municipal council has passed a bylaw that increases the flat sewer usage fee per house-boat from $335 to $435.

The minimum charge per billing period for metered sewer rates has also increased from $167 to $210.

The reason for the in-crease has to do with the strain the effluent from houseboats puts on mu-nicipal infrastructure. The additional funding will be put into a reserve to assist with the costs of related upgrades or

repairs. Terry Rysz was the

only councillor to speak against the bylaw, not-ing the houseboat indus-try is a major economic driver for the commu-nity.

“I know there are self-owned houseboats that are involved in this as well, and there was indication we would be utilizing this additional

$10,000 to accommo-date any possible prob-lems with infrastructure at a later date,” said Rysz. “I think the way the houseboats keep this community and the companies around it… I’m opposing this.”

Coun. Don Richard-son supported the by-law, calling the increase a cost of doing business.

“We appreciate them

being here, however, in their due diligence, if they can find some other way to do odour control and deal with corrosion problems, great. But this is one way of working it,” said Richardson.

Coun. Suzanne Car-penter said it wasn’t a big cost increase, but it was one she didn’t feel should be on the backs of resident taxpayers.

Houseboat owners to see fee increaseBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Sicamous residents are ready and willing to see the district bor-row $4.4 million to construct a new, $7.9 million water treatment plant.

A recently complet-ed alternative approval process was the oppor-tunity for residents to stop the district from borrowing, and possibly push the matter to refer-endum. To have been successful, counter peti-tions were needed from

more than 1,273 indi-vidual property owners (50 per cent), whose properties total an as-sessed value of more than $342,237,566. Only 54 petitions (2.12 per cent) were received, however, and, accord-ing to district staff, the

majority of those were not from local residents.

After going over the petition results, coun-cil gave third reading to a bylaw to establish a local service area for the purpose of provid-ing the water treatment plant and mains, and to

authorize the borrowing of the $4,399,000, to be repaid over 25 years. The bylaw states this will be repaid through taxation.

Approval is required from the province be-fore the bylaw receives final reading.

Public gives consent to borrow $4.4 millionBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Enderby man sentenced for snowmobile theftBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

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VICTORIA – Earth Day 2014 will likely go down in B.C. history as less exciting than last year’s event.

That was the day when, in the heat of the election campaign, NDP leader Adrian Dix announced in Kamloops that he doesn’t support the expansion of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline to its Burnaby ter-minal, because Vancouver shouldn’t become a “major oil port.”

As of this Earth Day, it has been an oil port for exactly a century, since Imperial Oil began work on B.C.’s first refinery in 1914, in what is now Port Moody. There were no pipelines then, so crude was moved by rail or tank-er.

For 60 years, Trans Mountain has supplied the Chevron refinery in Burnaby that is southern B.C.’s last source of fuel. Some of the Alberta crude

is piped south to be refined into fuels and some of that product is barged back up to B.C. to keep our traffic moving.

Today, the proposal is to expand and upgrade that pipeline, and to build new oil and natural gas pipe-lines across the north.

In keeping with the ed-ucational aspect of Earth Day, here are some things you may not know about energy and the environ-ment.

• A recent National Geographic report sum-marizes the main sources of oil in the oceans around North America. Media coverage focuses on tank-er and pipeline spills, but they only account for eight per cent of the total.

Fully 60 per cent of the oil load in North Ameri-can waters is from natural seeps, where oil leaks from seafloor rock. One of the world’s largest is off Santa Barbara, California, where

20 to 25 tons flows out each day. It’s mostly consumed by oil-eating bacteria that have adapted and prolif-erated. The next biggest source is leakage from cars and trucks, which collects on pavement and is flushed to sea when it rains.

• Earth Day is now pre-ceded by Earth Hour, dur-ing which we are encour-aged to turn out our lights to join a world-wide ges-ture of conservation. Many people use the occasion for a candlelight dinner.

Given that B.C.’s power is nearly all from renew-able hydroelectric sources, and that the paraffin used to make candles is derived from petroleum or coal, this feel-good ritual pro-duces an increase in green-house gas emissions.

• Unlike Earth Hour, B.C.’s carbon tax on fu-els actually appears to be helping to reduce emis-sions.

An update to provincial

data is due this year, but what we have shows a 5.7 per cent decrease in carbon dioxide and other green-house gases between 2007 and 2011.

Environment minis-ters have conceded that some of this is due to the recession that struck in 2008-2009. But since the economy has recovered and begun to grow again, emissions have continued to decline.

• There are simple things anyone can do, without gimmicks or gov-ernment programs. One would be to stop protesting increased housing density in your community.

By far the largest source of greenhouse gas emis-sions in B.C., not to men-tion old-fashioned pollu-tion, is transportation. By living closer to where we work, shop and play, we can exercise our legs in-stead of just our gas pedal foot to get around.

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Rising prices at the gas pump a reason for change

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The angst at the pump this week was pre-dictable.

Anytime somebody informs you the cost of living is going up by a few hundred dol-lars, or more, during the next year, the groans are inevitable.

Unfortunately, what also seems inevitable is the resignation.

Gas price hikes aren’t new, or unusual. It wasn’t that long ago that prices were under a dollar per litre, and at least half the people read-ing this are going to remember filling up when that rate was less than 30 cents a litre.

Every time those rates jumped, people greeted the jump with the same type of response we heard Thursday.

And every time, by and large, people contin-ued to do what they’ve always done — filled up their cars and headed out to the highway.

The simple fact of the situation is all of us are slaves to the gas pump. Try as we might to avoid it, our society is built around the automobile and has been for at least 60 years.

Where we live, where we work, where we learn, where we eat and where we play are often impractical and sometimes impossible to link without the aid of a gas-powered vehicle.

Most of us don’t think we can do anything about it; it doesn’t occur to some of us why we should even try.

But we need to. We need to start directing our society away from its reliance on gas.

It’s easy for some to dismiss the climate change crowd as intellectual zealots, and the 100-mile diet people as trendy hipsters, but the fact remains: we can’t continue down the path.

Never mind the environmental issues, we sim-ply will not be able to afford it financially.

The future is coming and our lives are going to be different.

Start embracing change before change buries us all.

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Carbon tax having impact on vehicle emissions


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Notice is hereby given of the public review period for the 2014-2024 Woodlot Licence Plan (WLP) for Woodlot Licence (WL) 2024. WL 2024 has development units located along Johnson Creek (near Mara Lake) and along Gleitz Creek (in Trinity Valley).

The WLP outlines the resource values and management strat-egies for those values associated with the Woodlot. The WLP is consistent with the Okanagan-Shuswap Land and Resource Management Plan and the Forest and Range Practices Act.

Prior to approval from the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO), the WLP is available for review and comment by First Nations, the public and resource users until May 26, 2014. The WLP may be viewed by contacting Jody McCall, RPF PAg for an appointment at (250) 545-9749 ext 205.

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Another Red Barn Java Jam is coming up on Saturday, April 26 from 7 until 10 p.m.

If you are a musician or singer, you are more than welcome to come out and join all the other “jammers.” No need to think that perfection is required. Not at all. This is a way to express yourself and hopefully get others around you involved.

Jam sessions are im-provised performanc-es without extensive preparation. Sessions

are held in parking lots, campgrounds, music stores, bars, restaurants or on stage. Sometimes stage improvisations are recorded and can be extremely popular music to buy because of the spontaneity of the music and its unusual interpretations.

I would like to say when jamming, mu-sicians “hang loose,” without worrying about perfection, but for the pure joy of it, their mu-sic improves.

Some people have told me they think they are not “good enough” to go on our Java Jam stage. This is not what it’s about. It is the ex-perience and fun that count. Not the perfec-tion.

Some years ago I attended an Irish Harp school, and in the eve-ning we went to one of the local pubs (there were 12 pubs in a town

of 1,500 people, and they all got a turn over time) for a “Session” i.e. jamming session. Here were 40 people or so, crammed into a room no bigger than my liv-ing room, all smoking as well. But the atmo-sphere was terrific. As a foreigner, I was lying low so I would not in-terfere with the process. There were all sorts of instruments, concertina, bodhran (Irish handheld drum) violin, penny whistle, guitar, harp etc. The session leader (it was hard to detect who that was, but the players knew; I was tipped off about that by my harp instructor) gave the nod and everyone started playing and singing. They played for the pure joy of it, and for themselves. People who knew the tune would join in and one song would lead to another. During a brief break,

a very aged gentleman stood up and started reciting a long poem which, in the Irish lan-guage, I could not un-derstand. But because of his voice and intona-tion, I did get the mood and sense of what he was saying.

The evening carried on with one song fol-lowing another. Jigs and reels. The pub was just alive. Not because of al-cohol but because of the sheer joy of the music.

At the time it made me think and giggle to myself, how silly people would think I’d be if I showed up with one of my instruments in one of our pubs here in Sicamous and started playing. Or it would be even weirder if I stood up and starting reciting poetry.

What a shame that we in our part of the world cannot let go of our inhibitions and en-

joy ourselves in that way. But once you let go of your self-con-sciousness, the art of singing or making mu-sic is such a fun way to be together and to relax.

Now, I hope I have encouraged some of you to come to the Red Barn Java Jam. We are hoping to create a re-laxed atmosphere for all to enjoy, as a musician or a spectator.

Admission is $2 and performers and children under 10 are free. Per-formers can sign up at the door. In charge of the music is John Guil-beault, owner of The Music Man on Shus-wap Avenue. You can reach him at 250-253-3645, or at [email protected] if you have any questions. Or you can contact me by phone at 250-836-4705, or email [email protected] with questions or art news.

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The Malakwa Com-munity Centre Asso-ciation is holding a pasta dinner and live music event on Saturday, April 26 in the Malakwa school gym.

Dinner is at 6 p.m., with a variety of musical groups to follow.

Tickets at $10 for adults, half price for kids (preschoolers are free) are available at the Mal-akwa Supermarket and the Sicamous IDA.

This is a fundraiser for the community hall fund. For more informa-tion, call 250 836 2108.

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panies are being rec-ognized for taking this slogan to heart.

Shuswap Construc-tion Industry Profes-sionals began a pro-gram in January 2013, Get a Local Quote, to help promote the use of local contractors and suppliers for projects.

A SCIP board mem-ber then suggested it would be good to recog-nize the local builders in the area who hire local businesses.

On Friday night, the results of that idea ma-terialized, with three Shuswap Community Builders awards pre-sented at SCIP’s annual general meeting.

The awards rec-ognized winners in three categories: Level 1 - residential proj-ects from $100,000 to $500,000; Level 2 - residential proj-ects from $500,000 to $1,500,000 and Level 3 - over $1,500,000.

Winning both the Level 1 and 2 catego-ries was McDiarmid Construction of Salmon Arm, owned by Ian Mc-Diarmid. The Level 3 category was won by Bush Mountain Con-struction Ltd. of Blind Bay, owned by Gordon Bush. Gift certificates from local restaurants, media exposure and be-ing pictured on the front of the SCIP directory made up the prizes.

Winners were de-cided based on a point system, which includ-ed: • for using a local general contractor - six points; • for each local sub trade/suppliers used - three points. (If from one to 20 - three points, if 21 to 40 - four points, if 41 to 60 - five points, and if more than 60 - six points. ); • for using the SCIP plan room to utilize drawings for the specified project - one point; • for a clear pre-qualification process

supporting local busi-nesses - two points; • for notifying all bidders the results of tender within two weeks of closing - one point; • for a well-prepared tender pack-age - four points; • for using local professional offices that contribute to the completion of the project - four points; • for having an open ten-der versus invitational - two points; and • for providing reference checks upon comple-tion - five points.

In terms of the competition, local in-cludes Salmon Arm, Sicamous, Enderby, Chase and the North Shore.

Donna Smith, co-ordinator at SCIP, says this was the first year for the competition so it’s hoped it will con-tinue and get better known over time. She emphasizes that anyone can participate; build-ers don’t have to be a member of SCIP. Even a homeowner can par-

ticipate if they’re hiring sub trades. Forms are available at city hall, she said, so builders can pick them up there when picking up build-ing permits.

The contest has al-ready been successful in getting the number of local trades better known.

“It was amazing the reaction I’m getting…, Smith said, noting people are surprised by how many local trades are in town.

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School to lose playground equipmentThe push is on to re-

place playground equip-ment at Parkview Elemen-tary.

For insurance purpos-es, the wood playground structures currently at the school are being removed this summer. The school’s parents advisory commit-tee has been fundraising for replacement pieces, and are about a third of the way to the estimated purchase-price goal of $75,000.

School principal Val Edgell says the hope is to be able to put in new equipment pieces with ex-

isting funding as the older pieces come out.

“We’ll put in as many pieces as we can afford at that time. But we may have a much smaller play-ground until we get that,” said Edgell.

The principal notes that while B.C. schools don’t normally receive school district funding for playgrounds, School Dis-trict #83 has committed $10,000 for replacement equipment. The school’s students have been raising funds along with the PAC. And while grant money is available, it’s not easily acquired.

“Unfortunately, the

funding for playgrounds is never a guarantee,” says Edgell, who went through the challenges of replac-ing playground equipment when she was principal at Diamond Vale Elemen-tary in Merritt. “There are grants out there, so kind of everybody applies for those same grants and you hope that you get lucky with one of them. “And then, every once in a while, the government will release some fund-ing towards playgrounds. I know the school district has assigned us as very high priority should any of that money come to the district.”

Active: Loula Maisey climbs up one of Parkview Elmentary’s playground structures that is to be removed this summer. Photo by Lachlan Labere

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My name is David Black. I am the ma-jority owner of Black Press, the company that owns this newspaper.

This is the first of two columns address-ing what I see as the greatest threat to the B.C. environment in our lifetime. I am a rea-sonably sensible and conservative business-man, not an alarmist. All of the information in this column can be confirmed from public sources.

The oil industry wants to export Al-berta bitumen to Asia via tankers. Under no circumstances should we allow that to hap-pen. A bitumen spill at sea could destroy our coastline, together with the fish and wildlife that depend on it, for hundreds of years.

Bitumen, even if it is diluted, does not float in sea water if there is sediment present. This has been proven many times, most recently in a thorough Environ-ment Canada study published on Nov. 30, 2013. Page 51 of the study provides graphic evidence of sunken bi-tumen. Given that there is an abundance of sed-iment along the B.C. coast, the bitumen will sink rapidly and there will be little chance of recovering any of

it if there is a spill. By Northern Gateway’s own admission, the likelihood of a bitumen spill at sea is over 10 per cent over the next 50 years. Others say that it is much higher. We are in agreement with the position taken by the Coastal First Nations that even the slightest risk of a spill of bitumen at sea is un-acceptable.

The grounding of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska in 1989 is often held up as an example of how bad an oil spill at sea can be; however, a spill of bitumen at sea would be much worse. The Exxon Valdez car-ried light crude and lost 250,000 barrels, one eighth of a tanker load. The light oil floated and could be re-moved from the beach-es. Even so, after four

years of work with up to 11,000 workers and 1,400 boats involved, less than 10 per cent of it was recovered. Roughly 200,000 birds and many kinds of oth-er wildlife were killed. Approximately 1,300 miles of shoreline were affected and the fishery has yet to fully recover. Bitumen is very differ-ent. It would harden up on shore and much of it would sink to the bottom, making it un-recoverable and killing virtually everything with which it came in contact. Imagine if we lost a full tanker load.

Some say that, with GPS-based navigation and double hulls, spills such as Exxon Valdez are not possible today. They are wrong.

Double hulls do not prevent hull fracture if there is a collision at

speed, only if there is a gentle scrape. As for the GPS claim, most marine accidents are caused by human inat-tention, not by a lack of knowledge about position. All ships car-ried systems to indicate their location before GPS came along.

The Exxon Val-dez crew could have glanced at their instru-ments to determine their location but they didn’t, neither did the crew on the Queen of the North.

Marine disasters regularly occur and a quick search of the Internet shows human error is most often the problem. Undoubt-edly there will be many more marine ac-cidents in future. Our grandchildren will not thank us if we willingly risk the destruction of

the B.C. coast on our watch.

Fortunately there is a solution that is bene-ficial for all concerned: all we have to do is build a refinery at Kiti-mat. The refinery will convert the bitumen to gasoline, diesel and jet fuel which float and evaporate if they are spilled. Often little or no spill remediation is required.

These refined fuels simply do not cause the habitat destruc-tion of conventional or synthetic crude oil, or anywhere near the devastation caused by bitumen.

The second part of this Op-Ed will run in the next issue. It will discuss the enormous value-added benefits and environmental ad-vantages of a modern green refinery. The

pipeline from Alberta and the tanker fleet to export the refined fuels will also be considered.

Let me declare my biases. I am for creat-ing thousands of good permanent jobs in BC. I am for creating bil-lions of new tax dollars for government coffers. I am for reducing the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions. I am for building an oil pipeline that will never leak. I am for building a mod-ern tanker fleet that car-ries only refined fuels that float and evaporate if spilled. I am against shipping bitumen in tankers.

If you agree that we should not put bitumen in tankers please con-tact your local MP and say so. The Canadian government makes a decision on this next month.

Proposed refinery would reduce risk to environment

OP-ED

DAVID BLACK

Listening to Da-vid Black speak in Kelowna this week, it was hard not to get behind his idea of a made-in-B.C. oil refin-ery that would create thousands of jobs for the hard-done-by com-munities of Kitimat and Terrace, sparking the B.C. economy and bringing in millions, if not billions of dollars

from China.Black, who owns

this newspaper and hundreds of others in communities around B.C., the Pacific North-west and even Hawaii, spoke about the differ-ences between refined oil and crude oil. He said refined oil and its products of gas, and diesel, would evapo-rate in an ocean spill, while crude oil would sink and damage coast-al ecosystems beyond repair.

He spoke of the money ($32 billion) that it would cost to build a refinery and its related pipeline and the tanker fleet needed to ship the oil to China.

He said if we don’t build a refinery, China will, adding his refin-

ery would use Cana-dian technology and would produce half the greenhouse gasses as a Chinese-built refinery.

He said China will loan us all of the money to build our made-in-B.C. refinery and the workers there would make great wag-es, as much as $80,000 to $90,000 a year and our kids wouldn’t have to go to the tar sands in Alberta to make big money.

He said so much money would be com-ing in, the loans from China would be paid back in as little as six years.

And he spoke of building such a refin-ery for B.C. as a news-paperman, as opposed to one of the major oil

companies – conglom-erates without B.C. ownership and little care for our environ-ment.

A made-in-BC so-lution, he said, is much better.

And to that end, I agree.

But what he didn’t mention were any of the impacts of continu-ing to rely on an oil-based economy.

There was no men-tion of global warming and its disastrous ef-fects on the world.

There was no talk about alternative ener-gies or a need to find new ways of doing things.

The choice that Black laid out to a pro-business crowd at the Kelowna chamber (you

could hear the ‘wows’) came down to two things: Oil or oil.

If, in fact oil is the only way to go, then Black’s idea to refine the oil in B.C. and ship it to China seems a bet-ter answer. It will cre-ate jobs, stimulate the economy and give our province a boost on the world stage.

But is it the only way to go?

The answer is no.There are other op-

tions. There are inno-vative ideas, new ways of moving forward, new technologies that can take us away from the oil-based economy the United Nation’s top scientist are warning against.

Canada should be leading the way in this

regard, not following the all-powerful dollar.

This month, the United Nations report-ed that between 2000 and 2010, man-made greenhouse gas emis-sions ballooned more quickly than in any of the three previous de-cades and warned this dangerous interference with the climate sys-tem will have dire ef-fects.

Those effects are already being seen around the globe as major weather catas-trophes are happening with alarming frequen-cy.

Our reliance on oil and the dangerous emissions it puts into the air have put us on a collision course with disaster.

As a newspaper re-porter in Black’s stable of papers, its my duty to ask questions, raise concerns and let the public decide for them-selves. I believe in this paper and it’s ability to tell people’s stories and provide more depth to the news than what is currently being generated in this age of what could be called surface-journalism.

And there are no bigger, no more im-portant questions that need to be raised: Is this the way to go? Can we stop global warm-ing? Can we stand up and make a difference?

The answers aren’t as easy to find.

But we all need to start asking these ques-tions.

GUEST COLUMN

KEVIN PARNELL

Reliance on oil-based economy perpuates climate issues

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EAGLE VALLEY

NEWS


The Sicamous chamber

would like to see one of the

community’s most popular

summer events held later in the

season, or doubled down.

Recently, the chamber’s

new executive director Mi-

chelle Wolff presented Si-

camous council with some-

thing of a wish list, the top

item relating to the annual

Canada Day � reworks display.

Due to last summer’s � ood-

ing, the � reworks display was

moved to the August B.C. Day

long weekend.

Wolff asked that the district

consider either moving the

� reworks show permanently to

August, or else have � reworks

shows for both occasions. By

having � reworks in August,

Wolff said the community

could look at hosting a much

larger event, even resurrecting

Moose Mouse days.

“Moose Mouse Days has

been gone for, I think, 15-plus

years, and numerous business-

es in the communities say they

still get requests for Moose

Mouse souvenirs,” said Wolff.

The chamber surveyed its

members about the idea of

moving the � reworks to Au-

gust, and of the 30 per cent

who responded, 70 per cent

were in favour, 27 per cent

asked to keep them on Canada

Day, while six per cent asked

that a plan be worked out to

offer � reworks on both week-

ends. Weighing the pros and cons

of the move, Wolff noted the

EAGLE VALLEY

NEWS Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Vol. 55 No. 15 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (HST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.comPM40008236

Seized Malakwa residence back on the market

Page 3

Students move up a notch in

belt testing Page 8

Snowmobile thefts yet to be curbed

Word of mouth wasn’t a good thing for the Si-

camous RCMP when it came to curbing snowmo-

bile theft last winter.

Upon asking Sicamous council to consider what

their list of policing priorities will be for 2013, Si-

camous RCMP Sgt. Dave Dubnyk received a tip

from Coun. Greg Kyllo as to what one priority will

likely be when he raised the ongoing issue of snow-

mobile and trailer thefts in the community.

“We’re trying to build up our snowmobiling

business and when a

guy shows up for the

weekend and has his sled

stolen, that story spreads

really quickly, and it’s

brought in a real nega-

tive view of snowmobil-

ing in Sicamous,” said

Kyllo, asking if there

was something police

could do about this.

“Absolutely,” replied

the community’s rela-

tively new RCMP de-

tachment commander,

going on to explain this

is the � rst time he’s lived

and worked in such an

snowmobiling mecca

and has actually been confronted by this issue.

Dubnyk went on to say that he’s already met with

the mayor and discussed some initiatives from an

enforcement perspective, as well as what the dis-

trict and resort owners might be able to do.

“I can tell you that over the winter we did, for

a while, try the bait sled here,” said Dubnyk. “It

wasn’t overly successful. Other than in saying

when the word had got out it was in town, we didn’t

have any thefts during that time…

“There are some initiatives we can try and I’m

glad to explore those, and we can certainly make it

one of our priorities.”

Kyllo had another question for the sergeant re-

lating to pub patrons possibly being targeted by

Bait sled: No one takes

the bait during winter

policing initiative. By Lachlan Labere

Eagle Valley News

See Sergeant says on page 2

guy shows up for the

weekend and has his sled

stolen, that story spreads

really quickly, and it’s

brought in a real nega-

tive view of snowmobil-

ing in Sicamous,” said

Kyllo, asking if there

was something police

“Absolutely,” replied

the community’s rela-

tively new RCMP de-

tachment commander,

going on to explain this

is the � rst time he’s lived

and worked in such an

There are initia-

tives we can try…

and we can certainly

make it one of our

priorities.

Sgt. Dave DubnykSicamous RCMP

Chamber asks to shift fireworks to August

By Lachlan Labere

Eagle Valley News

See Interest on page 3More bang: Councillors are favourable to Sicamous

hosting two fireworks events. File photo

Cool riders: Morgan Kerr and

Netanyel Quessy

enjoy a break in

the wet weather

by riding their

bikes at the

Sicamous skate

park.Photo by

James Murray

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