- CAMPBELL CAME UP SHORT FOR ISLAND (sewage project mention)
- DEATH TRAP NET RAISED IN SEA CLEANUP (Salish Sea)
- MUNICIPAL COUNCILS NEED PROVINCIAL HELP (sewage plant mention)
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CAWLMC MEETS 23 FEB: AGENDA, MINUTES, REPORTS
AGENDA topics for 23 Feb:
5. EPT 11-07 First Nations Engagement Update – Core Area Wastewater Treatment Program
6. EEP 11-17 Integrated Watershed Management – Implementation Strategy
7. EWW 11-18 Market Sounding – Core Area Wastewater Treatment Program
8. EWW 11-09 Program Management Consulting Services Budget Status – CAWTP
9. EWW 11-14 Environmental Feasibility of the Dredging Option for Piping from Esquimalt to Colwood – Core Area Wastewater Treatment Program
10. EWW 11-13 Life Cycle Costs – Core Area Wastewater Treatment Program
11. Correspondence:
a) 20 Dec 2010 Letter from Esquimalt Re: Public Forum on Community Benefits
b) 11 Feb 2011 Response to Esquimalt letter from Chair Blackwell
c) 31 Jan 2011 Letter from Minister Chuck Strahl
http://www.crd.bc.ca/agendas/
MINUTES Excerpt from past meeting Jan 12, 2011 (posted in previous ARESST News Blog):
a) Delegation: D. Langley, re item 6—spoke to the budget status report with the view that it should be more comprehensive.
b) Delegation: B. Furber, re item 6—spoke to the budget status report with the view that the design-build process has been misunderstood.
c) Delegation: S. Peck, re item 5 and item 6—spoke to the Inflow and Infiltration Progress Report with the view that cost efficiencies have not been proven. Dr. Peck commented on the budget status report with questions about cost sharing and the relationship between capital costs and planning costs. Dr. Peck expressed his pleasure with agenda item 7, with the view that the delay in the audit provides more time for public consultation.
http://www.crd.bc.ca/minutes/
REPORTS 12 January recently uploaded (new or amended from previous upload):
Inflow & Infiltration Progress Report for October 2008 to March 2010: http://www.crd.bc.ca/reports/
Core Area Liquid Waste Management Budget
http://www.crd.bc.ca/reports/
REPORTS for 23 February meeting:
Item 10 EWW 11-13 Life Cycle Costs - CAWTP updated
http://www.crd.bc.ca/reports/
Item 09 EWW 11-14 Environmental Feasbility of the Dredging Option Pipeline - CAWTP new
http://www.crd.bc.ca/reports/
Item 08 EWW 11-09 Program Management Consulting Services Budget Status - CAWTP new
http://www.crd.bc.ca/reports/
Item 07 EWW 11-18 Market Sounding - CAWTP new
http://www.crd.bc.ca/reports/
Item 06 EEP 11-17 Integrated Watershed Management Implementation Strategy new
http://www.crd.bc.ca/reports/
Item 05 EPT 11-07 First Nations Engagement Update - CAWTP new
http://www.crd.bc.ca/reports/
Index page: http://www.crd.bc.ca/reports/
CRD'S ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE (ESC) 23 FEB - SEWAGE-RELATED REPORTS
Item 10 EEE 11-19 Saanich Peninsula Liquid Waste Management Plan Biosolids Management Program
http://www.crd.bc.ca/reports/
Item 06 ERM 11-06 Solid Waste Management Plan Revision 3 (notes liquid waste, waste to energy, resource recovery)
http://www.crd.bc.ca/reports/
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CAMPBELL CAME UP SHORT FOR ISLAND (sewage project mention)
ARESST: Sewage mention from news article below:
"The fact of the matter is Vancouver Island has done pretty well in the past 10 years," he said in an end-ofan-era interview with the Times Colonist's Rob Shaw, pointing to $260 million for Greater Victoria sewage treatment (though a more churlish observer than myself might point out that this is money we haven't seen, for a project we're not sure we need).
Campbell came up short for Island
Jack Knox
Times Colonist
February 19, 2011
Letter to editor: letters@timescolonist.com
Random thoughts from the week in news:
- How come Canadians get their knickers in a twist at the idea of a $5.50 fee to visit the U.S., but don't think twice about paying $55 a year to shop at Costco?
- It snowed a bit this week. Quick, everyone under your desks.
Wait, no, that's earthquakes.
Sorry, we're not very good at this stuff.
- Elton John put on two of the best shows Victoria has ever seen, but given the average age of the crowd, couldn't he have taken the stage at 6 p.m.? No mosh pit, not a whiff of dope smoke -you know it's an older audience when the drug dealers are selling Viagra and digitalis.
- An analysis of the Oak Bay Police Department notes that only four per cent of officers (which means one cop) belong to a visible minority. In Oak Bay, that could mean Irish.
- Gordon Campbell seems surprised that some think his government has ignored Vancouver Island.
"The fact of the matter is Vancouver Island has done pretty well in the past 10 years," he said in an end-ofan-era interview with the Times Colonist's Rob Shaw, pointing to $260 million for Greater Victoria sewage treatment (though a more churlish observer than myself might point out that this is money we haven't seen, for a project we're not sure we need).
Campbell could have also pointed to the province's contributions of $20 million for the new $37-million hospital emergency department in Nanaimo, $11.3 million for Victoria General's $18.8 million ER and $222 million for the new $350million tower at Royal Jubilee Hospital. Royal Roads, UVic and Camosun got $195 million for capital projects over eight years, while $58 million is budgeted for a new high school in Port Alberni.
Then there's the province's $4.9 million share of the Spencer Road interchange (the bridge to nowhere) on the Trans-Canada, its $10.5 million portion of the $24 million McTavish interchange on the Pat Bay (another project that wasn't way up the priority list) and, um, I think they kicked in for the climbing wall at Stelly's Secondary in Central Saanich.
But in truth, the 750,000 people of Vancouver Island haven't seen the province take on a really skookum initiative since the $1.3 billion Vancouver Island Highway Project launched by the New Democrats in the 1990s.
Not a penny of provincial government money went into Victoria's SaveOnFoods Memorial Centre and not a penny will go toward replacing the Blue Bridge.
Meanwhile, over in Toronto-by-the-Sea, pop. 2.5 million, the Vancouvercentric Liberals are stimulating the economy to the verge of orgasm: $1.1 billion for the South Fraser Perimeter Road, $800 million for the Sea-to-Sky Highway upgrade, $2 billion for the Canada Line, $1.4 billion for the Evergreen Line, $836 million for the Vancouver Convention Centre, $486 million for Surrey Memorial hospital, another $682 million planned for Children's and Women's hospital and -gulp -a honking $3.3 billion for the Port Mann Bridge/Trans-Canada work. (Do they really expect to recover the bridge costs with tolls?)
B.C. Place stadium's new $458 million roof (the one that won't close when it rains) alone dwarfs anything on this side of the water. Even with a population three times as high as Vancouver Island's, the Lower Mainland enjoys a disproportionate amount of the bricks and mortar money being thrown around.
Not to engage in parochial jealousy, but it's hard for commuters who are slowly rotting to death on Victoria's western approaches not to feel shortchanged (though, gosh, Kevin Falcon, B.C.'s transportation minister for five years, apparently had a Paul-on-the-road-to-Colwood religious conversion and, shortly after announcing his Liberal leadership aspirations, declared this is a problem that needs solving).
It's been said before, but the Liberals are Live Free Or Die Republicans on this side of the water but free-spending FDR Nanny State Democrats in their Lower Mainland power base.
A little philosophical consistency would be nice. And if Gordon Campbell hasn't heard that, he hasn't been listening.
jknox@timescolonist.com
http://www2.canada.com/
CAWLMC MEETS 23 FEB: AGENDA, MINUTES, REPORTS
AGENDA topics for 23 Feb:
5. EPT 11-07 First Nations Engagement Update – Core Area Wastewater Treatment Program
6. EEP 11-17 Integrated Watershed Management – Implementation Strategy
7. EWW 11-18 Market Sounding – Core Area Wastewater Treatment Program
8. EWW 11-09 Program Management Consulting Services Budget Status – CAWTP
9. EWW 11-14 Environmental Feasibility of the Dredging Option for Piping from Esquimalt to Colwood – Core Area Wastewater Treatment Program
10. EWW 11-13 Life Cycle Costs – Core Area Wastewater Treatment Program
11. Correspondence:
a) 20 Dec 2010 Letter from Esquimalt Re: Public Forum on Community Benefits
b) 11 Feb 2011 Response to Esquimalt letter from Chair Blackwell
c) 31 Jan 2011 Letter from Minister Chuck Strahl
http://www.crd.bc.ca/agendas/
MINUTES Excerpt from past meeting Jan 12, 2011 (posted in previous ARESST News Blog):
a) Delegation: D. Langley, re item 6—spoke to the budget status report with the view that it should be more comprehensive.
b) Delegation: B. Furber, re item 6—spoke to the budget status report with the view that the design-build process has been misunderstood.
c) Delegation: S. Peck, re item 5 and item 6—spoke to the Inflow and Infiltration Progress Report with the view that cost efficiencies have not been proven. Dr. Peck commented on the budget status report with questions about cost sharing and the relationship between capital costs and planning costs. Dr. Peck expressed his pleasure with agenda item 7, with the view that the delay in the audit provides more time for public consultation.
http://www.crd.bc.ca/minutes/
REPORTS 12 January recently uploaded (new or amended from previous upload):
Inflow & Infiltration Progress Report for October 2008 to March 2010: http://www.crd.bc.ca/reports/
Core Area Liquid Waste Management Budget
http://www.crd.bc.ca/reports/
REPORTS for 23 February meeting:
Item 10 EWW 11-13 Life Cycle Costs - CAWTP updated
http://www.crd.bc.ca/reports/
Item 09 EWW 11-14 Environmental Feasbility of the Dredging Option Pipeline - CAWTP new
http://www.crd.bc.ca/reports/
Item 08 EWW 11-09 Program Management Consulting Services Budget Status - CAWTP new
http://www.crd.bc.ca/reports/
Item 07 EWW 11-18 Market Sounding - CAWTP new
http://www.crd.bc.ca/reports/
Item 06 EEP 11-17 Integrated Watershed Management Implementation Strategy new
http://www.crd.bc.ca/reports/
Item 05 EPT 11-07 First Nations Engagement Update - CAWTP new
http://www.crd.bc.ca/reports/
Index page: http://www.crd.bc.ca/reports/
CRD'S ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE (ESC) 23 FEB - SEWAGE-RELATED REPORTS
Item 10 EEE 11-19 Saanich Peninsula Liquid Waste Management Plan Biosolids Management Program
http://www.crd.bc.ca/reports/
Item 06 ERM 11-06 Solid Waste Management Plan Revision 3 (notes liquid waste, waste to energy, resource recovery)
http://www.crd.bc.ca/reports/
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CAMPBELL CAME UP SHORT FOR ISLAND (sewage project mention)
ARESST: Sewage mention from news article below:
"The fact of the matter is Vancouver Island has done pretty well in the past 10 years," he said in an end-ofan-era interview with the Times Colonist's Rob Shaw, pointing to $260 million for Greater Victoria sewage treatment (though a more churlish observer than myself might point out that this is money we haven't seen, for a project we're not sure we need).
Campbell came up short for Island
Jack Knox
Times Colonist
February 19, 2011
Letter to editor: letters@timescolonist.com
Random thoughts from the week in news:
- How come Canadians get their knickers in a twist at the idea of a $5.50 fee to visit the U.S., but don't think twice about paying $55 a year to shop at Costco?
- It snowed a bit this week. Quick, everyone under your desks.
Wait, no, that's earthquakes.
Sorry, we're not very good at this stuff.
- Elton John put on two of the best shows Victoria has ever seen, but given the average age of the crowd, couldn't he have taken the stage at 6 p.m.? No mosh pit, not a whiff of dope smoke -you know it's an older audience when the drug dealers are selling Viagra and digitalis.
- An analysis of the Oak Bay Police Department notes that only four per cent of officers (which means one cop) belong to a visible minority. In Oak Bay, that could mean Irish.
- Gordon Campbell seems surprised that some think his government has ignored Vancouver Island.
"The fact of the matter is Vancouver Island has done pretty well in the past 10 years," he said in an end-ofan-era interview with the Times Colonist's Rob Shaw, pointing to $260 million for Greater Victoria sewage treatment (though a more churlish observer than myself might point out that this is money we haven't seen, for a project we're not sure we need).
Campbell could have also pointed to the province's contributions of $20 million for the new $37-million hospital emergency department in Nanaimo, $11.3 million for Victoria General's $18.8 million ER and $222 million for the new $350million tower at Royal Jubilee Hospital. Royal Roads, UVic and Camosun got $195 million for capital projects over eight years, while $58 million is budgeted for a new high school in Port Alberni.
Then there's the province's $4.9 million share of the Spencer Road interchange (the bridge to nowhere) on the Trans-Canada, its $10.5 million portion of the $24 million McTavish interchange on the Pat Bay (another project that wasn't way up the priority list) and, um, I think they kicked in for the climbing wall at Stelly's Secondary in Central Saanich.
But in truth, the 750,000 people of Vancouver Island haven't seen the province take on a really skookum initiative since the $1.3 billion Vancouver Island Highway Project launched by the New Democrats in the 1990s.
Not a penny of provincial government money went into Victoria's SaveOnFoods Memorial Centre and not a penny will go toward replacing the Blue Bridge.
Meanwhile, over in Toronto-by-the-Sea, pop. 2.5 million, the Vancouvercentric Liberals are stimulating the economy to the verge of orgasm: $1.1 billion for the South Fraser Perimeter Road, $800 million for the Sea-to-Sky Highway upgrade, $2 billion for the Canada Line, $1.4 billion for the Evergreen Line, $836 million for the Vancouver Convention Centre, $486 million for Surrey Memorial hospital, another $682 million planned for Children's and Women's hospital and -gulp -a honking $3.3 billion for the Port Mann Bridge/Trans-Canada work. (Do they really expect to recover the bridge costs with tolls?)
B.C. Place stadium's new $458 million roof (the one that won't close when it rains) alone dwarfs anything on this side of the water. Even with a population three times as high as Vancouver Island's, the Lower Mainland enjoys a disproportionate amount of the bricks and mortar money being thrown around.
Not to engage in parochial jealousy, but it's hard for commuters who are slowly rotting to death on Victoria's western approaches not to feel shortchanged (though, gosh, Kevin Falcon, B.C.'s transportation minister for five years, apparently had a Paul-on-the-road-to-Colwood religious conversion and, shortly after announcing his Liberal leadership aspirations, declared this is a problem that needs solving).
It's been said before, but the Liberals are Live Free Or Die Republicans on this side of the water but free-spending FDR Nanny State Democrats in their Lower Mainland power base.
A little philosophical consistency would be nice. And if Gordon Campbell hasn't heard that, he hasn't been listening.
jknox@timescolonist.com
http://www2.canada.com/
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MUNICIPAL COUNCILS NEED PROVINCIAL HELP (sewage plant mention)
Letters
Albert Miller
Times Colonist
February 20, 2011
Seems like all the candidates for the leadership of the B.C. Liberal party have one thing in common.
None of them are willing to involve themselves or their party, in municipal affairs, like the broken police issue, the amalgamation of so many mayors and councillors in greater Victoria, the Johnston Street Bridge, the sanitation treatment plant, the financing of millions and millions of dollars, all left to the part-time and underpaid members of regional volunteers that act as councillors in the region.
Well isn't that lovely -but on the other hand, that makes them perfect for the job. According to Brooks Atkinson, "the perfect bureaucrat and politician is the man who makes no decisions and escapes all responsibility."
Just what Victoria needs. Any one of them will do.
Albert Miller
Victoria
http://www2.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=e0ce5237-abee-4d1c-afab-5ed7fb88f53d
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DEATH TRAP NET RAISED IN SEA CLEANUP
Judith Lavoie
Times Colonist
February 19, 2011
Letter to editor: letters@timescolonist.com
A death trap for fish is being carefully raised out of the water near South Pender Island in an effort to clean up the Salish Sea.
Parks Canada is working with the B.C.-Washington Coastal and Ocean Task Force to clean up abandoned fishing gear.
On Friday, divers attached an airbag to a derelict purse seine net and raised about one-third of the huge net to the surface.
An effort to raise the rest of the net will probably be made next week.
"It looks as if the net has been there more than 25 years," said Tomas Tomascik, Parks Canada national science adviser.
A dive crew from Washington state, who, today, will start removing derelict crab pots from around Vancouver Island, worked in more than 30 metres of water, attached to airlines, to raise the net.
A dead rockfish was found in the net and the floor beneath the net was degraded, Tomascik said.
Rockfish and ling cod have been killed by the net and it has also prevented big fish from feeding as prey slips through the bottom of the net, he said. "We did a scuba dive on the net two years ago and we didn't see any big fish," he said.
"It's a real death trap. We don't know how many fish it traps, but the fact there are no fish above it means it has had a major impact."
The net, probably used in a herring fishery, could be 100 metres long, Tomascik said. A purse seine is not as bad as a derelict gill net, but fishermen need to take more responsibility for their gear, he said.
An abandoned crab trap can kill up to 100 crabs a year, Tomascik said.
"If people can't retrieve [their gear] they should report it so we know where it is and then a decision can be taken on whether it should be removed."
Parks Canada funded the $10,000 net removal because it is in the proposed Gulf Islands national marine conservation area.
Environment Ministry spokesman Colin Grewar said the province is paying about $34,000 for the crab pot project. "A survey was conducted during the last week of January to locate crab pots in Boundary Bay and 1,829 pots were located in B.C. waters," he said.
Last year, Premier Gordon Campbell and the governors of Oregon, Washington and California announced a joint marine debris alliance and said a strategic plan would be developed for the west coast. "Before we can build a program to tackle the issue, we need to show the impacts of lost gear in B.C. waters and we need to demonstrate that removal is safe and cost-effective," Grewar said.
As well as the removal of lost gear, the plan will include public education and a push to improve fishing gear, he said.
jlavoie@timescolonist.com
http://www2.canada.com/
DEATH TRAP NET RAISED IN SEA CLEANUP
Judith Lavoie
Times Colonist
February 19, 2011
Letter to editor: letters@timescolonist.com
A death trap for fish is being carefully raised out of the water near South Pender Island in an effort to clean up the Salish Sea.
Parks Canada is working with the B.C.-Washington Coastal and Ocean Task Force to clean up abandoned fishing gear.
On Friday, divers attached an airbag to a derelict purse seine net and raised about one-third of the huge net to the surface.
An effort to raise the rest of the net will probably be made next week.
"It looks as if the net has been there more than 25 years," said Tomas Tomascik, Parks Canada national science adviser.
A dive crew from Washington state, who, today, will start removing derelict crab pots from around Vancouver Island, worked in more than 30 metres of water, attached to airlines, to raise the net.
A dead rockfish was found in the net and the floor beneath the net was degraded, Tomascik said.
Rockfish and ling cod have been killed by the net and it has also prevented big fish from feeding as prey slips through the bottom of the net, he said. "We did a scuba dive on the net two years ago and we didn't see any big fish," he said.
"It's a real death trap. We don't know how many fish it traps, but the fact there are no fish above it means it has had a major impact."
The net, probably used in a herring fishery, could be 100 metres long, Tomascik said. A purse seine is not as bad as a derelict gill net, but fishermen need to take more responsibility for their gear, he said.
An abandoned crab trap can kill up to 100 crabs a year, Tomascik said.
"If people can't retrieve [their gear] they should report it so we know where it is and then a decision can be taken on whether it should be removed."
Parks Canada funded the $10,000 net removal because it is in the proposed Gulf Islands national marine conservation area.
Environment Ministry spokesman Colin Grewar said the province is paying about $34,000 for the crab pot project. "A survey was conducted during the last week of January to locate crab pots in Boundary Bay and 1,829 pots were located in B.C. waters," he said.
Last year, Premier Gordon Campbell and the governors of Oregon, Washington and California announced a joint marine debris alliance and said a strategic plan would be developed for the west coast. "Before we can build a program to tackle the issue, we need to show the impacts of lost gear in B.C. waters and we need to demonstrate that removal is safe and cost-effective," Grewar said.
As well as the removal of lost gear, the plan will include public education and a push to improve fishing gear, he said.
jlavoie@timescolonist.com
http://www2.canada.com/
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