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Prince Rupert Regional Information
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NATURESea, land, river PEOPLESCommunity
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Weather still
dominated by high pressure areas in Pacific
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‘The Government of Canada calls this
region the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA). It was
given this name when, in 2005, Fisheries and Oceans Canada identified it as
the priority Large Ocean Management Area (LOMA) to be considered for a new
approach to management called Integrated Oceans Management’ (from site). |
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Good
newsletters on site Newsletter
page – March & April available |
Bowie Seamount MPA regs
published March 22nd in Canada Gazette (April newsletter) |
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Lot of
shakin’ going on |
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Swarm unusual
Earthquakes off Oregon in Blanco Fracture zone (Wikipedia map) Numerous articles on ‘inevitable’ large
earthquake ‘predicted’ for California in next 30 years |
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City Taxes – Who pays?? |
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One
of the drawbacks of changing formats every year is that can’t compare year to
year budget documents --- The
Province has
a site that uses consistent format every year to follow municipal tax
rates etc that is where I got the following graphs (created from the BC
numbers) Note
total taxes was $10,864,826 in 2007 $12,066,799
in 2006; and $10,954,155 in 2005 |
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Shrinking
‘Major Industry’ |
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From
30% of Taxes tin 2005 (one suspects they were never paid) to 14% in 2007 – We
would have to ask but presumably Port included in ‘Major industry’ in 2008 –
thus 28% of total --- the main question in all this is if pulp mill still
included – and at what value |
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Business vs Residential
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Using
these numbers—Business has gone from 23% of total taxes in 2005, to 29% in
2006, to 34% in 2007 and then fallen back to 29% in 2008. Using
this data—looks like 2007 was worst year for residential properties where
carried 49% of City taxes --- and now fallen back to 40% And
that still means a 5% increase --- Go figure – doesn’t look right to me (more
later) |
Created by LG on 15/4/2008
Last updated on Tuesday, April 15, 2008