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December 8th

More Storms

Will Council be stormy too?

 

Around 1AM Thursday it was near freezing – then came the rains and warmer temperatures

 

 

Another storm approaching offshore after a ‘nice’ mild weekend

Temperature steady around 44°F Sunday --- the ‘high’ pressure was deceiving as mainly fog and light drizzle – but kept us warm till next pineapple arrives

 

 

While Staff and Planner seem to see this rezoning as ‘no brainer’ – I have heard several people thinking it is a dumb idea ---first the property has to be rezoned to allow a school and then the ‘necessary’ parking lots need to be found

And by the by – the notice of closed meeting was not for ‘closed’ at all – thus question legality of closed

 

Notice of Closed Meeting for December 8, 2008

First Council Meeting – meant to rezone etc for ‘Alternative School’

 

Proponents find site ideal citing many same reasons that opponents use --- commercial space = alternative school storefront etc

Parking confusing

Paperwork both implies school board will pay fee ‘in lieu’ of parking spaces – and elsewhere reads as if sufficient numbers (7) available in area

 

 

A new form of ‘Relativity’?

I have brought this up in terms of IR9 which was given ‘Metlakatla(?)’ in 1881 by O’Reilly – along with exclusive fishing rights’ --- Both PNCIMA and the GIS co-ordinated Traditional Use areas (TEK at left) assume a ‘Newtonian Universe’ in which the past geographies and land uses will resemble those in the future ---- My point is that with rapid climate change, all bets are off --- shore lines will be different – probably marine ‘processes’ will be drastically different (located in different areas)--- we can probably model scenarios – but how does one ‘write a treaty’ or design ‘management’ for PNCIMA? I suggest looking at the ‘processes’ rather than the fixed co-ordinates (thus a New Relativity)

 

 

DFO not monitoring salmon streams (only most productive ones) -- leading to overfishing and run depletions

 

Article looks at NC and CC salmon areas – plus gives Skeena R coho as example of stock that rebounded once (over) fishing pressure taken off

The up side of article is that it suggests locals and 1st Nations should step in and do the monitoring if DFO won’t/ can’t

Science Journal article questions DFO stream monitoring

An article written by Mark Hume (G&M Dec 3rd) gives good discussion

 

 

Here is Raincoast’s write up of same research

 

Main Science article in CJFAS -- issue 12 -- can read full article online if computer 'Canadian based'

Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 65(12): 2712–2718 (2008) 

See Abstract below

 

 

 

 

 

 

Created by LG on 7/12/2008

Last updated on Monday, December 08, 2008