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For earlier materials see Table of Contents

May 24th

Innlander gone

SQCRD meeting Friday

 

SQCRD meeting with its surprises

 

‘no more $$ until---‘

 

Plus City Council meeting Monday night

 

 

 

 

 

Jeff Gould spoke representing Area A Crab associations and its concerns with the Naikun wind farm

SQCRD Friday

Jeff with SQCRD map on wal behind

 

 

Jeff was dubious the Haida Link would ever be built as costs 150M$ -- and suggest PR more than probability

Wind Farms and Area A crab fishing grounds

The hatching is area fished by Area A crabbers (representing 52 licenses and 35,000 traps—a sustainable and important resource for North Coast)  --- the small red panhandle is where phase 1 of Naikun wind farms will be located ---- Jeff was concerned windmills even at 1 km apart would prove a ‘hazard to navigation’ in windy weather

EAO assessment begins (here is the web site )

Material also available at PR Library (after May 28th)

Public meetings schedule (in PR June 3rd From 5:30-8:30 at Crest) --- Here is Application summary etc  on Naikun site

Jeff concerned no stock assessment for base line comparisons 

That much of Env Assessment data taken from the literature etc

That cables might become exposed and somehow affect crab movements etc

Key unknown was if how when crabs might ‘migrate’ and how the wind mills and cables might affect this putative migration

 

 

 

Getting Ready for Crab season to left

 

John Farrell attended first meeting after winning the deputy administrator competition earlier in month

One of the surprises of the meeting was when someone questioned the ‘checks payable’ – where Port Ed Historical Society given 17T$ of its grant to run Cannery Museum --- questioner wanted to know if they had complied with request to send in their audits etc --- after some discussion it was agreed that no more $$ until audit etc provided SQCRD

 

 

The other major item was Hike and biking trails proposal – ‘shovel ready’? – well next step is to get it to Port Ed & PR for discussions approvals etc

Federal Monies might be available thru RInC grants etc  – but yearly maintenance costs might be a stumbling block --- of the five options the East Side link seemed most doable at meeting

Good maps of alternative routes in agenda PKG

 

 

Note in this QC Observer article a SQCRD board member elected to Chair MIEDS--- which fired its last Director and presumably just hiring a new one

We’ll ignore that question

At end of meeting allow a question from audience – only me in attendance ---- I wanted to discuss what was happening with SQCRD taxing Area D & E on QCIs to help pay for Misty Isles Economic Development Society --- and why wasn’t it put through the public approval notices etc

-- Since not a simple question was ignored – more on this later

 

 

 

 

 

Created by LG on 24/5/2009

Last updated on Monday, May 25, 2009