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Worrying
– this summer and fall the flows in Skeena river were occasionally at record
lows --- this has extreme implications for migrating salmon up to Babine etc
--- climate change could perhaps make ‘our’ reliance on enhanced Babine
stocks untenable --- with many implications where we should be putting our
‘bets’—coastal systems etc ---
for more on BC climate change see U
Vic researcher Ian Walker’s
publications’ page |
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Climate
Change
Regionally the soft
substrate shore lines are most sensitive to rising sea levels (yellow) – with
Naikoon area of QCIs among most vulnerable in Canada (red in original) From
Impacts
to Adaptation: Canada in a Changing Climate
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Sockeye Salmon
Juveniles in Chatham Sound 2007. Gottesfeld, A.S., Carr-Harris, C., Proctor,
B., and Rolston, D. 2008. |
WWF Near shore habitat discussion |
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How
healthy is the Skeena R estuary – and where is it? Above is the submerged
reef of Flora Banks --- and its eelgrass – Borstad source
original |
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Estuary as
Chatham Sound (above) |
Flora Banks role in estuary |
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Implication
of the above study is that Juvenile sockeye move quickly away from mouth of
Skeena into higher salinities where they actively feed on copepods etc – the
role of Ogden Channel was almost equal to Chatham as a ‘highway’ out of
Skeena River |
Working
hypothesis was that Flora Banks eelgrass (Zostera) provides essential habitat
for not only juvenile salmon migrating out into the ocean – but also forage
fish like Eulachon etc—But surveying the eelgrass bed is difficult given the
swift waters etc . Thus
the presentation from Ocean Ecology where they used sophisticated submarine cameras and
sonar etc to map the current health of Flora Banks |
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Airport
luggage wasn’t worried about mere pedestrians ability to get past – just
setting there until ready to load passengers etc |
Fall means
more birds wintering in PR – which means garbage bags etc now more vulnerable
to inquisitive investigations |
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Amazing
Cedar and it ‘offspring’ |
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This
is down in Cow Bay area – I had thought it was a 2nd species
because the bark of the 2 juveniles so different from typical cedar – but no
root system etc – thus a closer look showed cedar needles (leaves) of the
juveniles etc |
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So
I was given Xerox’s with all the phone numbers blacked out – the implications
must then be that all these were 3rd party (thus personal use and
not Government use) which needless to say is damning – more later |
SQCRD answers
my FOI |
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I
have discussed this before where the
chair was running up phone bills on cell phone provided by tax payers I figured approx 138$/ month ‘on
us taxpayers’ |
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Blacking
out all the incoming phone numbers justified by SQCRD using a 1995 BC
Information & Privacy Commission ruling
(all 14 pages of it ) But
it follows that all the blacked out info were personal calls – all 200$ worth of them
on a September 2008 bill and 198$ in November 2008 bill etc More Later – note billing difficult to follow so
some mistakes could be made for what date the totals referred to etc --- so I
will image the info next time and let you decide. LG |
The quoted
section used is 22(1) only – but here is the rest: -- where onus is on them: 4(e) |
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(2)
In determining under subsection (1) or (3) whether a disclosure of personal
information constitutes an unreasonable invasion of a third party's personal
privacy, the head of a public body must consider all the relevant
circumstances, including whether (a)
the disclosure is desirable for the purpose of subjecting the activities of
the government of British Columbia or a public body to public scrutiny, . (f) the personal
information has been supplied in confidence, (g) the personal
information is likely to be inaccurate or unreliable, and (h) the disclosure
may unfairly damage the reputation of any person referred to in the record requested
by the applicant. .. (4) A disclosure of personal information
is not an unreasonable invasion of a third party's personal privacy if ... (e) the
information is about the third party's position, functions or remuneration as
an officer, employee or member of a public body or as a member of a
minister's staff, |
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Created by LG on 16/11/2009
Last updated on Monday, November 16, 2009