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For earlier materials see Table of Contents

August 2nd

We See

From class to Enbridge

4th Avenue – not only as architecture but social history as overlook downtown --- arrow to highlight how trees etc have been cleared for the view’s sake

 

 

·        Heritage Walking Tour booklet – history and Class in PR

·        Enbridge US spill and implications for Northern Gateway

·        Aster flowers diversity

 

 

 

Continuing with class and social history perspective

Note here how only one tree has survived --- and how the houses still ‘grand’ but from a later date etc

Using the 2010 Centennial Heritage walking tour book I hope to develop this history/ class/ declining (setting?) sun perspective

 

Parvenus

As if to highlight how it takes logging the trees off the intervening slope (and City Hall turning a blind eye to the infraction) are these 2 houses farther down --- perhaps nouveau riche?

 

 

 

Arrow points to spill site –and meant to illustrate how ‘close’ the Great Lakes are --- and puts a new perspective on these kinds of spills see below and

http://www.epa.gov/enbridgespill/

for links from above site

Keeping the Enbridge pipeline spill from getting into the Great lakes – and how it changes perspective on Gateway project to Kitimat

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has rejected Enbridge’s plans to address the Marshall Michigan pipeline spill into Talmadge Creek because of deficiencies in content and detail – Each of these plans listed below rejected:

Excerpt from the July 31st ‘Notice of Disapproval’

 

 

A whole new perspective on what is needed ‘before’ the spills

 

Need plans to address both the stopping but also the remediation of the immediate site AND the downstream --- which brings us to the Skeena River watershed and Enbridge’s Northern Gateway project

 

Here I am mainly interested in BC portion of Enbridge pipeline

 

Here a sense of the lakes etc that are put in potential danger

Both these images from

 http://pubs.pembina.org/reports/pipelines-and-salmon-in-northern-bc-report.pdf

 

 

Here the Skeena watershed (southern portion)

See Skeena Wild Conservation site for links to articles and maps

Superficially the most worrisome is red arrow 1 where paralleling the Morice River – but also the Copper watershed (red arrow??)

And of course the Babine system (arrows 3) where at least ‘time’ to intervene

 

Not only are there fish

But many different unique races (Conservation Units)

More later but see my previous 2006 and more recent

 

 

See my previous on Enbridge: Here is latest from March 2009  And December 2008 which links back to 3 previous --- and here is my earliest from 2006

 

 

This is from the City Council July 28th Information Package which has all the Enbridge material and might be able to view it easier there rather than hunt on WWW --- large PDF document 4.3megs

Info to Council July 28, 2010 

Why Important is because Enbridge ‘scoping’ process public comment period

Kitimat and PG public meetings have August 18th deadline for submissions

 

 

 

These are the 3 items looking for submissions --- and as I say the Michigan spill casts a completely different light on all these topics

 

See their site http://gatewaypanel.review-examen.gc.ca/clf-nsi/hm-eng.html

 

 

I would never have thought this thistle and a dandelion had similar type flowers

Diversity in Aster family ---

 

Still working on the ID for this one

And it seems the ‘seeds’ are often used for diagnosis – below is a dandelion and at left a similar looking yellow flowered plant with different seed pods – more later

See my previous on Dandelion

 

 

 

On views and spruce dying off

Hospital has a good tree-less view too --- arrows point to several dying spruce trees on hill above 5 corners area

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Last updated on Wednesday, August 11, 2010