You are presumed to be honest and responsible without evidence to the contrary beyond a reasonable doubt… on the balance of probablilties you are justified by 51 % likelyhood.
The local museum is having a presentation on a couple that documented the Nicola Valley during its youth in the early 20th century.
Harry and Lily Priest are the focus of a talk by Jolene Castillou Cumming grand daughter of Judge Harry Castillou, an early politician and pioneer to the Nicola Valley.
Titled the Photographer and the Teacher it is at the Merritt Seniors center June 8th 7:00-8:pm, free admission. The Museum and seniors center is at 1675 Tutill Court behind Coopers in the downtown Railyard Mall.
Tom Edwards and Murphy Shewchuck ,museum principals are a wealth of information about the early days of the Central interior of BC….
Diversity makes for a broader community. File photo KDG
This is walk or bike to work or school week. There are many promotions in effect. The local community police office is selling decals for 10 dollars, they attach to your bike and are linked to an app. If your bike goes missing the app will send out an alert for 15 Kilometers around its last location.
For a barrel of oil investment three barrels can be produced in the Alberta tar sand development. This is quite different to the 1 barrel to a hundred of our youth. Conventional oil is different in its yields and process makes a difference. Tar sands are not conventional oil
Not all oil sands projects are created equal, of course. Cenovus, which uses super-hot bursts of steam to melt seams of bitumen buried too deep to mine, says it can coax oil from the sands for between $35 and $65 (U.S.) per barrel, depending on geology and other input costs. That’s “among the lowest-cost globally,” chief executive officer Brian Ferguson told New York bankers recently. source: Globe and Mail 2014
Oil is less than 50 dollars a barrel at this writing and no mater what the price the ratio of energy used and energy produced is a better scale for rationalizing development. With 240 billion tons of proven oil reserves world-wide and 5 billion a year produced giving 50 odd years of reserve. It looks like oil in
Alberta will be there for a while.
The twinning of the Kinder Morgan line is starting this September from Kamloops and we presume that the economy of following an already producing line gives a better ratio. We should be on guard for the dynamic of investment to diversification that shields real income for income that is circular . The axiom that we live under, reuse ,rethink and does energy east pay… in real terms… in present modes…
It will be good to see how the twinning to the west coast changes things in the real world as different to the academic….PP
On this Day: May 26th 1986
The European community adopts the European flag.
Nissan Leaf, gets DC quick charge in Merritt
File Photo KDG
We talked to two Nissan Leaf owners on the long weekend that used the quick charger at the downtown tourist info center on Voght street. Henny a brick layer from the lower mainland and on his way to Kelowna was driving a new Leaf and showed us the compact bakery under the front hood. He was saying that he needed a full charge to have confidence to carry on to Kelowna. The car was equipped with a solar panel on the roof as well and it only managed another lead acid battery that ran the lights and other then motor electronics.
When he returned the next day full of excitement we picked up on his confidence in the new experience.
The other driver a man in his 30s and a boy going camping at a local lake returned to recharge as well.
The comments were that the 500 volt quick charger was a green lot numbered one and it was surprising to see one that you needed to pay for.
Henning wondered if it was possible to use both the quick charger and the 90 amp 220 Volt charger at the same time as there are two charging ports supporting each one.
The Nicola Valley has a range of gas prices. Regular gas is going for $1.17.9 a liter at shell within site of the petro can at $1.16.9 on the exits to the freeway off Voght street in Merritt. The Downtown Petro Canada is selling at $1.18.9 at the highway 8 and 5A /5 junction at the corner of Voght and Nicola.
Its not often that the retailers here have a price difference! The lowest price in BC is Dawson Creek at 99.9 and the highest is $138.9 in Port Alice.
Gas buddy is reporting a comparison for the last 36 hours on the site.
The old court house on Nicola avenue , in Merritt.
File Photo
Photo KDG
The Arts Council and the Old Court House Gallery are having a show for May. Running Thursdays through Saturdays until June 3rd it is featuring landscapes. The artist reception is Saturday May 6th 4-6pm.
The Old Courthouse Gallery is at 1840 Nicola Avenue, in Merritt, hours are afternoons.
On this Day: May 5th 1905
Finger print evidence is used to get a murder conviction for the first time.
There are a least 13 more EV chargers coming to the Kootenay region of BC through 2018. BC Hydro is installing them and they are the quick version. The 13 planned additions follow the US Border to near the Alberta border going east from Greenwood then go north along the Alberta border to Rogers pass. To side ways roads go to Sparwood and Field being the closest to exiting BC for Alberta.
The 13 are promised by the end of 2018.
Billed as Canada’s first regional and community-driven strategy to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles, Accelerate Kootenays kicked off the big push with the opening of a DC fast charge station in Cranbrook. Gone will be the days when longer electric vehicle trips in the region were marathon “making the most of it” affairs that might involve going on a local hike while your car “trickle-charged” for hours at a local campground. Source BC Hydro
Best Western under construction in Merritt includes EV stations File Photo: KDG
On this Day: May 3rd 1973
The Sears tower in Chicago becomes the worlds tallest at nearly 1500 feet.
Community Art Show youth winner, 50 dollars prize. File Photo
There is an artist reception for the April March showing at the Old Court House Gallery on Thursday night, April 27th at 4 PM. The show is by high school students from Merritt Secondary School.
The show runs to March 5th Gallery hours are Thursdays/Fridays noon to 6, Saturday noon to 3 pm.
The show is a segment of School district 58s Canada 150 “what’s the big idea” Festival of the Arts. Editors Note: May is the right month not March.
The Old Court House Gallery is at 1840 Nicola Avenue in Merritt, BC, Canada.
On this Day: April 26th 1970
A convention regulating world international intellectual property is in force.
Grass lands producing grass for cattle are in demand for feed lots and dairy cows They feed for winter as well. for meat producers. File Photo KDG
Opinion:
The North American Free Trade agreement was touted as not a perfect fix but what was desirable was the fact that it included a dispute resolution mechanism or board.
There are lots of ways to solve an impasse :
Chapter 11 establishes a mechanism for the settlement of investment disputes that assures both equal treatment among investors of the Parties to the Agreement in accordance with the principle of international reciprocity and due process before an impartial tribunal. A NAFTA investor who alleges that a host government has breached its investment obligations under Chapter 11 may, at its option, have recourse to one of the following arbitral mechanisms:
the World Bank’s International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID);
ICSID’s Additional Facility Rules; and
the rules of the United Nations Commission for International Trade Law (UNCITRAL Rules).
Trade infractions or disputes also have an option:
Article 1904 establishes a mechanism to provide an alternative to judicial review by domestic courts of final determinations in antidumping and countervailing duty cases, with review by independent binational panels. A Panel is established when a Request for Panel Review is filed with the NAFTA Secretariat by an industry asking for a review of an investigating authority’s decision involving imports from a NAFTA country.
It seems there is nothing cowboy about the structure and article 19s binational provision seems like it would be attractive at this time.
There are 118 decisions listed with the NAFTA secretariat some taking more time that others and more reports. things range from red raspberries to hot rolled carbon steel plate.
Is it still attractive is a milk dispute out of reach for a filing?
Friends don’t take friends to….
Corn grown in the Nicola Valley File Photo KDG
Need to be more friendly?
On this Day: April 20th 1918
The Red Baron shoots down his 8oth and last kill before his death on the 21st.
The Nicola Valley Film Society presents its Canada 150 special film tonight at 7PM in the lecture theater at NVIT. The film is in the Lecture hall, top of the hill Belshaw avenue on the north end of the city. Admission is free.
A number of films are being presented in the 150 program in different communities but film night is tonight.
First come first serve.
On this Day: April 19th 1987
The Simpsons first appear on TV as a short on the Tracy Ulman show.
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