Category: Environment


TGIF- Happy wiggle your toes day!

One ,Two, Three Wiggle!

Your in complete control of those digits, no one else has that power; so go for it .Wiggle away ,its good for the soul, and the laces.

Arnold Palmer shoes left behind…

Duffer..

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File photo KDG

Be kind , be glad , be smart.

On this Day: August 6th 1996

Nasa says a meteor from Mars has primitive life forms evidence in it.

TGIF- West Alternate Route…

Pipe for oil field File: Photo KDG

Trans mountain pipeline has a variance effecting it route through the Nicola Valley.

Canada Energy Regulator West Alternative Route Decision

On July 19, 2021, the Commission issued its decision to approve Trans Mountain’s variance application for the West Alternative Route, which is located in the Coldwater Valley area of British Columbia. The West Alternate Route is approximately 18 kilometres long, deviating from the approved corridor at Kilometre Post (KP) 931.43 and rejoining the approved corridor at KP 946.88.

On this Day: July 30th 1932

Flowers and Trees premier.

Careful Dear…

Four point mule deer outside

Ponderosa sport in


Merritt, BC File Photo KDG

Deer season and ruffled grouse ( Id be ruffled if there was open season on me)!: start open season mid August in some areas. However limited entry draws were drawn in mid June and may still be of use during emergency wildfire activities. The best laymen advise we have is to stay out the bush.

Ponderosa sports

The people of Ponderosa sports in Merritt have knowledge and will ML tell you to check the guide and Covid-19 restrictions on line as well as emergency conditions. Its common sense that putting yourself or workers in unnecessary danger can be a lot of trouble.

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Deer is where you find them, but are they in season,
no firearms in municipal boundaries,
File photo KDG

Stay calm , stay connected, be your own best friend!

On this Day: July 29th 1899

The first Hague convention signed.

Happy World Nature Conservation Day…

Hi my love!

Will the forest echo with laughter?

Bee mine…. File Photo KDG

Today is world nature conservation day.! It is a declaration of the United Nations assembly and observed by it’s members.

The purpose is to have people commit to preserving plants and animals from going extinct. “Every individual” needs to do this to ensure natures survival, in the view of the organization.

On this Day: July 28th 1996

Kennewick man is found.

As BC said: we are all in this together…

Original thought July 8th 2021:

Toast the future,


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and remember your friends…

Summer Wine : Ville Valo and Natalia Avelon

Recorded earlier

Goodness and health to you and yours this summer.

On this Day: July 8th 1775

The Olive Branch Petition.

April 20th 2016 in the shade at Merritt downtown. The 30 Celsius was-3
degrees over the recorded record of 27.1 Photo KDG

47 Degrees C at 2:15 today…

According to the 14 day forecasters the over night lows will be moderating starting tonight .

5 years ago…

Temperature in April was averaged 19’1 C, this year, Five years ago the average April temperature was 15.7. The extreme April 2016 was 29.7 April’s extreme this year was 26.4 down 3 degrees. The June 2016 average was 23.5 with an extreme of 34.9, June 2021 average temperature was to yesterday 26.8 with 44.5 being the extreme. If todays forecast of 48 C is right it will bring it up to a record. With a full 10 degrees jump in the June 2021 extreme over 5 years ago it should be noted as significant.

On this Day: June 30th 1997

Hong Kong goes back to China after the lease runs out.

The public health people are quite pleased in the way immunizations is going and are suggesting that the variances that they are they are familiar with are within their scope of good health public health measures going forward through the summer and into the fall.

On this Day: June 28th 1971

Elon Musk born in South Africa

Electric Bikes Health Citizens

Map, click for challenge register, two weeks left…

City map on shop of Voght Street.
File photo: KDG

Rating: 5 out of 5.

On this Day: June 16th 1884

Switch back railway, Roller Coaster ride opens.

Normal yet, we wonder…

Normal is as normal feels: and sounds…

file Photo KDG

What is normal? It matters the context, what is normal to a drowning person is not normal to a secure lively individual. So by the end of summer there is a hope for normal life back to the people of BC that have endured a long bout of pandemic lessoned activity. This is a desire that is different with many people those that nearly drowned in the time period . And those that did reasonably well with the support given will have a different take on what is normal of normal. The people that did better by it another take.

To continue the metaphor of the drowning man, throwing a line that is reachable and not taken will produce a survivor that has a view of his individual effort being the value to be preserved. A good and strong reserve going forward for him to risk again, Those that were dependant will remain dependant but in truth no one had a complete case of either or as the effect of one played into the experience of the other. This will be the continuing normal for going forward for some time more.

Build your bridges forward and backwards.

It’s a two way street give and it comes back or maybe if not it goes some where you have effected situations unkown! We are all in this together ,a communicable disease that has no redemption in its self. But we all contribute to the pot of hope and the balancing of outcome.

Everyone offends…

Living our lives and doing our lively hoods offends or challenges others in a way out of our control however offending with our talk is mostly in our control and if we do not offend lightly in speech and other communications we are to be commented. This is needed when trying to return to a normal real or imagined. Good luck!

See you on the normal side…

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On this Day: June 3rd 1937

Wallis Simpson marries the Duke of Windsor.

Click to find out if this is a bike or a LS M alternate transportation

The provincial budget in BC has tax break to buy electric bikes.

Must be able to disengage motor and use pedals

To not be a motor vehicle in BC you must be able to pedal the bike after stop the motor, other wise it needs a number plate under the motor vehicle regulations.

Ebike Regulations In British Columbia Haseeb 2021-03-17T22:51:20+00:00. . . Electric bicycles must not have an electric motor that is more powerful than 500 watts and the bike should not travel faster than 32.km/h. They also must have fully operable pedals which means the engine must disengage.

Electric bikes range in price from two to five thousand dollars, PST relief can help in triple digits.

On this Day: April 22 1970

First Earth Day is observed.

Click for route map Pipe for oil field File: Photo KDG

The expansion project is back to work after a shut down to deal with a worker death. Two months of reviews has given a go ahead to restart work.

Career opportunity company…

Work related skills as well as education are part of TMX makeup.

Near to qualified training program…

The expansion project has readiness program and like to hire locals on the route. Training and experience is a potent mix and considered a value to the contractors.

Pig catcher for an instrument that X-rays internal pipe. File photo KDG

Editors Note…

A good safety attitude goes a long way to a happy life..

On this Day: February 19th 2002

Nasa probe Odyssey starts mapping Mars.

Hydro
Green energy project has address. File Photo KDG Click for stats…

Trans mountain pipeline company is working on the twinning of their 60 year old line from Alberta to the west coast. The now completed Green energy project above got copy from a platform; is the info correct or sales puffing. Ask the financers? Is there an age of truthiness coming to deal with debt piled up out of Covid-19?

Thirty percent drop in demand May 2020. 100 % demand for line…

The Covid-19 restrictions caused a drop in demand and perhaps will change habits and expectations for consumption.

The size and complexity of the global crude oil market has expanded significantly since the Trans Mountain Pipeline entered service in the 1950s. Canada is the fourth largest oil producing country globally, behind the United States, Russia and Saudi Arabia and approximately equivalent to Iraq in terms of daily oil production. Canada’s oil consumption is comparatively small, so our nation is a net exporter of petroleum products and crude oil. Canada has the third largest proven crude oil reserves globally behind Saudi Arabia and Venezuela as a result of the approximate 170-billion-barrel oilsands. Export of crude oil and refined products has been, and will continue to be, a significant economic impact for Canada.

TM today

In 2019, global crude oil and liquid hydrocarbon production and related demand was nearly 100 million barrels per day. The COVID-19 pandemic decreased global demand for oil roughly 30 per cent by May 2020[1]. Implicit in studies such as the Internal Energy Agency (IEA) on Global Demand see support for an expected recovery in demand, however, the pace of recovery is unclear given the uncertainty associated with the course of the COVID-19 virus[2]. Even in this difficult year of 2020 with reduced global demand resulting from COVID-19 and lower oil prices, the Trans Mountain Pipeline has continued to be full, with demand exceeding the current capacity.

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BC government January 14th 2021 news, one third the cost of EV…

The BC government has announced that will be available rebates of up to 1/3 the cost of an EV. and added 2 million dollars to the clean BC specialty use rebate program on August 5th 2020.The program is for business and groups. The program may give a higher platform to the usefulness of electric alternatives.

BC hydro also increased the subsidy on Electric chargers on December 3rd first come first serve.

Novel still

In our subjective view EVs remain Novel to consumers still however their are numbers of reasons that a choice of a quieter vehicle would suit many.

On this Day: January 14th 1954

American motors formed.