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Nicola Valley Community Roundtable

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August 24, 2011

This group organized a couple of decades ago , a think tank and discussion forum for issues like water licences and range issues , A former Chair Laurie  Guichon  got a Grasslands interpretative site named after him on Hamilton hill on the way to Lundbom Lake. This was post humus as he died in a motorcycle accident avoiding something on the road. John Anderson another local rancher and now having proprietary interest in the Good Earth Company that mixes composite with sludge from water treatment to make a saleable soil product  took over the helm from Laurie.The roundtable put a drought warning scale on Nicola Avenue last week  for the Nicola under ground water aquifer, it reads normal or in the green this week.

http://www.thompsonshuswapeh.com/merritt/parks/lundbom.htm Lundbom lake.

The round table is a NGO NPS and has maintained a quite yet responsible presence here for some years.

Today in History, August 24,1944

Paris liberated from the Nazis

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Job fair

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August 16, 2011
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A small job fair was held at the campus of NVIT on monday, Teck the mining giant that runs the Highland Valley Copper Mine was there . A representative said they would be hiring around  the middle of December. A training company/ society for people who would work on the hydro site at Revelstoke and Mica also had a booth, as did the Community Futures Society for the first nations of the Thompson Nicola.

A rep from  Western Bio Energy of Richmond BC  for their proposed hydro co-gen plant was giving out information. Fred Scott was saying that when the project is approved for permits it will have a strong contact with hydro that prohibits fuel being used that is not green wood waste ie railway ties. The boiler is only capable of taking 1900 degrees and toxins must be burned at higher temperatures \(legally).

There is one toxic waste facility in the province it is in the lower mainland. This project is strictly green and for hydro co gen to the public utility BC Hydro.The plant would be on the Tolko mill site here in Merritt, the company plans public consultations in the next 5 months to accommodate their permitting process.

The VP of business development Fred M. Scott said that it was not to be confused with a proposal that failed 8 years ago which included medical waste. We say that a proposal of some decades ago that generated a ground swell of protest should not be mitigated by this corporate goodwill to ward green coming from the proposal and BC Hydro.That one was for toxic waste and the interest went to a plant in Swan Hills Alberta after being soundly rejected.That proposal was encouraged by then Mayor H.P.Kroeker and his administration that included an economic development officer that was a former used car sales rep. Kroeker still sits as a counselor here after some years as a justice of the peace and after a failed  Mayoralty  reelection bid.

The job fair was aimed at young people and training opportunities in the resource sector. Nadine Israel, represented BCAMTA as a coach. That organisation is the Aboriginal Mine Training association. www.bcamta.ca

Today in history, August 16 1989

Solar activities interfere with electronics ceasing trading on the TSX.

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