A contractor called Valhalla safety is providing a H2S seminar in Merritt on Sunday there are many locals here that go to work in the oil fields of Alberta.

A n explosion in a gas well in Robb’s  Alberta is not related to the seminar other than the 11 injured workers would have taken similar training.

Hydrogen sulfide gas is a deadly heavier than air gas that is expelled in drilling oil wells.

Today in History, March 11,2006

Michelle Bachelet becomes the first female president of Chile