Good morning, Natalia
Were you living in BC during the premiership of WAC "Whacky" Bennett
(1952-1972)? I was a student at UBC in the 50s and don't have fond memmories
of how the province was run at the time.
Ed
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Subject: Re: [Futurework] Fish Lake update
On a larger scale, even better news. Gordon Campbell resigned yesterday as
both Premier of BC and Leader of the Liberal Party.
He won't be completing his 3rd term, supposedly because people have been
unable to focus on all the good things he's done for the economy because they
hate him so much.
It's quite remarkable that just a few days back he'd announced a huge tax
break for everyone, but it was to ease the well-deserved flak from introducing
the HST tax he claimed wasn't even on the radar at last election time. Voters
expressed their desire for an immediate referendum to the tune of about 17%
with signatures, and Campbell said fine, but not yet--we reserve the right to
put it to a vote in the Fall of 2011, the time of the next election. Meanwhile
BC will be banking the tax to make the books look good. The tax threatens so
many small businesses, but worst still, it impacts seniors, the working
classes, and the most vulnerable. Any way, his tax break announcement was met
with an irritatingly lower approval rating than before, people knowing he'd
have to cut from vital programs to make the tax breaks possible.
He's been one of the luckiest sleazy politicians to date. Privatization of
services, wholesale of old growth forests and waterways, mining, Olympics
expense and fallout, a railroad sale scandal which I think has more to do with
this resignation than is being revealed.
Anything at all good happening since the Mid-terms? What do you foresee?
Natalia
On 11/4/2010 12:25 PM, Ray Harrell wrote:
Hooray for Canada! It's wonderful that all of the news isn't bad.
REH
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Michael probably heard, but Ray, or other non-Canadian residents, may be
not:
Natalia
Council of Canadians celebrates federal government decision on Fish Lake
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OTTAWA, Nov. 2 /CNW/ - The Council of Canadians is celebrating the federal
government decision to reject the Prosperity mine project. The Environment
Canada news release states that "the Prosperity mine project as proposed, near
Williams Lake, cannot be granted federal authorizations to proceed due to
concerns about the significant adverse environmental effects of the project."
The Council congratulates the Tsilhqot'in whose campaign to protect the
lake drew the attention of groups across the country to this very important
issue.
Environment minister Jim Prentice highlighted the findings of the federal
review panel in his decision. Council of Canadians water campaigner Meera
Karunananthan and BC-Yukon organizer Harjap Grewal presented to this federal
panel on March 22. The Williams Lake chapter also presented to the panel
earlier that day. On September 7, 2010, the Council of Canadians delivered
15,000 petitions opposing the Prosperity mine project to Prentice's office on
Parliament Hill.
If the project had been approved, it would have resulted in the destruction
of Fish Lake, also known as Teztan Biny. Taseko had proposed using Fish Lake as
a tailings impoundment area for Prosperity mine, a gold-copper mining project.
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