Port Alberni City Council considers legal action against BC Government

Concerned citizens and grass-roots organizations can make a difference! It’s happening here in Port Alberni. At the City Council meeting this past Monday night (hattip: Westcoaster.ca, Keith Wyton, Chair of the Save-Our-Valley-Alliance (SOVA), presented Council with reasons why legal action should be taken against the BC Government for allowing private timberlands to be taken from …

Nov 15, Worse than the Tsunami – Boil Water Advisories

Multiple reports from people who were in Port Alberni in 1964 have indicated that the November 15 events were worse and have caused more damage than even the famous Tsunami that hi Port Alberni after the giant earthquake in Alaska in 1964. The Westcoaster.ca has the best coverage of the events. Including a photo gallery. …

Nov 15 Storm in Port Alberni

So yesterday we had a real ripper of a storm here in Beautiful BC. It hit most of the Southern Coast of the province including Vancouver, Victoria and Vancouver Island. Hardest hit seems to have been my own town of Port Alberni. There were trees falling everywhere, 105km/h winds on my weather station branches being …