Dear Editors of the Alberni Valley Times and the Vancouver Sun, Blustery speeches and heart-felt complaints are all well and good, but they don’t get us very far. At the Public forum held by the Save Our Valley Alliance on May 4 in Port Alberni, I felt there was little in the way of a …
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In my previous post I introduced this document. It is an 86 page report done by the US Army Corps of Engineers on “Energy Trends and Their Implications”. In actuality, it turns out to be a document warning us of the very real scenarios of peak oil, and peak natural gas. It also turns out …
Yesterday when I drove over “the hump” (a small mountain pass out of my town), I noticed quite a gathering of people. Apparently there was a good purpose for that gathering. (G&M) Environmentalists, forest workers, retired forest workers, mill workers and many others all gathered to stop logging trucks from leaving the Alberni Valley. NDP …
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