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Island Tides Regional Newspaper Strait of Georgia Every Second Thursday & Online ‘24/7’ at Uniting The Salish Sea ~ From Coast to Coast to Coast islandtides.com Canadian Publications Mail Product Volume 21 Number 19 September 24-October 7, 2009 $1 at Selected Retailers Sales Agreement Nº 40020421 Tide tables 2 Money 2 Harbours 3 RTI 6 Reviews 7 Estuary 9 Saturna 10 Bulletin board 11 Gabriola battles Rogers for FM channel An application by the non-profit co- operative Gabriola Radio Society to the Canadian Radio and Television Commission to use an available FM channel at 98.7 for community broadcasting (with the call letters CKGI) was recently turned down. The reason Photo: Derek Holzapfel given was a technical objection by Under The Mountain: seals bask in the September sun on southern Georgia Strait’s Belle Chaine Islets, while Mount Baker, in Rogers Broadcasting Limited, which Washington State, towers in the background. owns CIOC (The Ocean), based in Victoria and broadcasting on 98.5. Now Rogers has applied to the CRTC for use of the 98.7 frequency for a Exporting BC power to New attempts to destaff transmitter to be located on Salt Spring Island, a repeater station for CIOC (see California is not simple, yet advertisement, page 5). Rogers claims lightstations ~ Patrick Brown that a transmitter in this location would Patrick Brown improve the reception of the Victoria- The federal Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans is making a new attempt to California rules dictate that electricity distributors should obtain 20% of based soft rock station. However those automate lightstations and remove or retire lightkeepers. This time, they are their power from renewable power sources (RPS) by 2010, but it is in opposition think that the real reason targeting three very familiar lightstations: Cape Mudge (staffed since 1898), on expected that, realistically, this target will not be reached until 2013 or for the new transmitter is that it will give 2014. Now, the latest legislative proposals call for 33% of power to be the southern end of Quadra Island at the entrance to Discovery Passage; reception in the Nanaimo area, and thus produced from renewables by 2020. Entrance Island (staffed since 1876), familiar to millions of ferry passengers at enable CIOC to invade the Nanaimo In order to meet their quotas, Californian electrical utilities are seeking the east end of Gabriola Island, and Trial Island (staffed since 1906) off Oak Bay increased flexibility to identify and contract with sources outside the state, near Victoria. Also named is the remote lightstation at Dryad Point, north of RADIO, please turn to page 2 including British Columbia. BC has been ramping up it power generation Bella Bella on the mid-coast. potential for just such an opportunity. This new legislation should be Fisheries Minister Gail Shea is clearly under the good news for BC’s ‘clean’ energy but there are at least two snags. impression that the only reason to have humans at the Several groups in the state have demands of the new legislation: there lighthouses situated at key locations along the rugged is pressure to source a maximum amount of this power from within BC coast is to maintain the equipment. Since it is now California, to capture maximum economic benefits (California Senate Bill all automated, goes the reasoning, it is so reliable that 14 would limit imports of renewable power to 20% of the total); lightkeepers have nothing to do, and they are environmental advocates seek to ensure that power, wherever it is unnecessary. So their removal and retirement is a cost- generated, and transmission lines, wherever they may run, have saving measure, and makes the lightstations ‘efficient’ minimum environmental impacts; and, consumer groups are, as ever, and ‘cost-effective’. interested in maintaining the lowest possible prices for electricity. In view of California power crunch, state legislators are currently And anyway, ships nowadays have GPS, radar, and trying to sort out these conflicting objectives for ‘renewable’ power autopilots, so they don’t need lighthouses. These consumed in the state. arguments are reminiscent of the move by the Coast Guard some years ago to remove the foghorns since Export of BC Power Was Anticipated In 2007 they were only needed when it was foggy! It is apparent that BC has long been a favoured potential source for The last ‘destaffing’ program on the west coast was electricity for California. As early as May, 2007, Premier Gordon halted, after many objections from coast dwellers and Campbell and Governor Schwarzenegger of California signed a mariners, in 1998. And it does appear that little or no Memorandum of Understanding that committed the province and the maintenance has been carried out at the destaffed sites state to create more renewable energy development and transmission. since then; buildings are rotting, paint is peeling off, Since that time, PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric), the electrical utility for the and steps and docks are collapsing. San Francisco area, has been researching the possibility of importing But no matter how sophisticated the automated electricity from BC. equipment may be, it cannot do what a human can: A June, 2008 report for PG&E concluded that imports of renewable keep a lookout. No computer can pick up the nuances power from BC would be practical over a new high-voltage transmission that indicate that an approaching storm is far more line to be constructed from the Canada/US border. (The PG&E report severe than forecast, that an aircraft is in trouble, or is was produced at a time when the BC government was still insisting that soon going to be; that a fishing vessel is drifting additional power was need just to make BC ‘self-sufficient’ and denying without power, that a vessel is doing strange things, the possibility of exports to the US.) Nonetheless, PG&E’s initial conclusions were that BC could have a that a small powerboat is too close to the rocks (and significant potential surplus of power by 2016. This prediction assumed wherever there is a lighthouse, you can be sure there extensive development of run-of-river, biomass, geothermal and wind are rocks, fierce tides, and dangerous currents), or that Photo: Charles Campbell wildlife is behaving strangely. No computer can get in Sunset at Saturna Beach after a lightning storm. EXPORTING POWER, please turn to page 11 LIGHTHOUSES, please turn to page 9 is available at these SERIOUS COFFEE locations — look for the ‘Island Tides’ yellow boxes or racks inside! Sidney—Beacon Avenue Mill Bay—Island Highway @ Frayne Rd Parksville—Heritage Centre Mall Nanaimo—Across from the Hospital South Duncan—Sun Valley Mall Courtenay—Southgate Centre, Cliffe Ave Nanaimo—Hammond Bay Rd Duncan—Cowichan Commons Mall Port Alberni—Shoppers Drugmart Plaza, 10th Ave Nanaimo—South Parkway Plaza good reading, great coffee — it’s time to get SERIOUS! Campbell River—Island Highway @ Village Willow Point Page 2, ISLAND TIDES, Sept 24, 2009 May is Green candidate for Saanich-Gulf Islands Green Party Leader Elizabeth May won a landslide victory in the Green Party. This campaign will deliver Saanich-Gulf Islands IS YOUR Green Saanich–Gulf Islands nomination contest on Saturday, with an MP that will bring unprecedented results, attention and September 19. May was nominated by Andrew Lewis and a voice that will raise the level of debate in the House of WELL WATER seconded by Bill Deverell. Commons.’ SAFE TO DRINK? ‘It is so heartening to receive such an overwhelming vote of Elizabeth May’s campaign office will open on Beacon Avenue Contamination can occur confidence from the grassroots of our membership,’ said May in in Sidney shortly. She says she welcomes all supporters, without changes in colour or her victory address to over 100 members and guests attending regardless of political stripe, to join her in this historic campaign. taste. Be safe, test annually. the nominating meeting at the Mary Winspear Centre in Sidney, Hetherington Wins Liberal Candidacy BC. ‘I have been overwhelmed by the response from the The previous Saturday, Renee Hetherington won the Liberal community. I am ready to get on with the campaign to win a seat candidacy. She comments that it is time for the Conservative 250-656-1334 in parliament. Every single day, voters in this riding tell me that government to stop pitting the environment against the they have worked or voted for other parties in the past, but now economy. As far as a fall election was concerned, she said that the are uniting for real, positive change.’ ball was in Prime Minister Harper’s court. Of the constituency, John Fryer, May’s campaign manager, is extremely pleased she said that it was an exceptional group of individuals and that with the result. ‘We’re ready and are mounting an ambitious her job was to listen to all people, take all the voices, and present campaign larger than any other in the history of this riding or the fax: 250-656-0443 Website: www.mblabs.com the common concerns in parliament. 0 Email: [email protected] 2062 Unit 4 Henry Ave. West, Sidney, B.C. V8L 5Y1 Comox Valley launches community currency to strengthen local economy ~ Peter Tupper Vancouver Island’s Comox Valley is launching a community businesses. currency to revitalize the local economy and demonstrate that Once enough local dollars are cycling through the community AT POINT ATKINSON money can work in new ways. Comox Valley’s economy has and its businesses, the local GDP will increase up to 30% in a few SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER suffered recently. According to the BC Check Up report for 2009, years, predicts Michael Linton, an engineer and physicist, who is in the last three months of 2008, the Vancouver Island/Coast also the mind behind the Comox Valley Community Way.
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