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Photo: Henny Schnare, www.henny.ca Gulf Islands Secondary School Mens Novice team, Deva Middleton, Kevin Abbott, Oliver Schnare, Arlo Bryn-Thorn and cox Sophia, receiving some shoreside coaching at the at Brentwood Bay Regatta (see story, Round The Islands, page 3). Extend national park to Galiano? Watching the waters in Nanaimo When the Gulf Islands National Park was Swamp Ecological Reserve at the north end. Christa Grace-Warrick created by the Federal and Provincial Last fall, the group met with Wayne The ‘Your Water, Your Future’ forum was Four hundred registrants enjoyed both governments, Galiano Island was left out. Bourque, Superintendent of the Gulf Islands not looking out at the strait but the other outdoor and indoor components. Day-1 Now some Galiano residents want to National Park Reserve, who expressed way—back at the mountain watersheds. included tours to inspect watersheds and make sure that Galiano is included, and they interest in extending the National Park to Vancouver Islands’ Water Watch Coalition water supply facilities in Parksville and propose to make provision for National Galiano. MLA Murray Coell also expressed presented a 2-day forum on ground and Nanaimo. Participants expressed shock at Park lands in the new Official Community his support. surface water for its 11 member-groups the degree of clear-cut logging and Plan that is currently being prepared. Galiano resident Tom Hennessy has (including Mayne Island Integrated Water contamination that they viewed in the Through community foresight during the suggested that a new zoning category be and Gabriola’s Groundwater Management watershed. 20th century and immense community created through which Forest lot owners Society) and for the general public. Day-2 had a remarkable line-up of effort in the nineties, Galiano is already well- could designate part of their land for Increasing concern about protection of speakers at the Beban Park auditorium, endowed with parks: provincial parks inclusion in the National Park, in return for the watersheds which feed the built-up including Council of Canadian chairperson include Montague and Bellhouse and the creation of residentially-zoned lots. The areas of Vancouver Island’s mid-coast Maude Barlow, BC rivers campaigner Rafe Mount Galiano at the south end, Bodega only provision would be that the National eastern seaboard prompted the conference. Mair, activist Ingmar Lee, and Corky Evans, Ridge halfway up the Island, and Dionisio, Park would have the registered right of first Organizer June Ross thanked CUPE-BC former minister and former MLA for with water-only access, on Porlier Pass at refusal in the event that the lots were to be for the support needed to bring about what Nelson-Creston. the north end. put on the market. was a mind-expanding weekend of Keynote speaker Maude Barlow, Senior Parks dedicated and operated by the Hennessy foresees the gradual spreading information; demonstrating what civil Advisor on Water to the United Nations and community are Mount Sutil and Mount of connected parkland from one end of the society can do when people and groups 2005 recipient of the Swedish government’s Galiano, Bluffs Park on Active Pass, Pebble work together—and get together. Beach on the east side, and the Beaver PARK, please turn to page 10 WATER FORUM, please turn to page 6 ’Round! ’Round! ’Round! We Get Around! reetings to readers in the University Heights area who are receiving Island Tides in their mailbox this edition. If you G would like to continue reading Island Tides, in future you can pick-up a copy from Safeway in University Heights Shopping Centre. More newspaper box locations are listed on page 9.

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What a process would have to be in place to plan SAFE TO DRINK? prolonged rain showers we have had for the last week or so. successfully for water and land maintenance at this level. Contamination can occur This is their kind of weather—producing their kind of Talk about hyper-abundant species losing their charm— without changes in colour or landscape—saturated and eminently slitherable! homo sapiens can sure qualify! I have rules about slugs and I have restricted access Soggy Sheep taste. Be safe, test annually. areas—anywhere outside, except in the garden or This warm rain has brought luxuriant growth in the greenhouse. Indigenous banana slugs get transported to pastures and hills. The sheep are fat and bulgy. The sheep 250-656-1334 ‘safe areas’; non-native black slugs get offed on the spot. shearer has been unable to shear up-and-down Vancouver What is super-abundant in one geographic area can be Island due to the rain. rare in another. 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The Briony Penn, farmer and author Michael promotion is to raise awareness of container Ableman, plant breeder John Navazio, chef, recycling. author, and mushroom expert Bill Jones ‘Just by recycling, last year, BC residents and other world class instructors. saved enough energy to power 65,000 Foxglove Farm is an 120-acre organic homes, took the equivalent of 37,000 cars farm located on one of the original off BC roads, and reduced about 137,000 homesteads of the Island bordering tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent from Maxwell Lake. Produce grown on the farm being released into our atmosphere,’ said is available at the farmers’ market, local Neil Hastie, President and CEO of Encorp stores and restaurants on Salt Spring, in Pacific. ‘Return-It to Win-It’ is a great Victoria, and in Vancouver. opportunity for us to thank our existing and It also offers a limited number of shares new depot customers by offering them a in its Community Supported Agriculture chance to win great prizes. 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NANAIMO We’re all about the Islands (Departure Bay) • Eight scheduled flights daily • Newest and fastest Seaplane fleet in Canada For scheduled flight info call VANCOUVER • Departure from Seair Terminal at INT’L AIRPORT Vancouver Int’l Airport 1-800-447-3247 • Free Parking and Free shuttle to Main Terminal or visit our website at • Frequent flyer discounts SEAPLANES • Charter flights available to other destinations seairseaplanes.com Our Islands. Our World. Page 4, ISLAND TIDES, June 10, 2010 Readers’ Letters Page some premium. But not 60%. While no solution would be successive governments have adopted policies that benefit perfect, we believe the current fare is much fairer. the privileged few and a Robin Hood tax is a very small and This information was not consistently explained by ferry incremental effort to reclaim a tiny percentage to help advisory committees. For this, we apologize. redress some of the needs of a needy world. 19,750 copies this edition Brian Hollingshead, Chair SGI Ferry Advisory Committee There can be no moral or rational reason to not Every Second Thursday CPS Boating Courses on Pender implement such a tax, especially as it would only effect the Dear Editor: same privileged individuals who played such a large part in STRAIT Of GEORGIA’S ONLY FREE & I must say that I was quite disappointed that last edition’s the last recession. These are the economic masters of the MAIL DELIVERY NEWSPAPER article, ‘All Boaters Now Need Operator Card’ did not world, and it is time they began paying their fair share. mention that the Pleasure Craft Operator Card (PCOC) was Recall that it was this group that benefited most from the available through the Canadian Power & Sail Squadrons hundreds of billions of dollars in public bailout money spent generally and is available on Pender Island in particular. in the last recession. 14,300 print copies delivered to CPS (Canadian Power & Sail Squadrons) does not offer The tax is tiny (0.05%) and yet the wealth such a tax could accumulate is impressive due to the sheer volume of S. & N. Gulf Islands’ households online courses for the PCOC due to the potential abuse of the system, in plain language ‘cheating’. I just attended a money these individuals own and control. To them it’s meeting of the Regional Boating Advisory Council in chump change but to others it’s a lifesaver. Vancouver where the guest speaker was Krista Kendall, Such a tax could eliminate global diseases like AIDS, TB Chief-National Pleasure Craft Operator Competency or malaria, or vastly improve maternal and child health in Program and she told us that they get complaints daily the developing world.The money is there; we just have to about abuse of the online system, to the point that Transport decide if we as a society will demand it. 3,700 print copies on the Ferry Routes and Canada will publish, as of September 1, a completely new This is not a cash grab but a very small step towards in Victoria, Sidney, Mill Bay, Duncan, protocol for future testing over the internet. It will consist fairness, equality, and even justice. When governments Chemainus, Ladysmith, Nanaimo, of five practice quizzes, all of which must be completed oppose such a tax one has to question their true Bowser, Campbell River & Port Alberni successfully before trying the final exam which will consist constituency. More info: http://robinhoodtax.org.uk. Nathaniel Poole, Victoria 1,750 online pdf readers each edition of 50 questions. Why go to all that bother though when, on Pender at Raven Coal Mine Project www.islandtides.com least, a representative of your local Squadron will sell you a The following letter was sent to members of the BC Cabinet ISLAND TIDES PUBLISHING Ltd study guide, and when you are ready to write, give you a Dear Premier and Ministers: review if necessary. Then you will write the exam under Please be advised that on May 10, 2010 the Denman Island Box 55, Pender Island, BC, V0N 2M0 supervision and receive your temporary card immediately. Residents Association unanimously passed the following Owner, Publisher & Editor: Christa Grace-Warrick Another advantage of this system is, that should you fail, resolution: Assistant Publisher: Jill Moran you can get one-on-one remedial instruction prior to trying Whereas coal for electricity generation and steel-making Contributors: Patrick Brown, Priscilla Ewbank, Doug Carrick the exam a second time. is the largest source of atmospheric carbon, and coal used Jan Slakov Susan Banjavich, Henny Schnare, Sean Holman, Seven adults took and passed the CPS exam just this anywhere in the world contributes to global climate change; Lila Parks, Hannah Martens, Tom Hobley, Maggie Cheetham, week, and all the Pender grade eight class will be writing Whereas the development of the Raven Coal Mine is in Marg Brian, Elehna de Sousa, Barb Biagi their exams next week. The CPS exam by the way consists contradiction to the provincial Climate Action Plan to of 50 multiple choice questions not 36, the additional 14 Tel: 250-629-3660 • Fax: 250-629-3838 reduce BC’s carbon footprint; questions allows the CPS card (the only card) to be Whereas on January 11, 2010 the Denman Island Email:[email protected] & [email protected] approved and accepted by the National Association of State Residents Association (DIRA), citing concerns about Deadline: Wednesday Between Publications Boating Law Administrators of the USA. potential human and environmental hazards, resolved to Regardless of whether one goes the ‘on line’ route or the Off-Island Canadian Print Subscription $42.00 write to the Islands Trust Council and Denman Local Voluntary Mail & Box Pick-up Subscription $26.25 home study, classroom exam route there is a cost involved. Trustees asking that they to ‘do everything possible to International Subs: $60.00 • Free online in PDF format Tony Merry, Cdr. Retired, Pender Island Squadron ensure that the Raven Coal development is stopped’; Fish Farms Out Whereas on March 24, 2010 the Islands Trust Council Those Long Loads Dear Editor: passed a unanimous resolution in opposition to the Raven The recent rally in support of the Get Out Migration held at Coal Mine Project; Dear Editor: the Victoria parlament buildings was a huge success both Whereas DIRA believes there is an urgent duty to Re Patrick Brown’s article (‘Ferry fare fun but no boating in numbers of people attending (despite gross preserve and protect the planet to the best of its ability and fun’, Island Tides, May 13), some background is in order. underestimates of participation by the Times Colonist) and wishes to make its position on the Raven Coal Mine Project There has long been an overheight ferry fare premium in the quality of information by the many inspired speakers. known to the provincial government; in the order of 60%. It was a heavy add-on cost for Islanders The largest gathering of its kind in BC history and the hugely Be It Resolved that DIRA write Premier Gordon who occasionally had tall loads to transport. As well, it was sucessful walk the length of Vancouver Island by Alexandra Campbell, Barry Penner (Minister of Environment), Blair a barrier for visitors who would consider coming to the Morton and thousands of supporters in the towns she Lekstrom (Minister of Energy, Mines & Petroleum Islands with kayaks or bikes on top of their vehicles. visited is uncontestable evidence that the people of BC want Resources) and John Yap (Minister of State for Climate BC Ferries proposals to address this situation were fish farms out of our coastal waters. Action) with a copy of this motion expressing DIRA’s presented to, and analyzed by, each of the twelve coastal The scientific evidence of the damage to wild salmon opposition to the Raven Coal Mine Project; and, ferry advisory committees. The first proposal was rejected stocks in the vicinity of fish farms is overwhelming despite Be it further resolved that a copy of the letter be sent to as placing too heavy a burden on the over-length the best efforts of the ‘spin doctor’ falsehoods put out by the all residents associations between Courtenay and Port combinations. The second was substantially tempered and fish farm industry and the provincial government and Alberni asking each to pass a similar resolution, to regional was endorsed by all twelve committees. backed by cover-ups by the Department of Fisheries. media for publication and to MLAs (Alberni-Pacific Rim, That second proposal amounted to removing the over- The people of BC have spoken. It is time for the Parksville-Qualicum and Comox Valley). height premium that applied to vehicles over 7ft high, and appointment of a Fisheries Minister from BC who Elizabeth Johnston, President Denman Island Residents Assoc to the over-length per foot rate attached to over-height understands the issues and is prepared to take the combinations longer than 20ft, while recovering the lost appropriate action of removing the pens from coastal waters Will ‘Gas N Go’ Be Our Own Mini Gulf revenue elsewhere in the tariff. That ‘elsewhere’ is in the and moving them to a closed containment system on land, Of Mexico Disaster? over-length rate attached to non-commercial vehicles. It as has been shown to be a viable alternative. This will save Dear Editor: was seen to be appropriate to charge the same per-foot rate, our wild stocks as well as provide ample employment for There are three similarities between BP’s runaway oil well beyond 20ft, as charged to commercial vehicles. The basic those displaced from the present fish farm market. in the Gulf of Mexico and the proposed Gas N Go station on fares for all regular vehicles, under 7ft high and 20ft long, If this government is honestly serious about reducing our the Dyke Road: the lack of preventive measures before the were unaffected. carbon footprint and reducing the effects of global warming projects got started, the over-confidence in technology, and Part of the rationale for supporting the change was that then such an important environmental degradation must the inability of government to handle the spill. there are remarkably few over-length combinations. On Rte be acted upon immediately. Failure to do so will result in Now, to be realistic, there is a huge difference between Nº5, between Swartz Bay and the Southern Gulf Islands, the crash of our wild salmon stocks, a further downturn in what is happening in the Gulf of Mexico and what could 99.1% of the customers will pay the same or less (a lot less). our local economies and the dissolution of many of our happen here. But, depending upon its scope, a Gas N Go On Rte Nº9, between Tsawwassen and the Southern Gulf coastal communities. spill could severely damage a highly sensitive ecosystem. It Islands, 98% would pay the same or less. Turned around, We the people of BC vehemently protest the presence of could wipe out, fisheries, bird habitat and seafood fewer than 2% of the customers would be charged more. open net fish farms on our coast and we will speak again businesses in the Courtenay River Estuary and Baynes While the fare change might be a disincentive for that 1–2%, with our votes at the next election. Sound. And it could deal a body blow to the tourism the substantial over-height fare reductions will be a Wayne Loiselle, Thetis Island industry in our local communities. significant incentive for visitors bringing bikes, kayaks or Robin Hood Tax OK In terms of prevention, there was no requirement for a other tall loads to the islands. As well, even applying the Dear Editor: detailed environmental assessment for BP’s drilling commercial per-foot rate, people with over-height, over- The so-called Robin Hood Tax is a tax levied on the financial activities in the Gulf of Mexico—nor is there for most other length combinations will still be paying less than previously transactions of the richest individuals—those who generate drilling operations. The US Federal government has been for their fares for combinations up to about 38ft. income simply by moving huge sums of cash around. It isn’t giving out drilling licenses like candy. A related note is that length is a primary determinant of a tax on homeowners, families, or seniors; ordinary Here, on the Dyke Road, in the middle of a highly what fares should reasonably be. However, height is also a Canadians will never even know it’s there. sensitive ecosystem, there was also no environmental factor in that there is only limited space for over-heights on Regressive monetary policies have moved enormous assessment. But there is a difference. BP’s drilling operation our ferries (the Nanaimo, Mayne Queen, and Queen of wealth into the hands of a few and income distribution is was in the middle of the ocean, 48 iles from land. Gas N Go Cumberland). Thus that space might reasonably command now as unequal as it was in the 1920s. 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LETTERS, from previous page Public Eye ~ Sean Holman is on the land, in a vulnerable ecosystem, only 60 metres intervene after the local owner proves incapable of dealing from the Ocean—but still no environmental assessment. with the problem or if, and I quote, ‘the owner goes bankrupt.’ Money back guarantee In the Gulf of Mexico both the company and the If you think the comparison between the Gulf of Mexico BC Hydro Corporation is reviewing its controversial $1.45 government bought into the belief that the technology was and Gas N Go is far-fetched, or if you have confidence in the billion outsourcing deal with Accenture Inc, online fool-proof and fail-safe. Before the drilling began the CEO current ‘let-the-owner-clean-it up’ policy, try this example newssource Public Eye has learned. That ten-year deal, of BP went on record to state that an oil spill that would much closer to home. which saw the privatization of the Crown corporation’s back damage the land (in four Gulf States and now Florida) was In February, 2008 in the town of Lake Cowichan here office services, was signed on February 28, 2003. Now, ‘virtually impossible.’ on Vancouver Island, diesel fuel leaked out of a service seven years later, BC Hydro has quietly announced it’s Here at home we have been assured that the fuel tanks station’s underground diesel tank into a creek and then into looking for an advisor to review its outsourced services and to be buried in the ground of the site are of ‘the latest the Cowichan River, one of the province’s two most prepare recommendations in advance of the contract’s technology’—fool-proof and fail-safe. (No mention of important fishing rivers. The government spotted the expiration date. The Crown corporation has the option of human error, say from the crash of a gas tanker turning problem after a few days, but left it up to the property owner ending its contract with Accenture early or extending it by across streams of traffic to enter the site). If you buy the to fix the problem. He hired consultants to do the work; the five years. Earlier, Public Eye reported former provincial ‘latest technology/risk-free’ argument, Google ‘gas stations government supposedly was monitoring the situation. But Liberal campaign co-chair Patrick Kinsella’s company and water pollution.’ You’ll get 900,000 results of service the work was shoddy; government oversight was useless. worked with the American outsourcing firm to develop a station pollution problems from around the world, many of After five months, the tank, still leaking fuel, hadn’t been ‘comprehensive marketing plan’ and a ‘very broad them from major oil companies like BP that did have the removed. Massive excavations of contaminated soil were government-relations plan’ that resulted in the privatization ‘latest technologies.’ Does anyone know of a de- required on a neighbour’s property. The gas station owner deal. commissioned gas station in this day and age that did not went bankrupt. The provincial government, pressured by The following is a complete copy of the aforementioned require remediation work to clean up contaminated soil? the community, finally stepped in. The Minister authorized announcement, which was posted on BC Bid on May 31: As for clean up, the US Federal Government seems up to one million dollars of tax-payers money for the This Request for Proposals is issued by BC Hydro to totally incapable of handling a clean-up. It stresses that the cleanup. obtain Proposals from parties wishing to provide the BP is responsible for the cleanup. So much for a timely response and an effective clean-up following Consulting Services to BC Hydro: What about a potential spill here on the Dyke Road? policy. BC Hydro is in the 8th year of its 10 year outsourcing If you check with the local Emergency Measures folks The Gulf of Mexico and Lake Cowichan force us to look contract with Accenture Business Services of BC you will find that there is no local capability to handle a spill again at our own situation. Does anyone really believe, given (ABSBC). As such, BC Hydro is seeking a Consultant into the estuary. They refer the matter to the Department all we know about the ecological sensitivity of the location, or Consultants with Outsourcing Advisory expertise to of the Environment in Nanaimo. the physical liabilities of the site on the Dyke Road, the track assist in the following: If you check with Nanaimo, as we did, you’ll find that, record of gas stations, and recent past clean-up practices, • review currently outsourced services to assess optimal according to the Environmental Management Act, it is the that the property owner and government can prevent an sourcing models for their delivery; owner of the gas station that is responsible for the cleanup— environmental disaster, or even deal with it when it occurs? just like in the Gulf of Mexico. The Department will only Mike Bell, Sierra Club Comox Valley 0 OUTSOURCING, please turn to page 13 Page 6, ISLAND TIDES, June 10, 2010 Your Water, Your Future Forum ~ Patrick Brown Surgery to cease at Lady Minto; other procedures Arthur Caldicott–the analyst Arthur researches energy and mining issues vulnerable to mining activity, where it is enhanced, recommends VIHA report in BC and then communicates through a common practice to dump wastewater into Following an extensive community there is only limited mental health nursing variety of web and e-mail networks. As such, existing lakes (using them as tailings ponds, engagement process that has been services in the community. Enhancement of he is a valuable and reliable source of see Fish Lake, BOX page 8) because this underway since Salt Spring Island’s surgeon mental health nursing services would information for British Columbians trying process dilutes the acidity of wastewater retired in 2008, the Vancouver Island improve quality of care and care outcomes to make sense of resource development in produced by the mine. the province, the government’s role in it, He pointed out that shale gas drilling that Health Authority (VIHA) today released its for mental health clients. and the public interest. has commenced in the Peace River area report into health services on Salt Spring The review recommends that general His presentation at the drinking water north of the proposed Site-C hydroelectric Island. surgery cease at Lady Minto Hospital, but ‘This is one the most extensive meeting in Nanaimo on Sunday, May 30 dam will need both large quantities of water also recommends that endoscopies—which covered a lot of ground, and illustrated why for fracturing operations, and upwards of community engagement processes and are the majority of procedures performed by reviews regarding health care services that he is such a valuable resource himself. 500MW of electricity to pump it. This would specialists on the Island—be maintained. has ever taken place on Salt Spring Island,’ He started with an analysis of climate use up a significant amount of the power to ‘With an average of only 150 surgeries per said Grant Hollett, Director, Planning and change on BC’s south coast, over the last 60 be developed at Site-C. year for the past 18 years, Lady Minto is not Community Engagement, VIHA. ‘VIHA’s years: a trend towards reduced precipitation He questioned the commonsense of a high volume surgical site,’ said Barclay. review recommends increased health and higher winter temperatures, resulting developing hydroelectric power to support services for seniors and more programs for ‘Such a low volume poses significant in changes in river and stream flows that natural gas production, when the gas is used those living with mental health issues by challenges, and by focusing on endoscopies, affect the ecosystems they serve. The to produce bitumen from the tar sands establishing mental health nursing capacity we can continue to provide the Cowichan River, for example, has severe which then requires even more energy to and enhancing rehabilitation services at interventional procedure most needed by drainage peaks now, as a result of the upgrade it to the point where it can yield Lady Minto Hospital. The review also calls Island residents, while also improving clearcutting of its watershed. Indeed, at useful petroleum products. for maintaining endoscopy procedures at access to other services that Island residents times the water that can legally be drawn by Turning to coal mining, he described it the hospital, improving the hospital’s need locally.’ the Catalyst mill can exceed the minimum as ‘marginal’, particularly on Vancouver infrastructure and finding new and creative The health review also found the physical observed summer flow, and though the Island’s eastern slopes. Thin coal seams, ways to address the shortage of GPs on the infrastructure of Lady Minto Hospital to be company does not use its full waterlease it variable coal quality, and problems with coal is reluctant to relinquish any part of it. In washing and acid drainage raised questions Island.’ aging. More space is needed for the recent years, Cowichan River flows have about practical exploitation of the resource. As is the case elsewhere in VIHA, the laboratory, medical imaging and the been much lower than the longterm He noted that the provincial population of Salt Spring Island is growing emergency departments. Space planning is average. environmental assessment process in BC and aging; in fact, the Gulf Islands local already underway for the laboratory, with health area has the second highest average Caldicott has developed a method for did not consider prices, markets, project planning for medical imaging and analyzing the vulnerability of rivers to economics, or the greenhouse gases from age in VIHA. While it is getting older, the emergency to follow. population is generally in very good health. climate change. It takes into account a burning the coal. Further, the provincial ‘The Lady Minto Hospital Foundation variety of factors, including net water government’s carbon ‘action plan’ does not ‘The health care needs of Salt Spring has been a long time supporter of the Island residents are those we most often recharge, the extent of related aquifers, and consider the carbon produced from hospital and health care services on Salt the geology, soils, ecology and topography exported coal. 0 associate with aging,’ said Dr Shane Barclay, Spring Island,’ said David Feitelberg, of the watershed. Some rivers are especially Chief, Medical Staff, Lady Minto Hospital. President, Lady Minto Hospital ‘These needs include convalescence— recovery and rehabilitation from illness and Foundation. ‘Our fundraising will continue WATER FORUM from page 1 ‘alternative Nobel’ Right Livelihood Award. act? Australia finds itself in the absurd injury—and the associated services of physio to benefit local high priority health care She gave Canadian and global context to VI position of having sold rights to more water and occupational therapy.” services in the hospital. This report provides Water Watch Coalition’s mandate to keep in the Murray-Darling than the entire VIHA’s review also identified a strong us clarity of direction for future fundraising public water flowing, and in public hands. volume of this major river system and is need for increased mental health services. initiatives in meeting community needs.’ Barlow had just come from Fish Lake having to buying back rights to public Over the past three years, Lady Minto View the review at www.viha.ca. VIHA where she was working with groups on the water—to be able to sell them to foreign Hospital has experienced a high volume of will hold a community presentation on Salt tailings pond crisis (see BOX page 8). corporations. Or will we legislate like mental health cases. The hospital currently Spring Island in mid-June to present the Barlow said that when you hear about Ecuador to protect public right to water and does not have a mental health nurse and recommendations and answer questions. 0 ‘drought’ you are actually hearing about the to remove it from inclusion in trade ‘end of water’. Worldwide we are using our agreements? Barlow quotes Martin Luther water supply at an unsustainable rate. In King: ‘Judicial decrees may not change the NOTICE OF POWER INTERRUPTION India, whose population is doubling every heart but they can restrain the heartless.’ SALT SPRING ISLAND: 44 years, there are 24 million bore wells. As There are three ways in which Canada we pump out more than is being needs to act, she summed up. Canadians CUDMORE HTS./MT. BELCHER HTS. AREA replenished by rainfall, groundwater levels need to work on watershed protection and are falling and deserts are increasing. There restoration. Canada need a public trust Time: 9:00 am to 1:30 pm are advancing deserts in 100 countries. In document which declares that atmospheric China 4,000 cities will be abandoned water, ground and surface water, and When: Sunday, June 13, 2010 because of lack of water. oceans are a public good. Thirdly this BC Hydro needs to make electrical system improvements on Salt Spring Island The effort for clean water worldwide, document would also entrench water is a on Sunday, June 13, 2010. To ensure the safety of our work crews, it will be Barlow says, is also going in the wrong human right—and a human responsibility. direction; a child dies every 8 seconds from We needed to stop going in the wrong necessary to interrupt electrical service for approximately 4.5 hours, from 9:00 water-borne disease (see also Cochabamba direction, for the wrong reasons with the am to 1:30 pm. The areas affected are Charlesworth Rd., Ried St., Mt Baker Cr., anecdote, this article page 8). wrong people, she declared. 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Your Water, Your Future Forum ~ Patrick Brown ISLAND TIDES, June 10, 2010, Page 7 Understanding tactics for civil society Enbridge makes pipeline A workshop featuring Andrew Gage, of West Coast other towns in BC had the same problem as Nanaimo. Environmental Law, and activist Ingmar Lee, provided Ingmar Lee’s Practical advice some interesting illustrations of how provincial and And what was Nanaimo’s problem? Ingmar showed us application municipal legislation and policies actually work, interact, or spectacular air photographs of the Nanaimo watershed, The Enbridge Northern Gateway Project submitted its are opposed or ignored. surrounding Jump Lake; the mountainsides had been application to the National Energy Board on May 27. The Gage specializes in climate change, pesticides, and water completely clearcut—or as Ingmar put it, voracious application will be assessed by a Joint Review Panel protection; but prior to coming to WCEL, he was an activist industrial logging destruction. established by the Minister of the Environment and the and was arrested during the Clayoquot Sound logging He pointed out the top of the ski hill, where the National Energy Board. protests. Ingmar Lee was a logger and tree planter, has Vancouver Island Marmot was said to reside. In his opinion, Under changes to the assessment procedure included in worked in all 14 of BC’s biogeoclimatic zones, has been the marmots, displayed there once a year by the relevant Bill C-9, the omnibus Budget Measures Implementation around the world nine times, and has a BA in cabinet minister, were bred in captivity especially for the Act, presently under consideration in both the House of Environmental Studies. He now works to preserve BC’s occasion and he doubted that they could survive the winter. Commons and the Senate, are provisions which would wilderness. Ingmar pooh-poohed what he called ‘scientism’. enable the Minister and the NEB to cherry-pick which You wouldn’t expect either of these two to have a Whatever scientific study was produced to attest to aspects of the project they wish to review, and which they conventional approach to law and government policy, and environmental destruction, and however many PhD’s were are willing to let go by without any rigorous consideration. you’d be right. involved, he said, it was always possible to find a study The review of any large project such as this is always an andrew Gage’s Legal advice which proved the opposite, with just as many, if not more, unpredictable process; the new procedural options To make things clear, Gage starts by using the device of PhD’s involved. In the end, he said, he relied more on offering legal advice to a forestry company and to a local common sense. The Implications of Bill C-9 government. So what is to be done about the Nanaimo watershed? He As part of a money bill, any defeat of C-9 in Parliament is First was advice to a typical forestry firm, named ‘Logs advocated complete public control, and its preservation and assumed to be a vote of no confidence in the minority R Us’. Remember, he said, that whatever piece of provincial protection in the best possible condition for the sole purpose conservative government, and might trigger an election legislation you have to deal with, it was originally designed of producing pure water for Nanaimo residents— and all the (or the Governor-General might ask one of the opposition to favour logging over any other use of the land, and to beings that depended on a healthy Nanaimo River system. parties to form a government). protect the logger if things go wrong. Local government And how is this to be accomplished? By public pressure, So far, the parliamentary opposition has avoided any bylaws are irrelevant, though it’s a good idea to build good he said, though he really favoured simple confiscation since, opportunity to defeat or obstruct this bill, despite the relationships, if it’s not too much trouble. This is especially as he put it, the current owners, Bermuda-based Island myriad of changes hidden in its 900 pages. important with First Nations. Timberlands Logging Corporation, have got ‘utterly nothing But the main thing to remember is to hire suitable left to log in there.’ envisioned in C-9 just make it more likely to substitute experts and professionals who will assure you that you are He then went on to describe and illustrate the campaign political interference for due process and public logging correctly. The basic strategy seemed to be one of against the parking lot development at Cathedral Grove participation. creating Nixonian ‘plausible deniability’; if ‘Logs ‘R Us’ had Provincial Park. The owners of the surrounding forest, The Pipeline and Shipping done sufficient ‘due diligence’, this would be an effective Weyerhauser, cut Douglas firs many hundreds-of-years-old The 1,170km pipeline route lies between Bruderheim, defence against any accusations of poor logging practices, surrounding the grove, and opened up the grove’s 200-300 Alberta, where it accesses tar sands oil, and Kitimat, BC, broken rules, or overcutting. foot tall trees to blowdowns from a severe storm on New where it accesses the Pacific. A 36-inch pipeline will carry If there is any doubt about an activity or situation, Years’ day 1997. the oil east to west, while a 20-inch pipeline will carry contract it out; this will give you an additional layer of legal Visitors to Cathrdral Grove parked along the highway. condensate (used to dilute the heavy tar sands oil so that it insulation. If it was convenient, ‘Logs ‘R Us’ should also This was thought to be unsafe, so in 2003 the provincial can be piped) from Kitimat to Bruderheim. consider applying for some form of ‘eco-certification’ as government proposed that a two hectare parking lot be The $5.5 billion Northern Gateway pipeline’s purpose is additional cover. developed, which of course required more trees to be felled. to enable the export of tar sands petroleum to China and Following this, Gage flipped to the advice he would give Meanwhile, logging of the surrounding area continued. other Asian nations, thus very much expanding the market to a typical local government having responsibility for But in 2004, Ingmar Lee and friends started camping in for this oil, which is currently limited to the United States. safeguarding residents’ domestic water supply. He re- the trees. Their theme song was Joni Mitchell’s: ‘pave At Kitimat, Enbridge plans to construct a terminal to handle emphasized that local bylaws have no effect, but that logging paradise and put up a parking lot.’ They hung long banners Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs) which will then travel has particular immunity. (Ingmar is a great fan of banners—they are cheap, effective, PIPELINE, please turn to page 13 He suggested using the Drinking Water Protection Act, and non-violent). People brought them far more food than though he warned that rather than protecting drinking they needed. But they were there for two years! water sources, decisions under this legislation tended to In 2006, the provincial government gave up on the prescribe water treatment rather than preventing its parking lot idea and opted instead for ‘traffic calming’ contamination in the first place. measures along the highway. (It might be noted that this is KITCHEN & BATH CENTRE He warned that local government has no defence against the same highway (Nº4) over which it is proposed 42-tonne the Private Managed Forest Lands Act, since it too was trucks, carrying coal from the Raven mine, would travel Bfine custom cabinets from MERIT designed to protect and encourage logging. back and forth to Port Alberni.) Bkitchens Bbathrooms Boffices Similarly, any appeal to the common law—which would Ingmar did not suggest that everyone camp-out in the Carl Borgstom Bdining & entertainment units logically hold that any noticeable drop in water quality is Nanaimo watershed; he suggests that people avoid over- Kitchen Designer Bserving Salt Spring & the Southern illegal—would run up against the Water Act (now being organization, and give people the freedom to express 250-538-7133 Gulf Islands ‘modernized’) which was originally designed to facilitate themselves in their own way—a ‘model exercise in Mouat’s Trading Co. - Downtown Ganges, placer mining. persistent, non-violent civil disobedience’. People should be Salt Spring Island Local governments seeking to protect their drinking able to involve themselves as centrally or as peripherally as water sources needed to shift the parameters of the they wish. He did suggest an annual march from Nanaimo argument (he called it a ‘debate’), and insist on the residents’ to the watershed. DOCK BUILDING COMPONENTS right to clean water, to their health, and ultimately to the ‘Our efforts,’ said Ingmar, ‘ Will be watched by other & ACCESSORIES control of their own watershed. Only Vancouver and communities who are wrestling for control of their water.’0 Victoria owned their watersheds, Andrew said; virtually all

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The collies are on duty until they hear the command ‘that'll do’. Building The Fire & ambulance Station The work on the new fire hall and ambulance station goes on. Pickup trucks, backhoes, dump trucks, bob cats, and excavators grab, dig and carry, the concrete fills the wooden forms and many of our local trades and construction people are working hard getting the foundation work done before the prefabricated metal building arrives. It all makes good viewing. Construction sites are normally on someone’s lot down a driveway, not in full view of the veranda at the General Store and the busiest road junction on the Island. The Saturna Island Fire Protection Society which is heading this initiative, held an Open House at the Rec Centre recently to allow everyone to view the documents, contracts and building plans concerning the two firehalls. Many of the fire department members were present to answer questions from Islanders. Hopefully, both audience and presenters left with a WATER FORUM from page 6 better understanding of the project and the benefits of said that the area has no geological constants. As the weight that of ensuring that private corporations operate without public process, respectively. Whenever a large project goes of glaciation lessened, the Earth’s crust pushed up rock hindrance. As an example, Matthews, cited Alberta premier on, financed with public money, transparency is an formation in irregular patterns; every few hundred yards Ed Stelmach’s hiring of a Suncor VP as deputy minister to important aspect of the project along with adequate there is a different geology. No water sources are constant oversee the tar sands. The VP even remained on the Suncor opportunities for input. Good public process and a well- or stable. Water, he said, is dynamic. payroll. constructed building that serves the particular needs of our Wicks spoke of how, over millennia, beavers were busy The primary citizens of the ‘free market’ system are now community will generate a lot of well-being. damming water courses and creating wetlands. When the corporations, he declared. Lamb BBQ first Europeans arrived 150 years ago, surface water was a ‘How do we take back the commons?’ he asked. We are now Officially in Saturna Lamb BBQ alert. I’m considered a problem. Governments, with the will to do so, do have the power to always a little nervous about pulling it off, one more time. A lot has changed in 150 years, he said; tree cutting and act; as seen in the case of Bolivian water; in the case of All the organization, all the planning, the last minute shifts land drainage changed not Venezuela, lead by Hugo only hydrology but climate Fish Lake, Tailings Pond? Chavez; and, more recently, SATURNA, please turn to page 13 because hydrology keeps The BC government has given the green light to a huge when US President Barak temperature on an even keel. gold and copper mine that will turn Fish Lake, 125 Obama shut down all drill Rainwater, Wastewater & Potable Water Western red cedar is an kilometres west of Williams Lake into a toxic tailings sites in the Gulf of Mexico. indicator of how dry pond. Nearly 500 million tonnes of acid tailings from the However we cannot wait TANKS & LIQUID HANDLING Vancouver Island is ‘Prosperity’ mine will be dumped into the lake, which for governments; the people becoming. These trees are teems with rainbow trout and is sacred to the Tsilhqot’in must name themselves the LOW PROFILE SEPTIC & CISTERN TANKS and PRE-PACKAGED suffering and it is predicted First Nations, says the Sierra Club of BC. legislators, advises Matthews. TM SEWAGE TREATMENT A federal environmental review is pending. But new Touching on what is a SYSTEMSthat there will be few conifers at all left by 2070. federal legislation—legislation that could be passed any tricky subject these days, November and December day now—threatens to gut this last safeguard. Matthews said that the 1 -800-665-4499 are the area’s only heavy Obscured in the federal budget bill, known as Bill C- human population explosion “If It Flows - We Go With It !” TM precipitation months. 9, are provisions aimed at gutting the federal was a factor in dwindling However the higher level environmental assessment act. Proposed rules will grant water resources. Population winter snowpack can vary the federal environment minister power to reduce the control, he said, was a difficult RAINWATER from zero to 10 metres. scope of reviews and put particular projects on an but essential question. He HARVESTING TANKS & Nowadays, winter rain is exemption list. Most shockingly, they would allow the spoke of the one-child rule in SYSTEMS much more likely to run-off government to avoid a full environmental assessment by China and though, he said, its

the hard surfaces of human breaking up major projects into smaller pieces—thus had caused some anguish in development than to sink in sidestepping a Supreme Court of Canada ruling. This bill parents fearful of losing that POTABLE & RAINWATER to replenish the water table will pass because it voting against it will be a no only child, China had reduced TANKS from which we are constantly confidence vote will bring on an election which no federal it population by 700,000 pumping. party seems to want.(see also Enbridge article, page 7.) million. He said the problem Wicks showed several needed to be tackled by global slides showing the effect of wells on groundwater. He talked education, public relations and global support. Wholesale Distributors to Contractors & DIY’s for over 40 years of heavy users such as golf courses. Wells which lower the Following his talk, a member of the audience asked if DEALER OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE water table are unsustainable, he said, and advocated there was ever a possibility of private ownership of the air. rainwater collection. Matthews replied that with GHG monetary measures like Independent In addition to water quantity, water quality is of concern. cap-&-trade that process had already begun. We are using 100,000 chemicals which did not exist 100 Dental Hygiene Managing Public Resources in a relaxed setting years ago; these not only affect drinking water quality but have impacts on ecosystems. Corky Evans, former NDP MLA and minister (Agriculture Registered Dental Hygienists Philosophy & Politics and Food & Fisheries), was one of the forum’s final offering: speakers. Corky came from his garden in the Columbia Former SFU professor Robin Matthews spoke of ‘the huge • scaling • root planing Valley to talk about public will to manage resources and secretive theft of water of which the public was unaware.’ • polishing • whitening how it had been eroded in the last 25-years. His words were Rivers, he said, belong in the hands of the public. Water as • other services the perfect counterpoint to fact-filled slideshows, strategy it become scarcer is becoming a target for corporations. planning and philosophies of water rights. Celebrating 8 years of service in beautiful Sidney-by-the-Sea Privatization, he said, is nearly always theft. If utilities Evans’ legendary speech-making ability, with perfect are not profitable why would corporations want them. If 250-655-4884 timing, volume, irony, and fiery commonsense ideas, had profitable why should not that profit be for the public good? the audience in the palm of his hand. Reminiscent of He spoke of Bechtel Corporation’s acquisition of water Tommy Douglas, he had people on their feet. in Cochabamba, Bolivia through a trade agreement. The On the local scene, Corky said that, to his shame, many price of water went up 200%. People could not afford clean years ago as a logger, he had had a hand in the clearcutting water for their families. They decided to open up the old Nanaimo’s watershed. wells and collect rainwater but both these sources of water He emphasized the significance of water: only 4% of the were now illegal. Eventually, when he became president, globe’s water was on the land surface and in the air; every Evo Morales took back water from Bechtel and made laws human needs two litres a day or die; 2-1⁄2 billion people are prohibiting water from trade agreements. fed by irrigated crops and this had lead to a tripling of world Moving closer to home and enlarging on the theme of population. privatization, Matthews spoke of the privatization of BC’s Evans let no-one off the hook for responsibility for the public wealth: BC Gas, BC Rail, and BC Hydro; which current state of management for public resources. Who gets nowadays means not only privatization but also the transfer to use it and who wrecks it are political issues on which we of that wealth to foreign corporations. The balance between made the decisions years ago or—if we didn’t—we let private and public wealth is breaking down, he said. someone else make those decisions for us, he explained. He went further in defining public wealth as the whole BC citizens, he said, are in the globally enviable position of society; people and intangible ‘goods’ included; not of owning 93% of the land base but we had abdicated simply material assets. And government’s role, he said, was responsibility for it. We decide to stop managing the land. to oversee this commonwealth on behalf of civil society. However government’s role was increasingly becoming WATER FORUM, please turn to page 11 The real deal—or a sham?~ Patrick Brown ISLAND TIDES, June 10, 2010, Page 9 Nine environmental organizations, and 21 forest products caribou as the indicator species of the boreal’s wide range ecological benchmarks; companies, have signed a landmark agreement which of mammals, not to mention half of Canada’s 450 bird (c) The recovery of species at risk within the boreal would see the forest companies adopting new species. forests including species such as boreal caribou environmental standards for their operations in the boreal a ‘Solutions Space’ (d) Reducing GHG emissions along the full life cycle from forests of northern Canada, would see their products To provide time to work out more details of the Agreement certified as being environmentally friendly, and would see (such as specific certification requirements), a three year active adaptive Management the environmental organizations halting their efforts to ‘solutions space’ has been set. Starting on April 1, 2009, the ‘Active adaptive management’ involves an explicit paint the forest companies as destructive and companies have agreed not to log or build new roads in 29 recognition of uncertainty about the outcome of some environmentally irresponsible. million hectares of their tenures in the boreal. (This management activities and the need to learn by doing Not much is known about that includes careful observation of the effects to guide eNGO advocacy Work represents about 40% of the details of the Canadian their boreal tenures, which change over time. In most cases, this would involve (a) ‘ENGO Advocacy Work’ means any advocacy or Boreal Forest Agreement total 72 million hectares). testing alternative management in controlled communication activities by ENGOs that are generic (CBFA), and it is surrounded by These lands are thought to environment; (b) monitoring the alternative practices and/or global in scope that seek as their primary intent a cloud of suspicion (excerpts be caribou range. The total against both a conventional practices and a natural to inform and mobilize individuals and organizations on form the Agreement are shown caribou range is about half condition baseline; (c) analyzing results against stated the importance of the conservation of forest ecosystems in BOXES). Criticism ranges of the boreal, but most of it performance objectives and documents unexpected and services including boreal forest ecosystems and from: ‘the environmentalists does not lie within forest ancillary effects; or when any are encountered and services, and/or to encourage individuals and have sold out,’ to ‘the forest tenures. deemed acceptable. organizations to take actions that will ensure this companies have given in to The majority of the area objective is met. blackmail’. where logging and the forest to the end of product life; Work will include activities such as: global Some would say that this roadbuilding activity has (e) Improved prosperity of the Canadian forest sector engagement of wood and paper customers/consumers Agreement is the successful been initially restricted is in and the communities that depend on it; and concerning the importance of forest ecosystems and their conclusion to the ENGO Manitoba, Quebec, and (f) recognition by the market place (eg: customers, role in helping conserve them; working with wood and campaign. Others say that the Ontario. In BC, some 9.8 investors, consumers) of the CBFA and its implementation paper customers/consumers in developing and only thing the ENGOs have million hectares of the in ways that demonstrably benefit FPAC members and their implementing environmental initiatives. ENGOs also accomplished is a short-term province’s 32 million products from the boreal.’ take actions in the market place to promote: FSC moratorium on logging in some hectares of ‘commercial The Details protection and conservation of species at risk, wood and of the caribou habitat. What forest’ will come under the The 39-page Agreement attempts to set out a basis for ‘good paper recovery, use of recycled forest products, does it all mean? CBFA. Of this, 1.4 million faith’ co-operation in an atmosphere of considerable agriculture residue; and other potential low impact a Truce In The hectares, licensed to Canfor uncertainty and, undoubtedly, some scepticism. But alternatives, promote use reduction, raise awareness of and Louisiana-Pacific, has basically it is a tradeoff; the industry agrees to improve their Boreal biodiversity conservation issues, and raise awareness and been designated as boreal environmental performance to achieve certification of their For some years now, a group of promote solutions in relation to climate change. environmental organizations caribou range, where products, and the ENGOs agree to stop their campaigns to (referred to as ENGOs) have carried on a campaign to activity will be initially restricted. This area is in the far impede the marketing of those products. Just what this impede the marketing of forest products from Canada’s northeast corner of the province. means may best be understood by reading the boreal forests. 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Cape Mudge band will go A Truly Island Home ahead with scallop farm plans The Temporary Industrial Use Permit for the scallop farm Build your Dream • Build it Green operated by the Cape Mudge Band of the We Wai Kai First Nation runs out this July and a potential US business Prefab custom home packages • Qualified builders available • Visit one of our island show homes • Off grid options partner—Ocean Smart—appears to have backed out of the 866-352-5503 www.mandalahomes.com [email protected] enterprise. Nevertheless, the Band intends to go ahead with the scallop farming project, now with a longer time horizon because they have to hatch their own seed. They plan to finance the scallop farm for the first few years with cash flow from the band’s other enterprises. July 9-11 • 2010 These include the the Quinsam Hotel and Liquor Store, the Quinsam Crossing Industrial Park, the Quinsam Crossing COMOX VALLEY, BC Shell Gas Station, the Middle Point Wharf and ore handling facilities, the Tsa Kwa Luten Resort and Campground, and wood lots at Surge Narrows and Fanny Bay. • 6 Stages • Kidzzone These businesses, together with federal government rent for the access road to the Cape Mudge lighthouse, should • Riverside Camping provide sufficient funds to start the scallop business, according to Maurice McGowan, the band’s Economic • Workshops Development Officer, speaking to a May 20 meeting of the Featuring... Discovery Islands Chamber of Commerce. McGowan estimated the Bands current annual cash flow at $10.5 Roberta Flack Little Feat Nanci Griffith Joan Osborne million. In addition, he anticipated that additional revenue would come from an expansion of the Middle Point docks to serve Dan Hicks and The Hot Licks Adrian Belew Power Trio the Raven Coal mine at Fanny Bay (however, recent statements from Raven indicated that they expected to ship The Holmes Brothers David Lindley Calypso Rose Tony Trischka their coal through Port Alberni). ... and many more! The band has also indicated that they intended to apply Po’ Girl Nathan Rogers The Unthanks for the return of the two acre Cape Mudge Lighthouse site, which was sold to the federal government in the early 1900s. Band Chief Ralph Dick asserts that the land was illegally Tix: 1-866-898-8499 taken from the We Wai Kai people. The band is also claiming the Rebecca Spit Provincial Park. The Band had applied for rezoning of the scallop farm site, which is in Sutil Channel opposite I.R. #9 south of the park, but the rezoning was turned down by the Strathcona Regional District on the basis that Quadra Island’s Official Community Plan does not permit marine industrial uses in settlement areas. In addition, over 300 Quadra Islanders had written to the Regional District, or spoken at the public hearing, opposing the rezoning. Jim Abram, Quadra Island’s Regional Director, had voted against the rezoning. Later, he indicated that he wished to meet with the band to work on a solution to the deadlock. But the band now takes the position that since the federal government is about to take over responsibility for aquaculture on the BC coast, the Regional District no longer has any authority over the matter. 0

PARK from page 1 Island to the other. While this would probably take many years to achieve, he says, it would be a very worthwhile target. That is why he feels it is appropriate to introduce the idea as part of the new OCP. A number of other Island ‘special places’ have been islandmusicfest.com suggested for inclusion in the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, including sites on Bowen Island and the provincially operated park on Jedediah Island. 0 ISLAND TIDES, June 10, 2010, Page 11 Helmet those kids! Exxon Valdez punitive Head injuries are the number one cause of serious injury to fit your fingers between your head and the helmet. Look and death to kids on wheels—that’s why it’s the focus of this for lighter helmets for small children as they have weaker year’s Safe Kids Week in Canada, says ICBC. neck muscles. damages reduced It’s the law for all cyclists in BC to wear a helmet and you No. 3 - It’s all in the colour: It’s best to wear a brightly- Twenty years after the grounding of the supertanker could be fined for not wearing one—and for good reason. coloured helmet—and not just because it will make you Exxon Valdez in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, the US Bike helmets alone could prevent up to 85% of serious easier to see. Dark helmets absorb heat much quicker and Supreme Court has ruled on the extent of the punitive injuries. could make you feel fatigued. In warm conditions, a damages that should be assessed against Exxon for the In the unfortunate event of a crash, helmets are effective brightly-coloured, well-ventilated helmet will actually keep resulting oil spill. in absorbing the blow and minimizing violent movement your head cooler than not wearing a helmet at all. Try Punitive damages are distinct from the compensatory of the brain. They also work effectively in distributing the adding reflective tape to your child’s helmet to make it even damages assessed in this class action (Exxon vs. Baker), impact over a larger area, reducing the chances of skull more visible. which were intended to cover the economic damage to fractures or worse. No. 4 - Don’t go second-hand: Avoid used helmets—they commercial fishermen and other private parties, and totaled Here are ICBC’s top five safety tips to keep you and your may have suffered damage in a crash that’s not immediately some $310 million. child safe: visible, such as cracks in the foam padding. A helmet should Punitive damages are, as the name implies are intended No. 1 - Follow the standards: The majority of helmets for always be replaced if it’s dropped on a hard surface or to serve as retribution and as to deter any repetition of the sale in North America meet DOT (US Department of impacted in a crash. It should also be replaced if it’s old as original incident. Punitive damages are also the only funds Transportation) standards and the rigorous Snell the foam inside will degrade over time. Five years is the that can help with restoring environmental damage. Memoriam Foundation Safety Standards. A helmet that typical lifespan of a helmet but check with the manufacturer At the US Supreme Court, Exxon challenged the punitive meets these requirements should have a sticker indicating for their recommendations. damage award, which an Alaskan jury had awarded at $5 this on it. Helmets will typically have adjustable straps and No. 5 - Get them involved: Let your child get involved in billion on September 16, 1994. Following Exxon’s appeals a quick release buckle. Novelty helmets offer no protection choosing their own helmet. If they pick out one they like, this was reduced first to $4 billion plus interest in 2002 and in a crash. they’ll be more likely to enjoy wearing it. If you’re having to further reduced to $2.5 billion in 2006. During all this No. 2 - Look for fit: More important than who made the trouble getting your child to put on a helmet, remind them time no money was paid. (Exxon reported a net profits of helmet is how it fits. It should be snug but not that many top athletes, like their favourite Canucks players, $40 billion in 2007.) Finally, in June 2008, the US Supreme uncomfortable, and should not be able to roll off your head wear helmets to protect themselves. Most importantly, be Court reduced the punitive damages award to $507.5 when the chinstrap is secured. You also shouldn’t be able a role model for your child and wear your helmet too. 0 EXXON, please turn to page 13

BOREAL from page 9 accompanying BOXES, which The Boreal Forest agreement Agrichem Analytical contain text copied directly from a ‘Canadian Boreal Initiative, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Canopy, soil • plant • water testing draft of the Agreement. David Suzuki Foundation, ForestEthics, Greenpeace, The Nature Conservancy, ‘Active adaptive management’ Pew Environment Group International Boreal Conservation Campaign, and Ivey CAN YOU DIG IT? explains what the companies plan Foundation (hereafter referred to as the ‘ENGOs’) to do to change their operations to and: Backyard Farmer Special improve their environmental AbitibiBowater Inc, Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc, AV Group, Canfor performance. ‘ENGO Advocacy Corporation, Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership, Cariboo Pulp & Paper Company, Soil Testing work’ explains what the ENGOs Cascades inc., Daishowa-Marubeni International Ltd, FF Soucy Inc, Howe Sound pH, N, P, K $30 Pulp and Paper Limited Partnership, Kruger Inc, Louisiana-Pacific Canada Ltd, agree to stop doing. The key to the Does your compost stack up? Mercer International, Mill & Timber Products Ltd, NewPage Corporation, Papier success of the agreement depends Salinity, N, P, K, C/N ratio $30 on whether its objectives can be Masson Ltée, SFK Pâte, Tembec, Tolko Industries Ltd, West Fraser Timber achieved this way. Company Ltd, and Weyerhaeuser Company Limited (hereafter referred to as the It is clear from reading these ‘FPAC Members’) definitions from the Agreement and: 2 5 0 • 5 3 8 • 1 7 1 2 that, in a very real sense, ‘the devil Forest Products Association of Canada (hereafter referred to as ‘FPAC’). www.agrichem.ca [email protected] is in the details’. Clearly, the forest Have signed an Agreement that seeks to address sometimes conflicting social, companies have decided that co- economic, and environmental imperatives in a manner that captures the economic operating with the ENGOs is better opportunities that are emerging for forest products of the highest environmental than fighting them. The ENGOs, quality. for their part, have signed an The company and environmental organization signatories have chosen to work together in addressing this challenge. They will work jointly in the marketplace agreement that relieves them of and on the ground with leading practices and to support governments in their task their most effective weapon against of ensuring a fully functioning boreal ecosystem and world-competitive sustainable the companies; will their forest industry. environmental objectives be met? 0

WATER FORUM from page 8 Now, over the last 25-years we have lost faith in ourselves he was batting 100%. to own and manage it. And with some cause, as the cutting Lunch was cooked and served by Vancouver Island back of skilled workers in public management has left us University’s chapter of World University Services Canada. without the knowledge to manage our public assets; Soup, salad and sandwiches were served in ceramic bowls currently we ‘couldn’t manage them if we decided to take made by Arrowsmith potters, purchased by CUPE, which back responsibility for them.’ participants got to choose and take home. One participant ‘We walked away,’ he declared. We were taught to call suggested a more locavore menu might be an additional public employees ‘bureaucrats’—so we could hate them. He benefit. said that with licensing to private enterprises we had given During the forum and during lunch people thought over more power than outright sale—‘at least then we could about and asked what steps they could take in improving tax the land.’ water security. A email list of those interested is being Speaking of how to right the situation, ‘What,’ he said, compiled and further meetings are planned. Contact Roger was wrong with expropriation.’ We had a strong tradition Oakley at [email protected] if you would like to be included, of it. We did it to the aboriginals.’ If you can expropriate even if you did not attend the forum. 0 native lands, why can’t you take it back from a corporation? he asked. Asked about electing MLAs who would take action, he Call Us Toll Free For Quotes On said that in BC you could elect MLAs on bake sales. Asked • Homeowners • Farm if he would come back to public life, he said that this was • Commercial • Bed & Breakfasts ULF SLANDS ATER REATMENT OLUTIONS the first group that had asked and he had come, so, this far, G I W T S SALT SPRING ISLAND: Well Water • Rain Water • Surface Water Mike Garside • 250-537-5527 1103–115 Fulford-Ganges Road What is a • Whole-house Treatment SIDNEY: property worth • Self-cleaning Sediment Filters Doug Guedes • 1-866-656-9886 • (656-9886) without water? A2–9769 Fifth Street • Media Filters BRENTWOOD BAY: • WATER WELLS • Ultraviolet Systems Doug Strong • 1-877-655-1141 • (652-1141) • HYDROfRAcTURING 7178 W. Saanich Rd TO IMPROVE WELL YIELDS REMOVE: OAK BAY: Iron / Odour / Bacteria / • DRILLING fOR GEOSOURcE Gary Law • 250-592-5544 Hardness / Arsenic 112-2187 Oak Bay Avenue autoplan Drilling the Islands since 1965 SAANICHTON: 250-412-1110 • 604- 630-1114 • 524 William Street, Victoria DAN OLIVE • 1-877-633-0877 1-800-746-7444 SSI: 250-537-8456 250-339-6914 Comox Valley Anchor Insurance Agencies Ltd., 2-7855 East Saanich Road www.drillwell.com [email protected] www.watertiger.net www.seafirstinsurance.com Page 12, ISLAND TIDES, June 10, 2010 EcoIdea—Food waste Jan Slakov, drawings: Hannah Martens In 2012, it will no longer be legal to put food waste in the garbage in the CRD (Capital Regional District). Why wait! Food waste in the landfill causes methane gas, a very powerful greenhouse gas, to be emitted. But when we compost food ECO-WOODY waste, we help feed the earth so it can feed us. You can now buy Earth Machine composters at the Salt Spring’s recycling centre for $60. Springtails (pictured here) are among millions, even billions of organisms that can be found in rich compost. Questions about composting? Visit the Victoria compost Education Centre’s website at: www.compost.bc.caor visit in person at 1216, North Park Street in Victoria. The Centre Photo: Henny Scnare, henny.ca is open Tuesday–Saturday from 10am–5pm. 0 First donations to firetruck restoration gratefully received (see Round The Islands, this page).

RTI from page 3 filled with banners made by students from the Mayne restoration on-Island within a year, and establish a people were wearing gossamer wings and their very best School and other banners made of streamers. The Master permanent home on Galiano for the vehicle. festive May Day outfits. For a small donation, many people of Mischief dressed as a chicken was up to his tricks Donations can be made to the South Galiano Volunteer picked up a ready-made garland of flowers which added delighting kids and adults alike throughout the procession. Fire Department Society. greatly to their outfits. The garlands were made of broom— When we got to the park and the Maypole was planted, Support For Wildlife Support PIC a cunning way to remove this invasive plant. our new May Queen, attended by many fairies, was crowned Salt Spring’s Island Wildlife Natural Care Society is on a There were dancers galore. This year, from Vancouver in the labyrinth by last year’s Queen. This year’s Green Man fundraising drive. The centre tells us that, in September Island we had; the Quicks Bottom Morris Men and the pledged his support to the Queen as she protects the earth 2009, Minister Rich Coleman deemed animal welfare to be Island Thyme Morris Women plus the Mayne Island and the products of the earth from pestilence. its lowest priority and cut all grant funding. After a decade Country Dancers. Providing perfect music for much of the Then the dancing around and about the maypole began. of qualifying for and receiving this grant, this decision was dancing was the folk ensemble Banquo. First we had the little children and then the Mayne Maidens made shortly before the date the funding was expected. This Our noisy and very colourful procession carrying the and the community spiral dance. Refreshments and amounted to an unexpected loss of $65,000 which Maypole from the Farmers’ Market to Miners Bay Park was children’s games were as popular as ever (see photo page 16). represented 30% of the centre’s budget. Once again this The event is a fundraiser for the conservancy. The raffle year, all funding is cut. prizes were great and for them we have to thank: Dove Lang, Without any government funding at all, Island Wildlife Jaiya, Home Hardware on Mayne, Mike Nadeau, Toby continues to provide emergency care to wildlife in need Snelgrove, Eden Evans & Barbara McIntyre. through the generosity of private donors and small uniting Islands—big and small. It costs a Galiano First Firetruck to be Restored charitable foundations. So donations are critical to the lot to keep a regional newspaper going! According to the Gulf Islander on Friday, January 24, 1964: operation of this refuge. Voluntary Subscriptions help Fifty-three persons had been in attendance at an October 9, Founded in 1996 by Jeff Lederman, Island Wildlife 1963 meeting of residents, sponsored by the Chamber of Natural Care Centre treated less than 100 animals in its first keep all this great news coming! Commerce, to discuss the needs for fire protection on year, rising to a total of over 5,000 in it’s fourteenth year. Galiano Island. Since The Galiano Lodge burned to the The facility serves an important need for sick, injured and Did something in this edition: ground in April, 1951, the only equipment in use were some orphaned wildlife throughout the Gulf Islands and coastal • inform you? pumps from Powell River Company, a Wajax pump, and a communities. trailer. As one of only two centres in the country permitted by • pique your interest? The Langford Fire Department had a fire engine the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to rescue and treat • amuse you? available (for $900), and after some discussion the decision marine mammals, the refuge’s principal focus is stranded to purchase the truck was made and the serious business at seal pups, but expert care is also given to avian species and • give you a warm, fuzzy feeling? hand was ‘financing’. According to a October 11 Chamber of terrestrial mammals. • make a good you contact for you? Commerce letter, a request was made for very household to The wildlife that arrive at this centre are taken care of by contribute $15 for fire protection. a devoted and highly skilled care team—medical treatment • find you an opportunity? Unfortunately, as with most plans, this one was not consists of an integration of conventional veterinary • inspire you to take action? 100% successful! So two young ladies, (Marion Williams & protocols with the best of naturopathic remedies, including Jean Lockwood) took over the fundraising and according to homeopathy and herbal remedies. • make a conversation topic? a record kept by Mel Spouse, within a week $285 was The centre is also a teaching facility with a large number • find you a good buy or service? collected, and within five weeks the grand total was $2,112. of staff members who are volunteer interns from all over the It was at this time that the Galiano Volunteer Department world who come to learn techniques and gain invaluable If you are receiving Island Tides in your Island Society was formed. hands on experience. mailbox or if you pick it up from one of our yellow Fast forward 47 years … South Galiano Island Volunteer A remarkable photo collage (below) is also being used as free boxes located across the Strait of Georgia Fire Department is going to restore that Dodge-Bickle a fundraiser for the Wildlife Centre. Photographer Elehna Seagrave Pumper Truck. Once again fundraising is in order. de Sousa created a montage of pictures of the development and from Victoria to Campbell River or, if you read To initiate it, cheques were presented from the former Chief of junco chicks. A limited edition print is part of a silent online, you can show your support and appreciation Chester Williams, current Chief Bill Jones, the South auction at Eclectic Visions, an exhibition of the Salt Spring by mailing a voluntary subscription of Galiano Volunteer Firefighters, along with a generous gift RTI, please turn to page 15 ($25 + $1.25 gst = $26.25) or an from the estate of Gordon Hodson. The goal is to complete amount of your choice to: Photo Elehna de Sousa Box 55, Pender Island, B.C. v0N 2M0 (Or call us with your VISA number, 250-629-3660) Thank You! And a heartfelt ‘Thank You’ to those of you who have given subscriptions. Keep those lovely cards, letters, and emails coming, too! We paste them all in our scrapbooks! ISLAND TIDES, June 10, 2010, Page 13

Photo: Lila Parks In love wth the view at Neck Point Park, Naniamo.

ENBRIDGE from page 7 SATURNA from page 8 specific instructions on the posters: No fuzzy down some 90 miles of narrow coastal waterways to Hecate Strait and thence that need new solutions. Once we are into it, the apple mint, no spearmint. Lots of pints of mint to the ocean. (For details of the route, see March 4, 2010 article in Island Tides, anxiety goes away and I remember we are in this sauce is made to sell, above and beyond what is online at www.islandtides.com.) together. Everyone does their part excellently part of the meal. Firewood—only alder—has A competing pipeline operated by Kinder Morgan Canada accesses the Pacific and keeps an eye on the overall success of the been cut, collected and stacked at the site. We use from Burnaby, BC, but access to that terminal is limited to very much smaller event. I find it comforting to remember that my a mix of aged for heating up the fire and this tankers by Vancouver Harbour and the narrow and congested waterways leading part has been done by others in years gone by year’s green for slowing the lamb-roasting. to Juan de Fuca Strait. Enbridge estimate that the completion of the Northern and will be done by others in the future. Thursday, June 19 is the first big workbee for Gateway pipeline will enable a 30% increase in tar sands oil production. You are not allowed to quit without having volunteers at the site and then it escalates in Enbridge will not be responsible for operation of tankers, but they have trained your replacement. Already the Rice intensity all the way through until the very last indicated that they will apply standards which will require double-hulled ships Queens, in charge of the Spanish Rice, have their lamb bone is dealt with, the Community Hall is with escort tugs and modern navigational aids. ‘exit tickets’ in training. restored and the site returned to beauty. 0 The Review Process The Mint Sauce Party has taken place. Very The inclusion of the National Energy Board, a generally pro-industry body, in the review panel raises new questions about the assessment process. Combined OUTSOURCING from page 5 with the uncertainty created by the provisions of Bill C-9, it has also raised • develop a long term sourcing strategy to meet BC Hydro business needs; questions as to whether the public will be heard. • prepare an end-of-term recommendation(s). Concerns about oil spills on land and sea dominate public discussion about Proponent should note that at this time, office space at BC Hydro’s Vancouver, BC location may or the project. may not be available for the Work identified in the RFP. Proponent should be aware that working But Enbridge have promised 62,700 person-years of construction work and offsite may have to occur. BC Hydro anticipates the Long Term Sourcing Assessment (LTSA) project 1,150 longterm positions in the operation and maintenance of the pipeline and will be completed over a 4-6 week time frame, commencing in late June 2010 with completion in terminal. In Kitimat, there would be 165 operating jobs in a town hard hit by late July or early August, 2010. Article from online news source www.publiceyeonline.com. 0 industrial closures. First Nations Oppose The Project EXXON from page 11 Already, all the First Nations along the pipeline route (about 50 of them), plus million and legislated a cap of 1:1 ratio the eight First Nations on the coast of BC, have voiced their opposition to the of punitive damages to compensatory project and both its land use and marine implications. damages in maritime cases. On Saturday, May 30, in the Haisla village of Kitimaat (down Douglas However a challenge has been Channel a bit from Kitimat town), T-shirts reading ‘No pipeline. No tankers. No issued this week in the US Senate to problem.’ on the front, and ‘I’ve got this sinking feeling about Enbridge’ were overthrow capping punitive to popular. compensatory damages, probably in Some 500 people gathered to hear Norm Hann, who recently completed a view of the worsening situation in The stand-up paddleboard trip along the proposed tanker route, describe his Gulf of Mexico. adventures. Art Sterritt, executive director of the Coastal First Nations, spoke of This case is referred to in Loys First Nations’ responsibility for this ‘pretty special place’. Dr David Suzuki noted Maingon’s article on oil spills in Island Tides’ May 27 issue, also next the relevance of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, saying, perhaps sadly, that edition see review of Riki Ott’s book it could not have come at a more opportune time. ‘Not One Drop: Betrayal and ‘We created capitalism,’ he went on, saying that Canada’s leaders need to Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Salt Spring Island realize that the economy is ‘a figment of our imagination.’ 0 Valdez Oil Spill.’ 0 FarmersFarmers InstituteInstitute 351 RainbowRainbow Rd.,Rd., Ganges next to recyclingrecycling • harvesting BRinG yOUR REcyclaBlES tO US… June 23 - 26 systems Wed.Wed. - Fri. 11-6 Sat. 11-4 Galiano July 1-4, Mayne 15-18 • design We’ll take anything with a • installation deposit for a full refund. • service Open daily 9am to 6pm Sunday 9:30am to 5pm BOB BURGESS tel. 250-246-2155 250.539.2936 [email protected] SatURna GEnERal StORE www.rainwaterconnection.com 101 naRvaEz Bay ROad, SatURna iSland Page 14, ISLAND TIDES, June 10, 2010

Photo: Marg Brian Cruise ship dwarfs Ogden Point terminal in Victoria. Cruise ships pollution in Victoria neighbourhoods Victorians, particularly those in James Bay, had questions • The maximum 24 hour concentration in James Bay not exposed to pollution above the widely accepted WHO regarding air quality and suspected cruise ships. was 122 µg/m3—far above the World Health Organization levels, it contends. In response, the Vancouver Island Health Authority (WHO) guideline of 20 µg/m3. JBNA’s suggestions to the City of Victoria for the (VIHA) conducted a program of air quality research from • From June through August, SO2 24-hour values remainder of the season are: 2006 to 2009. Dispersion modelling (CALPUFF) was exceeded WHO levels on 16% of the days and on 23.6% of • Cruise ship fuel standards be significantly improved; completed in 2008 and air monitoring was done in 2009. the days when cruise ships were in port. low SO2 fuel is available and should be used immediately, The results, as released by VIHA and the Ministry of These facts do not support Greater Victoria Harbour • Cruise ship visits be staged to minimize high levels of Environment, confirm that residents should be concerned, Authority Society (GVHA) claims that their activities reflect pollution, says the James Bay Neighbourhood Association (JBNA). economic, environmental, and social responsibility, says • VIHA and BC Ministry of Environment (MoE) monitor The 2009 air quality SO2 levels were triple the values JBNA. ‘City representatives can no longer promote Victoria’s air quality in James Bay and at a location in the Songhees predicted by modelling: ‘clean air, says JBNA spokesperson Tim Van Alstine. predicted to have the highest 1-hour SO2 levels and the • The highest 1-hour maximum SO2 readings were 448 Cruise industry ‘discussions’ suggest that the use of highest levels of NO2, and µg/m3 (micrograms per cubic metre)—one highpoint cleaner fuel will lead to a little cleaner air in 2010 and 2012 • VIHA and MoE expand air quality monitoring to occurred on June 5, a typical Friday evening with two cruise with the possibility of much cleaner air by 2016. include helicopter and float plane emission sources which ships in port. However, six years is too long to continue to tolerate an have been identified as emissions knowledge gaps. unhealthy environment, Victorians, says JBNA, cannot continue to ‘hold their SUMMER EARTH EDUcATION PROGRAMS (SEEP) 2010 says JBNA. The cruise breath’ waiting for the cruise ship industry, the GVHA The Gulf Islands centre for Ecological Learning is now accepting registration enquires industry, which stayed in Society, the City of Victoria, and the Provincial Government for its SEEP activities on Mayne, Pender, Saturna and Salt Spring islands. the black throughout the to take action on a known problem. Our programs integrate the knowledge and understanding of marine, forest and 2008-09 recession, can Stop Press freshwater ecosystems, food growing and local first Nations knowledge. We use afford to be responsible for The cruise ship industry is asking Transport Canada to relax natural science, multi-sensory experiences, art, photography, theatre, story telling, its pollution footprint. The a requirement that all ships use cleaner fuel than they burn music and play as core learning methods. City of Victoria and the on the open seas within 200 nautical miles of Canada and GVHA Society must take the United States. 0 Salt Spring Island: July 12 - 30 Mayne Island: August 2 - 13 steps now to ensure that residents and visitors are contact: Jessica Reveley, contact: Jessica Willows, [email protected] [email protected] Pender Island: July 12 - 16 Saturna Island: August 16 - 20 Elections every four years, not three That was one of the recommendations of the • campaign finance disclosure contact: Julie Johnston, contact: Jessica Willows, Local Government Elections Task Force statements to be filed within 90-days of [email protected] [email protected] which reported in on May 28. It was a joint voting day (time shortened); effort of the Union of British Columbia • disclosures to be published online; Time: 10am to 4pm, Monday through friday Municipalities and the provincial • sponsorship information on all children ages 6 to 12 fees: $175.00/week/child under review government (Ministry of Community and campaign advertising; GIcEL may be able to provide limited financial assistance for families who have Rural Development), and concentrated on • a ban on anonymous contributions; children wishing to participate. issues of accountability, transparency, • one year time period for investigation compliance and enforcement. It reported of alleged offences; GULf ISLANDS cENTRE fOR EcOLOGIcAL LEARNING receiving thousands of submissions from • Elections BC to ensure compliance and individuals and groups. conduct preliminary investigations; A DEcADE Of PROVIDING ExPERIENcES IN NATURE fOR ALL. The major concerns were with campaign • expense limits for all campaign It has been 10 years since the Gulf Islands centre for Ecological Learning was finance, and the Task Force’s participants; conceived and during this year (2010) we will surpass the 1,000th participant in our recommendations dealt with expense limits, • term of office extended to four years various programs. This to us is a great record and we would like to celebrate the registration and disclosure, the role of from three (this would include Islands occasion with all our partners, parents, grandparents and children who have been Elections BC and the necessary legislative Trustees); and part of this great adventure. So, please mark down October 22, 2010 as the day to changes. It is anticipated that these • expanded education for election help us celebrate a decade of nature-based education. recommendations might be implemented participants. Tentative plans are in the making and there will be both day activities and an evening in time for the 2011 municipal elections. The task force did not recommend that a event on Salt Spring Island. 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RTI from page 12 Photography Club at the ArtSpring Gallery, bids will support SportBall—a great game for kids and parents to play—and Shore destination for arts and culture. The Coast Collective the wildlife centre. Prints are also available from a kid’s centre put on by West Shore Parks and Rec. There Gallery is committed to showcasing local art, with new [email protected]. A free Island Wildlife DVD and a will also be music, food, and a beer and wine garden. shows going up every 2 to 4 weeks. The Gift Shop has four charitable tax receipt will be included with every purchase. Take some time to peruse the Coast Collective Gallery rooms full of original works of art by local artists, ensuring Fathers Day in Colwood and Gift Shop, featuring the works of over 100 local artists. that there is something for everyone. The Collective offers a Looking for a place to bring Dad on Father’s Day? Then Father’s Day will be the closing day for the Collective’s latest wide range of art classes and workshops open to the public check out the Coast Collective’s Transportation Festival on art show, ‘Transported: ways of getting from here to there,’ taught by many well-known, talented artists. You can learn Sunday, June 20. The event will feature model trains, complementing our outdoor event, the Transportation Harley Davidson motorcycles, small tractors, a dump truck, Festival. more at www.coastcollective.ca. bicycles, the Colwood Fire Rescue Truck, and much more. The Coast Collective is a community Art Centre located Please note: The Bridge to Esquimalt Lagoon on Ocean What a great place for the kids and dads to hang out on the shores of the Esquimalt Lagoon in Colwood. Housed Boulevard is temporarily closed. When coming from together and explore different modes of transport! in the historic 1929 Pendray Mansion on 11.5 acres of Victoria, please use Sooke Road, turn left on Metchosin The Festival will also have family activities such as woods, lawns and gardens, the site has become a West Road, left on Lagoon Road, left on Heatherbell Road. 0 Page 16, ISLAND TIDES, June 10, 2010

Photo: Tom Hobley Thrills and spills of the sack race at the Mayne Island May celebration. Dead whale calf was a transient orca ancouver Aquarium researchers have revealed There are two types of killer whales found in nearshore the public. These sightings data create a clearer picture of genetic results from a killer whale calf carcass found waters of BC: mammal-eating transient killer whales and cetacean habitat use and aid understanding of these Vnear Sooke on May 4. The calf was a member of the fish-eating resident killer whales. Researchers were creatures and their requirements. There is further so-called transient killer whale population. Conservation concerned the calf was from the endangered southern information at www.wildwhales.org. biologists consider this a positive finding and are relieved resident killer whale population because its body was found The Aquarium also operates the BC Wild Killer Whale the calf is not from the endangered BC southern resident in a location frequented by residents. Adoption Program. By joining, members support research killer whale population. Like most whales, killer whale carcasses usually sink to on wild killer whales which leads to a better understanding On May 4, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)’s Marine the ocean floor, making it rare to find a beached carcass. In of the whales, their place in the ocean ecosystem, and Mammal Response Network responded to a public call 1999, another transient orca calf body was found in the conservation measures necessary to protect them. To learn regarding a deceased orca calf washed ashore near Sooke same general area. more about adopting a killer whale, visit on Vancouver Island. DFO attended the scene to organize Transient killer whales reside atop the ocean food chain www.killerwhale.org. the immediate transfer of the carcass to the BC Animal thereby accumulating large amounts of persistent organic The Vancouver Aquarium is a global leader in connecting Health Centre in Abbotsford for necropsy. pollutants (POP’s) in their bodies. When giving birth, a people to our natural world, and a self-supporting, non- The calf appears to have died within a day or two of birth. female orca will pass on most of its own organic pollutants profit association dedicated to effecting the conservation A detailed necropsy showed its lungs were partially inflated onto the calf, decreasing its chance of survival. Orca calves of aquatic life through display and interpretation, and its umbilical cord was still attached. The calf measured have an average survival rate of 60% in the first six months education, research, and direct action. Learn more at 2.4 metres in length and weighed 220 kilograms. A small of life. www.vanaqua.org. sample of skin tissue was provided for genetic analysis to DFO began the first systematic research on killer whales Dr Lance Barrett-Lennard, senior marine mammal scientist in the world in the early 1970’s, and has collaborated closely at the Vancouver Aquarium. with the Vancouver Aquarium on this work since the early Solar seven receive funding Barrett-Lennard and his Aquarium research team 1980’s. In that time, nearly 500 skin samples have been extracted pure DNA from the skin tissue and compared a collected from killer whales from throughout the north Seven BC communities have been named Solar portion of the genetic sequence with hundreds of Pacific. DNA extracted from these samples showed that Communities and they will receive a total of $35,000 in previously-collected samples of transient and resident killer resident and transient orcas have not mated for hundreds funding to further develop solar hot water programs and whale DNA. The genetic analysis determined the orca calf of generations and are genetically different, despite sharing other solar initiatives. to be a transient killer whale. the same habitat. The DNA has also been used to determine The communities which will each receive $5,000 are: Dr Lance Barrett-Lennard says, ‘While it is always mating patterns and assess inbreeding. Richmond, Delta, Campbell River, Invermere, Fort St John, troubling to hear about young killer whales dying, there is Vancouver Aquarium researchers operate a number of Grand Forks and the Regional District of Nanaimo. some relief that the calf was not a member of the critically- programs related to marine mammal and cetacean A solar hot water system can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 1–2 tonnes per year for a single family home endangered southern resident population, where every research, including the BC Cetacean Sightings Network using natural gas for water heating. 0 death moves the group closer to a breaking point.’ which collects and compiles sightings reports submitted by