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Category Archives: Nature
Lemon Creek class action lawsuit certified by judge
Judge Masuhara rejects defendants’ arguments The wheels of justice grind on at a glacial pace, but sometimes they do the right thing. It’s taken four years, but the BC Supreme Court has finally certified that the class action lawsuit may proceed … Continue reading
A Mother’s Day Story–Mama Duck Gets a Helping Hand
This year my mother has not had the best of Mother’s Days. After suffering from chronic bronchitis that progressed to pneumonia, followed by fluid on the heart that caused a heart attack, she was rushed to Williams Lake hospital. It … Continue reading
Posted in environment, Nature
Tagged empathy, environment, mother duck and ducklngs, Mother's Day, nature
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The Price of Transcendence: poetry launch
INTRODUCTION: To set the scene for the launch of my new book of poems, The Price of Transcendence, I got thinking about just what that word meant and how it might inform the impulse that went into the poems. The … Continue reading
UPDATE #8: Residents not convinced by test data
A late evening interview with biologist Jennifer Yeow of Passmore Labs comes clean about water testing, long-term monitoring, and fuel levels in the Slocan Valley watershed. Yeow is a microbiologist with a degree in biology who has worked as a … Continue reading
Posted in environment, Nature, News, The Kootenays
Tagged community, environment, Lemon Creek jet fuel spill, nature, the kootenays
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UPDATE #4: Fuel spill disaster spawns class action suit
The Shit Hits the Fan: Class Action Suit Word has been received from lawyer David Aaron that he has been engaged by Slocan Valley resident Robert Kirk to press a class action suit for damages created by the jet fuel … Continue reading
Posted in environment, Nature, News, The Kootenays
Tagged civilization, community, environment, nature, public health, the kootenays
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Mohawk the Starling—Part 2
2. Breaking the Language Barrier and The Wisdom of Play Mohawk the Starling basks in Carol Pettigrew’s almost round-the-clock care, even as Carol herself struggles with emphysema. Determined soul that she is, the oxygen tank she’s forced to drag around … Continue reading
Replanting the Lungs of the World
I hate to have to say this to some of my neighbours, but logging as we know it has to end. We are cutting out the lungs of the world. According to the National Resources Defense Council, forest clearcutting is … Continue reading →