Bow River Shuttles: July 2016

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

‘No Need for Site C’: Review Panel Chair Speaks Out Against Dam in New Video

‘No Need for Site C’: Review Panel Chair Speaks Out Against Dam in New Video

By Emma Gilchrist • Monday, June 20, 2016

A new video released today by DeSmog Canada features an exclusive video interview with Harry Swain, chair of the federal-provincial panel tasked with reviewing the controversial Site C dam.

“Tweet: EXCLUSIVE video from ‪#‎SiteC‬ review chair: ‘I think we’re making a big mistake, a very expensive one.’ http://bit.ly/28Mt762 ‪#‎bcpoliI‬ think we’re making a big mistake, a very expensive one,” Swain says in the video. “Of the $9 billion it will cost, at least $7 billion will never be returned. You and I as rate payers will end up paying $7 billion bucks for something we get nothing for.”

Since 2005, domestic demand for electricity in B.C. has been essentially flat, making it difficult to justify the dam which will flood 107 kilometres of the Peace River and destroy thousands of hectares of prime agricultural land.

“There is no need for Site C,” Swain says. “If there was a need, we could meet it with a variety of other renewable and smaller scale sources.”

Read more here: http://www.desmog.ca/…/no-need-site-c-review-panel-chair-sp…

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Friday, July 15, 2016

Parks Day & Creekfest (Calgary) - Sunday July 17

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Parks Day & Creekfest (Calgary) - Sunday July 17

Schedule of events here: https://www.facebook.com/CREEKFESTinFishCreek/photos/pcb.1187434701290499/1187434324623870/?type=3&theater

More info here Parks Day & Creekfest and here http://friendsoffishcreek.org/event/creekfest/

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Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Trout Unlimited Canada Stampede Breakfast - Frid July 15

Trout Unlimited Canada Stampede Breakfast - Frid July 15

8am-11am at Country Pleasures Fly Fishing

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Anglers asked to collect samples for U of C to test for 'rock snot'

Lee Jackson, a professor at the University of Calgary holds some rock snot also known as Didymosphenia geminata or didymo in October 2009. Leah Hennel / Calgary Herald archives

Anglers asked to collect samples for U of C to test for 'rock snot'

by Colette Derworiz, Calgary Herald, July 13 2016

Calling all anglers. Must be willing to collect ‘rock snot’ and fill out some details online.

Trout Unlimited and the University of Calgary want people who are out fishing, hiking or exploring along rivers in Alberta to sample rocks for Didymospehnia geminata, commonly known as Didymo and nicknamed rock snot for its mucous-like stickiness.

It’s a slimy, green aquatic algae that grows along the stream bottom.

“We’re asking anglers to collect samples for us,” said Lee Jackson, a professor in the department of biological sciences in the Faculty of Science at the U of C. “We are using it as a means to sample locations that we haven’t sampled before.

Read more here:
http://calgaryherald.com/…/anglers-asked-to-collect-samples…

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