Helter-Skelter

[Anonymous]

Biden on Tuesday ordered 50 million barrels of oil released from America's strategic reserve to help bring down energy costs, in coordination with other major energy consuming nations, including India, the United Kingdom and China.

[Anonymous]

My company says our main line between Vancouver and Kamloops will be live again by the ned of tomorrow. CN says their main line between Vancouver and Kamloops will be back in service by Friday.

[Anonymous]

Not here. The coast is mainly unaffected except for trees after much rain softened ground followed by very high winds ... the worse possible combination for trees

That's good. I feel sorry the people of Merritt.

[Anonymous]

My company says our main line between Vancouver and Kamloops will be live again by the ned of tomorrow. CN says their main line between Vancouver and Kamloops will be back in service by Friday.

Thank you IHJ.

[cc]

That's all good as Interior BC is a disaster that will be a long time under repair for roads and the poor people living there



Worse, they are calling for very heavy rainfall & very soon

[Anonymous]

That's all good as Interior BC is a disaster that will be a long time under repair for roads and the poor people living there



Worse, they are calling for very heavy rainfall & very soon

 

[Anonymous]

The Canadian Dairy Commission is recommending an 8.4% increase in farm gate milk prices, a large hike that is expected to raise the cost of dairy products on store shelves in the New Year. This monopolistic cartel should be ended. We pay so much more for dairy because we don't allow competition.

[Anonymous]

The Canadian Dairy Commission is recommending an 8.4% increase in farm gate milk prices, a large hike that is expected to raise the cost of dairy products on store shelves in the New Year. This monopolistic cartel should be ended. We pay so much more for dairy because we don't allow competition.

Our grocery bill has increased quite a bit, but the amount of food we buy hasn't.

[Anonymous]

Barbados, a former British colony, will next week ditch Queen Elizabeth as head of state, breaking its last remaining imperial bonds with Britain nearly 400 years since the first English ship arrived at the Caribbean island.

[Anonymous]

We all knew that climate change would be blamed for the flooding in BC even though it has happened several times before.



https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/terence-corcoran-a-human-mistake-%E2%80%94-why-the-bc-floods-are-not-a-climate-change-issue/ar-AAR7Hec?ocid=mailsignout&li=AAggFp5">https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstor ... li=AAggFp5">https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/terence-corcoran-a-human-mistake-%e2%80%94-why-the-bc-floods-are-not-a-climate-change-issue/ar-AAR7Hec?ocid=mailsignout&li=AAggFp5

Sumas and areas south of the United States border have experienced so-called 100-year floods in 1908-1909 and 1932. Floods ranked as 35-year events occurred in 1945, 1949,1955,1975, and 1990. At least a dozen others are on the record.





When the first Sumas Lake dike and drainage systems were proposed by a Seattle company around 1909 and completed in June of 1924, the Vancouver Province declared "Sumas Lake is no more" and the Chilliwack Progress rejoiced: "Sumas Lake is now dry."



Despite recurring floods over the past century, the political belief that the flood risk had been or soon could be brought under control prevailed. It has long proved to be a false hope, accompanied by persistent warnings from engineers and others.



A 1994 study from the Fraser Basin Management Program that was released on the anniversary of a major 1894 flood. It concluded that "there is a one-in-three chance that a flood at least as big will occur by the year 2045 — and it may even be bigger."



The title of another report on the 1994 Task Force Review of the Fraser River Flood Control Program was titled "Getting ready for the big one!: The next big Fraser River flood." The archive of such warnings and reports run to the hundreds of items over decades, from academics, consultants, panels, agencies, boards, the media. A 2007 Vancouver Province series about B.C.'s flood threats warned of " hell to pay " if this river floods again.



In November last year, consulting engineers issued a revised final report to the City of Abbotsford on a flood mitigation plan . The process of coming up with a plan began with the 1990 flood, described as a major 35-year event, but after almost 35 years of planning — and at least 24 engineering studies and countless agency reports — the three levels of government responsible for mitigating flood risk had failed to come up with a plan.



The whole project of preparing for floods appears to have been handed off to an endless procession of agencies and study panels endlessly bogged down in stakeholder issues and a multitude of interests. The current effort, now almost a decade in the making, is the Fraser Basin Council's Lower Mainland Flood Management Strategy . It's third and presumably final "taking action" report is scheduled for release in March, 2022. The strategy, it said, "will include a broad, holistic vision" and a series of recommendations to improve "understanding of flood risk, reducing flood risk and increasing resilience."



To pick one example, in the name of fighting climate change the province introduced a carbon tax in 2008 that has generated revenues of $2-billion. The alleged objective of curbing B.C. carbon emissions is to save the planet in decades to come, and it is safe to say that — after rebates and other tax tricks — little of the money was used to support the need for a $500-millon capital investment to protect the Sumas Prairie.



In Ottawa, where there is talk of trillion dollar schemes to reduce fossil fuel use to net-zero, bury carbon emissions and subsidize electric cars, the flood risk topic has been largely non-existent — until this week's Speech from the Throne. Instead of funding $500-million to protect a B.C. region from floods, Ottawa is lavishing billions on industries to supposedly clean up their carbon emissions. Ontario's Algoma Steel, which recently went public, is set to receive $420-million in federal aid to phase out coal . Prime Minister Trudeau was on hand to announce the net-zero aspect of the subsidy.

[Anonymous]

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[Odinson]

Its -22 Celsius and its still afternoon.



Clear skies.





Its gonna be a cold night.

[Frood]

Its -22 Celsius and its still afternoon.



Clear skies.





Its gonna be a cold night.

Nothing that another layer or two can't help....

[Anonymous]

It's mild here. It's above zero.

[Anonymous]

It's showing twelve degrees right now.