Oil spill cleanup details shared at public meeting
Specialists explained cleanup steps for the Pine River spill to a packed audience. Roy Crothers reports daily samples from 20 sites to establish a baseline. testing will recur next August to October for comparison. Discussions cover a land farm remediation plan while river booms were replaced after a rainfall.
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Roy Crothers
Dave Pritchard
Darren Tomecek
Alpine
Bill Hume
Crothers
Hume
National Chief tours oil spill in Pine River area
National Chief Matthew Coon Come of the Assembly of First Nations visited Chetwynd to view the Pine River oil spill with Saulteau Chief Robin Paquette and West Moberly Chief Roland Wilson. The delegation urged independent assessment and long term cleanup funded by governments and Pembina.
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Matthew Coon Come
Assembly of First Nations
Chetwynd
Pine River
Conn Come
Saulteau
Robin Paquette
West Moberly
Roland Wilson
Pemmican
Fort St. John
Coon Come
Pembina Pipeline Corporation
Kym Desjarlais
Herb George
Premier urges doctors to return to bargaining talks in BC
Premier Ujjal Dosanjh says doctors threatening to withdraw services must drop demands for more money and return to talks. He notes a $40 million provincial offer aims to recruit and retain rural doctors, while warning expanded on-call pay could cost up to 236 million and divert Ottawa funds from equipment and nurses. He urges collaboration to protect patient care and overall health funding.
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Ujjal Dosanjh
Dosanjh
B.C
Ottawa
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Wabi Hill
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Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks
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