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April 10, 2013
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A THOUSAND little and big kids
took part in the annual Easter Egg Hunt in Lake Country on the Easter holiday weekend at Jack Seaton Park. A combination of children, families, great entertainment, painted bunny noses, balloons, George Elliot student volunteers and Lions Club volunteers cooked up hot dogs, prepared goody bags and had a beautiful day in one of our beautiful parks. Best of all for everyone involved was the smiles on all the faces.
A landslide on Jackson Court Monday closed McGowan Road while crews mopped up and ensured the road-side banks were stabilized. ...............................
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Lake Country and Kelowna
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NDP provincial election candidates share office space. ...............................
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Jim Taylor who writes the Faith Today column, has suffered an accident and his column is not available this week. We wish him a speedy recovery.
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▼ PROVINCIAL POLITICS
James says minister of environment should resign ALISTAIR WATERS ASSISTANT EDITOR
Kelowna-Lake Country B.C. Conservative candidate Graeme James is calling for the resignation of Environment Minister Terry Lake over questions about Pacific Carbon Trust. “(He) should do the honourable thing and quit,” said James on Thursday. “With the ongoing debacle around Pacific Carbon Trust, it is clear Terry Lake must resign. What is not clear is if something more sinister is at play— and that needs to be investigated.” Describing himself
as “irate”about the situation, James called the trust “one of the biggest shell games ever perpetrated by a government in power.” “It is shameful and time that this sort of misleading activity cease,” said James. Questions have been raised about how much the Crown agency charges public sector entities for carbon offsets. According to data from the agency, a number of private companies have been selling carbon credits to Pacific Carbon Trust for prices ranging from $9 to $19 a ton. But public sector agencies, which buy off-
sets from the trust, have been paying $25 a ton. The trust acts as a middleman buying the credits from companies that have undertaken projects that reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and selling them to public agencies that are trying to become carbon neutral. The aim of the program is to make B.C. a carbon neutral province through the use of credits and offsets. James, a former Kelowna city councillor, said the current controversy involving the Pacific Carbon Trust has angered thousands of B.C. residents and creat-
Graeme James ed what he called “even
more distrust of the
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provincial Liberal government.” James claims Pacific Carbon Trust has redirected $50 million of public health care and education dollars— over $2.5 million out of the Okanagan region alone—to finance private industry, which, in turn, he said, funnels a portion of taxpayers’ money back to the Liberal Party as donations. Recently, B.C.’s auditor general questioned the way the trust operates. Lake has said the government is committed to carbon neutrality but is reviewing Carbon Pacific Trust.