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COAL MINE PROPOSAL
Raven to re-submit ‘There’s some work to do and we will be on that’ JOHN HARDING editor@pqbnews.com
Fireworks, festivities this weekend The tourist season has begun in Qualicum Beach and it was marked with a town event Wednesday, celebrating the new public art piece and sharing information on the community’s upcoming events. “We wanted to celebrate both the arts and culture and fun people have with local events,” said Qualicum Beach Mayor Teunis Westbroek, as he listed off a host of upcoming local events. “We’re really starting to see these events unfolding and we’d love to not only to be a part of it but also celebrate it and do our part as a town, as councillors, as mayor, to promote it.” The public art piece is a giant digital image print of wild
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salmon on vinyl canvas located on the old bus garage building. It is called Where the Dog Salmon Run, by David E. Blackmore, which is what the word Qualicum means in the Pentlatch language of the First Nations Coast Salish peoples. This Saturday will mark the opening of Qualicum Beach Museum as well as customer appreciation day at Qualicum Foods, which will host television star Dawn Wells, otherwise known as Mary Ann from Gilligan’s Island from 4 to 6 p.m. That evening QF will host their Festival of Lights Fireworks Spectacular synced to music from 88.5 FM The Beach. The fireworks will begin at dusk at the public beach area in Qualicum Beach. The Museum opening starts at 10 a.m. May 25 and will see entertainment by the Old Time Fiddlers, The Town Crier and light refreshments.
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SURE SIGN OF SPRING: The bees of the Parksville Qualicum Beach region are getting busy, as evidenced above in this photo taken this week near Despard Avenue in Parksville.
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Stephen Ellis says Compliance Coal remains undeterred. The vice-president of the company behind the proposed Raven Coal Mine near Buckley Bay says Compliance plans to re-submit its application after the provincial environmental assessment office (EAO) rejected the company’s first attempt last week. The application itself was 12,000 pages long and Ellis told The NEWS on Wednesday the company wasn’t shocked to receive 114 pages of questions from the EAO, information that must be included in the next submission, which Ellis said he expects will happen within the next two months. “It’s pretty typical to get comments back from the first review,” Ellis told The NEWS from his Courtenay office. “It (the information requested by the EAO) is not insignificant. There’s some work to do and we will be on that. It’s not going to be a quick fix.” Ellis also said people opposed to the mine proposal should take note of how the process is working. “If you are an opponent of the project, this shows the government is doing its job,” he said. In a letter to Compliance president and CEO John Tapics dated May 16, the EAO said “the application does not contain the required information and (the EAO) has decided not to accept the application for detailed review.” The BCEAO also released a 114-page document “that identifies the major information requirements that EAO considers not to have been adequately addressed . . .
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