Tuesday June 18, 2013 (Vol. 38 No. 49)
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Royal treatment: The White Rock Tritons won both ends of a doubleheader Sunday against the Parksville Royals – a two-game set that was briefly halted when benches cleared after a play at the plate. › see page 25
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Pressure builds to delay decision on new terminal for health assessments
Metro leaders oppose coal plan 21-4 Jeff Nagel Black Press
Metro Vancouver’s board has dealt a blow to a proposed new coal-export terminal in Surrey, voting 21-4 to oppose the project that has been under steady fire from both climatechange activists and concerned neighbours. The regional district has no real power to block the new coal terminal at Fraser Surrey Docks, which would add coal trains through
White Rock and South Surrey. But critics hope Friday’s decision puts more pressure on Port Metro Vancouver to delay approving the project pending a health-impact assessment demanded by medical health officers. Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan said it makes no sense for Canada to accept extra risk to handle thermal coal from the U.S. that American port cities are rejecting. “It is massively controversial,” he said. “If
we roll over on this we’re sending a very bad image to the rest of the world.” The $15-million terminal would reload U.S. coal from trains to barges and add 25 jobs both at North Surrey and on Texada Island, where coal would be transferred to ships. “I’m not an opponent of the coal industry in Canada,” Corrigan said. “But the issue is taking coal from the United States – bad coal, the most difficult coal, the cheapest
coal – bringing it into Canada, processing it twice through our ports, taking all of the environmental risks for none of the real benefits, and in the end of it we get 25 jobs.” Corrigan also said the port authority’s role as regulator is akin to the “fox guarding the henhouse” because the majority of its board are appointed by port users, namely the terminal operators such as Fraser Surrey Docks. › see page 4
Domain name co-opted
Steps to victory
Explicit lesson for website owner
Eric Dorchester, 21, helps lead the Survivor Victory Lap at the Canadian Cancer Society’s 10th annual White Rock/South Surrey Relay for Life. Held overnight Friday at Centennial Park in White Rock, the 12-hour tropicalthemed event raised more than $67,000 for cancer research and brought together dozens of teams to celebrate cancer survivors, honour loved ones and fight for a cure.
Nick Greenizan Staff Reporter
Ron VanDer Meulen photo
Dental offices to have day in court after appeal to business group dropped
No support for O.P. trademark battle Tracy Holmes Staff Reporter
A South Surrey dentist has dropped his effort to rally business owners’ opposition to an application to trademark the term “Ocean Park.” Patrick Lum, of Ocean Park Village Dental, announced the decision Thursday, during a meeting of the Ocean Park Business Association. Lum had hoped to convince fellow members to take an official stand against the application
– made by Tom and Coby Cragg of Ocean Park Dental Centre – by way of a letter to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office. His decision followed concerns expressed by fellow members and a statement by association president Jill Martyniuk that the issue was not within the OPBA’s mandate. “It would seem like it was an ill choice on your behalf to have picked a name so close (to another business in the area),” said Al Forbes, owner of
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Ocean Park Fine Meats. “I think it’s not really appropriate to seem as though you’re riding on the back of someone who’s already established.” Lum told Peace Arch News last month that trademarking the term would put dozens of area businesses in violation. The Craggs, however, contended Lum’s effort was intended to inflame an 18-month dispute between the two dental offices over the similarity of their names. › see page 4
A local real estate agent is warning other businesspeople to keep their Internet presence up to date, after her website’s domain name was purchased out from under her and filled with pornographic images. Two months ago, Jacqollyne Tomsin inadvertently let her website’s self-titled domain name expire. When it did, it was purchased by an American individual who, she said, requested $1,000 for the return of her eponymous address. When Tomsin balked at the asking price, the domain’s new registered owner diverted the address to a site with adult-oriented material. “This guy just got annoyed. It’s like extortion – I was so furious,” Tomsin said. “I found out about it when I got a call from another Realtor, who said, ‘I was just at your website, is this what you’re doing on the side now that the real-estate industry is slowing down?’” As of Monday, the website contains the banner “Rude Space – the adults playground” and includes several hard-core pornographic images. › see page 2
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