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Scary stuff, kids: Ghoulish good times await visitors of 13-year-old Ethan Donnelly’s spook-tacular Terror or in the Terrace haunted house in n Ocean Park tonight. i see page e A11
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Unanimous call for full public hearings on planned coal-export terminal
City of Surrey joins anti-coal chorus Kevin Diakiw Black Press
Surrey city council is adding its voice to growing opposition to Fraser Surrey Docks’ proposal to build a new coal-export terminal. Late Monday night, the politicians voted unanimously to not support the proposal, and to ask Port Metro Vancouver to commission an independently conducted, comprehensive health-impact assessment. They also want full public hearings on the project. The stand puts Surrey in line with New
Westminster, White Rock, Langley and Vancouver, where similar motions have been passed either opposing expanded coal exports outright or calling for public hearings and independent reviews before a decision is made. The Metro Vancouver board voted 21-4 to oppose the project – which would export up to four million tonnes of coal per year – outright. Numerous MLAs and MPs have also written in opposition. Monday afternoon, about 100 people streamed into Surrey council chambers to express their objection to rail cars filled with
coal travelling through Surrey. The protest came as Fraser Surrey Docks is expected to soon release the results of an environmental-impact assessment ordered by the port authority to further address public concerns about the project. The terminal proposes to open a loading facility that would transfer coal coming by rail through White Rock and South Surrey to barges that would sail down the Fraser River and across the Strait of Georgia to Texada Island, where it would be transferred again to ocean-going ships. i see page A4
Evan Seal photo
Thermal-coal opponents show up in force.
Mike Veitch photo
Former South Surrey resident Mike Veitch’s image, The Fish Net, netted him a major-category win at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards at the Natural History Museum in the U.K.
Photography award
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Natural selection
A former South Surrey photographer, currently based in Bali, has won a top award in the world’s largest and most prestigious naturephoto competition. Mike Veitch won honours in one of the categories of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards, presented Oct. 15 in London, England. Presented by the British Natural History
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Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine, the awards, now in their 49th year, drew more than 43,000 image entries in all categories from photographers around the globe. Veitch’s winning image is of a young whale shark sucking on a net full of fish, taken in Cenderwasih Bay, Indonesia, with a Nikon camera in an underwater housing. It was judged best in the ‘World In Our Hands’ category, aimed at exploring the complex relationship
between people and the environment, and documenting in thought-provoking fashion how human actions affect the natural world. “The whale sharks in the area have learned over the years to associate local fishing platforms with an easy source of food because the fishermen mount huge lights at night above the platforms to attract small baitfish, which they sell in the local markets,” Veitch told Peace Arch News. i see page A4
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