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Volume 96 - No. 01
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BURNS LAKE
LAKES DISTRICT NEWS
Businesses get rid of your own cardboard
Burns Lake will not implement a commercial cardboard recycling program FLAVIO NIENOW
In the story ‘Burns Lake explores cardboard recycling options’ published in the Lakes District News’ Nov. 4, 2015 issue, the village had been exploring different options to offload both the commercial and residential cardboard after the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako (RDBN) cardboard ban is in effect. Beginning July 1, 2016, cardboard will no longer be accepted for disposal as garbage at any RDBN solid waste management facility. During a preliminary budget meeting last month, Burns Lake council decided to not implement a commercial cardboard recycling program in 2016. This means that starting July 1, 2016, the commercial sector will have to find their own means of disposal of cardboard. In order to make this decision, council took into account results of a public engagement process. The village held a series of community engagement events last November to seek public input on several issues including cardboard recycling options. When residents and businesses were asked what their preferences were for cardboard disposal options, both residents and businesses indicated they would prefer to dispose of cardboard by taking it to the depot themselves rather than hiring a contractor or paying the village. However, disposing of ...see CARDBOARD ▼ P3
Who would do this? What a mess left by some people who were ice fishing on Coop Lake. Why would anyone want to intentionally pollute our local lakes. This is the most inconsiderate and irresponsible thing someone could do to one of our local lakes. Thanks to the great people at Woods N Water for cleaning this mess up. To whom ever left this mess you should be ashamed of yourselves and bring out whatever you bring in and be responsible!
Natural gas leak in California raises questions
Is Education Your New Year’s Resolution?
FLAVIO NIENOW The leak erupted on Oct. 23, 2015, at a storage well operated by SoCal Gas in Aliso Canyon, about 42 km from Los Angeles. The ruptured storage facility has released over 77,000 metric tones of methane, the main component of natural gas – the equivalent of over six million metric tones of carbon dioxide, according to the Environmental Defense Fund, which has tracked the leak using infrared cameras. The leak is still ongoing and the gas company estimates it will be spring of 2016 before it can be stopped. Tim O’Connor, Oil and Gas Specialist for the Environmental Defence Fund, told CBC the leak
is “probably one of the largest volumes of gas ever recorded from a single leak.” “Methane is a very potent greenhouse gas; over the first 20 years it’s released, it has a climate impact 84 times that of carbon dioxide,” said O’Connor. “There’s no telling what the far reaches of the overall end results are going to be. Air quality, public health, ecological — it’s all on the table.” According to The Guardian, the breach has forced the relocation of hundreds of families, who complained of headaches, nosebleeds and nausea from the rotten-egg smell of the odorant added to the gas to aid in leak detection. The Environmental Defense Fund wrote the leak has “opened eyes across the world” to the problem
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Industrial Mechanic (Millwright)/Machinist (22 weeks)...February 15 Phone: 250.692.1700 • Fax: 250.692.1750 • Toll Free: 1.866.692.1943 545 Highway 16 West • PO Box 5000, Burns Lake, BC • V0J 1E0 Email: lksdist@cnc.bc.ca • Website: www.cnc.bc.ca/lakesdistrict
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