Industry Update Government lab too costly to B.C. taxpayers - Opposition Critic B.C. Environment Minister Moe Sihota's
one-man crusade against private environ mental testing labs in British Columbia could cost the province's taxpayers an ad ditional $40 million, charged Official Op position Environment Critic, Wilf Hurd. He charged that Mr Sihota and his Environment Ministry are well aware that private labs are far cheaper for routine environmental
testing work than building and staffing a new government lab. "The Ministry has the data that proves it," said Hurd. "Not only is Mr. Sihota not
willing to share that information with the taxpayers of the province, but by temporar ily awarding work to Zenon Laboratories,
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he is thumbing his nose at the Auditor Gen eral, who has questioned whether the prov ince was receiving value for its money un der Zenon's previous five year contract." "Here we have a situation where private labs with the potential to compete interna tionally are being shafted by their own gov ernment," Hurd stated. "What does it say about the credibility of the Premier's inter national sales junket when back home the Environment Minister rips up legally ten dered contracts, and willfully wastes tax payers money." For more information contact:
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The great floods of 1993, which virtually drowned parts of nine Midwestern states in the US from North Dakota to Missouri, also unleashed a torrent of statistics. US weather
expert Frank Richards has calculated how much water poured through the Mississippi and Missouri River basins between June and
September, 1993. He said 16 quadrillion US gallons (16,000,000,000,000,000) went through the basins; enough to empty Lake Erie or provide a four month's flow over Niagara Falls. Ironically, the water which caused so much damage, could also have filled California's vast reservoirs twice over.
The floods killed 50 people, damaged or destroyed 50,000 homes and washed 16 billion tons of topsoii down the Mississippi
The last comparable^ood in the United
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epidemiology. Dr. Gary Hlady, said," we know that he was infected and we think it
is very likely that the infection caused his illness." His was the first hantivirus case
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Flooding during 1993, was also reported in Europe and Southeast Asia while ty phoons struck Japan. Africa and Australia encountered drought problems.
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into the Gulf of Mexico. Flood run-off, in
cluding fertilizers, contaminated fishing grounds in the Gulf with identifiable pieces of Nebraska actually rounding the tip of Florida and riding the Gulf Stream as far up the coast as North Carolina.
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Environmental Science & Engineering, March 1994