BC Mary At Her Best!

Then go to 3/14/07 and see: B.C. RAIL WAS PART OF CONTINENTAL PLAN FOR NORTH AMERICAN UNION (NAU) BASED UPON THE NAFTA/NASCO SUPER CORRIDOR Quote: While Gordon Campbell was promising in 2001 that his government, if elected, would never sell British Columbia Railway, plans for the North American Union based upon the NAFTA-NASCO SuperCorridor were under way. One glance at this map will explain why our railway proved irresistible to the empire-builders (elected and unelected). Then see the 3/16/07 post titled NAFTA-NASCO SUPERHIGHWAY with maps. This one is well worth re-reading at this time, because of the final quotes from Premier Campbell which will be provided in conclusion. Quote: Existing west coast port facilities are severely limited in their ability to expand. The current congestion on southern highway and rail lines is economically impacting delivery times and cost. The new Port of Prince Rupert will be focused solely on the movement of containers, grain and coal. There are three deep-sea port locations in British Columbia connected to the continental highway and rail grid: the lower mainland, Prince Rupert and Kitimat. And, as oil spills from Kinder Morgan's pipeline, ruptured by such a simple thing as a backhoe, let's listen in as Premier Gordon Campbell addresses "a powerful group" in Anchorage Alaska -- knowing they will appreciate his dreams of a new kind of British Columbia: CAMPBELL'S NEW WAY OF DOING POLITICS AND BUSINESS By GARY MASON The Globe and Mail - July 24, 2007 ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- The future of governance in North America is taking place here. At least that's what British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell believes. And that was his somewhat provocative message yesterday to a powerful group of business and political leaders from the Pacific Northwest that has gathered in Anchorage to discuss a range of common issues from border security to trade opportunities with Asia. "We don't need permissions from our federal governments," Mr. Campbell told the group. "We can't wait for them. We have to act. If we don't we'll lose." He was speaking to the annual conference of the Pacific Northwest Economic Region, a group that has been around for 17 years but has taken on a much higher profile in the past few years as state and provincial governments join to solve a host of shared problems. And look at a range of new opportunities. PNWER consists of B.C., Alberta and Yukon, as well as the U.S. states of Washington, Alaska, Montana, Idaho and Oregon. Together, they form a powerful economic and political entity with a total population of more than 20 million people and gross domestic product of about $848-billion (U.S.). Throw California into the mix, as Mr. Campbell likes to do, and the power of the region becomes even more staggering, with a GDP of more than $2-trillion and a population of nearly 60 million. {Snip} ... """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Now an important August 1, 2007 Update: Kinder Morgan was not using the available technology to chart exactly where the underground pipeline was ... ? Read on: RADAR QUICKLY PINPOINTS PIPELINE Jonathan Woodward, Vancouver Sun - August 02, 2007 While there has been much discussion about where the Kinder Morgan pipeline actually runs under Inlet Drive in Burnaby, The Vancouver Sun can now say exactly where it is. A Sun reporter and photographer donned hard hats and safety vests, slipped past flag people Tuesday evening and joined a crew from Terraprobe, a Burnaby-based firm specializing in ground-penetrating radar, to map the pipeline with scientific precision. Using a lawn mower-sized device, the whole procedure took less than 30 minutes, and enabled The Sun to know within centimetres not only where the 61-centimetre (24-inch) pipeline was along the suburban highway stretch, but also every water main, electrical line and major underground structure. "The pipeline is a very large, obvious target," said Csaba Ekes, president of Terraprobe, whose firm offered to do the probe. "If we had been able to do this last week, we would have accurately mapped the pipeline's location then, too." {SNIP} ... It's important contractors get the most exact information they can before they dig, said University of B.C. civil engineering Prof. Nemy Banthia. "Ground-penetrating radar is a very good way of doing this. So anybody who is excavating should do GPR mapping of the place before anything happens, especially if there is a sensitive pipeline here." http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=0a32cfe2-b0c8-4202-b690-ff62a0c80b2f http://bctrialofbasi-virk.blogspot.com/

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