Ch. 7829 Rulemaking Comments
July 20th, 2015
Today in the inbox, this DNR Comment on the Chapter 7829 Rulemaking appeared:
Here’s the juicy part:
DOH! Brilliant! So I quick wrote this up and filed a few minutes ago:
Agencies have contributed so much when they show up, and now the DNR and DOT do show up and it’s so much appreciated! How can building the record and getting their comments in be anything but good! Let’s do it!! Let’s establish a distinct status for state agencies to participate in Public Utility Commission dockets!
RCMP shoots hydro dam protester? Nope, misidentified!
July 19th, 2015
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When you’re challenging utility projects, be careful. The guy who was shot was misidentified, but he’s still dead, that won’t change…
There was someone disrupting the BC Hydro open house/meeting, tearing up maps, toppling easels, etc., and he was asked to leave and was escorted out. It seems it was another person who was shot! There’s been no claim that the disruptive person was armed or threatening anyone. There are reports that the man who was shot didn’t follow police instructions/didn’t listen to orders, something like that, and that he had a knife. SHOT?!?! KILLED?!?!
See below, confirmation that the “Site C protester” and the man who was shot are DIFFERENT PEOPLE!
Report from Red Power Media:
‘Guy Fawkes’ Masked Man Dead After RCMP Shooting at BC Hydro Open House
In the press:
Two men involved in fatal RCMP shooting in Dawson Creek (this one says he may had been involved in a domestic dispute in the bar)
Police say man shot in Dawson Creek was masked and aggressive (they’ve changed the headline on this article)
Dawson Creek police shoot man who refused to throw weapon away, witness claims
Fatal shooting in Dawson Creek not connected to “Site C”
RCMP fatally shoot man at BC Hydro information session
Two men involved in fatal RCMP shooting in Dawson Creek
Here’s the witness’ video, he saw them shoot him and started recording:
OH, CANADA…
Press conference – IIO’s Kellie Kilpatrick, executive director of public accountability with the Independent Investigations Office:
Site C protester and shooting victim were not the same man
Nearly 24 hours after a police shooting left a man dead outside a Dawson Creek restaurant, B.C.’s law enforcement watchdog was convinced the victim and a man who disrupted a Site C dam open house inside were one and the same.
They were not.
“We verified, verified, verified. At two o’clock I was told the same guy, at three o’clock I was told the same guy, then I land in Dawson Creek and I’m told ‘different guy,'” said Kellie Kilpatrick, executive director of public accountability with the Independent Investigations Office (IIO) at a media conference at 7 p.m. Friday.
Thursday night, the IIO and RCMP said the shooting occurred outside a public information session on the Site C dam, and that the man who was killed was “believed to be connected” to the disturbance inside.
Instead, the man who reportedly flipped tables and destroyed maps at the BC Hydro event is alive, while another is dead.
The IIO could not yet confirm what the victim was doing at the Fixx Urban Grill restaurant on the evening of July 16, but said he had a knife. Police shot the man after he acted aggressively and refused to comply with police instructions. He died shortly after. Little is known about him, as investigators have not released his name.
As for what investigators know about the man at the Site C event: “He’s alive,” Kilpatrick said.
According to Kilpatrick, the Dawson Creek investigation has been one of the most complex the office has encountered since it was created in 2012.
“Since the beginning of the operations of the IIO, we’ve not seen a case that has quite as many moving parts as this one,” she said.
“The RCMP as well as the IIO spent close to four hours last night confirming what we thought was the most relevant, most accurate information. To come speak to you now almost 24 hours later, and provide a significant change in the information is not something we typically find ourselves dealing with.
“That’s a fairly substantive clarification that needed to be made.”
It was a remarkable turn in a day that saw Dawson Creek and its police force thrust into the spotlight, and one of the most controversial projects in B.C. linked to a police shooting.
At about 6:30 p.m. Thursday, police shot and killed the man outside the front door of the Fixx restaurant. A video of the aftermath emerged online, showing officers with guns pointed at the man, who appeared to be holding a knife.
An open house about construction of the controversial $8.8-billion Site C dam was taking place in banquet facilities of the restaurant that evening.
According to an attendee, a man flipped tables and tore display boards illustrating the dam from their stands before being escorted out of the room.
Curtis Pratt was inside and said he did not hear shots, but later saw the body. He said the victim was wearing a mask, and he wasn’t sure whether it was the man from inside.
Kilpatrick did not have additional information about the protestor, but said “he never did come into contact with police.”
Her office is continuing to investigate the shooting. The officers involved have been sequestered, and it is not clear whether they will be charged, suspended or placed on administrative leave. The IIO also said investigators were not sure if the officers had tasers or other lesser means of force, which will be a key part of the investigation.
“That’s something our investigators have been following up on today. I don’t have the answer to that,” Kilpatrick said.
“What an officer carries on his toolbelt varies depending on officer location, detachment and the type of work they are doing.”
What is clear is that “police came in response to the disturbance and found themselves in contact with this other individual,” Kilpatrick said.
The IIO is asking anyone with information about what happened in the area to come forward, saying cell phone videos are of particular interest.
“In this day of social media, we aware that there is a lot of information circulating out there,” Kilpatrick said. “We’re very interested in speaking with anyone who has information about what they saw or what they heard here last evening,” she added.
Anyone with information is asked to call the IIO at 1-855-446-TIPS.
Some Comments filed in Plains & Eastern Clean Line
July 15th, 2015
Here are a few comments filed, very articulate and specific reasons why the Department of Energy shouldn’t “participate” in this Section 1222 transmission project:
From BLOCK Plains & Eastern here are a few links (thanks for sending them, hard to get anything up here in the woods):
Please skip to page 264 of the PDF to read our BLOCK Plains & Eastern Clean Line: Arkansas and Oklahoma official comment:
http://www.energy.gov/…/Comment%20from%20BLOCK%20Plains%20%…
We would also like to acknowledge and thank Downwind, LLC, for formally supporting our efforts to date. They are an organization of landowners in eastern Arkansas (represented by Jordan Wimpy of Gill Ragon Owen, PA, Little Rock) that has formed in opposition to the Plains and Eastern project:
http://www.energy.gov/…/Comment%20from%20Downwind%2C%20LLC%…
Jordan Wimpy’s FANTASTIC comment on behalf of Downwind, LLC:
http://www.energy.gov/…/Comment%20from%20Downwind%2C%20LLC%…
Oklahoma Attorney General E. Scott Pruitt for his Office’s comment. The potential protection to landowners in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Tennessee that your comment might help afford cannot be overstated:
http://www.energy.gov/…/f24/Comment%20from%20OAG%2007-13-15…
Southwest Power Resources Association lays out the MANY problems RE: liability in this project, and their comment should be read by all with an interest:
http://www.energy.gov/…/Comment%20from%20Scott%20Williams%2…
Comment from the Colorado River Energy Distributors Association (The equivalent to SPRA for the Western Area Power Association) supporting SPRA’s objections to the Project:
http://www.energy.gov/…/Comment%20from%20Leslie%20James%20o…
Will tidy this up when there’s better access. Internet is NOT to be taken for granted, nor is cell phone access, here on the Canadian Border! It’s the “Not-so-Great Northern Transmission Line road show. The same DOE office is handling the GNTL project as the Plains & Eastern Clean Line, different staff, but pretty close. The transition from D.C. to Roseau and Baudette must be a rough one! But there’s good coffee and treats, thanks for breakfast!
BLOCK Plains & Eastern Comment & Motion filed
July 13th, 2015
Quick — email angela.colamaria@hq.doe.gov and ask that they hold public hearings, just like they did for the environmental review!
Today is the deadline for Comments on the “Section 1222” review, time to tell the DOE what you think of this (&($%&(#@*%&()# project!
Are we having fun now?
And good news today too — we’re getting some “US TOO!” support on our previously filed Petitions and Motion. YES! That helps!
The Politics of Rage
July 11th, 2015
My latest book arrived today, put Little Sadie in the house when mailman arrived, had to sign for something else and didn’t want her to sink her teeth into him. Anyway, it’s Dan T. Carter’s “The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics. Someone posted an article recently that referenced it, and it seemed so fitting. You can order it HERE at www.abebooks.com!
I remember George Wallace and his runs for President, though I don’t remember his inauguration rallying cry when first Governor, much written by KKK wordsmith Ace Carter, “Segregation now… segregation tomorrow… segregation forever.” I also remember clearly, and remember my distrust, as Wallace claimed to own the errors of his racist past and beliefs. Still skeptical… but I’m reading this to get a better handle on white supremacy in the U.S., how it’s morphed over the years, and how it’s all connected. This rage that I see so often, I don’t get it, didn’t then, don’t now, and I’m seeing it in people near and far, such visceral rage, and I just can’t understand the origin. But in just the first 41 pages, I see it’s the same framing. George Wallace did indeed tap into fears, tensions, hostility and hate, rewrapped it over time, and shaped the rhetoric of open and of submerged racism that’s still used today.