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Power to the people? |
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Written by Gerald Gauthier, Lethbridge Herald
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Monday, June 28 2010, 9:07 PM |
Rudy Reger may soon get city hall’s blessing to activate the small wind turbine he’s been forced to keep idle since he installed it three years ago atop his Lethbridge business.
City council held a public hearing Monday to gauge support or opposition to a proposed bylaw which would allow smaller-scale wind turbines in industrial areas as well as on a discretionary basis in city parks and recreation areas. The bylaw was given first reading June 7 and could receive final approval at council’s next meeting on July 5.
Reger, owner of Energy Smart Canada, began pressing the issue back in September 2007 when he installed a one-kilowatt wind turbine on the roof of his business, located at the south end of the city’s industrial park along the Crowsnest Trail. He couldn’t get a permit to use it, however, because under existing regulations, the devices aren’t allowed anywhere in the city.
On one hand, it seems the process of drafting and introducing the bylaw has dragged on too long, he said, but by the same token, he’s thrilled it’s so close to finally being approved.
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How to train your dragon |
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Written by Sherri Gallant
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Sunday, June 27 2010, 10:20 PM |
They love to paddle dragon boats because it’s fun, but still — two members of the Edmonton Dragon Boat Racing Club are deadly serious about their sport.
“It takes quite a bit of commitment, training during and in the off-season,” said Susie Amer, in Lethbridge with her teammates for the ATB Financial Lethbridge Rotary Dragonboat Festival.
“Our mixed team practises at least three times a week — Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays — but we have people who are practising in the morning and the evening, twice a day.”
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Police, family honour crash victim |
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Written by Delon Shurtz
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Saturday, June 26 2010, 7:57 PM |
RCMP officer Gilles Savoie didn’t even know Chelsey Robinson, the RCMP constable from Picture Butte who was killed in a highway crash Monday, but she meant enough to him to travel clear across Canada to attend her funeral.
“It’s an honour,” Savoie said Saturday as he prepared for Robinson’s full regimental funeral, including a march through downtown to the Southminster United Church.
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Syncrude guilty in duck deaths |
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Written by Bob Weber — The Canadian Press
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Friday, June 25 2010, 10:16 PM |
Bob Weber
THE CANADIAN PRESS — ST. ALBERT
Syncrude Canada has been found guilty under wildlife laws of causing the death of 1,600 ducks in a tailings pond at its oilsands mine in northern Alberta.
“It should have been obvious to Syncrude that deterrence should have been in place in the spring as soon as reasonably possible,” provincial court Judge Ken Tjosvold said Friday in his ruling.
“Syncrude did not deploy deterrence early enough or quickly enough.”
In his written judgment, Tjosvold said, “I am convinced beyond reasonable doubt that Syncrude could have acted lawfully by using due diligence to deter birds from the basin . . . and it did not do so.”
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Standing up to hatred |
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Written by Dave Mabell Lethbridge Herald
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Thursday, June 24 2010, 9:42 PM |
Community leaders joined local advocacy groups Thursday to stand up against hate-based crimes in Lethbridge.
More than 100 people turned out for the city’s first “anti-hate” rally, sparked by reports of homophobic slurs painted on the vehicle of a University of Lethbridge student earlier this month.
Mayor Bob Tarleck set the tone at the start of the hour-long event, on the city hall plaza.
Asked the mayor, “Are we ready to tear down the barriers of fear and hate?”
Tarleck urged residents to choose “a bridge city,” built on love and understanding, “a bridge over divisions, fear and prejudice.”
Speaking as a father of university-aged children, Lethbridge MLA Greg Weadick said no parent should tolerate hate-based discrimination “for any reason.”
“It’s important to stand up and say, we must accept everyone,” he said. Alberta’s laws have changed.
“In this province, we won’t tolerate this kind of discrimination anymore.”
Police Chief Tom McKenzie, who also spoke at the city’s Pride Week flag-raising event last Friday, thanked the victim for reporting the incident.
“We can’t change what we don’t know about,” but some victims are afraid to come forward.
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