Hear Port is running out of gas. Hear Tofino might run out of gas. Heard they shut down the Cowichan back route to rescue some commercial vehicle that was off the road. Rescued to prevent an possible "environmental disaster". Sounds like a fuel truck gone of the road or stuck.... Last time we had that threat of running out of fuel in Tuff, folks were lined up at the Coop gas bar with Jerry cans. That was what? Three four years ago?. Remember that rock slide at the Kennedy Lake construction site that shut down traffic for days., and Tofino near ran out of fuel.
Just a month prior to the Hwy shut down, the Coop proposed to council to replace the fuel tanks at the gas bar with much larger, double lined, safer tanks. Environmentally better tanks that would require fewer deliveries(saving on delivery fuel and CO2) and offering greater security of supply..... Cost to the community.......Nothing. Coop even offered to construct two brand new housing units to go along with the deal....cost to the community....Nothing. In fact the new gas bar would have paid a small fortune in development fees
Of course Council flatly rejected the proposal. Objections varied from the ridiculous to the even more ridiculous. For example. Why did the the COOP gas bar sell junk food.? (Cause that is what a lot of people want to eat when they gas up for the road...They offer healthy choices but you can't compel folks to eat it. Or is that what you are suggesting. Gov't should compel what we eat'. Ummm Maybe you are trying to micro manage this business???? The obsession with junk food went on.
Why did the Coop gas bar need so much storage room in the back of the store? What were they hiding. What were they doing with that area????( Well we are hiding more stuff that eventually makes it's way to the sales shelf when the sales shelf starts getting empty....We can't get a delivery of stuff every couple of hours...it all comes from the other side of the island and we store it..... It was clear to some on council the Coop had a secret agenda. What were they concerned about..... Food shelves were just a front. No doubt big sacks of illicit drugs were being stored and trans shipped. The twinkies were all a front.
Wouldn't bigger tanks for gas and diesel just encourage more CO2 production. ( Ok????Like yah!!...we can't stop everyone from driving here but sure as hell can make sure they don't drive away. Are you kidding me?????..... No I am not.
Council and staff unanimously opposed. What could have been a new, safer, supply, offering security to the community that operated more efficiently, with a few housing units thrown in was seen as equivalent to the ancient dark muscular form rising from the desert sands to destroy every thing we hold dear.
So just remember that if the gas bar runs out of fuel....Sometimes it seems we are governed by a religious cult.......
Our MLA was mayor when this was rejected. Our current Infrastructure Czar was head of planning, correction, head of "Community Sustainability" at the time. Interestingly, the proposal was being handled by a junior planning employee who suddenly quit after being pulled from the job at the last minute. The file was then taken over by said head of "community sustainability, and it was quickly nixed.
The same head of Community Sustainability, who was at the Coop general meeting, that fall, who according to reports was frothing, raving at the Coop Board because of his dislike of some deal that never happened between the Coop and the Drug store. Was his report biased by his own attitude toward the Coop? Some people think so. The council support of the Clayoquot Biosphere Trust rezoning of land on Olsen road never fit the OCP either but was considered a minor detail I guess. Except if you lived there. Apart from the junior planner quitting. The women who worked, not locally, but for the Coop folks from Head Office from out of town. She who had an engineering background and made the presentation to council and had work on the proposal and worked out the details with agreement with the junior planner for months before the presentation, she was so dismayed at the reception by Tofino Council she also resigned her position with the Coop head office. I am not saying anything more.
Hear Port is running out of gas. Hear Tofino might run out of gas. Heard they shut down the Cowichan back route to rescue some commercial vehicle that was off the road. Rescued to prevent an possible "environmental disaster". Sounds like a fuel truck gone of the road or stuck.... Last time we had that threat of running out of fuel in Tuff, folks were lined up at the Coop gas bar with Jerry cans. That was what? Three four years ago?. Remember that rock slide at the Kennedy Lake construction site that shut down traffic for days., and Tofino near ran out of fuel.
ReplyDeleteJust a month prior to the Hwy shut down, the Coop proposed to council to replace the fuel tanks at the gas bar with much larger, double lined, safer tanks. Environmentally better tanks that would require fewer deliveries(saving on delivery fuel and CO2) and offering greater security of supply..... Cost to the community.......Nothing. Coop even offered to construct two brand new housing units to go along with the deal....cost to the community....Nothing. In fact the new gas bar would have paid a small fortune in development fees
Of course Council flatly rejected the proposal. Objections varied from the ridiculous to the even more ridiculous. For example.
Why did the the COOP gas bar sell junk food.? (Cause that is what a lot of people want to eat when they gas up for the road...They offer healthy choices but you can't compel folks to eat it. Or is that what you are suggesting. Gov't should compel what we eat'. Ummm Maybe you are trying to micro manage this business???? The obsession with junk food went on.
Why did the Coop gas bar need so much storage room in the back of the store? What were they hiding. What were they doing with that area????( Well we are hiding more stuff that eventually makes it's way to the sales shelf when the sales shelf starts getting empty....We can't get a delivery of stuff every couple of hours...it all comes from the other side of the island and we store it..... It was clear to some on council the Coop had a secret agenda. What were they concerned about..... Food shelves were just a front. No doubt big sacks of illicit drugs were being stored and trans shipped. The twinkies were all a front.
Wouldn't bigger tanks for gas and diesel just encourage more CO2 production. ( Ok????Like yah!!...we can't stop everyone from driving here but sure as hell can make sure they don't drive away. Are you kidding me?????..... No I am not.
Council and staff unanimously opposed. What could have been a new, safer, supply, offering security to the community that operated more efficiently, with a few housing units thrown in was seen as equivalent to the ancient dark muscular form rising from the desert sands to destroy every thing we hold dear.
So just remember that if the gas bar runs out of fuel....Sometimes it seems we are governed by a religious cult.......
What council and staff? When was this on an agenda? I never saw this
ReplyDelete2019. Didn't fit the OCP, looks like it hasn't been brought back up since?
ReplyDeleteOur MLA was mayor when this was rejected. Our current Infrastructure Czar was head of planning, correction, head of "Community Sustainability" at the time. Interestingly, the proposal was being handled by a junior planning employee who suddenly quit after being pulled from the job at the last minute.
ReplyDeleteThe file was then taken over by said head of "community sustainability, and it was quickly nixed.
The same head of Community Sustainability, who was at the Coop general meeting, that fall, who according to reports was frothing, raving at the Coop Board because of his dislike of some deal that never happened between the Coop and the Drug store. Was his report biased by his own attitude toward the Coop? Some people think so.
The council support of the Clayoquot Biosphere Trust rezoning of land on Olsen road never fit the OCP either but was considered a minor detail I guess. Except if you lived there.
Apart from the junior planner quitting. The women who worked, not locally, but for the Coop folks from Head Office from out of town. She who had an engineering background and made the presentation to council and had work on the proposal and worked out the details with agreement with the junior planner for months before the presentation, she was so dismayed at the reception by Tofino Council she also resigned her position with the Coop head office.
I am not saying anything more.
Coop has run out of fuel.
ReplyDeleteRe:10:00AM "Council and staff unanimously opposed" Not true, Councillors Thorogood and McMaster voted in favour.
ReplyDeleteFuel will arrive in due time; water...it's not running over the dam and it is only June. Hopefully the Co-op has bottled water in that secret storage!
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