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9: catching up and moving on…bylaws and bad governance
Rotten on Bowen: cidergate series POST 9 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 Get ready for bylaws, bad government, plenty of acronyms, and more. This post will gallop through a series of things established in earlier cidergate posts, and start to connect them to…
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just when you thought it was safe…
Well. Here I am again. I’ve been busy away from here for a while, other projects, life. Swimming. But I have been working on posts and (if it doesn’t sound too portentous) lines of research. I referred elsewhere to having the stamina to read 400 pages of redacted records – I’ve been reading a great…
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8. rinse, repeat
Rotten on Bowen: cidergate series POST 8 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 In my last post, I made reference to: That post also makes clear that cider production produces very large quantities of water carrying a lot of bioactive matter. Another way to…
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5: Riley’s Cidery and BIM: swimming with sharks?
Rotten on Bowen: cidergate series POST 5 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 and it often happens, that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and truth…
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4: Bowen Municipality: peering into the abyss
Rotten on Bowen: cidergate series POST 4 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited On March 22, 2021, the Temporary Use Permit that would allow the opening of Riley’s Cidery…
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3: Riley’s Cidery and Bowen Island Municipality – on the brink
“Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.” Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Rotten on Bowen: cidergate series POST 3 1 – 2 – 3 – 4– 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 On February 22, 2021, Bowen Municipal Council voted to bring forward the Temporary Use Permit…
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2: The rot sets in: Riley’s Cidery and Bowen Island Municipal council
Rotten on Bowen: cidergate series POST 2 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 February 22, 2021: This was the date on which the proposal for Riley’s Cidery first entered public view, in a Temporary Use Permit application presented to Bowen Municipal Council. Let’s help…
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1: Riley’s Cidery, pollution, and bad government – Bowen Island
Rotten on Bowen: cidergate series POST 1 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 What are you looking at here? This is contaminated waste entering the watershed that supplies and supports the drinking water of more than 50% of Bowen Island households, and which also…
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Welcome – again….
Welcome – if that is the appropriate greeting for a return from silence to an active public voice. I get regular updates showing me the numbers of visits to this site month after month – in the hundreds – even while I have posted nothing for some time. Visitors, incidentally, coming primarily from Canada, the…
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What’s wrong at the Bowen Island Municipality? Part one…
Heather Miller, July 8 2021 If fraud is committed, and it is ignored, is it still fraud? If you can see fraud, but you are assured there is none, can you still see the fraud? If those responsible for detecting fraud do not do so, have they failed in their responsibility? If those in power…