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NO TEE OFFS IN 2015The elite Sagebrush Golf Club won’t be open for business this season

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NEW SPORTS IN TOWNWater polo one of several recent athletic options

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TEST FINDS TOXICITY LEVELS IN LOCAL BIOSOLIDSThe David Suzuki Foundation has

found high levels of chemicals in test sam-ples of biosolids located along a power line right-of-way south of Logan Lake.

John Werring, senior science advisor for the foundation said he collected samples of the waste product back on July 9, which he submitted to Maxxam Analytics in Burnaby to be analyzed.

The samples were not taken from the BioCentral composting facility in Lower Nicola that has been the subject of a road blockade by protesters since March.

The accredited laboratory was asked to test for a handful of chemicals — DEHP phthalates, polycyclic aromatic hydrocar-bons, dichlorophenol and heavy metals.

Werring said these chemicals are toxic to humans and many are carcinogens.

The results showed the levels of these substances in the samples were higher than the limits in schedules for standards trig-gering contaminated soil relocation agree-ments and generic numerical soil standards under the province’s BC Contaminated Sites Regulations.

“The reason I chose the BC Contaminated Sites Regulations levels is because those levels are set for protection of human health and the environment,” Werring said.

Despite exceeding the limits in those regulations, the metal levels fell within the allowable range for Class B biosolids in the Ministry of Environment’s Organic Matter Recycling Regulation (OMRR).

“I would think that for biosolids you would want to be below the [BC] Contaminated Sites Regulations,” Werring said.

Minister of Environment Mary Polak told the Herald the two regulations have dif-fering limits because not all contaminated soils are equal — there are gradations of contamination.

“Even within the contaminated soils,

there are different levels at which we require different types of treatment and different types of handling,” Polak said. “An area of soil can be contaminated and yet not to the extent where we would con-sider it harmful.”

She said contaminated soil needs to be handled in a safe way, which is also the case with biosolids and animal manure alike.

“Depending on what category it falls into, we have different requirements to handle it, so that it can be safe,” she said.

Handling biosolids properly includes having appropriate setbacks from water courses, frequency of applying it to the land and the amount per square metre, she said.

Polak told the Herald she’s aware of Werring’s results and her ministry is in the

process of obtaining contextual informa-tion — such as the exact location of the biosolids sampled, what materials were test-ed and the methods that were used — from some of the local First Nations bands who were part of an initiative to have Werring visit them regarding their concerns of bio-solids being dumped in the Nicola Valley.

The David Suzuki Foundation tested biosolids spread at this site just south of Logan Lake, after they were turned away from BioCentral’s site in Lower Nicola. According to the test results, the soil contained “concerning” levels of toxic chemicals. Submitted by the David Suzuki Foundation

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From the Herald archives: August, 1984

NEW MERRITT GOLF COURSE

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With most of the cleanup work finished, the new 46-acre golf course in Central Park will open for play to the public this Saturday.

An official open-ing where conribu-tors and volunteers will be recognized will take place most likely in late September.

Ray Emmerick, a member of the Merritt Golf and Country Club said the course, which has taken close to two years to com-plete, will be open from 7 a.m. until 3 p.m. to start with.

Emmerick men-tioned that a lot of volunteer work went into building 72 par course.

Although it is a nine-hole course, its double-tee design allows for it to be played like an 18-hole course.

Played as a nine-hole, the course mea-sures 3,109 yards for men and 2,665 yds. for women.

As an 18-hole course, it measures 6,203 yds. for men and 5,292 yds. for women.

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Ministry of Environment public affairs officer Danielle Bell told the Herald via email OMRR doesn’t have any standards for chemicals such as DEHP phthalates, polycyclic aromatic hydrocar-bons and dichlorophenol.

She said such standards are not necessary based on risk assessments and surveys conducted by other jurisdictions.

Werring said that while biosolids contain high amounts of nutrients such as nitrogen and phos-phorus, they also possibly contain a wide array of chemicals that end up in the product following treatment at a wastewater treatment facility.

Bell said compounds other than metals could exist in biosolids, but are not expected to pose a significant risk to human health and the environ-ment due to minute concentrations and/or a short life time in soil.

Werring’s findings, however, show levels of DEHP phthalates, polycyclic aromatic hydro-carbons and dichlorophenol that all exceed the limits outlined in the BC Contaminated Sites Regulations.

OMRR’s parameters limits for metals concen-trations in the biosolids and the soils where biosol-ids have been applied are based on risk assessment analyses, she said.

Werring said he limited the chemicals he tested for to just a few specific substances because it’s expensive to analyze for them. He said the two samples he sent away cost the foundation about $1,500. He told the Herald the Suzuki Foundation was not reimbursed by the Lower Nicola and Nooiatch bands, or the anti-biosolids group Friends of the Nicola Valley to have the testing conducted.

“They’re telling results,” said Werring. “They’re telling me, as a scientist, that this material that’s being deposited on farmland is not safe for the exposure of humans, animals or the environment.”

He said the potential dangers with biosolids include the leaching of chemicals into the soil, runoff from rainstorms and having chemicals enter the food chain via plants and animals.

A photo of the sampled pile Werring sent the Herald shows a large mound resting on the ground.

Biosolids must be stored in a manner that pre-vents the escape of the material, said Bell.

The specific means to achieve this are not pre-scribed, however, the OMRR explicitly states that “berms or other works must be constructed around the storage site if necessary to prevent the escape of material,” the email stated.

Werring said the pile was surrounded by a trench that ran along the front of it.

“There was a fence line there, but there was a gate and the gate was open. There wasn’t any indication that it was private property,” he said, adding that there was also a cattle corral nearby.

Werring collected the material from various spots of the pile using sterilized mason jars and a spoon wrapped in tinfoil.

The samples were brought to the laboratory within 24 hours.

He said he knew the pile was biosolids because

it smelled like sewage, but he didn’t see any clearly posted biosolids warning signs.

Werring initially went to the BioCentral com-post site and asked if he could collect samples from there, but said he was turned away when he was told the person who could authorize him to do that wasn’t at the site.

“I personally believe, as a scientist, that this material, that is being pawned off on the general public as being safe and useful as a beneficial fer-tilizer, is actually toxic and contaminated and it should not be put on any kind of food producing land whatsoever,” Werring said.

“There are different degrees of contamina-tion,” Polak said. “Just because something is con-sidered contaminated doesn’t mean that there isn’t a safe way of handling it.”

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Werring initially went to the BioCentral compost site and asked if he could collect samples from there, but said he was told the person who could authorize him to do that wasn’t at the site.

TEST RESULTSCadmium — average of two samples = 2.77 ug/g (BCCSR limit is 1.5 ug/g)

Copper (very high) — average of two samples = 1210 ug/g (BCCSR limit is 90 ug/g)

Mercury — average of two samples = 1.73 ug/g (BCCSR limit is 0.6 ug/g)

Molybdenum — one of two samples = 8.46 (BCCSR limit is 5 ug/g)

Selenium — average of two samples = 5.53 ug/g (BCCSR limit is 2 ug/g)

Sodium Ion — average of two samples = 409.5 ug/g (BCCSR limit is 200 ug/g)

Tin — average of two samples = 36.5 ug/g (BCCSR limit is 5 ug/g)

Zinc (very high) — average of two samples = 1,285 ug/g (BCCSR limit is 150 ug/g) 2,4- and 2,5- dichlorophenol = 0.135 ug/g (BCCSR limit is 0.05 ug/g) Total Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) — average of two samples = 0.815 ug/g(BCCSR limit is 0.1 ug/g) Phthalates — average of two samples = 44 ug/g di (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate, AKA DEHP (BCCSR limit is 30 ug/g)

Unit ug/g is microgram per gram

BCCSR is BC Contaminated Sites Regulations


Next council meeting: Tuesday, August 25, 2015Council agendas and minutes at www.merritt.ca

City of Merritt ★ 2185 Voght Street, Box 189Merritt, BC V1K 1B8 ★ Phone: 250-378-4224

As spring wanes and summer arrives many of us are aware of the unusual amount of precipitation that has fallen on our City. With this rain and warmer weather comes plant growth and it does not require a lot of searching to find out-of-control grass and weeds in empty lots, alleys and boulevards. We all want Merritt and the neighborhoods we call home to look the best that they can be. A frequent question to the City bylaw department is “Who is responsible for maintenance of boulevards and lanes?” The short answer is the adjacent property owner. Just as with winter snow, the adjacent property owner is responsible for shoveling the sidewalk in front of their home, so during the rest of the year the adjacent property owner is responsible for keeping the boulevard and lane abutting their property in a neat and tidy condition.

As a property owner you are responsible for the vegetative growth outside your property lines to the curb and if there is an alley you are responsible to the centre of that alley that abuts your property. We may all even want to consider some of our neighbours who for very good reasons may not be as able.

With this in mind Merritt’s Nuisance Abatement Bylaw provides for minimum property standards within City limits. This Bylaw allows the City to regulate and in some cases hire outside contractors to complete any work that is not done by the property owners.

Unless we all do our individual part to maintain our neighbourhoods it could simply not be done. One of the pleasures of living in a smaller community like ours is that the little extra that we contribute can translate to a huge difference that will positively reflect on the City of Merritt as somewhere great to live.

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Expanded watering restrictions are now in effect until September 30th or further notice.

It is vital that we all understand how important water regulations are to the community. The water we use in Merritt is the single most valuable resource that we have in our community. Most residents comply with sprinkling restrictions, and the City is able to maintain the city reservoirs at reasonable levels for all users including re protection. With your help we can insure that this resource continues to ow uninterrupted this year and in years to come. Of course if it’s raining, don’t water at all! There are many ways to conserve water both indoors and out. Please do your part. Sprinkling violations will result in a $50 ne for each offense.

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4th Wednesdays in August between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.,

in the Mayor’s Office at City Hall (second floor), 2185 Voght Street.

If you would like to schedule a particular time to meet with the Mayor at a Drop-In session please call reception at City Hall 250-378-4224.

Interested citizens are welcome to stop by, say hello and

discuss issues and opportunities for the City, its residents

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Merritt timber supply area discussedThe following is an excerpt from the City of Merritt regular council meet-ing agenda for August 11, 2015

Merritt TSA public discussion paper

In 2005, the AAC was increased to 2,814,171 cubic metres to address the mountain pine beetle epidemic that was underway in the timber supply area (TSA).

The small-diameter pine partition was main-tained at 312,500 cubic metres.

By 2010, the moun-tain pine beetle epidem-ic in the Merritt TSA had peaked and the

volume of beetle-killed pine was decreasing.

As a result, the chief forester decreased the allowable annual cut (AAC) to 2,400,000 cubic metres.

This AAC included a partition that limited the harvest of non-pine species volume to a maximum of 720,000 cubic metres.

Of the non-pine partition, the chief forester expected that about two-thirds would be incidental non-pine harvest resulting from the salvage of mountain pine beetle stands.

The remaining third was expected to come from spruce-beetle infested stands.

The non-pine parti-tion was intended to

conserve non-pine spe-cies volume, while pro-viding licensees with an opportunity to salvage the remaining dead pine.

At this time the small-diameter pine partition was discontin-ued.

In 2013, the regional executive director for the Thompson Okanagan Region determined an IFPA allowable annual cut of 373,000 cubic metres for three years.

This AAC was con-sidered to be within the Merritt TSA allow-able annual cut of 2,400,000 cubic metres determined by the chief forester.

Data from the minis-try’s harvest billing sys-

tem show that over the past five calendar years (2010-2014) a total of approximately 14.3 million cubic metres of timber were harvested.

During this period, harvest was highest in 2010 at approximately 3.6 million cubic metres.

After 2010, the annual harvest decreased steadily each year to approximately 2.3 million cubic metres in 2014.

For a timber supply review, a number of forecasts are prepared that are an outcome of the best available data and assumptions intend-ed to reflect current management practices.

(See the full report at www.merritt.ca)


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If you’re looking to get in a few rounds at the Sagebrush Golf Course sometime this golfing season, you’ll have to wait until next year.

The award-winning golf course will not be opening its doors as it will be too late in the year before they receive a building permit to modify their bed-and-breakfast style cottages required under their new zoning.

“It’s just too late,” Sagebrush president Bob Garnett said. “If we got the permit tomorrow it would still be three to four weeks of construction. That takes us to the middle of September [and] we’ll be closed [in] the middle of October. There’s no possible way you’d open for four weeks.”

The course didn’t open this past spring because the Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) required its bed-and-breakfast cot-tages be rezoned from residential to commer-cial zoning.

That rezoning pro-cess was completed at the end of May.

Construction can’t begin until the permit is received, and the own-ers have had no interest in opening just the golf course this year without being able to rent out the cottages.

Having lost money for years, the course lost approximately $1 million last year, and Garnett said if Sagebrush opened this year without the use of those facilities, an additional $400,000 of revenue would have been lost.

A silver lining from the owners’ perspective is they will be saving some hundreds of thou-sands of dollars from not opening the course at all this year, Garnett said.

The course was

projected to lose a little less than $1 million this year had there been no rezoning hiccup.

He said that without having a clubhouse in place, Sagebrush hasn’t been able to attract the number of golfers they’d like to bring in, nor has it been able to attract families.

“Unless you’re a golfer, there’s nothing to do up there,” Garnett said.

With a clubhouse in place there would be amenities such as a pool and spa, and a range of activities, he said.

No clubhouse has hindered Sagebrush’s ability to stay out of the red, Garnett said.

The current owners didn’t have sufficient funds to build a club-house when the course was created.

“It ended up costing more for the infrastruc-ture for the roads and lots and the golf course than originally antici-pated and there wasn’t enough left to build the clubhouse,” Garnett said.

For the past two years, the current owners, Four for Fore

Investments Ltd., have been searching for a new owner who could finish off the envisioned course.

The current owners also vowed not to open the course this year until they could find that new owner.

There are currently two prospective buyers lined up, and both have plans to building a club-house much bigger than what the current owners originally anticipated, Garnett said.

“We have two groups very interested, but they want this building per-mit done before they’ll finalize their deal,” Garnett said.

Until that is in place, the interested parties can’t evaluate what the course is worth to them, he said.

“We’ve always antici-pated that as soon as we got the building permit we can sit down with these two people that are interested and one of them will step up and close and we move forward,” Garnett said.

The TNRD said they are in the process of issuing the building permit

Michael PotestioTHE MERRITT HERALD

Sagebrush will remain closed for remaining 2015 season At 7:30 p.m. on August 8th Merritt RCMP

responded to a call of an assault in progress on Quilchena avenue near Orme Street.

An 18-year-old Merritt resident is in custody and facing charges after the victim, a 29-year-old Merritt man, was taken to hospital with a broken ankle. Police said the man was known to the assailants, and they are requesting warrants for two other males involved in the assault.

The file is still under investigation and charg-es pending.

A vehicle with two occupants went off Lindley Creek Road and fell down a 50-foot embankment on Sunday night.

Merritt RCMP responded to a call of the motor vehicle incident at about 10:44 p.m. that evening.

The two male occupants were able to exit the vehicle unharmed. The driver said he hit the shoulder of the road and was unable to get back on track before the vehicle went down the embankment.

Trees stopped the vehicle on the way down and the air bags deployed.

The two were wearing seat belts and no inju-ries were reported.

Drugs and alcohol are not suspected in the accident.

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Thefts from vehiclesOn Sunday at about 9 a.m., RCMP respond-

ed to the theft of a motor bike and thefts from vehicles left parked at a construction site near Merritt sometime over the weekend.

A 2008 blue suzuki motorcycle was taken from one of the vehicles as well as personal gear from two trucks parked at the site. Merritt RCMP are requesting information from the public. Anyone with information can contact the RCMP or Crime Stoppers at 1-888-222-8477

At 12:30 a.m. Monday morning police were called to attend the site of an abandoned vehicle in a ditch along Airport Road. The vehicle was reported by someone from the nearby truck stop who noted the vehicle was in the ditch with the passenger doors open. The air bags had deployed but no one was around the vehicle. The registered owner of the vehicle is from Surrey and it had not been reported stolen.

The file is still under investigation.

At 1:54 a.m. Monday morning emergency services responded to a call for an accident on Highway 5 three kilometres north of Merritt where a vehicle had rolled and was upside down on with one person trapped inside. The pas-senger of the vehicle was taken to hospital in Kamloops with non life threatening injuries and the driver was issued a violation ticket after admitting to having fallen asleep at the wheel.

Abandoned vehicle found

Vehicle rolled on highway

The Merritt Fire Rescue Department is hoping that speak-ing with the person who was injured in a house fire last week on the corner of Clapperton Avenue and Orme Street will lead them to the cause of the

blaze.“At this point, it’s undeter-

mined [we’re] still waiting to talk to the occupant,” Fire Chief Dave Tomkinson said.

Tomkinson said that while an investigation was able to pin-point the fire’s area of origin, the source of ignition was not found.

Without definitive evidence of

a source, the fire’s cause remains unknown.

“That’s why in a case like this, talking to the occupant if we get the opportunity is important,” Tomkinson said.

The lone occupant was taken to the hospital that day in critical condition with burns and smoke inhalation.

MFRD hopes to pinpoint cause of house fi reMichael PotestioTHE MERRITT HERALD

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VICTORIA – The first, and perhaps the only complete English-language debate in this long federal election cam-paign has helped define

the issues, and the non-issues.

I’m not going to try to tell you who “won” or “came out swinging,” because this is not a sporting event.

If you’re paying atten-tion in August, bless you, and you probably have a favourite already.

First, let’s deal with Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s diabolical scheme to extend the length of the formal elec-tion period. This, accord-ing to national pundits, is an extension of his evil

plot to attract more finan-cial supporters than the other parties, and spend the money.

In other words, it’s a non-issue and any oppo-nent who dwells on it looks like a whiner.

This is the first elec-tion in modern Canadian history to follow a four-year schedule. National pundits spent months tell-ing us Harper was going to use a loophole in his own election law to call a spring vote before the economy tanked.

Didn’t happen, and

now the Conservatives are rightly under scrutiny about their economic management.

Incumbent manipula-tion of election timing is over, and that’s good.

Scheduled elections by their nature create longer campaigns, as demonstrated in B.C. and the United States. So they should be conducted under formal campaign rules, which limit the noise of public sector unions and other special interests.

Another non-issue is

the non-existent deficit and recession that sup-posedly grips Canada. On actual results, there is a slim surplus, and if — a big if — Saudi Arabia continues to depress world oil prices, there may be a modest deficit by next spring.

The Bank of Canada’s recent move to devalue the dollar has already produced a rebound in exports and tourism, which any government would appreciate.

HERALD OPINION

Final MP Report from the 41st Parliament

Sorting out federal election issues

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By now chances are you may have heard that last Sunday, August 2, the writ was dropped in Ottawa thus dis-solving the 41st Parliament and beginning the campaign to elect the 42nd Parliament.

For more information on the dropping of the writ please see my report from last week.

As the writ period has now begun, this will be my final weekly report to the citizens of Okanagan-Coquihalla as my term as a Member of Parliament has now concluded.

As it has always been important from my perspective to ensure my weekly reports are non-partisan, I will refrain from discussing some of those events I am most proud to have played a role in over the past four years.

Instead, I would like to pass on a thank you to the many citizens who have taken the time to read my weekly reports and offer comments, criticism and concerns.

Hearing from citizens on a weekly basis has always been a very enjoyable aspect to public office and I would like to sincerely thank all those who took the time to share your views with me.

On a more formal note, as the writ period is now underway, I will no longer be in my West Kelowna or Penticton constituency offices.

Both of these offices will remain open for the majority of the writ period to assist citizens in their dealings with the federal govern-ment.

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Letters may be edited for length, taste and clar-ity. Please keep letters to 300 words or less. Email letters to: [email protected].

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Also a reminder that riding boundaries have changed and Elections Canada can confirm what federal riding you are now located in as well as which candidates are running in your electoral

area. May we never take for granted that Canada is

a free and democratic country by taking the time to vote on October 19th or during an advance poll.

It has been an honour to serve as your Member of Parliament the past four years and I encourage all citizens to take the time to contact candidates directly as the 2015 election approaches.

Have you tried to find parking at the mall lately?

Of particular interest to B.C. voters is the con-test between NDP leader Thomas Mulcair and Green Party leader Elizabeth May.

May used what may be her only national debate appearance to press Mulcair to oppose the TransMountain pipeline expansion project before hearings are complete.

Mindful of Adrian Dix’s disastrous 2013 deci-sion to do the same in B.C., Mulcair insisted he would wait for the federal review, even though he considers it to be inadequate.

This is, of course, all theatre. Based on their actions, the NDP, Green Party

and Liberals are all opposed not just to oil pipe-lines but export gas pipelines as well.

Liberal leader Justin Trudeau wants to cancel capital cost allowances for liquefied natural gas investment that have been granted by B.C. and Ottawa, which could be a deal-breaker for LNG.

B.C. NDP leader John Horgan formalized his opposition to the TransMountain expansion last week, in a letter filed with the National Energy Board.

But we’re expected to believe that Mulcair has a different position, for now.

Harper was forced to admit that his long effort to persuade U.S. President Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline has failed, and the project will have to wait until Obama leaves office next year.

The debate also confirmed positions on Canada’s modest role in bombing Islamic State terrorist positions in Iraq and Syria. The Conservatives are for it, and the Liberals, NDP and Greens are against it.

Trudeau set the stage for the contest in Quebec, which B.C. voters can only watch from afar to see if it once again decides the shape of their federal government.

Trudeau pushed Mulcair on his cynical bid to court the separatist voters who suddenly swung to Jack Layton’s NDP in 2011.

Like petroleum prices, it’s beyond our control.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc Email: [email protected]

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Petroleum prices are beyond the control of Canadian politiciansFrom Page 7

Editor:

(Re: “Struggling economy hot topic” in the Merritt Herald, August 6, 2015)

British Columbia voters in newly configured rid-ings like Central Okanagan Similkameen-Nicola (COSN) will almost certainly cast the final and deciding votes when the federal polls open on October 19, 2015.

Though I do not “belong” to any political party, I urge voters in COSN to closely examine federal NDP candidate Angelique Wood and her party’s socially compassionate policies.

As noted in the Keremeos Review some years ago, Ms. Wood, a volunteer firefighter and pump truck operator in Hedley, B.C., assisted in hauling six “kicking and squealing” runaway pigs from a neighbour’s garden; and, then, helped return and properly imprison the porcine thieves.

Apparently, the NDP’s Angelique Wood already has the prerequisite skills and a clear understanding of exactly how Ottawa should truly work.

It’s time to kick the pigs out of our gardens, folks. It’s time for change in Ottawa.

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Gas prices remain stubbornly high in B.C. despite the slide in crude oil prices, and motorists are feeling gouged.

Gasoline is down only slightly from $1.40 a litre a year ago, while crude has plunged more than 50 per cent from around $98 a barrel to less than $44 in early August.

But petroleum industry analysts say it all boils down to sup-ply and demand.

Crude oil accounts for less than half of the end cost of a litre of gasoline, with gov-ernment taxes and refining charges the other big factors.

“I wish there was a simple explanation,” said Jason Parent of the Kent Marketing Group. “There isn’t much of a relationship on a day-to-day basis between crude oil and retail gasoline.”

Expecting gas to move in lockstep with crude oil is somewhat akin to expecting house

prices to follow lumber prices, without recog-nizing scarce land or an influx of buyers might have an influ-ence.

Parent said crude and gas prices can go in different directions for different reasons, and gas prices in B.C. can diverge from what other Canadians pay.

Most of the dif-ference between B.C. prices and the rest of the country is explained by the higher 17-cent-a-litre TransLink tax in Metro Vancouver as well as B.C.’s carbon tax.

Motorists are paying just over $1 in Alberta, a few cents more in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and $1.10 to $1.20 in most of Eastern Canada.

But even after taxes are factored out, Vancouver prices are 5 to 15 cents a litre higher than most other cities across Canada.

The reason, Parent said, is that Vancouver-area prices follow those along the U.S. west coast, where the wholesale gas supply has been constricted

by refinery problems in California, driving prices up.

“Wholesale prices have been high there relative to the rest of the U.S. for a month now,” Parent said.

Some gaso-line comes to B.C.

through the Kinder Morgan pipeline, but the rest comes from Washington State or other U.S. refineries.

If prices were sharply higher in Vancouver than cities to the south, Parent said, gas would flow back to the U.S. — resulting in shortages here — or wouldn’t be shipped north in the first place.

Another “huge” factor behind why Canadians in general aren’t yet seeing much relief at the pumps is the drop in the loonie over the past year.

Crude and whole-sale gas are priced in U.S. dollars, so Canadians are pay-ing with a devalued currency that simply doesn’t go as far as it did a year ago.

So who is profiting from the persistently high pump prices?

“Right now, refiners are the big winners,” Parent said.

They’re running close to capacity, demand is up because of lower gas prices

and therefore refiners can charge more than usual.

If crude oil prices get even cheaper — potentially as sanctions against Iran end and more oil pours onto the world market — there’s no guarantee gas prices will follow because of the refining constraints in North America.

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More new sports introduced into the ValleyThe Merritt branch of Pacific Sport Interior B.C. continues to provide opportunities for the youth of the Nicola Valley to engage in new and exciting sports not commonly avail-able locally.The month of July saw the game of field hockey being taught at Voght Park by former University of Victoria player Carly Krestanovich. (Left) The NCCP Level 2 instructor and former teacher at Diamond Vale Elementary School, along with enthusi-astic camper Nathan Willey, demonstrate how to ‘juggle’ the ball on a field hockey stick using the only side of the stick allowed to touch the ball. July 29 and 30 saw a two-day water polo clinic for aspiring players and coaches at the Nicola Valley Aquatic Centre. Expert instruc-tion was provided by John Stockdale from Vancouver, a former player with almost 35 years of coaching expe-rience. (Above right) The eager participants with their fashionable water polo caps. (Below) Diya Chhabra tries to keep the water polo ball away from her twin sister, Riya. Ian Webster/Herald

Merritt Otters get a talking to from one of the bestOn the eve of their

regional champion-ships in Kamloops, the swimmers, coaches and parents of the Merritt Otters Swim Club were the beneficiaries of some world-class instruction and words of wisdom from Dr. John Hogg on July 29.

Dr. Hogg, who cur-rently lives in Salmon Arm, has worked for over 30 years as a pro-fessional coach and applied sport psycholo-gist. He has coached with the Scottish, British and Canadian national swim teams, and attended the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. He later became the head coach at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

Dr. Hogg has earned both a master’s degree and doctorate in the field of sport psychol-ogy, and has authored seven books and count-less coaching manuals

on the topics of psy-chology in sport and performance enhance-ment. Over the years, he has worked with coaches and athletes in not only swimming, but soccer, basketball, field hockey and the per-forming arts.

Dr. Hogg spent the first part of his day in Merritt on the deck at the Nicola Valley Aquatic Centre work-ing with the Otters’ junior coaches, helping to improve their swim-ming expertise and instructional methods. Haley Zabek and Rahul Chhabra were two of the young instructors who attended the ses-sion and benefitted from Dr. Hogg’s infor-mation and advice.

“He had us each take a young swimmer and really focus on their strokes, make sugges-tions for improvements, and then stay with them to make sure they attempted those chang-es,” Zabek said. “That

was very helpful.”“He was very spe-

cific, and broke things down so that we could understand,” Chhabra added.

Later, Zabek and Chabbra joined their fellow senior swimmers for an intense session in the water, with Dr. Hogg coaching them. The emphasis for part of the workout was the butterfly stroke, argu-ably the most difficult of the four in competi-tive swimming.

“He broke down the kick phase of the stroke, and talked a lot about how the legs actually pull,” Zabek said, while Chhabra stated that he learned how to stay closer to the surface of the water during his arm stroke and push forward, rather than dive down so deep.

Dr. Hogg’s largest audience of the day was for his evening pre-sentation at the NVIT lecture theatre. Over 35 young swimmers,

coaches and parents were in attendance and received valuable information on optimal training, preparation and performance and enhancement.

According to Dr. Hogg, there are four key components to all performance — physi-cal, technical, tactical and mental. All four need to be understood and addressed if one’s best effort is to be achieved.

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Hogg, the ideal perfor-mance state (IPS) is the consequence of consis-tency and control when it comes to commitment and effort, and respon-sibility and accountabil-ity in terms of quality training.

Athletes must be aware of their thoughts, feelings and actions, have self-belief in their potential, and learn how to deal with the inevitable pressures, pit-falls and anxieties that come with competitive sports.

Despite the wide range in age and expe-rience of his listeners, Dr. Hogg had little dif-ficulty getting his mes-sage across, according to Zabek.

“He said the same thing two to three times in different ways,” she stated, “which I think was very helpful, because we had from very young swimmers to adults in the audience.”

Zabek found Dr. Hogg’s comments on

focus and preparation very informative, noting that many of her fellow competitors are super serious and almost have to get into some kind of ‘zone’ in the lead-up to their race.

“I’m not like that at all,” she admitted with a laugh. “I begin to focus on my race about 30 seconds to a minute before the start. I just get up on the blocks and go for it.”

Zabek conceded that there certainly is pres-sure in competition, but for her the pressure all comes from within, not from the expectations of others.

“I want to do well, but I swim because I love the feeling it gives me. I don’t do it because I have to win.”

That said, Zabek knows that every swim-mer is different, and that Dr. Hogg’s advice had a lot of benefits.

“I think what he said will help me a lot as a coach.”

Ian WebsterTHE MERRITT HERALD

WORDS OF WISDOM Noted coach and sport psychologist Dr. John Hogg (upper right) talks poolside to Merritt Otters swimmers and junior coaches. Photo courtesy of Stef Zabek


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