Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Land clearing planned on Wal-Mart site

The land under reflection for a downtown Wal-Mart has been cleared, but the store is not really coming to town just yet. "We're just taking the trees and trash out, getting it ready for any commercial site development," said Campbell River Indian Band Chief Robert Pollard. "We thought the brilliant time to take it down was now, we couldn't do it in the fall."

He said the band and Wal-Mart are yet talking about a latent development, there are no contracts signed yet and there's nothing ultimate in writing. However, in the past week, band-owned land next to Highway 19A, across Maple Street from the Quinsam Hotel, has gone for land clearing. The band's land across the highway, among the highway and 16th Avenue, has also been logged and cleared.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Students to take part in farm land clearing

They are recognized as the Finger Lakes National Forest Farmstead Archaeology & History Project and are due to depict a team of student excavators for land clearing and their instructors to the nationwide forest again this summer.

Dr. LuAnn Wurst, associate professor and co-chair of the section of anthropology at SUNY Brockport, stated college students, frequently anthropology majors, are due to excavate three farms and the site of a 19th-century school. Wurst has supervised excavations at 11 sites over the past six years. She said the 2007 archaeological field school that would be detained from July 2 through Aug. 3, is planned to add to the data base of farmsteads.

Thursday, August 2, 2007

Farmer Protested over land clearing laws

The Australian Beef Association stated that the action engages about 2,000 farmers from Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. Chairman Brad Bellinger stated that they would keep felling trees until governments meet their respective demands.

"First day, Sunday we chopped down one tree, second day Monday, we chopped down two trees and so on until we get some action from either Premier Beattie or Morris Iemma to do something about this absurd native vegetation act.

"We know the Australian Government is getting advantage from collecting carbon credits, now we desire payment for what we're doing for the country or we desire the native vegetation act removed." Mr. Bellinger says they require compensation or the vegetation laws must change.