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SIA protesters cause delays that leave soil barge homeless LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN
Search and Rescue personnel scour Chemainus Lake on Wednesday afternoon for a man missing after a canoe that was carrying two fishermen sank on Wednesday morning. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]
Canoe sinks, man missing SARAH SIMPSON CITIZEN
An Island man is missing after a canoe carrying two young fishermen sank at Chemainus Lake Wednesday morning. Authorities were called to the lake around 10:30 a.m. One man, a 22-year-old from Nanaimo, managed to make it
to shore. His friend, also 22 years old, has not been found. “Everyone who can assist is currently searching for the young man,” said North Cowichan/Duncan Cpl. Krista Hobday Wednesday afternoon. Chemainus, Crofton and North Cowichan’s South End fire departments were called out
as well as Cowichan Valley and Ladysmith Search and Rescue and the RCMP Dive Team. The British Columbia Ambulance Service and Cowichan Valley Victim Services are also on scene to assist in their capacity. The search for the man and the investigation in to the incident are ongoing.
Shawnigan Lake residents spent the day Monday tracking the movements of a half-loaded barge carrying contaminated soil headed for the Stebbings Road South Island Aggregates landfill site operated by Cobble Hill Holdings. Shawnigan Lake area director Sonia Furstenau said Tuesday, Nov. 24, “I think one day this could make a good movie for the new millennium. Instead of a car chase we have a slow motion barge chase.” As of Tuesday, the barge was back in Nanaimo but “it left Nanaimo yesterday morning and it came down towards Bamberton and it was refused at Bamberton,” according to Furstenau. Asked why the barge was in that area, she said, “I think the company was hoping they could dock at Bamberton and unload the material there and truck it to SIA. “This is the contaminated soil from Pacific Coast Terminals in Port Moody. My information is that the Malahat Nation said ‘no’ to a barge stopping there. Then it stayed out there for a while and Win one of
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last night made its way back to Nanaimo,” she said. The Malahat First Nation could not be reached for comment. F u rs t e n a u wa s i n C V R D meetings “but I was being kept appraised of the boat’s location throughout the entire day,” she said. One of her eyes on the ground was activist Shelagh Bell-Irving. “I heard that they wouldn’t be hauling Monday so I went home. Then I heard that the barge was headed to Bamberton and I got in my car and drove there,” Bell-Irving said. However, it turned out the barge got a cool reception while Bell-Irving and other protesters kept an eye out. “It turned around and then sat there looking homeless for a while and then left. We followed it for an hour and then started tracking it online,” she said. The barge is about half-full, but lost its mooring at Duke Point because of protests at Stebbings Road which slowed the progress of the trucks and led to some arrests of protesters last week, according to Bell-Irving. See ENVIRONMENT, Page 15