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Thursday, 08 April 2010 |
Residents in both Donalda and Gadsby voted overwhelmingly in favour of saving their communities from dissolution last week, but the whole issue has left many questioning the province’s motives behind ordering dissolution studies and whether or not their communities will actually be spared.
Although 85 Donalda residents voted against dissolution in a non-binding plebiscite last week compared to 29 in favour, the village will not learn of its future until Municipal Affairs Minister Hector Goudreau announces his final decision in a couple of months.
Donalda Mayor Terry Nordahl expressed delight in the outcome of the plebiscite, but says she is frustrated the province felt the need to order the dissolution study in the first place.
“I truly believe that most people here love the village,” she said. “They love it here because it is a good place to live. We work hard to keep it up and running and growing ... But there has to be simpler, less expensive and more effective ways of getting problems fixed than dissolution.”
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Monday, 29 March 2010 |
The future of Donalda and Gadsby is essentially in the hands of their respective residents after separate public information meetings were held last week to discuss the prospect of dissolving both communities.
Representatives from Alberta Municipal Affairs hosted meetings to gauge the public’s opinion on the course of action that could mean the end of the villages forever. Comments were collected on behalf of Minister Hector Goudreau who will ultimately decide whether to dissolve the communities after non-binding plebiscites scheduled for early this week.
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Sunday, 30 August 2009 |
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Residents in Gadsby and Donalda are waiting to see if the government considers their villages worth preserving.
Alberta Municipal Affairs is undertaking a
dissolution study for Donalda to determine whether the village has the
economic oomph to stay afloat or whether it would be better off as a
hamlet in the County of Stettler. A similar study is being considered
for Gadsby, also in the county.
Donalda Mayor Terry Nordahl said they are baffled
as to why the minister ordered a dissolution study for their community
of 250, which is two years away from celebrating its centennial. A
group of disgruntled residents sent a petition asking for an audit of
village operations to the minister this past spring.
Municipal Affairs determined the community had
been audited a few years ago and it was running fine. But then the
minister ordered a dissolution study.
“It was a total shock to us,” she said. “We are a very sustainable village. We didn’t have a deficit or anything.”
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Sunday, 24 May 2009 |
Environmentalist Brad Komishke finds ways to improve environmental performance from within the walls of industry
By Joey Podlubny
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1989, Brad Komishke was working at Husky Energy’s asphalt refinery in
Llyodminster, Alberta, doing analytical support, when he volunteered on
a project with the focus to use moss to clean up asphalt spills at the
plant. There weren’t too many options for disposal at the time, and
Komishke wanted to find an effective method. So, he gave his time to
help come up with a way to get the natural bugs from moss to eat up a
spill.
Things went a little slower than expected. During the experiments,
the bugs were not producing at a fast enough rate. The system was
proven to work, but it lacked efficiency and speed. Studying the tanks
that housed the mixture of bugs and asphalt, Komishke considered ways
to speed up growth.
He remembered his fish tank at home. Taking
an aeration pump, he blasted oxygen into the tanks. They were in
business. It was efficient. They did it. No more asphalt in the
landfills, no more burning the stuff. There was positive impact on the
environment that came from within the walls of industry, not outside of
it. “That’s when I realized what kind of impact I could have working
from within an oil company,” says Komishke.
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