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JANUARY 13, 2010 It went down on Christmas Eve and came back this morning. Jason Pigeau (right, lower photo) drove around the southeast corner of Bear Island and went for a "swim." A rare, freeze-up "La Nina" reversed ice-up in places around the lake and caught this unsuspecting rider and his machine. Fortunately, he jumped safely to solid ice. George and Tom (left) Mathias did the salvage. |
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JANUARY 12, 2010 More ice
JANUARY 12, 2010 MNR rejects Sturgeon River logging bridge Ontario's Minister of Natural Resources rejected the logging industry's push for a bridge over the heart of the Sturgeon River and through a park into the Solace Wildlands. "The decision not to consider an additional crossing," Minister Donna Cansfield wrote in a letter, "was made because alternative routes utitlizing existing primary roads east of the park provide access to the harvest areas associated with the Sudbury Forest." The letter, dated January 4, is a response to letters from the public on the issue. Vermilion Forest Management of Sudbury, the timber license holder, had not seen the letter when Ottertooth called and would not comment. The company has been pressing for two years for the bridge on behalf of its shareholder Gervais Forest Products of Falconbridge. The bridge would have crossed the Sturgeon River Waterway Park, Vermilion's biggest obstacle in obtaining the province's permission. The Sturgeon is one of the last wild rivers in central Ontario. "There was lots of opposition to the proposed crossing," said Kevin Pinkerton, superintendent of Temagami parks, and "consistent opposition to cutting in the Solace Wildlands." The minister's decision does not protect the wildlands.
JANUARY 11, 2010 Georgia-Pacfic buying Grant Forest Forestry giant Georgia-Pacific plans to purchase Grant Forest Products of Englehart, currently under bankruptcy protection. Grant is one of North America's most efficient producers of high-tech panelboard and logs poplar in Temagami. Georgia-Pacific of Atlanta, long known to be interested in Grant, announced today its intention to buy the Englehart mill and its two sister mills in South Carolina. Grant got into financial trouble when it was hit by two dragons the rise in the Canadian dollar and the bust in the US housing market just as it aggressively expanded mill capacity in the US. Grant has assets exceeding a billion dollars and Georgia-Pacific will acquire them at a bargain-basement price of $400 million. If it gets Canadian regulatory approval, it hopes to close the deal in the first half of 2010.
JANUARY 10, 2010 Wind eases and ice expands on Lake Temagami
JANUARY 9, 2010 Flaky ice remains a danger on Lake Temagami
JANUARY 8, 2010 Double view of Lake Temagami's open water
JANUARY 6, 2010 Rare event turns LakeTemagami ice dangerous
To travel on the ice of Lake Temagami is to feel like a mouse being chased by a wolf.
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Chief and Council at the Bear Island recreation centre. Left to right: Annette Polson, Doug McKenzie Sr., Chief Roxane Ayotte, Second Chief John McKenzie, Alan Marquette. Absent Thomas Friday Sr. PHOTO: BOB FARR |
JANUARY 5, 2010 New TFN chiefs take office Ending 18 months of political instability, the new chiefs of the Temagami First Nation took office yesterday and held the first open council meeting since May 2008. Second Chief John McKenzie said, "We're returning to our long-standing open-meetings policy." Meetings will be announced in advance, they will be open and minutes will be available. Another old policy of council will be restored: settlement negotiations. These had been suspended by the last chief, Gary Potts. Potts fought to remain as chief, but after widespread protests, an impeachment, a judge's ruling against him, overwhelming loss in an election and failed election appeals, he had nowhere to go, but out.
JANUARY 4, 2010 Freeze-up Watch: Brush away the clouds. Does this look familiar?
JANUARY 2, 2010 Freeze-up Watch: 2010 starts without freeze-up
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