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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Christmas Holidays

Posted by Melanie at 16:18 0 comments

I'm getting to do a ton of skiing and visiting. I even got to visit friends in Dawson Creek although the reason for going there is sad.

It was my first non family funeral. My friends husband had this very aggressive cancer that exploded into his life and left him, as my friends said, in five months less a day. It was not my favourite thing to do. But you know the more I think about it, I realize life is a gift and I'm damn well making the most of every second.

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I've watched with interest as the wind turbine project on Bear Mountain, in Dawson Creek, was developed and came into being in August 2009. Read more about it here. After the funeral we went for a tour, taking pictures of the turbines from every angle imaginable.

The Peace is a great place for wind turbines. Ridiculous as it may seem, when I first moved to Prince George I used to miss the wind. In any case the electricity these turbines produce is enough, I hope, to put to rest the whole notion of flooding the Peace River valley. Apart from the people who eke out their livelihood in the valley it is a beautiful place, not one we want to have disapear, under the water created by the proposed site C dam.

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