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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸🌱 · @chris
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"It's full of racists and trolls but that's where the people are, so I posted it there. Then someone commented somethibg awful and it all got taken down".

Said someone who posted a climate related event announcement on a community Facebook page.

Corporate Social Media is a failure and a danger.

#dumpzuck #dumpmusk #deletefacebook #society #democracy #community #portalberni

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸🌱 · @chris
2188 followers · 9496 posts · Server mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
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#pandemicpond #garden #gardening #pond #portalberni #bloomscrolling

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸🌱 · @chris
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Volunteering in a small town is spending 8 hours, 2PM to 10PM at a booth at the fall fair and you see friends, family, say hi to random people and strike up conversations about community and climate and family and all the rest. Oh and you listen to Chilliwack on the Main Stage sounding a little rough but who cares. Tickets for all this were only $10.

#smalltown #portalberni #community #volunteering #chilliwack

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸🌱 · @chris
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The band playing at the fair tonight was actually pretty good. Singer had a good voice. The band is called "Wet Future" 😂 😂

#fallfair #portalberni #smalltown #rocknrolll

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸🌱 · @chris
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Bambis and Mom in the City.

#portalberni #urban #deer

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸🌱 · @chris
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#grapes #garden #portalberni #concordgrapes #fruit

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#globalnews #BritishColumbia #news #disasterassistance #financialsupport #highway4reopens #vancouverisland #cameronbluffs #compensation #BCwildfires #portalberni #BCWildfire #Highway4 #ucluelet #economy #tourism #tofino #fire

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Global News - Man hospitalized, suspect at large in ‘targeted’ Port Alberni, B.C., shooting

#globalnews #BritishColumbia #news #VancouverIslandcrime #portalbernishooting #portalbernicrime #targetedshooting #portalbernircmp #portalberni #shooting #crime

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Global News - Vancouver Island’s Highway 4 to fully reopen Thursday evening

#globalnews #BritishColumbia #news #highway4reopening #highway4repoens #highwayreopens #wildfiredamage #highwayclosed #BCwildfires #portalberni #BCWildfire #Highway4 #ucluelet #traffic #tofino #fire

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸🌱 · @chris
2157 followers · 8997 posts · Server mstdn.chrisalemany.ca

Back in the day there were 7 large Pulp and/or Paper Mills on Vancouver Island. They were the major employer in Port Alice, Gold River, Powell River, Campbell River, North Cowichan/Crofton, Nanaimo (Harmac), and Port Alberni.

Gold River closed permanently 20 years ago.
Campbell River closed permanently 15 years ago.
Harmac was sold to the employees 15 years ago, it continues.
Port Alice closed permanently 10-15 years ago.
Powell River closed permanently this year.
Crofton has been 'curtailed' for last 3 months due to 'market conditions’ (see link). The outlook is not bright.
Port Alberni is the last “company mill” on the Island and has avoided most of the turmoil at least outwardly.

Other than Harmac, the last 3 mills were the final ones owned by one entity. That entity, Paper Excellence, is owned by a member of the Wijaya family who run a huge conglomerate in Indonesia: Sinar Mas.

It's just numbers on a spreadsheet now.

I expect Port Alberni's mill to be closed within 5 years.

There are lots of reasons for the shutdown, but I believe the major one is company consolidation and offshoring of global pulp and paper production.


albernivalleynews.com/trending

#megacorps #billionnaires #forestry #pulpandpaper #portalberni #nanaimo #campbellriver #canada #canpoli #bcpoli

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸🌱 · @chris
2153 followers · 8918 posts · Server mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
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#homegarden #portalberni #nut #trees

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸🌱 · @chris
2153 followers · 8880 posts · Server mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
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Bought these 2 years ago. Brought the best investment properties I have right now. If you want it, call me. not kidding! lol

#wood #diy #buysell #portalberni #inflation

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Global News - Highway 4 ‘on track’ to fully reopen by Labour Day long weekend: Ministry

#globalnews #BritishColumbia #news #MinistryofTransportation #cameronbluffswildfire #highway4closure #highway4repairs #highway4reopen #BCwildfires #portalberni #rockscaling #BCWildfire #Highway4 #ucluelet #tofino #fire

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸🌱 · @chris
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1/2 It makes me sad and mad every single time I see an old growth tree on a logging truck.

I say that in the singular because I am pretty sure this one truck is carrying one tree. It's that big. This is common.

#endoldgrowthlogging #canpoli #portalberni #climatecrisis #forest #canadianwildfires #wildfires

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸🌱 · @chris
2150 followers · 8774 posts · Server mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
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When we got an Elderberry bush and they said they were "vigorous" growers, I never thought that meant 7ft tall and looking like a bunch of angry bats. 🦇 We had it by the fence up until this spring then moved it to its current location and I think it has grown at least 3ft since. We will clearly need to devise a pruning strategy. Especially since the plan is to have a much taller fruit tree (plum or apple) right in front of it!

#gardening #berry #ediblegarden #portalberni

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#globalnews #BritishColumbia #news #rockscalinghighway4 #vancouverislandnews #portalbernitraffic #cameronbluffsfire #cameronlakebluffs #highway4closures #highway4repairs #portalberni #Highway4 #traffic

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Stéphanie Pageau · @stephanie
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McLean Mill National Historic Site!

#portalberni #BC

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Stéphanie Pageau · @stephanie
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Fish and prawn tacos at Porto Taco in for lunch. It was super tasty!

#portalberni

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Chris Alemany · @chris
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I am so proud of our little Arbutus. It has grown so well despite the crazy heat this summer. From two branches and a few black spotted leaves to a healthy, lush, and growing 4 foot tall tree.

#gardening #portalberni #tree

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#globalnews #BritishColumbia #news #MinistryofTransportation #cameronlakewildfire #highway4closure #rockscalingwork #highway4closed #highwayrepairs #horneconnector #cameronlaike #portalberni #BCWildfire #Highway4 #ucluelet #tofino #fire

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