got the first of these 2 attach'ts from an obscure news type site yesterday. the second is from the site of the company involved. may be more to the story,but,initial look sure seems to say our bureaucratic emperors seem to think that other bureaucratic empires are the only ones capable of getting the job done.
guess i'll now go draw the water and later hew the wood quota for the day.
http://news.prnewswire.com/ViewContent. ... 892&EDATE=
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/arch ... c8239.html
no one here can do that...
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no one here can do that...
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A: It cannot be done. You will need to upgrade your house.
A: It cannot be done. You will need to upgrade your house.
Re: no one here can do that...
This story was in the news a couple weeks ago. The Victoria Times Colonist ran a story on it. It's a BC based company with 9 employees that leases two airplanes out of Alberta, as well as basing some of their technical staff there. They do infrared scanning of wildfires to determine fire perimeters and hot spots, which is info used in planning fire fighting tactics. The BC Forest Service has accessed US Forest Service assets to help in this function through their mutal assistance agreement. The USFS bills the Province at about 1/10th the rate of this company. Even so, 2/3's of the work has gone to this company, but they seem to feel they should get it all and were playing the fear game in the media. "If you don't give us all the work we might have to shut down, then what will you do when the USFS is not available?"
