CARYVILLE The Caryville Town Council gathered for an emergency meeting last week that was called to impose an immediate cease to excavation of land controlled by the town.

A premature decision by Council Chairman Henry Chambers created a problem with multiple layers when he hired a timber company on the towns behalf without the councils backing in a manner that did not follow proper legal protocol.

The Sunshine Law has been broken, said Councilwoman Nora Curry.

Floridas Sunshine Law exists to ensure open government and that all dealings stay transparent among boards, commissions and other governing bodies in state and local agencies. A chain of events that left the council at odds began to align last month, when Chambers requested a quote from Sapps Land & Excavation on what the company would pay the town for merchantable wood.

On Feb. 5, Chambers met with company Vice President Jeremy Sapp to convey the towns need to have tree debris removed after another logging company partially cleared parcels of land. Sapp proposed a figure, and Chambers said he would run the information by the council in the next meeting, set for Feb 10.

During that meeting, officials discussed hiring a company to chip and haul away the debris, with Chambers sharing hed looked into some options and had a company in mind that would pay the town $50 per ton. No motions were made to put the project up for bid or to hire a specific company.

Then on Feb. 25, Chambers signed a general timber sales agreement, giving timber rights to Sapps Land & Excavating Inc. on 316 acres of land. The company moved in heavy equipment the following day and had cleared away about 25 acres when Councilman Timothy Hanes learned the work was already in progress.

Hundred-year-old oaks are being cut out there, Hanes said. Our grandkids are not going to see them.

Hanes biggest concern was some of the towns more historical and environmentally beneficial trees were being cut when the councils prior discussion clearly specified that no more trees would come down.

His second point of contention was with decimal placement in the pay rate on the contract. Instead of $50 a ton, as Chambers had mentioned, the chairman signed an agreement for the timber company to compensate the town at a rate of 50 cents per ton.

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A CROPPA Creek farmer, and the son of an accused murderer, has appeared in a Sydney court to answer allegations of unlawful clearing.

A CROPPA Creek farmer, and the son of an accused murderer, has appeared in a Sydney court to answer allegations of unlawful clearing.

Grant Wesley Turnbulls family is at the epicentre of land clearing disputes with the Office of Environment and Heritage after his father, Ian Robert Turnbull, allegedly gunned down and murdered an environmental compliance officer near the village last July.

Grant Turnbull is also being examined over alleged breaches of the Native Vegetation Act, following several investigations by the Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH).

A hearing, set down for four days, commenced in the Land and Environment Court in Sydney yesterday morning, after the OEH instigated a court challenge in September last year to halt immediate works on certain areas of Colorado, his family farm north of Moree.

The OEH submitted affidavits as part of its case, including aerial photography which a natural resources officer claimed appeared to show approximately 221 hectares of tree cover had been cleared between January, 2013, and May, 2014.

A further allegation centres on an area totalling 286 hectares which is alleged to have been cleared between May and August last year.

In September, Justice Rachel Pepper granted the temporary interlocutory order, sought by the OEH, restraining Mr Turnbull from clearing, or causing or permitting the clearing of native vegetation on the land, because the OEH was acting in the public interest and any rehabilitation of the land which could have been illegally cleared was a fundamental matter of public importance.

The hearing into the allegations of unlawful clearing was originally scheduled to be heard in December but was vacated after Mr Turnbull said he was unavailable to brief solicitors in preparation for the case because of the busy crop harvest time as well as the unavailability of an expert witness.

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Colombia and Marxist FARC rebels reached a deal Saturday to clear the country of land mines as part of ongoing peace talks.

Both sides said they would ask a group called Norwegian People's Aid to coordinate the operation.

Humberto de la Calle, a former Colombian vice president and the government's lead negotiator, said Saturday, "Our main objective in these conversations is to put an end to the conflict and avoid future victims in our country. And that's why the demining proposal is a first but giant step toward peace."

The International Campaign to Ban Landmines has ranked Colombia as one of the world's most dangerous countries for hidden explosives.

Talks between Colombia and the rebels have been proceeding in Havana for more than two years. Negotiators have begun to make progress on such matters as political participation for the rebels, land reform and drugs.

FARC's guerilla war against the Colombian government has killed 220,000 people since 1964.

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Tonight, Global TV reported that crews working for Canadian Pacific Railwaywill be back on the Arbutus corridor in the Marpole area on Tuesday (February 10), much to the consternation of those living in the area.

The work will reportedly begin along the track near West 70th Avenue.

Shortly before last November's civic election, Canadian Pacific Railway promised not to bulldoze any more community gardens until December.

Last month, B.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson rejected the City of Vancouver's application for an injunction to stopCP Rail fromresuming its work.

Hinkson concluded that the railway had legal authorityover its 8.82-kilometre strip of land along Vancouver's West Side.

The corridor, which is mostly 66feet wide,runs fromWest 1stAvenue and Fir Street south to Milton Street, accordingto Hinkson's ruling, ad covers 17 hectares.

In recent years many Vancouver residents and groups have created community gardens along the property.

Hinkson noted that one of the oldest, which isbetween West 49th and West 54th avenues, was created during the Second World War.

"Other individuals have used parts of the Corridor as a foot and bicyle path," he stated. "Others have used the Corridor as a place to park their cars."

The City of Vancouver argued in court that the railway had effectively abandoned the corridor, which would mean that it no longer fell under the jurisdiction of the federal government.

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Scars and brown patches have pockmarked the face of Penang Hill evidence of illegal land clearing on the hill. The bruising is evident as you approach the island using the atrocious skeleton ferry service under the now privatised Penang Port.

I had the misfortune to be on the ferry, Pulau Angsa, built in 1980. For some reason, the ferry that day moved at a glacial speed, making many passengers and commuters late for their appointments a journey which once used to take 13-14 minutes took more than half an hour that day, last week. And thats not counting the waiting time for the ferry.

But the painstakingly slow ride afforded me a good long view of Penang Hill. Through the haze, I was horrified to see the scarring of Penang Hill, the once lush and verdant shroud of forest now battered and bruised.

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A generation ago, we had a fast and frequent ferry service (most times you only had to wait a few minutes for a ferry), little or no queues at the ferry terminals, clear skies and a lush green Penang Hill, which rose majestically at the centre of the Island.

Sorry, only three ferries in service (July 2014)!

Now the ferry service has been run down (only one to four ferries operate, just one at night including during peak holiday seasons, and no ferries after 1.00am), so that waiting times have soared. If the next ferry that arrives is full, you are in for an even longer wait.

The ferry service under Penang Port Sdn Bhd, controversially privatised last year to Sea Terminal Sdn Bhd, linked to Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary, is a far cry from the superb service during its glory days. From the mid-1970s until the old ferry terminal on the mainland collapsed in 1988, about a dozen ferries plied the channel, the waiting time rarely more than a few minutes.

The old ferry terminal was never rebuilt, allowing the Penang Bridge, completed in 1985, then under the politically connected UEM, to collect even more tolls from motorists who opted for the bridge rather than wait interminably for the reduced number of ferries at the remaining newer terminal.

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