Author: chrisale

  • The Arguments for Alberni Connector apply more to Alberni Railway.

    Another report, the seventh in 10 years from the Alberni Clayoquot Regional District and Port Alberni Port Authority Highway and Transportation Commitees, has been produced. For the first time in six reports, the results are conclusively in favour of building a new connector from Alberni to Highway 19 at Horne Lake. It doesn’t come without…

  • Port Alberni City Council to consider Raven Application

    On April 8th, Port Alberni City Council is going to be considering an initial review of the Raven Underground Coal Project’s recently submitted Environmental Assessment Application. On March 25th, I sent a request to council that they “through the Alberni Valley Regional District, and in cooperation with the Port Alberni Port Authority and Island Corridor…

  • ACRD Continues study of Highway Alternatives for Raven Coal and Port Traffic

    On February 27th the Alberni Clayoquot Regional District tabled a new report (the 4th route study since 2012) detailing an eastern ‘ring road’ connecting Highway 4 at the entrance to Port Alberni to a road that enters Port Alberni to the south more directly towards the Port Authority and industrial areas on the waterfront. These…