#Municipality of Greenstone

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Flying West (No. 3)

Greenland is located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada and northwest of Iceland. The territory comprises the island of Greenland—the largest island in the world—and more than a hundred other smaller islands (see alphabetic list). Greenland has a 1.2-kilometer-long (0.75 mi) border with Canada on Hans Island. A sparse population is confined to small settlements along certain sectors of the coast. Greenland possesses the world's second-largest ice sheet.

Greenland sits atop the Greenland plate, a subplate of the North American plate. The Greenland craton is made up of some of the oldest rocks on the face of the earth. The Isua greenstone belt in southwestern Greenland contains the oldest known rocks on Earth, dated at 3.7–3.8 billion years old.

The vegetation is generally sparse, with the only patch of forested land being found in Nanortalik Municipality in the extreme south near Cape Farewell.

The climate is arctic to subarctic, with cool summers and cold winters. The terrain is mostly a flat but gradually sloping icecap that covers all land except for a narrow, mountainous, barren, rocky coast. The lowest elevation is sea level and the highest elevation is the summit of Gunnbjørn Fjeld, the highest point in the Arctic at 3,694 meters (12,119 ft). The northernmost point of the island of Greenland is Cape Morris Jesup, discovered by Admiral Robert Peary in 1900. Natural resources include zinc, lead, iron ore, coal, molybdenum, gold, platinum, uranium, hydropower and fish.

Source: Wikipedia

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Gálvez, P. (2015). Mejoramiento de la Gestión Curricular en la Escuela D-58 Japón. Tesis de Grado Magíster. Chile: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. https://repositorio.uc.cl/xmlui/bitstream/handle/11534/21522/Mejoramiento%20de%20la%20Gestion%20Curricular%20en%20la%20Escuela%20Japon.%20PGV.pdf

 

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To me, the selling of water rights, associated with the allocation of water to the “highest bidder” is offensive and immoral, even though it may be legal, particularly in parts of the country (or the world, if this is going on elsewhere) where water availability is a challenge. Our government set this process in motion decades ago, but that doesn’t mean that the laws surrounding water use can’t be changed. It won’t be easy, but it has to be done. I’m increasingly pissed off when basic human needs are commodified for the benefit of Wall Street and other money centers.

Excerpt from this New York Times story:

Transferring water from agricultural communities to cities, though often contentious, is not a new practice. Much of the West, including Los Angeles and Las Vegas, was made by moving water. What is new is for private investors — in this case an investment fund in Phoenix, with owners on the East Coast — to exert that power.

In the West, few issues carry the political charge of water. Access to it can make or break both cities and rural communities. It can decide the fate of every part of the economy, from almond orchards to ski resorts to semiconductor factories. And with the worst drought in 1,500 years parching the region, water anxiety is at an all-time high.

In the last few years, a new force has emerged: From the Western Slope of the Rockies to Southern California, a proliferation of private investors like Greenstone have descended upon isolated communities, scouring the driest terrain in the United States to buy coveted water rights.

The most valuable of these rights were grandfathered in decades before the population explosion in desert cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas, and privilege water access to small, often family-owned farms in stressed communities. Rechanneling water from rural areas to thirsty growth spots like Queen Creek has long been handled by municipal water managers and utilities, but investors adept at sniffing out undervalued assets sense an opportunity.

As investor interest mounts, leaders of Southwestern states are gathering this month to decide the future of the Colorado River. The negotiations have the potential to redefine rules that for the last century have governed one of the most valuable economic resources in the United States.

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Nipigon & Greenstone Among Communities Benefiting from Provincial Investments

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Local Grants will support projects across Region January 17, 2017 Michael Gravelle, Minister of Northern Development and Mines and MPP for Thunder Bay-Superior North and Bill Mauro, Minister of Municipal Affairs and MPP for Thunder Bay Atikokan, announced that four local non-profit and charitable organizations will receive a total of $188,500 through the Ontario Trillium Foundation. “Support from…

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Canadian Daily High Temperature Records Tied/Broken 10/4/22

Unincorporated Cariboo District, B.C.: 79 (previous record 77 1988)

Castlegar, British Columbia: 77 (also 77 1993)

Unincorporated Central Kootenay District, B.C.: 70 (previous record 68 2003)

Unincorporated Central Kootenay District, B.C.: 75 (also 75 2003)

Unincorporated Cowichan Valley District, B.C.: 83 (previous record 82 1932)

Unincorporated Fraser Valley District, B.C.: 73 (also 73 2003)

Nelson, British Columbia: 73 (also 73 2003)

Osoyoos, British Columbia: 82 (previous record 81 2003)

Powell River, British Columbia: 69 (previous record 67 2001)

Silver Star Provincial Park, British Columbia: 72 (previous record 68 2004)

Greenstone, Ontario: 70 (previous record 69 2011)

Unincorporated Canaan Municipality, Saskatchewan: 80 (previous record 79 1979)

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Le grand frêne de la discorde, suite Jean-Philippe VETTER, conseiller municipal d’opposition de Strasbourg, répond à Philippe GODIN, dirigeant fondateur de Greenstone, dans l’affaire du frêne de la Robertsau : « Monsieur Godin, J’ai bien pris connaissance de votre courrier des lecteurs ( DNA du 20 novembre 2021 ) et je vous en remercie. Si chacun peut comprendre …

L’article c’est vous qui le dites est apparu en premier sur HubNews.

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Poluição do ar reduz em 2 anos expectativa de vida em todo o mundo

Um relatório lançado hoje (28/07) mostra que a poluição do ar por material particulado reduz em dois anos a expectativa média de vida das pessoas em todo o mundo. O Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) destaca ainda que a poluição particulada era o maior risco para a saúde humana antes da COVID-19 — e deve voltar a ser se não houver políticas públicas voltadas a uma redução permanente após a pandemia.

“Embora a ameaça do coronavírus seja grave e mereça toda a atenção que está recebendo — talvez mais em alguns lugares –, enfrentar a gravidade da poluição do ar com um vigor semelhante permitiria que bilhões de pessoas em todo o mundo levassem vidas mais longas e saudáveis”, diz Michael Greenstone, professor de economia do Milton Friedman Distinguished Service e criador do AQLI junto com colegas do Energy Policy Institute da Universidade de Chicago (EPIC).

“A realidade é que não há vacina que alivie a poluição do ar. A solução está numa política pública robusta”.

O documento afirma que se todos os países mantiverem a poluição particulada dentro dos limites recomendados pela Organização Mundial da Saúde, que é de 10 μg/m3, a expectativa de vida atual subiria de 72 anos para 74. Em média, os seres humanos estão expostos a uma concentração de 29 μg/m3 desse tipo de contaminação.

Trabalhando dentro do corpo humano sem ser percebida, a poluição particulada tem um impacto mais devastador na expectativa de vida do que doenças transmissíveis como tuberculose e HIV/AIDS, assassinos comportamentais como o fumo e até mesmo a guerra.

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O tabagismo leva a uma redução na expectativa média de vida global de cerca de 1,8 ano. O uso de álcool e drogas reduz a expectativa de vida em 11 meses. A falta de água potável e de saneamento subtraem 7 meses. Na média, HIV/AIDS reduz a vida em 4 meses, e a malária em 3 meses. Conflitos e terrorismo cortam 18 dias de vida.

Poluição em São Paulo

Mariana Veras, coordenadora do Laboratório de Poluição Atmosférica Experimental do Hospital das Clínicas, teve acesso ao relatório e explica que os números referentes ao Brasil estão longe de refletir a realidade nos grandes centros urbanos do país, muitos deles sem monitoramento adequado de poluentes.

“No estado de São Paulo, a questão do monitoramento é um pouco melhor, já que contamos com uma rede ampla da CETESB”, destaca a pesquisadora. “Dados dos últimos relatórios da qualidade do ar mostram que a média da concentração de PM2.5 está em torno de 28 ug/m³”. O dado citado por Veras é quase o triplo do recomendado pela OMS.

A pesquisadora explica que a poluição é uma ameaça mais grave a idosos e criança, e que moradores da periferia, que gastam mais tempo no trânsito, são mais impactados. “Os níveis atuais de poluição em São Paulo reduzem a expectativa de vida em cerca de um ano e meio, principalmente devido a câncer de pulmão e de vias aéreas superiores, infarto agudo do miocárdio e arritmias, bronquite crônica e asma”, afirma.

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Na capital paulista, Veras diz que a estimativa é que morre-se por poluição mais do que por acidentes de trânsito (1.556 no ano), 3 vezes e meia do que Câncer de mama (1.277), quase 6 vezes por AIDS (874) ou Câncer de Próstata (828).

A bióloga afirma que as políticas públicas brasileiras carecem de aplicação efetiva, e cita o PROCONVE e a Política Municipal da Mudança do Clima de São Paulo. “Nós fizemos um estudo na época do adiamento de uma das fases do PROCONVE. Os resultados mostraram que o adiamento por 3 anos da implementação em relação ao diesel provoca um excesso estimado de 13.984 mortes até 2040 e as despesas previstas com saúde aumentam em quase US ﹩ 11,5 bilhões no mesmo período”.

Reduções na China

Calcula-se que 75% de toda a redução mundial da poluição atmosférica foi feita na China. Desde que o país começou a chamada “guerra contra a poluição”, em 2013, o país reduziu a poluição em quase 40% em 5 anos, adicionando cerca de 2 anos à expectativa média de vida da população.

Imagem de Shangai, China. Foto: Holger Link | Unsplash

Para se ter uma ideia da magnitude dessas medidas, foram necessárias várias décadas de redução da poluição — e até de recessões econômicas — para que os Estados Unidos e a Europa conseguissem o mesmo alívio que a China conquistou em 5 anos, sem interromper o crescimento de sua economia.

A redução da poluição atmosférica em alguns países foi anulada globalmente pelo agravamento das condições em outras regiões. A situação mais alarmante é a do Sul da Ásia, que registou um aumento de 44% na poluição, reduzindo a expectativa de vida em 5 anos em média em Bangladesh, Índia, Nepal e Paquistão. Cerca de um quarto da população mundial vive nestes quatro países, mas eles representam 60% dos anos de vida perdidos devido à poluição.

Bangladesh é o país mais poluído do mundo, mas uma região específica da Índia — Uttar Pradesh, com quase 250 milhões de habitantes — está expondo a população a um nível de contaminação que não é comparável a nenhum outro lugar do planeta e pode custar até 8 anos de vida de seus moradores.

Índice de Qualidade de Vida do Ar

O AQLI é um índice de poluição que traduz a poluição atmosférica particulada na métrica mais importante que existe: seu impacto na expectativa de vida. Esse parâmetro foi desenvolvido por Michael Greenstone, professor de Economia do Milton Friedman Distinguished Service e criador do AQLI junto com colegas do Energy Policy Institute da Universidade de Chicago (EPIC).

O AQLI é embasado em pesquisas que quantificam a relação causal entre a exposição humana de longo prazo à poluição do ar e a expectativa de vida. O índice então combina medições de partículas hiperlocalizadas e globais, produzindo uma percepção sem precedentes do verdadeiro custo da poluição por partículas em comunidades ao redor do mundo.

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O Índice também ilustra como as políticas de poluição do ar podem aumentar a expectativa de vida quando cumprem as diretrizes da Organização Mundial da Saúde para o que é considerado um nível seguro de exposição, padrões nacionais de qualidade do ar existentes ou níveis de qualidade do ar definidos pelo usuário.

Estas informações podem ajudar a informar as comunidades locais e os formuladores de políticas sobre a importância das políticas de poluição do ar em termos concretos.

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The Dying California Desert Town Where Cannabis Is the Only Remaining Hope

Mayor Chuck McGuire wants his lake back. When McGuire was a kid growing up here in California City in the early 1970s, back when speculators still believed they could sell all 50,000 lots platted into the scrublands 100 miles northeast of LA, the man-made, aquifer-fed lake in the center of town had a bowling alley, swank hotel and boat launch on its shores. Today the pond in Cal City’s Central Park hosts the kind of life you’d expect from a back-bedroom town of 12,000: ducks pecking at McDonald's wrappers in the weeds and a $1,000 wedding on the Community Center patio. The long-defunct Lake Shore Inn is on the Atlas Obscura abandoned Americana tour. McGuire and his fellow civic leaders have high hopes that the marijuana business can change all that.

McGuire is pushing to make California City a cannabis industry center because he wants the tax revenue to support an expanded lake alive with Jet-Skis every weekend and a fireworks barge on the Fourth of July—that, and at least one urgent care center in town. Former City Manager Tom Weil, under whose administration the cannabis push got started, wants the city police and fire departments to be on solid fiscal ground. City Councilman Donald Parris hopes local veterans will find pain relief right here in their hometown. “It’s a quality of life thing,” the mayor told VICE, repositioning the souvenir Sweet Dreams THC candy container next to the silver framed photo of his California Highway Patrol retirement party on the credenza in his spotless office at City Hall.

In hitching its wagon to the pot business, California City stands nearly alone in Kern County, home to nearly 900,000 people in the lower belly of the Golden State. While California legalized recreational cannabis effective January 2018, the state left it up to municipalities to allow or prohibit sales. Kern County and the City of Bakersfield outlawed all cannabis retail, leading to the closure last May of dozens of dispensaries that had been operating since medical marijuana came onto the scene in the 1990s. But two small outlier Kern communities voted to go the other way: Arvin, a farming town still figuring out its next marijuana move, and California City, which is all in on production, retail and delivery.

Signs of Cal City’s weed aspirations are everywhere across the sparse 203 square miles that make this, by land area, the third largest city in the state. Off of Highway 14 on the way into town from the west, the real estate signs every mile or so are decidedly 420. “Cannabis Business Park” declares one headline above a rendering of tasteful beige brick buildings surrounded by trees more verdant than anything for miles around in real life. “Greenhouse or Indoor Options…Purchase/Lease Build to Suit.”

Across the railroad tracks, Attil Farms is constructing a cinder block wall around its one-acre site to shield the emerging compound of greenhouses, processing area and delivery hub. (Less ambitious developers might surround their parcels with Canna-Fence, advertised ubiquitously to help businesses comply with the city’s “not visible from the road” requirements.) Closer into town, a low-rise building housing a gun store and a beauty parlor now also sports a Greenstone Cannabis Retail sign in the parking lot, which has been packed every day since the dispensary’s October 5 soft-open. The first of nearly 20 marijuana-related businesses approved by the local City Council in Spring 2019 are gradually coming online, and the mood is elevated around City Hall and the Chamber of Commerce.

“It’s the beginning of an image change for us,” Mayor McGuire said. “We won’t have to be known as Cal Shitty anymore.” Apologizing for his habit of “spewing compound bad words,” McGuire added, “It’s not like we really wanted to be a marijuana hub. But just about every other industry gave us the big middle finger.”

Image: Mickey Revenaugh

How California City staked its claim as an oasis in the cannabis retail desert is just the latest twist in a 50-year storyline already full of kinks. There must be something about the endless open spaces here that sparks the speculative imagination.

Back in 1965, when the city incorporated, it had a vision of being the next-but-better Palm Springs, with meticulously planned middle-class homesites emanating out to the horizon from the white pagodas of Central Park. A decade later, with less than five percent of the population it was built for, Cal City became the domain of Great Western Cities Inc., a multi-million-dollar land speculation outfit associated with the Hunt Brothers of Texas oil fame who spent the 1970s otherwise attempting to corner the world silver market. When Great Western went bankrupt a decade later amid charges of malfeasance, a company called Silver Saddle Ranch & Club picked up the reins, marketing Cal City as a recreation destination for off-roaders and golfers. On October 1 of this year, the state sued Silver Saddle for investment fraud over its practice of selling fractional “land bank” shares to unsophisticated immigrants hundreds of miles away in Oakland and Long Beach.

Meanwhile, the cul-de-sacs scraped into the desert floor are regularly obscured by swirling dust as Cal City’s population has inched from 2,500 in the 1960s to just over 10,000 half a century later. Bargain housing and zero traffic draws workers from Edwards Air Force Base or the state prison up the road, and soon, the Mayor and City Council hope, from the cannabis industry.

Amanda Adolf is among the newcomers the green rush brought to Cal City. Adolf and her partner, Rick Jones, opened their Greenstone cannabis retail store in early October, and expect to kick the mobile part of their operation into gear by the end of the year with Direct Deliveries Inc., the publicly traded San Diego company that’s positioning itself as marijuana’s answer to Uber Eats. In the meantime, they preside over the only legal dispensary in a hundred mile radius. Business is so brisk that Adolf barely has time to attend to the occasional gun store customer next door, though she does keep a handgun holstered at her waist at all times.

Amanda Adolf opened the Greenstone cannabis retail store in early October. Image: Mickey Revenaugh

From the minute Greenstone opens each afternoon at 2 until it closes at 9, a cross-section of Central California demography makes its way through the security check/wand-down into the gleaming display area. A 60-something Black woman with a walker; a young dust-covered construction worker with a permanent grin on his face; a Latinx couple conferring in serious whispers; and a trio in from Bakersfield—two sisters and brother-in-law? Former teen parents and their grown daughter? All three wear sweatpants, cropped-off T-shirts and multiple tattoos. When Adolf points out that the lollipops on the counter come in THC-infused and CBD-only variations, the older of the two women snaps her fingers and says, “Dirty, no dirty.” The younger woman mutters, “Yeah, it sucks they still drug-test at my job.”

Just up the road, Raj Milian is doing his part to bring Cal City’s weed dreams to life. Milian is a multi-hyphenate hustler, like most everyone involved with the cannabis business in these early post-prohibition days seems to be. He’s a movie producer and director—with titles like Supercroc (2007), In the Blink of an Eye (2015), and The Birthing Club (2016) to his credit—and a former Air Force linguist, part owner of a therapeutic massage business, and now manager for Attil Farms. It’s Milian’s job to make sure the giant water tanker trucks mist enough to keep the Santa Ana winds from turning his massive site into an even more massive dust cloud. It’s his job to ensure that directives from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife on protecting burrowing owls and migrating tortoises – the town sits within a designated Desert Tortoise preservation zone – are translated into Spanish, Arabic, and Urdu for his construction crew. (“Always look under truck before driving,” Milian said. “Siempre mire debajo del camión…”) It’s also his job to demonstrate steady progress to lead investor Haitham Elsaad, who named Attil Farms after his family’s original village in the Palestinian West Bank.

Raj Milian: multi-hyphenate hustler, movie producer, former Air Force linguist and cannabis grower. Image: Mickey Revenaugh

The stakes are high for all involved with Attil Farms: By early 2020, there should be greenhouses in the back lot, warehouses mid-center for processing, and an efficient multi-vehicle fleet circulating onto and off of the site to whisk orders to Bakersfield and Lancaster and maybe even LA. Tax dollars for Cal City, returns for Elsaad, and vindication for Milian, who says he was inspired to get into the cannabis business when his very traditional, Just-Say-No Indian mother found relief from crippling insomnia and anxiety in medical marijuana. “Even with legalization, cannabis is still looked upon very negatively,” Milian said, explaining why he tries to keep his movie and marijuana worlds apart. “All I want now is to ensure safe, organic, pharmaceutical grade product for everyone who wants it.”

That “everyone” does not include himself, Milian emphasized. In fact, all of the pot pioneers of California City—every one of the entrepreneurs and civic boosters—made a special point of saying they never partake of the substance they’re all banking their futures on. Amanda Adolf can’t stand the smell, so she keeps the Air Wash filter system on high at Greenstone. Mayor McGuire said his long career in law enforcement means he’ll never be fully comfortable with recreational weed. Councilman Parris said even medical use is at odds with his Christian faith.

Instead, they’re counting once again on the varying desires of their fellow Californians. If limitless sunshine and miles of cheap land weren’t quite enough to draw the hordes to Cal City in the 20th century, maybe all-access marijuana will in the 21st. The painted tortoises strategically placed around town suggest the kind of perseverance that comes from having not a lot to lose.

Driving at dusk across the settled part of Cal City into the sparse eastside fringed with streets to nowhere, you see the lights of the prison twinkle on in the high distance. California City Boulevard turns south and heads towards 58, the Bakersfield-Barstow Highway. Twin buttes that look like they wandered in from a John Ford movie blaze orange on their west flanks, pitch black on their opposites. Then, in between the Canna-Fence displays and advertisements for Gloria’s Mexican Cafe, three billboards that speak in sequence to another side of California City’s marijuana gamble:

BUSTING ILLEGAL GROW HOUSES IS GOOD.

BUSTING KILLERS WOULD BE BETTER.

DEV SCHILLER 10-92/06-16 MURDERED UNSOLVED.

Debi Fones of California City said she was inspired by the Oscar-winning movie Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to erect the billboards as a prod to local law enforcement to attend to her daughter’s death. Will the cannabis-funded renaissance Cal City is hoping for make that more or less likely? The endless wind is silent across the ghostly grid.

Image: Mickey Revenaugh

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Schuyler County Considers Generic Drug Price Lawsuit

·         Case would target alleged price-fixing, increased costs to county.

·         County Attorney says various government entities have already commenced suit.

·         Over 100 generic drugs and 21 pharmaceutical manufacturer defendants targeted nationwide.

·         County Administrator says suit at no expense to county taxpayers.

 Watkins Glen, NY--Schuyler County legislators are considering a resolution to join other Federal, state and municipal governments in suing the makers of generic drugs over alleged price-fixing.

 The County Legislature will vote Monday (August 10) on a resolution authorizing County Attorney Steven Getman to join forces with Napoli Shkolnik PLLC, a New York City law firm “in the investigation and/or prosecution of any legal claim against manufactures of generic pharmaceuticals and/or their executives based upon their actions in fixing prices, allocating markets, and engaging in other antitrust violations or other wrongdoing with respect to generic pharmaceuticals.”

 According to Getman, the county will be investigating claims in several areas. These include possible overpayments of Medicaid reimbursements based upon artificially inflated generic drug prices, increased health insurance premiums for county employees and higher costs of pharmaceuticals purchased for use by county agencies.

 Various government agencies have already commenced suit, Getman said, alleging violations of state and Federal antitrust laws and consumer protection statutes.  

 “In 2014, the Department of Justice began an investigation into the pricing of various generic pharmaceuticals,” Getman explained. “In the wake of the Federal investigation, in 2017, the state attorneys’ general of 48 states brought a civil action alleging price fixing, market division, and other antitrust violations by 16 defendant pharmaceutical companies related to fifteen (15) generic prescription drugs.”

 “As alleged, the defendants' anticompetitive conduct falls principally into two categories.   First, the defendants, allegedly communicated with each other to determine and agree on how much market share each would control and which customers each competitor was entitled to.  Second, competitors in a particular market allegedly communicated -- either in person, by telephone, or by text message -- and agreed to collectively raise and/or maintain prices for a particular generic drug.”

 The lawsuits, Getman said, have involved over 100 generic drugs and 21 pharmaceutical manufacturer defendants, including Teva, Sandoz, Mylan, Pfizer, Actavis, Amneal, Apotex, Aurobindo, Breckenridge, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Glenmark, Greenstone, Lannett, Lupin, Par, Rising, Taro Israel, Taro USA, Upsher-Smith, Wockhardt USA and Zydus.

 “The key question in formulating such a lawsuit is determining for which generic drug(s) each county has overpaid, and whether each was direct or indirect purchaser of same,” Getman explained.  “As noted, hundreds of generic drugs have been implicated. Each county or municipality can bring an action asserting overpayments for each applicable generic drug.”

 According to County Administrator Tim O’Hearn, any lawsuit will be filed at no risk to the county, as Napoli Shkolnik will work on contingency basis that will cover all costs associated with the lawsuit.

“By voting to go forward with possible litigation, the County Legislature hopes to lessen the burden to taxpayers and seeks to hold manufacturers and distributors responsible for any unlawful role in the high cost of generic drugs,” O’Hearn said.  

 Separately, three other New York counties (Greene, Schenectady  and Essex) are already working with Napoli Shkolnik on a lawsuit likely to be heard in federal court in eastern Pennsylvania, and the state Association of Counties last month circulated a memo suggesting other counties consider joining the effort.

 In addition to the generics case, Schuyler County has been working with Napoli Shkolnik prosecuting a pending action against the manufacturers and distributers of prescription opiates for damages to the county arising out of the fraudulent and negligent marketing and distribution of opiates in and to the county.

 The next regular meeting of the Schuyler County Legislature will be held in the Schuyler County Human Services Building, 323 Owego Street, Montour Falls, New York on Monday, August 10, 2020 at 6:30 pm.  The meeting is open to the public and all required COVID-19-related safety protocols will be in place.

  A copy of the county’s proposed resolution is available here

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Geography of Greenland

Greenland Native name: Kalaallit Nunaat Grønland Greenland Outline map of Greenland with ice sheet depths. (Note that much of the area in green has permanent snow cover, but less than 10m (33ft) thick.) Geography Location between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean Coordinates 64°10′N 51°43′W / 64.167°N 51.717°W / 64.167; -51.717 Area 2,166,086 km2 (836,330 sq mi) Area rank 1st Coastline 44,087 km (27,394.4 mi) Highest elevation 3,694 m (12,119 ft) Highest point Gunnbjørn Administration Denmark Province Greenland Largest settlement Nuuk (Godthåb) (pop. 15,047) Demographics Population 56,344 (2007) Pop. density 0.026 /km2 (0.067 /sq mi) Ethnic groups 88% (Inuit and Inuit-Danish mixed ), 12% Europeans, mostly Danish. Greenland is located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada and northwest of Iceland. The territory comprises the island of Greenland - the largest island in the world - and more than a hundred other smaller islands (see alphabetic list). An island, Greenland has no land boundaries and 44,087 km of coastline. A sparse population is confined to small settlements along certain sectors of the coast. Greenland possesses the world's second largest ice sheet. Greenland sits atop the Greenland plate, a subplate of the North American plate. The Greenland craton is made up of some of the oldest rocks on the face of the earth. The Isua greenstone belt in southwestern Greenland contains the oldest known rocks on Earth, dated at 3.7–3.8 billion years old. The vegetation is generally sparse, with the only patch of forested land being found in Nanortalik Municipality in the extreme south near Cape Farewell. The climate is arctic to subarctic, with cool summers and cold winters. The terrain is mostly a flat but gradually sloping icecap that covers all land except for a narrow, mountainous, barren, rocky coast. The lowest elevation is sea level and the highest elevation is the summit of Gunnbjørn Fjeld, the highest point in the Arctic at 3,694 meters (12,119 ft). The northernmost point of the Island of Greenland is Cape Morris Jesup, discovered by Admiral Robert Peary in 1909. Natural resources include zinc, lead, iron ore, coal, molybdenum, gold, platinum, uranium, hydropower and fish. More details Android, Windows

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Canadian Daily Precipitation Records Tied/Broken 5/30/22

Unincorporated Argyle Municipality, Manitoba: 2.49" (previous record 2.43" 1991)

Lynn Lake, Manitoba: 0.44" (previous record 0.37" 1985)

Unincorporated North Norfolk Municipality, Manitoba: 1.45" (previous record 1.04" 2004)

Portage La Prairie, Manitoba: 2.01" (previous record 1.69" 2013)

Unincorporated Rhineland Municipality, Manitoba: 1.91" (previous record 1.17" 1909)

Unincorporated Rockwood Municipality, Manitoba: 2.34" (previous record 1.1" 2004)

Unincorporated Springfield Municipality, Manitoba: 1.38" (previous record 0.98" 2004)

Unincorporated Stanley Municipality, Manitoba: 2.32" (previous record 1.61" 2013)

Unincorporated Victoria Municipality, Manitoba: 2.01" (previous record 1.3" 2013)

Unincorporated Woodlands Municipality, Manitoba: 2.03" (previous record 1.28" 2004)

Unincorporated Kivalliq Region, Nunavut: 0.49" (previous record 0.46" 2014)

Greenstone, Ontario: 0.92" (previous record 0.89" 2007)

Upsala Township, Ontario: 0.73" (previous record 0.66" 2013)

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Constellation and Mohave Electric complete 13.8-MW solar project in Arizona

Constellation, a subsidiary of Exelon and a competitive retail energy supplier, and Mohave Electric announced the completion of a 13.8-MW solar generation project in Fort Mohave, Arizona. The ground-mounted solar power system is located across 84 acres and fitted with a state-of-the-art single-axis tracking system that enables the system to remain at an optimal angle to the sun throughout the day, maximizing energy output.

“This project offers us a cost-effective way to incorporate more renewable power into our purchased power portfolio,” said Tyler Carlson, Mohave Electric’s CEO. “Our members want solar—they are for it as long as it’s cost-effective for the Cooperative.”

The project required no upfront capital from Mohave Electric. Constellation owns and operates the solar power system. Mohave Electric will purchase the electricity generated by the solar panels from Constellation through a 30-year PPA. The terms of the agreement provide periodic options for Mohave Electric to purchase the facilities after six years.

“Constellation is pleased to continue to collaborate with Mohave Electric to deliver renewable solar power to their members, while proactively managing their purchased power costs long-term,” said Brendon Quinlivan, executive director of distributed energy origination for Constellation. “Structuring solar projects as power purchase agreements enables municipal utilities and their consumers to adopt solar energy solutions that may require no upfront capital, and provide long-term fixed power costs that are less than projected market rates.”

This project is the second solar generation system completed by Constellation and Mohave Electric. It joins a 5-MW project that was completed in 2015 at a nearby site. Together, the systems are expected to generate approximately 38,000 MWh of electricity annually, or enough to power nearly 4,000 homes according to US EPA data for the region.

Greenstone Renewables, an Arizona-based clean energy project developer serving commercial and government customers, led the pre-construction development efforts for the solar power project.

Constellation currently owns and operates more than 400 MW of distributed generation that have been completed or are under construction for commercial and government customers throughout the United States, including approximately 300 MW of solar installations. Within the solar portfolio, Constellation has developed and owns approximately 70 MW of solar systems contracted with other utilities and affiliates throughout the U.S.

News item from Constellation

  Solar Power World

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School Bus and Pick-up Truck Collide on Highway 11

@OPP_NWR @nipigon #OPP School Bus and Pick-up Truck Collide on #Hwy11 #beardmore #GreenstoneOPP #NipigonOPP #schoolbuscollision

NIPIGON, ON – On September 27, 2022, at approximately 12:30 p.m. members of the Nipigon and Greenstone Detachments of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) along with Northwest Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and Beardmore Fire Department responded to a report of a two vehicle collision on Highway 11, Municipality of Greenstone. A school bus and pick-up truck collided, one student was transported…

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Canadian Daily High Temperature Records Tied/Broken 5/14/22

Mactaquac Provincial Park, New Brunswick: 81 (previous record 79 1998)

Unincorporated Halifax Municipality, Nova Scotia: 77 (previous record 70 1986)

Belleville, Ontario: 81 (also 81 2004)

Centre Wellington Township, Ontario: 82 (previous record 80 1961)

Conestogo Lake Conservation Area, Ontario: 82 (previous record 81 1998)

Cornwall, Ontario: 89 (previous record 83 1961)

Drummond/North Elmsley Township, Ontario: 86 (also 86 2004)

Dysart Et Al Township, Ontario: 84 (previous record 82 2004)

Georgina, Ontario: 82 (also 82 1998)

Greenstone, Ontario: 77 (previous record 75 2018)

Oro-Medonte Township, Ontario: 83 (previous record 81 1998)

Port Colborne, Ontario: 82 (also 82 2014)

Sudbury, Ontario: 84 (previous record 77 2018)

L'Assomption, Quebec: 89 (previous record 84 1961)

La Tuque, Quebec: 86 (previous record 77 2004)

Saguenay, Quebec: 82 (previous record 79 2008)

Unincorporated Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean Region, QC: 82 (previous record 81 1987)

Sherbrooke, Quebec: 88 (previous record 85 2004)

Témiscaming, Quebec: 88 (previous record 80 1998)

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Canadian Daily Low Temperature Records Tied/Broken 4/26/22

Houston, British Columbia: 23 (also 23 1958)

Berens River First Nations, Manitoba: 8 (previous record 15 2002)

Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba: -4 (previous record 6 2002)

Unincorporated Wallace-Woodworth Municipality, Manitoba: 11 (previous record 14 2002)

Unincorporated Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut: 2 (previous record 4 1965)

Greenstone, Ontario: 10 (previous record 11 2021)

Sudbury, Ontario: 24 (previous record 25 2003)

Thunder Bay, Ontario: 19 (previous record 24 1972)

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Canadian Daily Precipitation Records Tied/Broken 4/24/22

Unincorporated Squamish-Lillooet District, B.C.: 0.83" (previous record 0.63" 2003)

Unincorporated Rhineland Municipality, Manitoba: 0.96" (previous record 0.51" 2016)

Greenstone, Ontario: 0.99" (previous record 0.8" 2009)

Sudbury, Ontario: 0.5" (previous record 0.33" 2001)