welcome to canada from one immigrant to another !.
calgary is welcoming it's first refugees from syria and iraq so tomorrow i'm going to take all the winter clothing that we have and donate it to a women / children's charity.
it's not much (well, actually, it's a huge pile ... everything from when we first moved over!
bobold: I may add from 1800 t0 1960 Canada brought in millions of refuges from all over the world and all accepted our values and laws. So what has changed.
Remember the RCMP turban,air India,honour killings do these people accept our values.
So, what is your point?
That WE did not accept the values of the people who were here before we arrived?
http://www.recordonline.com/article/20151214/news/151219671.
battle over contamination at watchtower site in warwick.
by hema easley .
sir82: Who exactly is the WTS retaining to give them legal guidance on real estate matters - Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe?
Eh...I think that the WTS gets their advice from real estate gurus.
It appears that the college that was supposed to built there (Touro College of Oesteopathic Medicine) was built in Harlem instead. Oh...and by the way...not sure if this has any bearing...Lorenz Reibling, et al., has investments in Harlem - which go up in value with a nice college like that situated there.
There is much that goes on behind closed doors in the real estate world. Much.
http://www.recordonline.com/article/20151214/news/151219671.
battle over contamination at watchtower site in warwick.
by hema easley .
I found out who the WTS bought the Warwick property from:
...Devine described it as originally built 50 years ago for the International Nickel Co. (now known as INCO) for its research and development division. The company closed that division in 1983.
Since then it has been owned by King’s College, which had received approvals for its plan to develop a 1,600-student campus there; and then by Touro College.
“We actually bought it from Touro College,” Devine said last year.
http://www.recordonline.com/article/20151214/news/151219671.
battle over contamination at watchtower site in warwick.
by hema easley .
Prior to beginning construction, the WTS was well aware that the Warwick site had soil contamination.
From the 2009 Final Scoping Document:
E.2.e. Potential soil contamination; the applicant desires to reference potential soil contamination information from the previously approved DEIS for The King’s College. An Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) was performed by The Kings College and some of the noted areas of concern were mitigated. Further work was done on the site by Touro College under their ownership. Another ESA was performed for Watchtower when the property was purchased. To some extent, the current information disclosed in the ESA should be referenced in this section. The ESAs should be included in an Appendix to the DEIS and the location of any remaining areas of concern should be shown on a plan included in the document. Any additional mitigation should be noted in section E.2.i.
From the 2012 Findings Statement:
An Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) conducted on the site indicated a number of areas of concern including former underground storage tanks, potential subsurface contamination due to waste sewerage piping, potential subsurface contamination due to filter sand beds from the sewage treatment plant in a nearby wooded area, the sewage treatment plant, a former drum storage area and potential subsurface contamination due to historic operations at the former INCO facility. There are four areas of potential soil contamination contamination that are identified on the site. Each of these four areas will be remediated prior to the start of site construction.
http://www.recordonline.com/article/20151214/news/151219671.
battle over contamination at watchtower site in warwick.
by hema easley .
BW: I tend to think that the GB are easy pray for some sales guy who appeals to personal vanities ...
Or...they are easy prey to the "green handshake"...and to the generous donations that come back to them when they do business with wealthy JWs. Ya know...I think it is called "patronage" or something like that...
http://www.recordonline.com/article/20151214/news/151219671.
battle over contamination at watchtower site in warwick.
by hema easley .
JeffT: I do not know who they bought the land from, I'll try to find out. The news articles say they're suing International Nickel, I had assumed that's who they bought the land from, but it seems from one article they sold it in the eighties.
Thanks, Jeff.
There were a couple of colleges that were supposed to be built on the land in between WTS owning it and ownership by International Nickel but neither plan came to fruition (maybe they figured out that the soil was contaminated first).
I wonder who it was that owned the land and who profited from the WTS buying it. And who was the real estate agent who pocketed the sales commission.
i'd like to start off by saying that i will be very vague in everything i say.
i am fairly "high up" in jw land and have to be somewhat careful how i word and say stuff.
sorry in advance if any specific details are left out.
thedepressedsoul: It's as if they are preparing to be financial strained.
Or maybe...responding to the aggressive demands of an unnamed industry that needs LOTS of financial investment to keep it afloat.
https://www.revealnews.org/blog/how-jehovahs-witness-leaders-are-responding-to-child-abuse-scrutiny/.
by trey bundy .
december 14, 2015 .
Newsflash to the Governing Body:
This story will NOT die. It is just getting started.
Good luck...heehee. You are going to need it.
http://www.recordonline.com/article/20151214/news/151219671.
battle over contamination at watchtower site in warwick.
by hema easley .
JeffT, do you know who it was that the WTS purchased the land from? Who is named on the purchase agreement as being the seller?
child sexual abuse and jehovahs witnesses rules part 1 of gumshoes royal commission series.
this is a fairly lengthy article describing and examining the royal commission in australia.. the author ends the article with this:.
in general, we see, from watchtower australia, how depriving a person of fellowship was seen as a severe punishment.
dean: Correct me if I'm wrong but the ARC has never suggested that the WT had a policy intentionally, proactively designed to harm children as the above article suggests. I'm no fan of 'the truth' but I am a big fan of truth.
You are right - the ARC never suggested it - this author is suggesting it.
The author at no point claims that the ARC "suggested that the WT had a policy intentionally, proactively designed to harm children". What the article does do, though, is extrapolate that information from the testimony given.
The author is saying "...It looks like that is the unspoken policy...". In other words - that is the impression given.
*you are welcome, Flipper.
