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Boundary Creek Times editorial - August 22: Look, up in the sky

Former BC Premier Bill Vander Zalm is calling on local elected officials to stop "chem-trails".

Former Premier Bill Vander Zalm is in the news again.

He’s sent a letter to local governments across the province warning of climate engineering (aka geoengineering) and chem-trails. He says that jet engine condensation trails (contrails) are not caused by water condensing but are actually trails full of toxic substances supposedly fighting global warming.

The Zalm defines geo-engineering and chem-trails as a “military-industrial complex program in partnership with private contractors and possibly major fuel suppliers and airline companies”, whereby planes spray particulate matter into the atmosphere. He says that chem-trails consist of tiny particles of barium and aluminum, which he claims is responsible for increased levels of cancer, Alzheimer’s, Lou Gehrich’s, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, autism and bone diseases.

It is his contention that Geo-engineering is responsible for hurricanes in the East, tornadoes in the Mid-West, flooding in Toronto and Calgary and the mountain pine beetle epidemic in BC.

If that is true maybe we should ask the military-industrial guys to back off – that we’d rather go with the effects of climate change alone, thank you very much.

He notes that no federal, state or provincial government has ever announced such a climate control program exists nor have they denied it existed. He says this proves that geo-engineering exists.

He asks that local elected officials pass a resolution to say that “no particulate matter for climate control be sprayed in the atmosphere above their jurisdiction, without informed consent”.

His letter was met with groans and giggles at a recent local municipal council meeting.

But the former premier isn’t down for the count yet – he wants the issue taken up at next month’s Union of BC Municipalities convention.

Perhaps the elected leaders there will see the light and save us all.