Blog Watching, Week ending June 29, 2014

As part of a weekly feature on the blog, every Sunday we offer up this weeks recap of the top five items viewed over the course of the last seven days.

Included in the countdown, we will provide links to the articles in question, offering up with one click of the mouse, those items of the week that you may have missed.

This week, a quake in the far western reach of Alaska attracted the most attention on the blog, with a large volume of traffic directed to the item in the hours following the quake.

The remainder of the information flow on the week involved plans moving forward on renovations to the Alaska Marine Highway Terminal location, the City's proposed motions for the fall UBCM meetings, the Port Authority donation to North Pacific Cannery Historical site and Councillor Anna Ashley's notice to seek a ban on any oil refinery development within municipal boundaries.

Kicking off the top five items, Monday's 8.0 quake in western Alaska.

Major quake strikes far western reaches of Alaska -- An 8.0 magnitude earthquake rocked the western portion of Alaska, though no tsunami concerns were in place for coastal BC (posted June 23, 2014)

That item was followed by:

Alaska Marine Highway Terminal Plan moves forward with release of Environmental Management Plan -- Alaska starts things rolling regarding their planned renovations to the AMHS Terminal site in Prince Rupert(posted June 23, 2014 )

Council approves draft resolutions for UBCM travels of the fall -- Port related payments and provincial taxation caps on industrial lands will be among some of the wish list items from Prince Rupert City Council for this falls UBCM meetings.  (posted June 26, 2014)

Prince Rupert Port Authority commits $200,000 for North Pacific Cannery restoration project --   Work on the North Pacific Working Dock project received a boost from a donation from the Prince Rupert Port authority (posted June 25, 2014)

Councillor Ashley to seek rezoning of industrial land within Prince Rupert, with an eye towards a ban on oil refinery development in the city  -- Councillor Anna Ashley offers up notice to Council of her intent to introduce a motion to ban any proposed oil refinery development within Municipal boundaries (posted June 26, 2014)

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