At Monday’s meeting, Councillor Bruce Masterman brought forward the discussion of putting pressure on the provincial government to make significant improvements to the Disaster Recovery Program (DRP).
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June Alberta Floods are Costliest Insured Natural Disaster in Canadian History
CALGARY, Sept. 23, 2013 /CNW/ – Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) reports that the latest PCS-Canada estimate of the insured property damage caused by last June’s southern Alberta floods now exceeds $1.7 billion. It is the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history.
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City attempting regular meetings with CP
More changes may soon be coming to Canada’s railway system after the devastating derailment in Lac-Megantic, Que., in early July.
Currently anything that can be transported on the highway can be transported by rail including grains, chemicals, crude oil and hazardous goods.
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SCHIFF: WE’RE HEADING FOR A CRISIS…..
….Worse Than 2007.
This predicition is coming from the man who successfully predicted the huge 54% 17 month Crash of 2008 when the Dow fell from its its peak of 14164 on October 9, 2007 to 6469 on March 6, 2009.
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Okotoks learned from previous flood
Okotoks averted disaster during last weeks catastrophic flooding thanks to several factors, including enacting lessons learned from the last major flood in 2005.
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Regional emergency partnership signed
The official signing of the Grande Prairie Regional Emergency Partnership (GPREP) agreement brought representatives of the six neighbouring municipalities, the Town of Sexsmith, Beaverlodge, Hythe, Wembley, City of Grande Prairie and the County of Grande Prairie, to the community services building in Clairmont on Thursday afternoon. The agreement allows for each municipality to act together or on the behalf of another in the event of a regional disaster.
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High River a mess of wreckage, nothing up and running and 300 hold outs
HIGH RIVER – Tuesday afternoon. It’s hot. It smells. It’s dusty.
The authorities give you a mask. They suggest you put it over your nose and mouth. You do.
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Foreclosure mess awaits states hit by Superstorm Sandy
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Before Superstorm Sandy, some of the hardest-hit areas in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were experiencing a huge spike in foreclosures. But now that a moratorium on foreclosure activity in these disaster areas has been put in place, the foreclosure problems are about to get worse.
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Sandy Will Reopen a ‘Black Box’ of Insurance Claims
Each year Lloyd’s of London, the company that invented what we now know as insurance, publishes what it calls “Realistic Disaster Scenarios,” a detailed list of hypothetical nightmares—terrorist attacks, earthquakes, midair airline collisions.
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