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<< Sites under Threat >> $50,000 fine for bones used in road

Submitted by coldrum on Monday, 30 April 2007  Page Views: 3534

Pre-ColumbianDeveloper given $50,000 penalty for violation of British Columbia heritage act; First Nation's band sees it as a matter of 'respect.' The fine is the largest ever for a violation of the act. The company pleaded guilty to disturbing a site inhabited prior to 1846 while constructing a phase of Poet's Cove Resort and Spa four years ago.
Grant Keddie, curator of archeology at the Royal B.C. Museum, said Poet's Cove was the site of a long-buried village, dating back 3,000 years, that yielded artifacts not used for 2,000 years.

Robert Morales, chief negotiator with the Native Hul-qumi'num Treaty Group, said he visited the site under construction and found crews had dug up ancient material, shells, bones and other fragments, and spread it out as a road surface. Later, the bones were identified as human.

John Blackman, who handled the case against Poet's Cove for the Crown, said the $50,000 is not technically a fine, since the money is earmarked for the B.C. Archeology Branch, while a fine would go straight to the provincial treasury.

Keddie said the resort's developers knew about the archeological site. They even hired an archeologist to conduct a survey, then paid little attention to the information, an all-too familiar story, he said. "Even though they know there is a site there, they go ahead and bulldoze it."

For more, see the Victoria Times Colonist article by Richard Watts, Saturday, April 21, 2007


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Re: $50,000 fine for bones used in road by Anonymous on Saturday, 09 June 2007
Well since the last posting I have asked English Heritage to allow me to walk around the Silbury Hill site, to assess the damage already done and perhaps form some idea as to how the damage can be repaired..Two emails to June Prunty and the official English Heritage email address has produced NOTHING in return, they just DONT want help I believe.They can destroy this wonderful place without ANY help from me, OR at least thats the way I see things right now,does NOBODY care out there?? Silbury Hill today, and who knows what ancient site tomorrow folks, ENJOY them while you have them,its a case of the blind leading the blind, WITH no disrespect to blind people intended here,but I JUST GET so ANGRY watching this happen out of ignorance of those in charge and their lack of knowledge of natural earth energies, found at EVERY English Heritage Site.
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Re: $50,000 fine for bones used in road by Anonymous on Monday, 07 May 2007
Wow our Heritage is WORTH something then in far flung places,but what about here in the UK? Silbury Hill last October had work done on the hill that in my opinion removed the energies that made this ancient site unique and special,so any chance of a claim here in THIS CASE.Silbury Hill is now JUST a chalk hill in my opinion, without energy and the magic of past times,sad it should happen now, so long after the site has stood proud in the country side from ancient times.Emails to Heritage and Pagan sites go unanswered, or with just a polite thank you return, AM I the only one to notice the work done here last October killed the influence and mystery of the Hill. Steel bracing left inside the hill grounded the Ley Lines passing through Silbury Hill when the builders/diggers left,they were just miners digging and filling a hole.Why nobody controlled this work from a dowsers point of view, to have work done that would NOT AFFECT the many energies that pass through this once magical site would have.Work HAS been been done before on the hill and its tunnels that NEVER affected the hill, SO why not employ those same people who have knowledge of what can and what cannot be done here to repair the site. Fancy killing this once wonderful ancient site with kindness, removing so many of the Leys that pass through here that feed many local and distant ancient sites around.Can you put a price on this damage and its possible world wide affect,I think if you treble the amount in the last claim you might approach get close.Problem here is its Silbury Hill today, and could it be Stonehenge tomorrow good people,those in charge of our Heritage who dont have knowledge of Earth Energies and their value. They might go on to kill all our ancient places just out of ignorance tomorrow with restoration work done by miners filling in holes or such like, having NO KNOWLEDGE of the energies that pass through the site marking it out as special, and using the right method to achieve a balance where repair and energies are not damaged further....mmike.
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