January 13 2003 NEWS Over The Edge Page 11

BC Premier Caught Driving Impaired in Hawaii

By Dana Schwehr
According to Maui police,
British Columbia Premier

Gordon Campbell was charged
with driving under the influence
of alcohol on January 11, 2003.
Campbell is currently on vaca-
tion in Hawaii, and was driving
home from having dinner with
some friends, at 1:23 am, when
he was arrested for drunk dri-
ving. Campbell spent about

UNBC Receives $2 Million to Research Off-shore

four hours in jail before bail of
$257 was paid. A tentative
court date has been set for
March 25.

In Hawaii, operating a vehicle
under the influence of alcohol
(OUI) is considered to be a
“petty misdemeanor”. The
penalties for a first time offense
include a possible sentence of
two to five days jail time, a pos-
sible 72 hours of community

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service, a $150 - $1000 fine,
three month license suspen-
sion, a mandatory 14-hour
alcohol abuse rehabilitation
program, and a mandatory
alcohol assessment. The legal
blood alcohol content in Hawaii
is 0.08%, and the accused can
choose to take a blood test, a
breathalyzer test, or neither.
However, the accused is not
allowed to contact an attorney

until after he or she has cho-
sen one of the tests.

Campbell says that he “made
a serious mistake, and | want
to apologize to everyone
including my family, my col-
leagues, and the people of
British Columbia.” He also says
that he does not intend to con- f

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PGIRG Book
Review

By Philip Lowry

The Northern Land
Institute (NLUI) was
created in order to
assist all northern com-
munities to develop
policies regarding land
use policies and to facil-
itate social, economic,
and environmental
development in north-

More specifically, the
NLUI seeks to improve
land use, resource, and
environmental manage-
ment decision-making
and problem solving- at
the local and regional
levels. They are also
interested in working
cooperatively with the
First Nations communi-

address their economic
and environmental con-
cerns while encourag-
ing their involvement in
the process of econom-
ic renewal. In April of
2002, the’ British
Columbia Minister of
Energy and Mines
awarded a grant of $2
million to the University

Columbia to research
the possibility of tapping
into even more of
British Columbia’s non-
renewable natural
resources, the offshore
oil and gas reserves.
Money was granted due
to the completion of two
reports commissioned
by the government: one

viewpoints of northern
and coastal residents
on offshore oil and gas
exploration and devel-
opment, and a second
by an independent sci-
entific review panel
addressing various
technical and scientific
aspects of offshore oil
and gas exploration and

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