HOODWINKED: Sidney Island deer cull will actually cost taxpayers $12M, CTF says
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is raising concern over the cost of a controversial plan to eradicate a species of deer on a small island in B.C. According to access to information records, @TaxpayerDOTcom says a detailed project budget shows it will cost nearly $12 million to carry out a cull of the deer species, which were initially introduced there for #hunting purposes in the mid-1900s.
Phase one of the operation will reportedly cost more than $800,000, which works out to nearly $10,000 per deer, taking into consideration how many were killed.
“During phase one of the deer cull, snipers were taken around the island in a helicopter while firing on the deer below,” @BindaCarson with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation said at a press conference on Wednesday morning. “The expert marksmen from the U.S. and New Zealand only managed to kill 84 deer, 18 of which were the wrong species of deer.”
“@ParksCanada shouldn’t be flying in foreign snipers to shoot deer from a helicopter... if these ‘marksmen’ were really so elite, why did they keep shooting the wrong kind of deer?” he said.
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@realChipEvans@ianmiles And it seems like the FBI tells a different story than this eyewitness. They came from the US, not Canada https://t.co/VVAMrkrFZ7
@DerGreenNinja Ein Glück kommt die Affenkälte nicht noch nördlicher über die Grenze. Wir haben hier auf Vancouver Island auch um die minus 5-10, aber nicht das.
@TiiaAurora Sorry to hear, hope you will get better soon. I actually seem to have the first real flu in my live. No voice for 2 weeks and coughing. My best guess the COVID infection 3 months ago took a hefty toll on my system 😞 Fingers crossed that you will never have to deal with that.
@Vorish_ Diese Steckdosen Messgeräte sind Gold wert. Einmal so ein Ding kaufen und mal 24h vor jedes Geräte in die Dose klemmen. Das gibt ziemlich schnell einen guten Überblick kostet nicht die Welt.
@konfusus@Steffi721981 Falls weiteres Interesse besteht, ich hätte da auch Kontakte die helfen sowohl bei der Suche als auch bei dem offiziellen Papierkram.
@Tom67588467@Steffi721981 Nicht wirklich. Ich hab mich aktiv darum gekümmert hier nen Job zu finden und bin rüber geflogen für Bewerbungsgespräche. Dann mit nem unterschriebenen Vertrag zurück nach D und alles fertig gemacht für das Visa 😉
@konfusus@Steffi721981 Ganz regulär über eines der Immigrations Programme, in meinem Fall wurde mein Job gesucht über das BC PNP Skilled Worker. Es gibt über ein dutzend unterschiedliche Programme, die alle unterschiedliche Anforderungen haben.
@TiiaAurora This is very true, depending on what you dev for. Try to do any kind of Cloud platform development, without Googling 😉 Things change so rapidly, that methods you used a month ago are now deprecated and need a different approach.