ce, PDA 2030, State, the tribe, Kootenai Environmental Alliance, Kootenai County. I think that's awesome. But it's a great group of people that we've decided we had such good momentum after the last symposium. We wanted to keep that going. So we've worked as a group to continue to put out press releases in the Cortilane press. And we've also done a couple of speaker series that have gotten really good reviews. So that's an ongoing partnership. Establish funding to support the LMP goal. The state of Idaho has some general funds that they've directed towards these efforts. We get EPA lab support to provide analysis of our metal samples that we collect during our core monitoring and other monitoring efforts. We coordinate, like I said, with a VISTA on their FERC license requirements. So they provided funding for nutrient monitoring. A lot of bank stabilization work, wetland enhancements, fisheries enhancements, and that's ongoing. Throughout the years, we've had a variety of funding for our funding applications for research through the University of Idaho and NSF. Some of those have been funded, some of them have not. But that's how that goes. We collaborate continually with community partners where we see opportunities for value added. We utilize Clean Water Act Section 319 funds to implement non-point source pollution reduction projects. And then the state and the tribe both utilize heck with settlement dollars to help support lake management activities. So looking to the future, as I alluded to in the introductory presentation, and as you'll hear more from Craig and Dale Friday, we are seeing trends going in a direction we don't want to see them go. And those triggers that we have in the lake management plan that basically serve as an early warning system basically lays out what levels of different water quality parameters raise a red flag for us. And what do we do when we see that? Basically the lake management plan says if we see those triggers being approached or exceeded, that's when we need to dig a little deeper and see what's going on. Which brings us to why we're here today. The state of Idaho decided that it's time to pursue a third party review and engage with the national academies to make that happen so that we can take a closer look at what's going on and hopefully have that inform our path forward. And that last bullet there I will defer to Phillip to address. Thanks Jamie. I guess just in closing the tribe develop the critique and stand by it and certainly NAS will have the opportunity to look through it. We understand that no matter what the cost to protect our lake will be in the billions and will require landscape wide changes. If we all face up to these needs, I really don't have any hope that the voluntary process to reduce nutrients to manage the hazardous wastes will work. We understand that EPA needs to conduct an RIFS for the lake to evaluate cleanup remedies and or EPA needs to embrace the lake management plan, help with the tribe and state in rewriting it, and take that under their super fund and institutional control as one mechanism or one approach to remediating the hazardous substances in the lake bed. So with that, I believe we've covered the basics and we'd love to hear from you and provide answers to any of your questions. Great. Thank you very much. Thank you. The next segment of our meeting is to address any questions the committee has. Please committee members raise your hand if you, if you can think of some questions. I'll keep an eye out here. I think Laura, Laura, did you have a question from an earlier talk that you wanted to start with. Yeah, there you are. I did Sam, thank you. First of all, as as the representative from the Academy is running the study I first want to say thank you to all of our speakers. We've, we've crammed a huge amount of information into this, this first morning session and I really appreciate the hard work that you went to to, in some cases pre record your presentations and really fine tune them so I know people are going to have a bunch of questions that the person I'm talking to that can be grand and Eddie is still here but I wanted wondered if can me if you could just speak in a little bit more detail about why there is no TMDL in the lake for the metals or phosphorus. Just, you know, you mentioned that you know that the process started for metals fell apart. It's never been restarted, and then that the process for phosphorus I guess just never got underway. Clearly there are phosphorus violations in the lake so I'm wondering if you can provide the committee with just a little bit more background on why the Clean Water Act process was not led to any type of regulatory actions in Fort Lane Lake and what you see the prospects for in the near future of the Clean Water Act taking a larger role. Okay, I will do my best to answer that question. So first I just want to clarify that the metals TMDL was challenged in court for basically rulemaking administrative administrative procedures act violations and the that has not been picked back up again. Nutrients are a harder issue right now both the state and the tribe have water quality standards for nutrients but their narrative. They say that in the in the state standards it says surface waters of the state shall be free from excess nutrients that can cause visible slime growths or other nuisance aquatic growths and pairing designated beneficial uses and, you know, narrative standards you can list water bodies for not meeting those. EPA would support and and has been supporting the idea that there could be numeric standards. Lots of other states have developed those it makes it a little bit clearer when you're evaluating water quality. I don't know whether or not, I guess, to get more specific about why this hasn't happened. EPA doesn't do this, we approve the state and the tribe listing water bodies the tribe doesn't have that authority under Clean Water Act but the state does, and I would have to defer to the state for where what they're seeing in their water bodies and and their process for listing. I hope that answers your question. I think the EQ maybe give us a little more insight into possible nutrient standards and whether or not. Sure yeah so this is this is Dan McCracken so I guess with regard to the metals. I would just echo I guess what what Kami mentioned about it was challenged in court. I mean in terms of the priority for repursuing that through negotiated rulemaking. It's right now, apparent to us that really the major, I mean the major benefit to going through a metals team the L would be to assist in establishing limits for dischargers. Because we know from all the work through Superfund that the, the overwhelming largest source of metals loading is coming from the riverbed sediment itself. And so until the cleanup progresses further, there hasn't, we haven't seen a huge benefit to to establishing those those loads through it through pursuing that TMDL. We do, we have the process kind of initiated with developing a watershed advisory group, but but in terms of the prioritization of that. It's not seen as a high priority, just just because of the all the other factors playing in the metals loading with regard to nutrients. I think Kami. Kami's point really kind of gets at the crux of it is that based on the standard. We don't see when, when we look at the lake today we don't see an impairment to beneficial uses from nutrients. And I guess, you know, the issue there is that we, we likely start to see issues with with metals mobilization. We don't see, you know, kind of those visual indicators of impairments that beneficial uses from from nutrients so that's something that you know that I think has been a topic of discussion for, you know, is that is that perhaps a tool that we do that a little bit more proactively beyond what the narrative standard would would lead us to do. But that's kind of the status of it today. Final clarifying questions Dan if I could. So, assuming that the nutrient loading were to increase to the point where the lake bed became the largest discharger of metals. That changes the situation for the metal team deal does it not. If you have a TMAs remedy which doesn't fund anything going on in the lake. Then you'd have the largest source being an uncontrolled unmanaged situation that perhaps would make a TMDL more palatable or more. You could actually implement a TMDL in that case. Yeah, I think the biggest thing with with the TMDL at this point is, is just understanding what you know what tool does that provide to us that we don't have at our disposal today. And so, certainly if you know, I guess a better understanding of, you know, how much, how much is the bottom of the lake contributing to the overall loading certainly helps us decide further questions from the committee. If you can't find your raise the hand button just kind of speak out. I have a question maybe for for EPA or for the EQ whoever wants to answer it actually. We saw some early slides from the, even through the 80s if I remember right in the 90s of rated streams and and big floodplains with rated stream like channels. At the very end of the EPA talk you talked about bank stabilization. Have you worked on bank stabilization in the, in the parts of the, the, the quarter lane river affected by the mine impacts and if so, like how many miles or how much bank stabilization is done there as a possible. I didn't hear too much specific about that. Yeah, I'll go ahead and take that question I'm admiring it's environmental protection agency. So, the primary source of solids, led in this case to the lake quarter lane is from the lower base of river bed itself. The banks are a contributor but we estimate those to be about 15%. EPA has implemented a pilot project to remedy bank stables to basically stabilize river banks. There has been ongoing stabilization done by other agencies, part of the natural resource conservation service. I think they've stabilized about last count roughly about 20 river miles of banks using rock for the most part is their stabilization issue. Right now we're focusing on a river bed pilot to address that source of contamination. That's something that's just in the early planning stages at this point, and any river bank pilot would also include stabilizing the river banks at the same time. Our primary goal was to want to make sure that if we're out there doing river bed work that we're going to be stabilizing those banks but until we do so, the ongoing remedial the ongoing contamination being mobilized out of the river bed would be a major problem until we're addressing that. That's the highest priority right now in the lower basin. Thanks. Committee. I'll ask another one if nobody's got one yet. This is a little more esoteric and maybe harder to harder to answer but I think it's important to the committee. Maybe Phil and, and Chris, perhaps Dan can address this. I know Phil mentioned the importance of public and political support for the conclusions of our study. Do you have any suggestions for us as to ways that that we that that we could improve that. I mean beyond credible science and incredible analysis of this. If it's possible that's that's a hard question to answer but but any but anything that could help us, you know, get some hints about how we could how we could get more traction with with this report with the with all aspects of the I open. I could, I could chime in for a second on that. I think from my perspective and I'd be interested to hear what Chris has to say is, as you proceed, the more you can engage the public as well as political leaders, the better. If you're not with a book in 18 months, it's probably not going to be as well received, as if we were involved in the process and as Chris has mentioned, he wants to have some skin in the game. So, I think that would be the skin in the game. Chris, any comments. Okay, I think I missed that last comment you want to repeat, and then maybe I can respond. So let me see if I can, if I can restate that and feel correct me if I'm wrong but I think Phil said if we can engage with political leaders and and the public as we go along that that might help help get buy in and make people feel like they use his quotes have some skin in the game did I get that right Phil. Yes, sir. So how can we improve our public and how we how can we improve our report in ways in our work in ways that would that would improve our public are buying from political and local. I think Phil is absolutely right. I was wondering why I didn't invite the press to participate and I think if we can get the press to monitor some of the presentations. That will essentially open it up to the public and I think you'll see more political involvement as well. I do think there was exactly right on. But those of us who didn't who didn't hear, I think, Phil are Chris also mentioned getting the press involved and as best we can, and within the limits of how the National Academy works. I get that right Chris, we could not everybody could hear you very well. Yeah, that is correct. Bob purge. Thank you. Great presentations everyone. Thank you so much for joining me today and super fun program. I'm interested in my little bit of reading I've done so far indicates that there's a history of phosphorus extraction and fertilizer production in the within the mining district and and the focus of course is on the metals. And could you comment about the role of fertilizer production and whether the super fund address that in any way. Yeah, so there is not a known source of phosphorus in the district. At one point they were importing phosphorus, and it was being processed at a phosphorus by phosphoric acid and fertilizer plant as part of the Bunker Hill smell complex. They had a number of processes there. So there was imported phosphorus in that case and there was a gypsum that was produced that ended up being high end phosphorus as part of a waste product. Most of that gypsum has been placed in the central impoundment area and is under a geomembrane covered surface. There are some existing gypsum ponds that are continuing to be monitored, and they have the responsible parties as part of an agreement with the governments on their consent decree. So there is, I guess to the, to the extent they've been addressed in the past I mean that whole smelter complex has gone there's been substantial remediation cells have been removed, kept consolidated, etc. And then so that the big question for us is how much phosphorus is still moving around in the system in that area. And that's why we're monitoring the influence and effort to the plant itself, just to know what kind of capture and effectiveness. We have in that treatment stream. Okay Bob. Any further. Let's see. Laura, do you have a question or is your hand still up from the last day. No, I have a new question. Sorry. All right. So, I wanted to go back to the very brief mentions that have been made of a VISTA and and the operation of the post falls Dan if someone could just explain what the implications of that dam are on the water quality situation in the lake just so that we all have a shared understanding that would really be helpful it wasn't really touched upon anybody's talk. Hi. This is Phillips and I can at least tell you the tribe's perspective. Since we worked with through the first process to ultimately receive $100 million in for a condition mitigation dollars to try to ameliorate some of the impacts of the dam. The dam backs up artificially the lake in the summertime, and it backs up the water up to Katal del, which is about 30 miles upstream on the court of lane, and up the St. Joe river. We have gotten just amazing amounts of problems related to that artificial lake level. So from the tribes perspective, those are lands were flooded. So we lost thousands of acres of wetlands. Our river banks are unraveling because of the summer winter drawdown creates a situation where our cultural artifacts get unearthed and exposed in these massive mud flats that ultimately people go out and loot our artifacts so we have cultural resource protection program going on to try to deal with that. We also have water quality plans going on and monitoring to be able to better understand how the water quality is changing as a result of the high summer waters in the southern portion of the lake, which creates very large areas of warm aquatic habitat that's perfect for invasive species such as northern pike, which are now destroying all of our cutthroat and potentially bull trout. And we also have a little problem called Eurasian milfoil, which is supercharged by warm shallow waters that are nutrient rich so we have been engaged in over 10 years of trying to deal with aquatic invasive species. And quite frankly, the cats out of the bag on that one and it's basically impossible to control that problem. That problem is now moving up into the northern portion of the lake. So we're collecting information now for the next re licensing which will be in about 32 years or no less than 30 years from now. We'll be once again at the table with whatever re licensing process is going on to be able to better express our concerns about how to go about mitigating the problems related to the artificial high levels in the summer. Laura, if I may weigh in a little bit from a different perspective, EPA has been studying the lower basin pretty intensely for the last 12 years developed the model and you'll hear more about that on Friday from Kim prespo. But the operations of the dam itself influence the flows in the river significantly. The lake is operated for recreational purposes in the summer and then the winter straw down to allow spring runoff capture head. But often when we get a large runoff event the lake will fill up and if it fills up and floods continue to occur or subsequent floods to can you continue to occur. It ends up pushing more contaminated water distributing sediments far and wide in that lower basin in the latter lakes and the flood plains. When the water is low like winter water level eight feet below summer pool, then obviously the water will flow through the lower basin much quicker be less distributive and get into the lake quicker. But the dam was increased twice. It's a natural dam. The lake is a natural lake and what they've done is just increase the pool elevation two different times over history. So that's what I guess that's how it influences the operations and how it influences just how runoff events occur in the basin which is a significant issue when you're trying to manage contamination and understand how to remediate it. I'll leave the rest for Kim to talk about on Friday. Just piggyback a bit on the quarter lane system that had talked about. Yeah, right. Okay, thank you. I just wanted to also mention that the tribes doing some work on the lower quarter lane system now, looking at the deep meander bends and finding out that in the summertime, those are stratifying the lower meander is actually kind of an extension of the lake. So in the summertime, it stratifies. It goes an oxy, those deep bends are going an oxy, and we are finding amazing amounts of metals releases during an oxy and nutrient releases from those contaminated sediments coming out of the river. And in particular, when drawdown occurs in after Labor Day, we basically see the metals and nutrient flux increasing as waters move down the river system and into the lake. So that's another very disturbing trend that we're seeing the anoxia in the river that's causing mobilization of metals and nutrients. Robert Steed had a had a question or a comment. Go ahead, Robert. Yes. Good morning committee. My name is Bob Steed. I'm with the quarter lane DEQ and I'm the surface water manager. I did work on the relicensing for the abyssa dam. One of the, one of my understandings is that the lake level and flooding conditions are really controlled mostly by the sill at the inlet or the outlet of cord lane lake right at the North Idaho college area. The abyssa operates that dam to run, run full, full water through it during the peak of the hydrograph and any flooding and that type of stuff that occurs is really a result of the sill upstream of the dam. They do catch the last portion of water that that as the as we're descending on the limb of the hydrograph and do store the lake level.  It's not it's not a 100 foot dam. So I wanted to get that in perspective for the group. It's it's relatively shallow. The state of Idaho did have the water quality certification authority during the relicensing and for the Idaho portion of or the state waters, we did have we did find that the dam caused some water quality issues and we do have conditions in our water quality certification for both upstream and downstream effects of the dam. And we do have a mitigation fund which a VISTA has been a good player on and we do work through improvement projects throughout the basin. And I think Jamie brought that up in her presentation but we do have a water they do provide mitigation and help us with our water quality monitoring portion. We do have an erosion component fisheries throughout the basin and a wetlands project wetlands committee as well that works on that. Thank you. We got one more minute if anybody on the committee has any more questions or the other any others want to make a quick comment. And Laura I thought that I remembered that we were going to have a break before the open mic session but I don't have that on my agenda are we going to go right into that. We're going to have a break and during the break we will pull over people who are going to speak in the open mic session. Okay, so let's 10 minute break. Be back at 10 after 11 for the open mic session please. Thanks very much everyone. Great presentations thank you very much for all the cooperation and for the really excellent presentation. So we're going to get a list up here Laura. Great. Thanks Kyle. All right. So it's time to start our open mic session. And I presume Cal if I miss anybody here you will speak up and let me know that the ones I have on my participant list I will take and remember that we have three to four minutes. I'm going to be really strict about the time on these just because we've got quite a few people who want to speak. So please stick to the time as best you can and I'll remind you of when it's three minutes with by with a one minute morning. Okay, the first open mic is bill Irving on bill. I'm not sure I'm trying to unmute. I hear you right now. Okay, very good. Okay, so I have two questions. They both are in regards to climate change impact on the health of the lake. That's probably best for DEQ and the tribe. First question is the additional phosphorus from wildfire smoke has that been studied as to the impact of that on the health of the lake. That's the first question. Do I wait for the response. Okay, second question is back in 2015. We had a horrendous wildfire season with very high temperatures. A lot of smoke stratified the lake early and for a longer period of time. So the second question is related to also that harmful algae algal blooms. So the question that's more of a general question about whether the effects of climate change, not just in 2015, but additional phosphorus from wildfire smoke, whether they have been studied and would be, and would then be reviewed by the NAS in their work. I think it's good idea. Does somebody want to address that. So Craig, this is Rebecca with the tribe. Would you mind addressing those. Yeah, hi, this is Craig Cooper, the limnologist for Idaho DEQ. With regards to the climate change and wildfire smoke questions. Two things. One 2015 was widely viewed to be an example of expected future climate by regional hydrologists. And that year we did see earlier and stronger stratification. We have looked at the potential for wildfire smoke to influence late chemistry. It's a really complicated question because it impacts both weather patterns and the hydrology for multiple years. We don't yet have enough data to say what's happening, but we do think we're seeing an effect, but it's something we certainly are looking at. Does that get the question. Well, is there enough been studied that the NAS would be able to review it and at least any kind of interim conclusions in regards to climate change impact. There's enough data for the NAS to take a look at. It's a very small time data set. And we don't have any reports on it yet, but certainly I think there's some things there for them to look at. Okay. Great, thank you. Next bill. Thank you, Craig. Okay, thank you very much. Next is a Adriana Hummer. Yeah, hi, can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you fine. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, my question is, has there been any involvement from local public utilities that utilize the lake as their source of drinking water in any of the management plans and or in this process. Any speakers want to take that. This is Rebecca I can touch on it briefly. Just in the last five years or so we've really garnered some great support from the city of Port Elaine and their stormwater division, as well as their wastewater treatment facility they've gone through very high extensive areas of which their outfalls or effluent does go back to Spokane River, which is downstream from Port Elaine Lake so we do work closely with them. As far as drinking water all the drinking water and in this area comes from the Ratham period aquifer. So that's the ground water source just to the north of Port Elaine Lake. Can I change my name that to your Jamie. Yeah, I wasn't sure if Rebecca mentioned stormwater with the city of Cortilane we have had a lot of good conversations and more recent years with the city of Cortilane. They're trying to identify some of their stormwater outfalls that they can take offline and use some low impact development style treatment systems for those outfalls. Excellent. Thank you. I want to just ask for some qualifying clarifications from Rebecca or Jamie so the city of Cortilane is I assume Seward, and the outfalls go into the lake or elsewhere. So the city of Cortilane is Seward but their stormwater is not part of the wastewater treatment system they have outfalls that go either into, they either have injection wells that go into groundwater, depending on where they're at in the city or there are outfalls that that drain directly to the lake and the Spokane River. Okay, thank you. Are there any other Seward cities that discharge effluent into the lake. Let me clarify that last thing the Cortilane wastewater treatment plant discharges downstream of the lake into Spokane River. Thank you. And then I think Laura you had a question about municipalities that do discharge wastewater in the lake. We have the city of Plummer, city of Harrison that both discharge portions of their effluent to the lake, and then further up in the watershed, we have cities that discharge to the rivers. Those, those are like secondary treatment or tertiary or primary just secondary I don't have tertiary treatment on the city Cortilane does but the smaller communities upstream. I believe the city of St. Mary's is on tertiary treatment with some, some upgrades and significant upgrades as well. All right. Did we answer that one okay. The next one is Bradley Barnett, excuse me Mike screen keeps flipping around, Bradley Barnett. Thank you Sam. I'm the Vice President of sustainability of Bunker Hill Mining Corporation. We're a team that just arrived on the scene at Bunker Hill mine about a year ago, and started conducting the first exploration that's occurred at the mine in over 30 years. But as you know, the, the mine is the major contributor range of constituents of concern into the central treatment plant. Later processes that water and discharges into the south or to the Cortilane River. I guess I just didn't have a question but wanted to say if there's any way that Bunker Hill mine could contribute to the study or or further understanding in any way. We're happy and available to do so. Great Bradley. Thanks very much. Next we have Norman. I'm sorry again my screen and Norman Semenko. Good afternoon. Appreciate the opportunity to talk with you folks. My name is Norm Semenko and I'm an attorney with Parsons Bailey grew up in the area in Cooney County and here today observing on behalf of Haggadon hospitality. They were referred to earlier that's the court lane resort and golf course on the North Shore. And we really appreciate the good work that you all are doing. We think science is very important. As you can tell, even today in a scientific discussion. There's a lot of emotion and attachment to the lake. I get that I grew up in the area. And that's appropriate. But having this group come in and look at the science is very important. And we're certainly supportive of that. I really appreciated the clarification at the beginning that that you're not here to provide solutions you're here to look at the science and help us understand what what the challenge is. I also really appreciated Mr McCracken comments on behalf of the state, the importance of the economic and cultural center at the north end of the lake, how that is differently situated than than some of the issues that you had highlighted today that's important to understand the fact that the lake continues to be popular. And the public statement, and the public access from I 90, which was mentioned as well as us 95 which is the north south highway and that north south highway connects cord lane to what wasn't mentioned today is another resort and a casino golf course another golf course. I think it's the tribe that I think is very important part of the economic analysis here as well so really appreciate those comments focusing on the importance of the area. The several several resorts that were referenced by Mr McCracken I think may have been a reference to the fact that you've got the, the resort at the north end and then also down in worldly, the one owned by the tribe. The reality is vitally interested in the outcome of this. What kinds of science is identified again really appreciated the stout study outcomes that were suggested by Mr McCracken. There needs to be a high level of confidence in the science. I'm talking about things that could potentially change the lay of the land there alarm bells that can be rang by certain suggestions being made in terms of the future of the lake. It's critical that there be confidence in in the science so I really appreciate that. There's also a clear understanding of the scope of the urgency and also consensus going forward that there be consensus on on where we need to go so we're here to listen will be here to listen on Friday as well. We were involved, obviously we were involved in the relicensing those settlement negotiations on the abyss to post falls dam, and in any number of other machinations around the lake, and we'll appreciate being able to be involved in this process, and watching your good work as well. Thank you. Thanks very much, Norman, Brendan Dowling. Let's see we haven't heard from Brendan unless you're on mute. Oh, you are. Let's go on to Sally Emerson will come back to Brendan if he's if he's here. Sally Emerson, Sandy Emerson, I'm sorry, Sandy Emerson. Eric, are we having trouble with people's mutes. I'm back off here. Okay, Sandy Emerson is that you sandy. This is Sandy Emerson. Okay, we hear you. Thank you so much. I'm a member of a couple different natural resource commissions and committees here in court lane and I've been was on some of the formative committees for the lake management plan and the basin commission so I've been doing this for a while myself, but as a citizen. My question is just is the lake effect of reactivating or mobilizing the lead in the bottom sediments a proven fact when the phosphorus increases or the oxygen becomes a more of a factor or is that mostly theoretical at this point I heard what Phil said. It sounds like there's some measurements going on that might be answering my question. And over time it's kind of been theoretical. Thank you. Hey, Sandy, this is Craig Cooper again. We did a three year study at a very small an ox bowl in the far northwestern corner of the lake that's not represent the overall late just a small microcosm. It does go an ox in the summer times. And we did in that very small place outside of Black Island Marina do find the metals released from the sediments with the waters go hypoxic and both an ox. And don't know what Dale is seeing in the south but I think he's seeing something similar. And yes both legs ink and cadmium come out. Thank you. This is Dale Chess. Yeah, I can add to that so. So the metals that we see released in the lower Coeur d'Alene River during an oxy conditions are lead dissolve lead cadmium and zinc and arsenic. In the St. Joe, when the St. Joe goes an oxy, which it does also, we see high levels of arsenic being released from, from those sediments. And with that, we see high levels of reactive phosphorus also being released from the sediments. Yeah, us too. So it is not theoretical. It's happening we've been measuring it for quite a long time now. I don't agree. It is real it happens. We see it in the hard data and it's consistent with biogeochemical theory. So yeah, Sandy. Thank you. Appreciate it. Right. I'm going to move Brendan Dowling. Are you here. No, I'll go on to Greg. If you're on mute, please. I guess we don't have Greg either. Again, we're not having trouble with mute or anything. Are we, are we Eric. Okay. I think that's all that's all that I can see on my list of open Mike. We might. We might have a couple more people if we could just take like a 30 second break to see if there are a few more people that might not have understood how to use the raise hand feature. Okay. I'll wait for Eric to let us know if there are any more that might be coming over. Okay, very good. Yeah, so those on the attendee side if you raise your hand we can give you the ability to speak if you want to take additional questions. I think people to raise your hand that they're in different places in different systems. Okay, so Sam if you look at your zoom on the attendee side the attendee tab you should see two hands raised, and we can allow those participants to speak. And now I think they're, I think they're transferring over to the panelists side so they're they're on their way over. Okay, thank you. Sorry for the delay folks. attendees. And on the panelists side you should see two hands raised on the panelists and on the under the panelists tab. Oh yeah there we go. Okay Tom McLaughlin. Tom McLaughlin I'm the conservation chairman with the North Idaho flight casters. A few questions. As you look at the heavy metals that are in suspension in the water column. What percentage of percentage of those are migratory coming out of the river system. That's first question. Second question. Are there any technologies currently employed in other situations to filter these suspended metals out of the water column. And then the third question I have. Is there any technologies out there to encapsulate the metals that are in the sediment base of the lake. And I use an example and well drilling the bentonite that would encapsulate it so it can't refind its way back into the water column. Anybody want to address those questions from the speakers. Yeah. Oh, sorry. First. Yeah, let's do it first. At first and then Craig. All right. Thank you, Mr. Cooper. I'll just say Tom, there are high levels of dissolved metals through moving through the South Fork and the main stem of the Coeur d'Alene River. The lateral lakes and into Lake Coeur d'Alene. There's there's a huge source out there. What Craig and Dale are talking about our individual data studies they've done. I think Dale's done several of them in different deep pools. But the overall concentrations of dissolved metals is significant, especially with zinc moving through the system. It's a constant flow from many sources. So that's that's something that's ongoing. And I think that's just going to continue it even as we attack it in the upper basin and attack the various sources. I think Craig's going to talk more about his knowledge on on metals going into solution. And that's a little bit different about nuance on the conversation. I will say with respect to technologies, there are certainly capping technologies out there and can find a quality disposal cells or something that are used by EPA and other, you know, and other agencies on environmental cleanups commonplace throughout the world. So those technologies are viable. There's there's a lot to them and it's complicated and system like this that wouldn't be an easy answer but it is something that could be done if it were right and if you can get the sources under control which is what we're working on right now. I'd like to reinforce that the dominant source by far of metals into the lake is coming from the quarter lane river. There are some northern lake there's a small spot where it comes out in the summer but it's a very, very, very minor and very localized. Again, I don't know the situation down in the south but I think there's a lot of sediment force down the south from correct Dale. As for technologies, yes it is capping technologies that would be very hard to do but there's also techniques for doing monitored attenuation using national sediments that come in from the rivers. It's a very hard large complicated system and I'm not an expert on it, but they do exist. I just add add a couple other comments to that I think, I think for the technologies that we run into is the scale, and we're talking about capping the entire bottom of the lake. You know, just becomes a feasibility challenge. And then with that, I mean, even if we were to completely be ensured that the metals wouldn't release off the bottom of the lake. We don't need to manage nutrients because as Kami showed pictures of what we have what we have happening right now in Fernand lake, where we don't have metals, we still have issues that excess nutrient loading still causes issues for us in terms of water quality. So we still have kind of the same issue whether or not the metals come up in terms of making sure that we don't get to a state where we have excess nutrients in the lake. I'd like to follow up with Andrew briefly is that from a nutrient management perspective on the lake. We are in a position now where look at the ratio of nitrogen to phosphorus that in the summer we are at risk for algae blooms, even though we don't see them in the lake yet. I would, I would like to add something. So I think we do have some you'll see it on Friday at site C five. We do have I think some evidence of some, I would call it enhanced benthic flux due to low oxygen in the hypolimnion at C five in the southern basin, and that in itself looks like it could be increasing the benthic flux rates of zinc from those from from that hypolimnion. So, in the summertime and I think cool bar is study well when a cool bar studies cool bar at all. I don't I forget what year. Describe that, I think it was during the summertime that benthic flux in the lake could supply as much zinc to the water column as the Corlean River can. So there is there is some evidence that that the benthic flux of zinc itself is very important from a seasonal aspect seasonal standpoint. Right, thank you. Let's see. Have I gotten to everybody.  Hi, I am a new person. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to ask. I was just digging around through my notes and unfortunately I can't identify the woman who spoke about funding sources and how they that person. I really wish I could remember who it was, but my question is, this was a either Idaho or I'm sure it wasn't tried. I think it was. Thank you Dan, I think it was. And you talked about other funding sources you talked also about the opportunity to work with partners and other organizations but my question for you is. Are you not funded by the state, why are you seeking additional funds for these projects outside of your own purview. So we do have some funding through the state to perform some of the core functions of the lake management plan. And unfortunately that primarily covers staff time and the monitoring activities equipment and supplies. So we can outreach all those activities that we do project implementation on the ground project implementation and research we do try and reach out and find more funding sources to kind of leverage. We use our state funding to leverage some other funding sources to do more, more with the resources that we've got. So there's a combination of state and also outside. So the HECLA settlement funds and also the Avista funding that they provide as part of their for license as well. So that's your question, sort of so you are seeking private donations. We don't necessarily seek private donations is more on the level of grant funding for example the restoration partnership they have a restoration plan that they have money available for on the ground restoration projects that enhance habitat and our focus of course would be reducing nutrient inputs to the basin. Right. So we don't look for private donations but we do look for funding sources that are out there for the specific purposes that we're trying to accomplish. Okay, thank you so much and I do want to introduce myself. I'm Shelly Austin and I'm the new executive director for the Kootenai Environmental Alliance. I just just started we have not been able to send out a press release but I'm really anxious to meet all of you individually and continue this discussion. Thanks for including me today. Nice to meet you Shelly. Yeah, I'm glad to be here. Okay, next we have Sky Walden. I am the committee chair for the climate and and and I'm sorry I'm a little nervous you guys I follow a lot of you guys doing stuff and I just have sort of a bit of envy and, you know, a lot of respect for all of you. But I'm the climate and environmental justice chair for the NAACP, the local chapter, and I hopped on here late so unfortunately I missed everything up until this last, you know, hand raising section I was wondering if this is going to be posted anywhere I see it's recording. The recording of this session will be available in about a week or two. It'll be on our event page. Okay, awesome. And then I just also it sounds like this is a lot of stuff that was talked about during the RGEM collaborative speaker series from the 2020 September edition. Has anybody talked about bioremediation at any point. We did not hear anything about it today but if anybody has any comment about bioremediation from the speakers now. Any bioremediation within the cord lane basin from EPA's perspective I'm Ed Murray. One of the challenges we have is that concentrations are so high in this area that bioremediation oftentimes creates another waste product. So you create a waste product that has to be managed so if the plants are up taking the vegetation, you don't want it to be by deer or cattle or what have you so it's it's a challenging situation. It is always appealing and we'd love to find an easy way to deal with the widespread lead and other heavy metals in the system, but today has been no maxi magic dust and so to speak. Thanks for asking. Thank you for taking my question here and I look forward to actually getting to see what was discussed here today. Thank you. So let's ask again Brendan Dowlin, or Greg Deleban. It looks to me like that's everyone then is there are there any others. Eric, I don't see any other hands. I guess that is everything for today I'd like to thank everybody for all the attention and for their excellent presentations and the excellent questions and excellent open mic session. And we'll look forward to seeing everybody on Friday. See you on Friday. Thanks much.


The crypto market roller coaster continued this week. This week, Bitcoin has traded in a consolidating range here as you guys can see between the low of around 47,000 with a high of about $52,000. When the market's moving like this, it's pretty easy to get chopped up in the price action if you're trying to predict which way it's going next. Today we're going to look at the charts here to see what's happened over the last few days this week. And try to figure out the different scenarios that we could see going into the weekend and into next week into basically almost a second half of December. Try to see the different scenarios that we could possibly see here. Then of course we will end it with some trade setups that we will be watching in both directions whether depending on the scenario that plays out, we're going to try to play both long entries and short entries so we'll have trade setups for both of those scenarios. So let's go ahead and jump into today's analysis. Hey, what's up Jay here and welcome to Bitcoin Daily bringing you guys the best tips, tutorials and ideas to help you guys become profitable and successful investors. The goal of this channel is to empower you guys the community with the knowledge and resources to take your wealth up to that next level. So if you guys are new to the channel, don't forget to subscribe, turn on those notifications. If you guys enjoyed this video, make sure to smash the like button. The like goal for this video will be 100 likes. I know that we can do it guys. So smash that like button. And if you have any questions about anything that we covered then of course drop it in the comments. Alrighty guys. So looking at the chart here, we can see pretty much exactly what's going on, right? We were within this channel right here. We ended up breaking down the channel. That caused of course a lot of people selling on that breakdown and which then cascaded into liquidations and panic selling. The result of course is huge candle that ended up being down about 13.5% last week. Now this week, the candle is only down about 2.5% and if we close this week below 49,484, that's going to be four weeks in a row of red candles. Now this would be the first time that we have four straight weeks of red candles in, well in a while, even in May and June when we had this huge drop here, we did not get four weeks in a row of red. So we would have to go all the way back to June of 2020 to find the last time that we have four weeks in a row of red candles here. Now this move was more of a consolidation move than anything. They're just trading in a range and that's kind of where we're at right now, although we did have the big red candles to start us off here. Even during the pandemic, as you guys can see right here, we only had three red weeks before starting to move back up and back at the end of 2019, you'll see that we had a few of those four red weeks in a row there as you can see through September and November. So when are we finally going to have a green week? Are we going to have one soon or are we going to have a fifth week of red candles in a row? So I went back all the way to about 2014 and did not see not one instant where we had five red weeks in a row. Not one time, at least in the chart that I was looking at, I did not see not one time. Now does that mean it's not going to happen? Of course not. There's always a possibility for it to happen. But because we've had four in a row because, well the week isn't over yet, we can still close this week above 49. But if we do close below and close another red week, I have to believe that we will have a green week next week. We're all looking for that Santa rally. December 15th through the 19th is known as a period of time where Bitcoin is usually parabolic or at least very bullish. You can see here last year starting from December 14th, we had four big green candles basically closing out the year very strong and then opening up the year the next 2021 very strong. The week of the 14th we had a 22% rally, the week of the 21st we had 11% rally, the week of the 28th, the last week of the year we had a 25% rally. Now of course it doesn't always happen that way. As you guys can see here in 2020 during this exact time we pretty much had mostly red candles but we did have one green candle and that was the week between the 16th and the 19th right? If we go back to 2018 yet again there's only one green candle and it lies within that time period as well. You can see that this week started on the 17th so between the 17th and the 23rd we went up 23% that week. In 2017 which was the end of the previous bull run, we actually topped out between those days. You see that the week started here on the 11th so from the 11th to the 17th is we had a 26% candle which gave us our previous all-time high basically of $20,000. If we go further back to 2016 you can see the same period of time in 2015 yet again. And finally in 2014 was the only time that we had a red week during that week between the 15th and the 19th of December. So remember we're trying to put a puzzle together based on historical data because history doesn't always repeat but it often does rhyme. So December 15th through the 19th is historically very very bullish. We haven't had a red week during that period of time since 2014. We've also never had five red candles, red weekly candles in a row at least since 2014. I'm going to go out on a ledge here and say that next week we will have a green week even if we just go up 1%. I think that we're due for a relief rally here soon and I think it has to be next week. If we zoom into the daily here you'll see that we're currently down 40% from previous all-time highs. We're currently in this symmetrical triangle here after the big drop so we've just been consolidating. You'll see that today we had a move up and then got just thrown right back down which was rejection that is that candle formation there is a bearish candle. So we have to watch for that because one thing that could happen here we could potentially see a breakdown here where we could retest this bottom here the bottom of that flash crash. If we put the symmetrical triangle and measure it that it gives us a target of down here this is about $40,000 the bottom of our flash crash was about $42,000 so it is a scenario that we could see in another very quick drop where we retest this and then finally get that relief rally going and possibly push back up to these higher levels above $52,000. You know how the market is guys it loves to scare the weak hands out of the market before moving back up that could have been this that could be this there's a lot of fear in the market right now people are getting scared people are this the sentiment is very very low people are saying that the bull market over this type of price action will exhaust you right it's going to exhaust a lot of people especially if they're new to the space and that's exactly what Bitcoin and market makers love to do before a move back to the upside so that's something to keep in mind so what are we going to be watching for this weekend well the first thing of course we want to see what happens here we want to make sure that we don't break below this so in the scenario that we do break below it we are going to set up some trade entries there right so the first trade entry that we're going to be looking for is a break down below $47,000 now why 47 well we want to make sure that we're below all these wicks right here that's also below this symmetrical triangle that we have going on here so that would kind of be a breakdown there and that could lead down to at least 44,000 you know 44 to 45 it's gonna be a weak support there so I believe that if we see that breakdown we probably retest the lows here before moving back up now in the event that we do bounce back up over the weekend 50,000 is a possible entry but the issue is there's going there's been so many fakeouts here and it's not above this descending resistance line right here so instead of taking that what I'm going to be looking for is a breakout above 52 so above 52 then you're going to be as going as gonna be a new high of the week so that should come with some momentum which leads us beyond 53 and at least back to like 55 range if you pull up the volume shelves here on the side you'll see that there's a lot of consolidation here that's why there's so much open interest right here so we want to enter above here and you'll see that above there look at this drop off there's just nothing there so we should be able to run up at least to that 54 more most probably are at least at $55,000 area so that's a nice little gap there that's the perfect long entry that you want because you can make some nice profits on those type of entries there since there's such a gap here that it's going to need to fill there's not gonna be a lot stopping us at that point so those are the two trades that we will be watching both long and short instead of trying to make a prediction and then creating a bias within us because of our prediction because we of course want to be right we're gonna let the price take us in the direction that it wants to go and then we're just going to play the price on these we're going to be risking very small amount one percent or less because again prices very choppy right now it's a very unpredictable so you just you want to make sure that you're not risking too much right now so that's pretty much it guys I hope you guys have enjoyed this video don't forget to smash that like button on this video we're trying to get to a hundred likes on this video guys so take a second to smash that like button right now if you guys are new to the channel don't forget to subscribe and turn on those notifications don't want to be missing these videos I hope you guys had an amazing week I know it's been very choppy in the market but at the end of the day guys don't forget to live your life outside of the crypto markets and outside of just investing you want to also be spending time with your friends families and still doing normal thing right don't spend all your time in front of the charts like me so have a great weekend guys I'll see you guys on the next one as always peace and love


Hey, welcome back to my YouTube channel guys. I don't know if you saw my first video. I will link it above that talks about five reasons why New Zealand may not be right for you. But today I'm going to do a part two and talk about some more reasons why New Zealand may not be right for you and you're not going to want to miss it. So stay tuned. Here we go. This video is sponsored by Bittrick's 24. Okay, first off, if you are one of those people that rather work than play, New Zealand may not be the place for you.  But it might not be right for you. If you're like this workaholic, we don't like get it done, get it done, never take a break, New Zealand may not be right for you. Or if you think that you have to use holiday for when you're sick. So in New Zealand, you get holidays and sick days and they're separate. So if you would just prefer to use your vacation days as your sick days, then New Zealand may not be right for you. Second thought is if you just think that socialized healthcare doesn't make sense, that you just prefer to pay enormous amounts of money for your healthcare because then you can pick what you want and you want a lot of freedom around that, New Zealand might not be right for you. Yes, if you just want to be able to, and you just feel like you don't, you get what you pay for kind of thing and that you really want to be able to pay enormous amounts of money for your healthcare, even though a lot of things happen to you that are beyond your control, then New Zealand may not be right for you because in New Zealand, the healthcare is covered. You can also get insurance if you want in addition to the healthcare. But yeah, and obviously we all pay for it through our taxes and things like technically free, but if you really have an issue with like socialized healthcare, as some people will say it, or just feeling that healthcare just should come at a cost, whereas in New Zealand, they feel that it's kind of a right for somebody, like if you get sick, you shouldn't like go bankrupt, or if you have a baby, you shouldn't go bankrupt, or you know, these are the concepts that they think about here in New Zealand. So if you disagree with that, New Zealand's not the place for you. Third thought, if you are uncomfortable with not tipping, I mean, you can tip here in New Zealand, but it's just not a normal thing. You don't need to basically like you kind of do in the U.S. but if you feel like you would prefer to pay for a certain type of service, that there shouldn't be like just, you know, fair wages across the board for waiters and waitresses and you know, people in hospitality, then New Zealand may not be right for you because you don't really need to tip people get a living wage as a waiter or waitress. In fact, people in New Zealand, I have found are quite uncomfortable with the tipping concept on other places, specifically the U.S. because they don't know how to tip or they don't realize, you know, how little they make unless you do tip and like it's a little bit stressful where they just feel like everybody should be paid for their time. So if you kind of disagree with that concept, if you really prefer the tipping program and like, you know, you have to do a really good job at what you're doing in order to make any money or to make a good tip, then New Zealand isn't the place for you. 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And my fourth thought, if you really think that in order to get a good education, you need to pay an enormous amount of money for university. New Zealand isn't the place for you. There is a lot of programs at universities right now that you can get for free. Your first year at university is free right now in New Zealand and yeah, it's not that expensive to go to university here in New Zealand. It's actually quite reasonable but it all depends on what your major is. So but if you just think that, you know, it's just my kid just really needs to pay 50 to 100,000 dollars a year to get a good education then New Zealand's not for you. And number five, my last thought is if you just really enjoy US tax law and doing your taxes every year like the enormous amount of paperwork and details that that entails, the New Zealand isn't right for you. I mean, there to a point now where it's automatically done for you and then you can just add in, you know, if you have charities or extra businesses but otherwise it's done for you. And it takes literally no time and they actually only take out the money from your account that they actually think you deserve to owe for taxes. Not more than enough to then tell you that, oh, you're going to get a tax return at the end of the year and make you feel like you're getting some money from the government back when it was really your money to begin with. So maybe think about that for a minute. But yeah, so if you just love doing a lot of taxes, like thinking about complicated tax law, New Zealand might not be the right place for you. Well, I hope you enjoyed my video this week. It was a little tongue in cheek and talking about some of the really great things about New Zealand and, you know, what it might not look like if someone didn't appreciate those things. 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Welcome to the NTN Nightly. I'm Nisha Chance. This edition stops stories. Saint Lucia's Prime Minister calls for more regional attention on the withdrawal of Correspondent Banking Services. More young Saint Lucia's receive training under the National Apprenticeship Programme. The new faces of democracy show up in the nation's youth. All that plus the NTN Nouvelle-Arcueil. Saint Lucia's Prime Minister Hon. Alan Shasne has called for increased attention by character leaders on the withdrawal of Correspondent Banking Services from the region as well as blacklisting by the European Union. Hon. Shasne made the call as he delivered his outgoing address as chairman of the Caribbean Community. Prime Minister Shasne took over the chairmanship in July of 2019 and gave an account of the 31st inter-sessional meeting of the Conference of Heads of Governments of the Caribbean Community on the way in Marbetas. Prime Minister of Saint Lucia and the immediate past chairman of the Caribbean Community Caricum, Hon. Alan Shasne, speaking at the conference highlighted a number of challenges confronting member states, including climate change, blacklisting by the European Union, adversities facing small island states in the international community, the ongoing situation in Venezuela, and the risk in the region. The risk in refers to the restriction of Correspondent Banking Relationships or business services from major global banks to certain jurisdictions due to concerns over money laundering or potential involvement in financing of terrorist activities. Prime Minister Hon. Shasne highlighted how crucial it was that Caricum continues to lobby to have these issues addressed. In November last, as a direct result of Saint Lucia meeting, a delegation from the community led by the distinguished Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda took the issue of Correspondent Banking and de-risking to Washington in light of the threat of our financial institutions losing critical relationships with U.S. banks. I can report that we have moved the needle on de-risking and that the OECS is working on a single compliance department. We were able to draw the attention of the members of the Financial Services Committee of the United States Congress and senior representatives of major U.S. banks, including the Bank of America, to the catastrophic effect which the stringent measures being imposed on domestic banks by Correspondent Banks in the United States, and a negative impact which the withdrawal of such services was having on economies in the Caribbean member states. The Prime Minister disclosed that up to mid-2018, 25 percent of the 50 banks operating within Caricum countries had reported termination of Correspondent Banking Services, while 75 percent reported that they were facing certain Correspondent Banking restrictions. Other negative consequences include an increase in operational costs, an extension in the processing time for international payments and increased difficulty in account opening or securing banking services. The Prime Minister noted another issue plaguing the region, that of blacklisting. He indicated that a Caricum delegation interfaced with the European Union on the troubling issue which still exists today. Member states of the community, however, continue to take the necessary steps to comply with the demands of the regulating agencies. But while they do, countries in our region are still being penalized. Some of us remain on the grey list while only one member state remains on the blacklist. We must continue working until all of us are off the list. But more importantly, we must make every effort to ensure that this undemocratic and discriminatory practice of a public blacklist is discontinued. The 31st Intersectional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of Caricum was held on 18 February 2020. For the Government Information Service, I am Janelle Norvel. The National Apprenticeship Programme NAP is continuing to fulfill its mandate of providing training and employment opportunities for St. Lucia's unemployed youth. Anise Antoine reports on the latest cohort of trainees under the Tourism Hospitality Programme conducted in partnership with Monro College. The National Apprenticeship Programme through the Monro College International Hospitality Training Institute will be providing a second leg of hospitality training to over 50 young persons from the constituency of Anselary Canaries. The three-month programme forms part of an initiative by the Government of St. Lucia to help alleviate the high unemployment rate amongst our youth. Director of the National Apprenticeship Programme NAP, Dr. Wendy Mosheri encouraged the apprentices to make the most of the opportunity. You have started a journey that we at NAP and at Monro will assist you. We will help you to go right through this journey and to complete it successfully. About three years ago, the Government of St. Lucia recognised that unemployment was extremely high among the young persons, especially in the South, decided to begin the National Apprenticeship Programme. The mandate that we have is to train young persons, unemployed persons, give them skills, give them knowledge that they need to become more employable as well as getting new employment opportunities. So we will get you to interviews but NAP does not give you jobs. I want you to bear this in mind. We take you to the interview but you have to sell yourself at the interview to get the job. Recognising that not everyone is as able, the Government of St. Lucia is absorbing 33% of the cost and the participants will contribute the balance. Additionally, each student will receive a stipend of $500 monthly. Minister for Tourism Information and Broadcasting, Culture and Creative Industries and Parliamentary Representative for Ancillary Canaries, Hon. Dominic Fede, noted that the best thing a Government can do for young people is to empower them to become independent. If there is one thing that I will feel proud as that I have been able to be associated with during my tenure as Parliamentary Rep is this, not fixing the roads, not fixing the roads, not creating buildings or fixing playing fields but investing in you and building you and giving you the best chance for you to become the best versions of yourself. That's why we do this. This is for you. The Atlantico trainee of the National Apprenticeship Programme expressed gratitude to the Government of St. Lucia and the Monroe College for the opportunity. I do believe that I will achieve much more experience in hospitality and I would encourage all the young people to do take this programme that will help them in life and will help them in the future. Upon completion of the programme, the trainees will be placed on internships within the hospitality sector. The opening ceremony for the National Apprenticeship Programme took place at the Millet Community Centre on Tuesday, February 18th, 2020. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Andouan reporting. The Department of Health and Wellness holds meetings to discuss, review and evaluate St. Lucia's level of preparedness for a possible case of the coronavirus. More in this report from Fanel Neptune. As the Department of Health and Wellness continues its effort to ensure preparedness to manage the threat of coronavirus, a review meeting was held on the recent incident of an individual treated as a suspected case of coronavirus. The meeting provided participants with the opportunity to identify gaps and to make necessary recommendations to strengthen the country's response to the coronavirus. Chief Medical Officer Dr Sharon Belma-George says the dialogue was extremely important as it allowed them to identify the shortcomings in response to the recent incidents and to chart the way forward. This really provided us with an opportunity to test our national plan and our protocols to date. We were able to do a review from his coming to the Souffre Hospital. We had the team from the Souffre Hospital there to give us feedback on what occurred and how it occurred and we were able to look at what was done and how it was done in an effort to improve the situation. Very integral was the Victoria Hospital. The Medical Director was there as well, so she was able to walk through everything that happened that evening and she was able to point out what worked and also she was able to identify some of the gaps that exist at Victoria Hospital. Dr Belma-George expressed the Department of Health's commitment to make the necessary changes in the management of a possible case of the coronavirus to our shores. Some of the gaps that we've noted so far is that we have to increase our surveillance. Our healthcare workers have to be more aware of the environment that we are in and ask relevant questions. Also we noted there was a level of panic at the hospital initially which I think may have been expected especially for the first possible case. So going through the days happening with him coming into VH it really helped us to see where we need to put extra resources to be able to manage. We also looked at the communication strategy that was used that night and ways of strengthening to ensure that the correct information is going to the public. The Chief Medical Officer also reiterated that St Lucia has no cases of the coronavirus. Reporting from the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, I am Fina Neptune. And this is the NTN Nightly. We'll be back in a moment. Let's celebrate our 41st Independence Anniversary with a musical explosion! Friday 21st February at 7 p.m. The City Center comes alive! At the best of St Lucia concerts! Enjoy performances, our best of the past and present! Invader Ashanti Her Black T. Carroll Arthur Michael Robinson Tennyson John Ricky G Slobunts and many more amazing talents We'll take the stage! Welcome back. St Lucia's youth relished the opportunity to be heard by the nation's leaders as they participated in the National Youth Parliament on Tuesday 18th February. More on that in a moment. But first, the youth parliamentarians interfaced with the Cabinet of Ministers and held frank dialogue on many issues of national interest. Here's Danielle Dubois of the Communications Unit at the Office of the Prime Minister. Members are candid and informative exchange as youth parliamentarians joined the Cabinet of Ministers at their regular Cabinet meeting on Monday. The 17 youth parliamentarians are gearing up for the first sitting of youth parliament on Tuesday 18th February 2020. After months of training and engagement, 17 young persons from around the island will fill the seats of our highest chambers, the House of Assembly. Shine Savory, who is the youngest among the selected for the debate, expressed how forums like these are important and give them an opportunity to make a valid contribution to decision-making. This morning we were invited to Cabinet to have a word with some of the ministers and this opportunity was really beneficial to us because we were able to hear from the actual parliamentarians who have this as their profession and being able to hear their experiences. We heard some advice for if we would like to have actual parliamentarians in the future. We got some advice on the proceedings and hearing this as a youth parliamentarian, what is supposed to be mimicked in parliament from people who actually have experience, as they said, some going on 30 years of this experience. It was beneficial to us being able to internalize it because even though it is a youth parliament, we still have to take this seriously. The youth parliamentarians will serve a 10-year of one year where they will be expected to engage in training, youth advocacy and community outreach. What we are doing this time around that has never been done before is having the youth parliamentarians serve one year as their 10-year and of course during that time when they are not necessarily sitting within the structure of the house they will be responsible for community engagement etc. So the youth parliamentarians would have already done community projects in December where they were responsible for giving every child, one child in their constituency a gift. They were responsible for feeding the less fortunate in Kashi's central. So then all of this is part and parcel of being a parliamentarian. So of course we want to give that practicality to it. So as I mentioned before, the one-year stint as a youth parliamentarian will start in February and end when the new court is selected. Chavon Bryan, who will serve as Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, went on to give details about the papers being laid at the house on Tuesday of this week. The motion that is stable in the parliament tomorrow is one that deals with education reform and not just the overall reformation of the system but we're looking at several other areas with the inclusion of technical vocational education training and we also are looking at the abolishment of the common entrance examination process. The motion aims to bring out our proposals as a government to redefine how we approach the holistic development of our students and the main areas that are targeting in the motion are the primary and secondary school levels. At the end of the session, the ministers gave each parliamentarian a token of appreciation in the form of a St. Lucian flagpin. Reporting for the Office of the Prime Minister, I am Danielle Dubois. And coming off that session, the young parliamentarians were eager to take their place in the parliament chamber. Under the theme New Faces of Democracy, youth parliamentarians gathered in parliament on Tuesday for the independence youth parliament debate. The youth debate sought to discuss a number of issues including education reform. The motion before parliament on Tuesday was the establishment of a national curriculum that is balanced and broad based which fosters the holistic development of the child. Education Minister and member for Kashi South, Alan's plant, tabled that motion. In the past years, our knowledge regarding child development has expanded, Mr. Speaker. At this stage, teachers, parents or guardians alike would want a lot more from the children's education that is in tune with each child's unique needs and skills and one that prepares for other to. Mr. Speaker, in characterizing school subjects, the holistic approach seeks to empower children to use their academic learning as a foothold for their social and measurable skills. Our holistic approach in building our students must prepare them for the future and help them tackle any of life's uncertainties. Mr. Speaker, an education system must focus the child as a whole which means it must cater to the physical, emotional, social and cognitive development of children. This in turn creates progressive thinkers of society. Member for Gastry's North and Youth Prime Minister, Siobhan Bryan, deemed that the establishment of the national curriculum was integral to education reform. He says it begins at the primary school level with the introduction of an aptitude test. This aptitude test is not just meant to just be given to a primary school student to a primary school student, sorry, and entered and assessed by the teacher. This aptitude test ensures that the parents are included in the dialogue. And we recognize the strength of families in this country, Mr. Speaker. When the parents are involved, Mr. Speaker, holistically, the child develops at a more tuned rate, Mr. Speaker. A lot of the deficiencies that happen at Worms, Mr. Speaker, they are transferred to the school system. You have children, Mr. Speaker, coming from Bokkun homes dealing with all social ills, drug abuse, physical abuse, mental abuse. I like the member for Gastry's South said, Mr. Speaker. All those factors come into play at the time a child may or may not decide to sit the common entrance examination. The independence youth parliament was organized by the National Youth Council as part of activities for St. Lucia's 41st independence celebrations. And stay with the NTN Nightly. Up next is Primus Hutchinson with the NTN Nouvelle Arquillo. It's up to you and me to keep St. Lucia away above the rest. Sharing your information is so important to cover economy. We rather move to improve. Call the Ministry of Tourism at 468-4629 to be part of this movement. Welcome back. We join Primus Hutchinson with the NTN Nouvelle Arquillo. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Madam Department of Investing and Investing for the Government of the National Youth Council, and the NTN Nouvelle Arquillo. We welcome Primus Hutchinson. We also welcome the Nouvelle Arquillo to be part of the activities for St. Lucia's 42nd independence celebration. We also welcome the Nouvelle Arquillo to be part of the activities for St. Lucia's 42nd independence celebration. I will finish in the beginning of Thank you. Wilco Street is a place where you can help to improve the way that is easier and more comfortable. For Wilco Street, Peter St. Francis, it is a place where you can help. We have a lot of people who are working in the city, but it is critical to make the most of the necessary places to make it easier. We have a lot of people who work in the business. The first phase is to make it easier and more comfortable and more comfortable. We have a lot of places to work in the business and to sell various items for the public. What we are doing is making it easier to make it easier to make it easier to make it easier and more comfortable to make it easier and more comfortable. We have a lot of people who work in the business in Ceant, and we do a lot from June to June. We have a lot of people who work not pleasing to the public nor cheapen at the moment. We also have a lot of facilities to make it easier forヨルシ address. Yugo also felicitates his employer, who is a resident of Shoe Azei, for working with his employer. There is work that is a little easier. There is a studio and a restaurant that provides service for the boss. So, Yugo, let the boss try his lot at the restaurant. Here, Yugo is a resident of Shoe Azei, who is also a resident of Shoe Azei. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has done the consumer trade, which is also a representative of Shoe Azei. We are Bradley Felix, a co-founder and director of Shoe Azei for Shoe Azei and Shoe Azei. I am Felix, and I am here to help the Greek and international business. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has done the consumer trade, which is a representative of Shoe Azei. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has done the consumer trade, which is also a representative of Shoe Azei. Investment in Shoe Azei is also a representative of Shoe Azei's site, where we provide services to the business community, and the work the people doing their job. We also provide services to the public, where the tool is used and served for diversity. We also provide work to the west side, to serve Adelsa Shoe Azei and the Shoe Azei trade. Minister of Education and Collaboration with the Agents Commonwealth of Learning, UNESCO and Hewlett Foundation to organize a four-day workshop on how to build capacity for the education resource and the needs of the call. The initiative, like IED, is to reduce the amount of money that is spent to buy materials that can also improve the capacity of the institution. The resource of education is that it is possible to find a place to study, to learn and to find materials that are available to the public, that can help people to pay for them. It is also possible to find a place to study, without any restrictions, if there is a need for education. The Ministry of Education and the Agents Commonwealth of Learning have developed a way to help people to get education. At that time, it was the 25th of January. And that's how we found this new initiative. Thank you so much for watching. Thank you for the invitation. I would like to say thank you very much to all of you, and thank you very much to all of you. Thank you very much, Prime Minister. And here's a look at what's happening to us, whether wise. Partly cloudy, hazy and breezy, becoming cloudy at times with some widely scattered showers. The Atlantic high pressure system will continue to generate moderate to brisk easterly winds and rough seas around the eastern Caribbean region for the next few days. Moisture and instability at the lower levels of the atmosphere will continue to cause occasional cloudiness and showers over the eastern Caribbean islands during the next 24 hours. A plume of thick Saharan dust haze is expected to cause a significant reduction in visibility and air quality around the eastern Caribbean during the next 24 to 48 hours. The tide for Castries Harbor was higher at 12.55pm and will be lower again at 7.53pm. The tide for V4 Bay was higher at 2.02pm and will be lower again at 9.20pm. The seas locally rough with waves and northerly to northeasterly swells 7 to 10 feet or 2.1 to 3.0 meters. Small craft operators and sea bathers are advised to exercise extreme caution due to brisk winds and rough seas. The sun will rise Thursday at 6.25am. And that brings us to the end of the NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7pm with a repeat at 7am. You can also catch up with us anytime on the San Nusha Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I'm Nisha Charles.