New! y2k Alberta online today

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A site apparently put-together by government and by business, "y2k Alberta" appears to have come online just today on the heels of a superficial series of millennium reports done by a local tv station. The "tools" section has some preparation info, and the "links" page has UTNE Citizens Action Guide. The "Essential Services Sector report" is not yet online, but so far the site has many assurances that all will be (almost) well in spite of a total absence of info about remediation completion and testing or about percentage of budget spent. To read for yourself:

y2kAlberta

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), March 04, 1999

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I like what one of the links has to say about "misconceptions" in the Canadian Oil industry - does lay it out factually. Won't or can't guarantee that everything will work...a little honesty in reporting here.

http://www.capp.ca/

-- Laurane (familyties@rttinc.com), March 05, 1999.


Now I DO feel better. My electric says they won't guarantee power, but expect it to be fine, that they started in May 1997, that they have finished assesment and are 98% complete in replacing/remediating the things assessment found to be at risk and are testing. Yippee, maybe we'll have power after all! (Unless the rest of the grid manages to mess us up :-( )

Thanks so much for posting this, Rachel!

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), March 05, 1999.


You're welcome, Tricia.

The shortage of concrete info up here has been worrisome. I've been following Edmonton's Steve Baxter's compendium at National and International News Clippings for a couple of months. Wish it had a forum.

Haven't had time to follow the links on y2kAlberta yet but have found most industry and government sites to be vague up to now. Have been reading minutes of meetings of various committees reporting to the federal committee; even much of that communication is ambivalent. Maybe concrete info will finally emerge; meanwhile, the message is clear that we should be preparing regardless!

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), March 05, 1999.


Since we've just had the US' Senate Committee Report, I thought it would be good to post what the Canadian's year 2000 Committee had to report in February also.

THE YEAR 2000 PROBLEM - CANADA'S STATE OF READINESS
Thirteenth Report (Interim)
Standing Committee on Industry
February 1999

[snip]
"This report is the result of the Committee's second review of Canada's progress. The Committee anticipates holding its next round of hearings in the April to June 1999 time frame."

[snip]
"The time remaining to find and correct problems is growing short. Most Canadians and Canadian companies and institutions are well aware of the Year 2000 problem but many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and even some larger manufacturers are not yet addressing the issue."

[snip]
"One of the more encouraging findings is that Canadians can likely expect that essential services such as electrical power and communications will not be interrupted. Nor are there likely to be major problems with the financial services, transportation sectors, and most essential public services that make up the infrastructure on which society and the economy depend."

[snip]
"The federal government has shown leadership in creating a National Planning Group to coordinate these efforts nationally and provide advice to the Department of National Defence in preparing for possible aid to civilian authorities. Provincial and municipal governments are working collaboratively with the federal government and providers of essential services to reduce the chances of problems and to develop appropriate emergency preparedness measures. Although the extent of possible problems will not be known until much closer to the new millennium, all Canadians should be prepared to take whatever measures are recommended to prepare themselves and their families to handle possible problems and to be ready to do their part to help."

[snip]
"Some sectors, notably agriculture, are only now being provided with the information that will allow them to assess the impact of the Year 2000 problem and to start planning to fix them."

[snip]
"The Committee heard how the health care sector is working diligently to resolve its particular Year 2000 problem. The testimony was encouraging, but given the magnitude of the task for health care and the limited time and financial resources, this remains an area of concern."

[snip]
"Overall, the Committee was encouraged by much of what it heard (the testimony is available on the Committee Web pages found on the Parliamentary Internet site http://www.parl.gc.ca). Working together, Canadians and Canadian companies and governments can solve the problems associated with the Year 2000 but the pace of action must be maintained and in some areas accelerated."

-- Chris (catsy@pond.com), March 05, 1999.


oops..forgot to close my blockquote.

-- Chris (catsy@pond.com), March 05, 1999.


Background info to above report can be found at Minutes

As can be seen from them, info given to the committee was not specific.

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), March 05, 1999.


Rachel, I get an "I'm sorry but the document you're trying to access is no longer available" message. It suggests trying through the main menu - do you know what the name of the document was?

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), March 05, 1999.

Sorry, Tricia. It was there. Don't recall the heading on the page, but it was full of links to hours and hours of testimony by all the industry associations/sectors to the Federal Standing Committee (minutes of meetings). It contains the information that lays the basis for the Standing Committee's reports. A loss. :(

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), March 05, 1999.

Sorry, Tricia. It was there. I don't recall the heading on the page, but it was full of links to hours and hours of testimony by all the industry associations/sectors to the Federal Standing Committee (minutes of meetings). It contains the information that lays the basis for the Standing Committee's reports. A loss. :(

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), March 05, 1999.

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