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VOCM Late-Day Update August 14 · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: Good evening. I'm Linda Swaying for CENEL. A group of
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  Speaker 1: individuals and entrepreneurs who had been urging to have the
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  Speaker 1: muskrat Falls MoU finalized wants to know what's expected to
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  Speaker 1: be announced next week. Ben Oates told the Tim Power Show.
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  Speaker 1: The big question is whether the reported agreement is a
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  Speaker 1: finalized deal or just another MoU.
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  Speaker 2: Is what's coming out next week another MoU? Or is
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  Speaker 2: it final negotiated arrange agreements, which they'll probably half a
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  Speaker 2: dozen of those. If it's an MoU, as mister bell
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  Speaker 2: As people are saying, then as the PCs well know,
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  Speaker 2: because like you said, they find an election against it.
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  Speaker 2: Now they've ended up doing a complete about face and
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  Speaker 2: now they have to sell it. It's non binding, and
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  Speaker 2: as you said, the pardicate Atqua is currently exlated to
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  Speaker 2: win the election. They will happily tear this up.
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  Speaker 1: Beware the giant hogweed. The City of Saint John's has
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  Speaker 1: posted warnings in some public areas about an invasive species
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  Speaker 1: that can cause real problems if you happen to come
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  Speaker 1: into contact with it. Here's vocm Sarah Strickland.
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  Speaker 3: Giant hogweed can cause health issues in the city, says
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  Speaker 3: The plant is usually found along roadways, stream beds, and
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  Speaker 3: on the edge of forests. The plants can grow as
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  Speaker 3: tall as fifteen feet and have hollow stems with purple
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  Speaker 3: as splotches and coarse white hair. Hogweed resembles Queen Anne's lace,
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  Speaker 3: which is quite common in the Saint John's area, but
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  Speaker 3: as the name implies, is much larger. The giant hogweed
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  Speaker 3: has a clear, watery sap that can burn the skin,
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  Speaker 3: especially when exposed to sunlight. If you come into contact
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  Speaker 3: with giant hogweed, avoid touching your eyes or wiping the
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  Speaker 3: sap on your skin or clothes. Wash the affected area immediately,
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  Speaker 3: and keep out of the sun while seeking medical advice.
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  Speaker 3: Sarah Strickland VOCM Local News now.
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  Speaker 1: Parts of the island are in the midst of a
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  Speaker 1: spruce budworm outbreak and people are noticing as the creatures
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  Speaker 1: move into the moth stage. Images in video from areas
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  Speaker 1: like Pasadena in recent days show thick swarms of moths
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  Speaker 1: around street lights, filling the sky like a heavy snowfall.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Bowden, a research scientists with Natural Resources Canada, says
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  Speaker 1: the spruce budworm feasts on spruce and fir trees in
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  Speaker 1: its caterpillar stage. The damage can already be seen in
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  Speaker 1: some areas. The insect is now moving into its moth stage,
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  Speaker 1: catching the attention of local residents, some who say they've
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  Speaker 1: never seen anything like it. Bowden says the moths are
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  Speaker 1: about two weeks late due to a cooler spring. In
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  Speaker 1: terms of the current outbreak, Bowden says, there's no immediate
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  Speaker 1: relief in sights.
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  Speaker 4: Buttworm outbreaks are quite lengthy, so we're talking ten to
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  Speaker 4: fifteen years in lengths in total. So this out current
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  Speaker 4: outbreak on the island we know started right around twenty
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  Speaker 4: eighteen up of the northern Peninsula, and it has been
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  Speaker 4: generally following the same kind of trend as the last outbreak,
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  Speaker 4: which occurred starting in the early seventies and lasted up
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  Speaker 4: until the mid eighties. We're starting to see very similar
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  Speaker 4: patterns of the budworm started moving out towards central The
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  Speaker 4: good news.
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  Speaker 1: Says Bowden, is that Central Newfoundland is dominated by black spruce,
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  Speaker 1: which are more resilient to the pests. Your weather forecast
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  Speaker 1: is next