SPEC Headlines, Feb. 22, 2004

Wilbert Coffin - The Politics of Murder
Jeanie LeLacheur

The history channel  will air a new documentary  on Wednesday March 3rd at
9:00 pm  that re-visit¹s the Wilbert Coffin case. Filmed  for the most part
in Gaspé in autumn of 2002 the documentary features interviews with Marie
Stewart, Wilbert Coffin¹s sister, and other prominent figures of the  saga.
Alton Price author of the book  ³To Build A Noose² was also consulted by the
shows producer.
    Wilbert Coffin was questioned in the deaths of 3 American hunters killed
in Gaspé in the summer of June 1953, he was convicted for the murder of
Richard Lindsey, one of the Pennsylvanian hunters on August 2 1954, and was
put to death on February 10th 1956.

Bennett:  New Brunswick Government exploitation guidelines
open the door to PCBs, dioxins and furans
Gilles Gagné

The New Brunswick government has issued a document explaining the proposed
guidelines of exploitation for Bennett Environmental's incinerator in
Belledune and some aspects of the document reveal parameters for the
treatment of soils contaminated with PCBs and chlorinated hydrocarbons.
These parameters, says Geneviève Saint-Hilaire of the Return to Sender
coalition, contradict recent remarks made by government and company
officials, saying that   the Belledune facility will never treat PCBs and
chlorinated hydrocarbons, both important sources of dioxins and furans, some
of the most toxic poisons on Earth.

A Gaspesian invents the Sun Tracker
Device improves by 75 percent the efficiency of solar panels
Gilles Gagné

    PORT DANIEL - Jacques Roy, an inventor from Cap Chat, is adding the
final touch to a device that changes the positioning of solar panels so
they follow the light of the sun from dawn to sunset.
    The invention therefore maximizes the energy accumulated in solar
batteries and improves by 75%t the efficiency of the panels by regularly
modifying their position in order to maintain them perpendicular to solar
rays.
    Jacques Roy's device also takes into account the amount of energy
consumed to adjust panels, so to minimize it.
    "The tracker can follow the sun to  one-thousandth of a degree but, by
doing so, it is adjusting constantly and consumes way too much energy. By
adjusting the tuning to two degrees (which means that the tracker will
change position only once the sun has moved by two degrees), the panel will
reposition only a few dozen times per day, instead of 700 or 800 times",
explains Mr. Roy.