Police and animal welfare officials across the state are reporting an uptick in calls about dogs being left in hot vehicles. Josh Colvin, with the Animal Rescue League of Iowa, says dogs should just be left at home when temperatures rise to the level they’re at this week.
“I know we keep harping on this throughout the summer months, but this is going to be a hot spell and we just have to remind people,” Colvin said. “We’re talking heat indexes of 110…a spell like this, it’s probably best for dogs to be in the air conditioning and keep them safe.”
In Des Moines on Wednesday, police and ARL staff were called four times to shopping center parking lots to rescue dogs that were left alone in cars. Temperatures in the capital city climbed into the upper 90s. “Luckily, we found the owners and we weren’t having to impound those animals,” Colvin said. “We had to talk it through with the owners, you can’t do this because it could be tragic.” All four dogs survived.
It takes a very short period of time for a dog to suffer heat stress or even stroke on days such as this – when temperatures across Iowa are in the 90s to around 100. “We always advocate for us to be with our pets. They’re part of our family, we get that. But, as being part of the family, people just have to realize when it’s too hot, it’s too hot. A very short time in a vehicle, just running into a store, could be tragic for your dog,” Colvin said. “We just can’t emphasize that enough. You know, short-nosed dogs…just taking them for a walk in this weather could be tragic. They could be in distress very quickly.”
Three dogs died of heat exposure after they were found locked in a vehicle on July 10 outside of a dog show in Ottumwa.
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The man in charge of resettling Manam Islanders in Papua New Guinea's Madang Province says a lack of funding is making the project a nightmare.
About ten thousand people were displaced after the Manam volcano began erupting more than five years ago.
The resettlement project's operations manager, Paul Akuram, says they are currently in temporary centres, where the living conditions are not good.
The Government is to make 7 million US dollars available to settle Manum Islanders at Andarum in Madang's Bogia District.
Paul Akuram says he has not yet seen any of the promised funds, and it would take much more to built the new settlement.
"It's in the middle of the jungle. We have to build roads in first and then we have to survey the new site, building in roads plus subdividing into individual blocks for family groups. We expect about five thousand families to be resettled."
An NGO in Papua New Guinea which monitors ExxonMobil's LNG project has encouraged the developer not to rely on the state to ensure the project proceeds on schedule.
Stanley Mamu of LNG Watch says that frustrations with the project have reached a head in Hela province and could erupt in a way that derails the venture.
Hela's Governor Anderson Agiru has given ExxonMobil and the government a 30 day ultimatum to address their contractual obligations in Hela or face legal action.
Mr Mamu says the developer must deal directly with Hela landowners over its commitments before the start of gas production next year.
"Before that, Exxon needs to go back and study the history of Bougainville Copper Limited (relating to the Bougainville conflict) - the state, the landowner and Bougainville Copper Limited - and find out who was the winner of that battle. I refer to that because if they can't issue a positive response to that within thirty days then that 19 billion US dollars which was spent on the PNG LNG project will be wasted."
Dramatic results are emerging from elections in Solomon Islands, as counting continues following voting on Wednesday.
Dramatic results are emerging from elections in Solomon Islands as counting continues following voting on Wednesday.
KOROI HAWKINS: The biggest drama is of course the caretaker prime minister Gordon Darcy Lilo being voted out of his constituency. Very unexpected, by a school teacher, an unknown political candidate and also veteran politician Job Dudley Tausinga, more than 30 years in politics, consecutive terms, and he's also been voted out although I think he has in the spirit of retirement this year. That was quite a big margin by what he was voted out. So it's been quite dramatic and results are still coming in. So far six candidates all up. Only two have retained their seats. There is one unofficial third that's retained his seat but that hasn't yet been declared and four all new candidates so it looks like a bit of a shake-up of the old guard, so to speak.
DON WISEMAN: What do we know about the demise of Gordon Darcy Lilo? You say it was a surprise. Do you think this is a reflection of him as prime minister or has he not been able to pay attention to his electorate? What's gone on?
KH: Throughout his term he's always been criticised for not going down enough to Gizo and Kolombangara to visit his electorate but there has been reports that a vessel a ship full of his supporters arrived in Kolombangara too late. They arrived at like six o'clock so they weren't allowed to vote so that could of played a part but the margin was quite big so I think it's also as you say a turn of the tide. People wanting a new MP and just voting the old prime minister out and now they have a totally new person and it will be interesting to see how he steps up to the plate he has big shoes to fill.
DW: Gordon Darcy Lilo of course has been a very dominant political force over the last several years. We can expect some very significant changes with him not there.
KH: That's right. He's an outspokenly a supporter of all logging interests in the country. He's a strong supporter of logging and advocate of helping businesses which he says is the biggest income earner for the country. So him not being in the political scene will certainly have some serious repercussions. I'm not sure what they will be yet but his exit will be felt.
DW: Well here we are, it's the second day of counting, we've had dramatic results already. What's the attitude of the people? Is this having an impact on them?
KH: So far it's still early days yet. People are sort of listening and waiting for the various results to come in, trying to see what kind of parties are winning as well as the candidates. So far you have quite a lot of independents. Only three parties so far are registering MPs that have come through. While there's been a lot of uncertainty or surprising results coming from the provinces, here in the capital the sitting MPs or the former MPs are actually leading the count and some of them by a significant margin. Early days yet but we should be getting some reaction soon. The local civil society groups have called for losing candidates to respect the process. So has the police commissioner so it will be interesting to see how losing candidates and their supporters react.
IHC could be liable to pay workers millions of dollars in backpay for sleep-over shifts if it fails in its bid to overturn an Employment Court decision.