"Last fall, a long-time landscaper working under contract for the City of Edmonton began noticing that carefully tended flowers and trees were showing signs of severe nutrient deficiencies.
City specifications call for electrical conductivity (EC) readings no higher than '1' in local soils. When soil samples showed damaging EC readings 4.6 to 7-times higher than this maximum permissible level, Dave Dickie suspected that elevated levels of electricity-conducting metals in the soils could be leading to the plants' 'chlorosis' condition.
A life-long plane spotter, Dickie also wondered if there could be a connection to events unfolding on ATC radar scopes during his regular visits to the Edmonton municipal airport's Air Traffic Control center.
Last Father's Day, Dickie and an excited group of 12 year-olds watched two KC-135s, tagged 'Petro 011' and 'Petro 012', flying at 34,000 and 36,000 feet south and north of Edmonton.
According to the controllers watching the scopes, both U.S. Air Force KC-135 air-refueling tankers had flown south out of Alaska. But the big Boeings were not refueling other aircraft. Instead, as Dickie, the kids and the controllers watched, the four-engine jets began making patterns over Edmonton - 'circuits' the controllers called it.
The Stratotankers were working alone in 'commanded airspace' from which all other aircraft were excluded. And they were leaving chemtrails.
TELLTALE SIGNATURES
'The signature is significant' commented one radar operator, referring to trails clearly visible on his scope extending for miles behind the KC-135s. In contrast, a commercial JAL flight on the same display left no visible trail.
Going outside, Dickie and several controllers scanned clear blue skies over the northern Canadian city. Visibility was outstanding. They easily located a KC-135 leaving a lingering, broad white plume. They could also clearly see the JAL airliner at a similar flight level. It left no contrail at all.
On other occasions, Dickie has watched KC-135s on Edmonton radar leaving lingering trails as low as 18,000 feet.
'We see these guys up here a lot,' radar techs told Dickie, explaining that the USAF tanker flights originate in Alaska and continue on into the States - after gridding the Edmonton area with emanations clearly visible on radar.
'You should have seen it when they had the big summit up in Calgary,' the Canadian controllers exclaimed. 'It was exciting to watch them.' The G7 maneuvers suggested that barium might have been sprayed to enhance radio and radar surveillance over what protesters condemned as a 'globalization' conference aimed at worldwide corporate domination.
That was speculation. But back in Edmonton, there was no doubt that particulates were being sprayed by the tankers. Pointing to 'birdie feet' on their scopes, the radar technicians showed Dickie particles appearing 'as concentrations of dots' in the radar-tracked plumes.
Zooming in and out on each plane with the click of cursor, Dickie said that he and the controllers 'could see different contrails.' Some were short, and quickly vanished from the scopes. Other trails were thick, long and lingering - not acting like contrails at all.
Especially exciting for Dickie and the kids was watching head-on passes between KC-135s and commercial airliners. Flying directly at each other with a closing rate of nearly 1,000 mph, the huge jets appeared about to collide. But the unconcerned controllers explained to Dickie that the aircraft must adhere to a minimum 1,000 foot vertical separation rule - recently reduced from twice that safety margin. No one explained what might happen, if the 'top' plane suffered a sudden decompression and was forced to dive to lower altitude.
BARIUM AND ALUMINUM CONFIRMED
Assuming that unusual metal content in the soil could be causing the high electrical conductivity readings, Dickie collected samples of a fresh snowfall for the city, and took them to Edmonton's NorWest Labs for analysis.
This reporter has obtained copies of lab tests conducted on snow samples collected by the city of Edmonton, Alberta between Nov. 8 - 12, 2002. The tests show unaccountably elevated levels of aluminum and barium. Norwest Labs lab report #336566, dated Nov. 14 2002 found:
* aluminum levels: 0.148 milligrams/litre
* barium levels: 0.006 milligrams/litre
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As reports continue to come in of renewed heavy chemtrail activity across the USA and Canada's western provinces, lab testing continues in Edmonton, where an ongoing investigation seeks to correlate chemtrail 'spray days' with fresh snow and soil samples."
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