Ottawa needs to leave the safety of the west coast to the grownups. Ottawa's department of fisheries and oceans seems intent on wreaking as much havoc in the Pacific as it caused the eastern provinces when their once fabled cod stocks collapsed.
Out this way, DFO seems to work for the commercial fishing fleet. Maybe it's just the Trudeau government. Doesn't matter. They approve fish farms that spread disease into the wild salmon stocks. They allow overfishing of the coastal herring that feed the wild salmon. Salmon stocks are in decline. DFO looks the other way and the commercial fleet has at them. The orca are starving from the lack of salmon. Now we have to learn from the New York Times that some species of shellfish out here have developed a contagious form of cancer.
Call DFO, they don't even return their messages.
Ottawa promised a tanker free zone along the north coast. Except for the exceptions.
10,000 Ton Texas Tanker traveling the B.C. Coast from Ingmar Lee on Vimeo.
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Did you know that there is a plan to build a railway between Alaska and Alberta? Hauling bitumen is the lure.
http://a2arail.com/
It's curious that mainstream Canadian media and Alberta politicians have avoided mentioning this.
BC Rail started to extend north with intent to reach Alaska. That project was cancelled, I think for political reasons in BC.
.. the tug in that video .. its crew lost the navigation picture southbound if I'm not mistaken.. the tug Nathan E Stewart had its bottom torn out.. sank, in the shallow waters as it released from the tanker barge.. the tug's fuel spread, hit and poisoned the First Nations clam beds.. the World Class Response and its oil booms was a joke. Local First Nations were there blink of an eye in very rough water. As I recall, that video was prescient.. Cannot recall however what load if any the barge held.. my recollection is it had little draft due to no load.. cleared the reef.. and was immediately pulled clear by First Nations, towed to a safe harbor
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