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One would
have hoped for more people to see this
important lecture – reminding us all how vulnerable
our inside waters are |
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Two Solitudes Most of the
audience was 1st nations or environmentalists Joy Thorkelson
was present and will be able to tell City Council what happened,
unfortunately the ‘development-at any-cost’ types were not present |
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Dr Gunton of SFU |
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Dr
Gunton’s day job is as a Prof
at SFU where he teaches Regional Planning His
group is also active in analysing the risks and benefits of Offshore Drilling
in Hecate |
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Cumulative
Risks |
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What
if all these projects were to go through?? – maybe 200 super tankers going up
Douglas Channel from Enbridge project alone The
federal EIA requires that cumulative effects be considered – but may require
‘lawyers’ to make it happen (my interpretation). Thus current condensate
shipments to Kitimat did not have any EIA |
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Lots of $$
involved |
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One
of the sub texts of presentation was big $$ will promise ‘locals’ anything
--- they just won’t deliver – using Exxon Valdez spill as example |
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Spills are
inevitable |
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And
the numbers at left are the proponents estimates --- the unthinkable of
another Exxon type spill --- and Gunton emphasized only 15% of an oil spill
is ‘recovered’ even under best of circumstances |
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They will
tell you |
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Mitigation
is useful concept and must be looked at carefully --- and weighed against the
45 jobs for all BC to operate |
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Too
bad more people were not present to see this – or even debate his conclusions
if too ‘negative’ We
all owe the Coastal First Nations who paid for this study a “Thank you” |
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Settlers & 1st Nations |
Emerging Theme
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The
2 solitudes: 1st nations (with very deep roots) and the ‘Settlers’
– mainly the ‘white’ community that came looking for their fortune --- most leave
within a generation --- but their world view is basically extraction of free
& inexhaustible resources I’ll
work this up later but meantime here is an excellent UBC text on same theme
from UBC – Burden
of History and here is a review |
Created by LG on
June 29, 2006
Last updated on Thursday, June 29, 2006