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Prince
Rupert Regional Information Site |
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Author Andrew Nikiforuk – main
presenter
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Counter
point
With the large
windows in Ceremonial Room at Museum – there is always ‘outside’ + the very architecture of the setting as
‘longhouse’ etc |
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Daniel
(Danny) Danes--- |
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‘Danny’ gave the introduction in Tsimshian
language --- how very appropriate as we will see below in the discussion -- |
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Around
the room were ‘photographs’ that are to be ‘auctioned’ off beginning at 400$ |
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While the above image not
‘spectacular’, it did seem to change colors with the exterior lighting as sun
declined--- note too the metallic backing |
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The
Pipeline |
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This map from a Sierra Club image on wall --- I have added
the arrows --- White for Douglas Channel tanker route --- And yellow for the
Principe Channel alternate route to North |
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Image left from CEAA file (very large
PDF—12 Megs) showing sensitive areas in Principe Channel
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First
there was a video while technical (electrical wiring) matters sorted out |
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Emphasis upon how Gitga’at obtain
seaweed, halibut etc from the ocean |
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Jennifer
Rice chair of Friends of Wild Salmon |
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Jen played the host – making the announcements and the introductions
--- and gently hinting to one speaker that it was time to ‘finish’ |
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Tar Sands: Dirty
Oil and the Future of a Continent-- http://www.andrewnikiforuk.com/
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Andrew Nikiforuk was the ‘main
event’ – reminds us why there needs to be 2 pipelines – the tar so thick that
need the condensate to dilute the ‘tar’ sufficiently to flow – the latter
imported from various places like Pakistan etc— and not really like ‘peanut
butter’ but much, much, worse |
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One
of his key metaphors was that Peak Oil like the whaling industry ---
exterminating its source (sperm whales) globally |
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A more sombre note was that with the end of cheap energy –
it potentially means the ‘collapse’ of our civilization in North America which
is predicated upon the ‘cheap energy’ |
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Here
is good explanation
of EROEI |
EROEI |
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Energy Return on Energy Investment—the bears know that let the salmon swim to them --- but
for Oil has gone from 1:100 to 1:20 in 1990s to 1:5 in Tar Sands to 1:1 for
the SAGO process (steam) |
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Slow
down --- think like an owner |
The
best Governments $$ can buy |
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It is only because Albertans ‘give’
oil industries the water, the shale gas (BC), and the oil that so
profitable – similar to fur trade when pelts sent to UK to process into hats
--- or like exporting raw logs etc --- we are giving away our collective future And that is before we even discuss the ‘Dutch Disease’ (Wiki, or TYEE
explication) when they allowed their ‘petro-dollar to rise so high that
it destroyed farming, manufacturing etc |
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Marven
Robinson |
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Spoke way too long but some interesting observations on
Kermode ‘Spirit Bear’ etc --- What is at stake? An example was the sinking of
the Queen of North --- some seaweed harvesting sites have not yet recuperated
– and claims Kermode ‘eats barnacles’ so might explain recent mortalities –
checking hair samples etc for QoN fuel signatures
etc |
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As some of these talks dragged on --- mind wandered to the
declining sun reflecting off ship anchored |
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Art
Sterritt Executive Director of Coastal First Nations
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Another very long presentation --- Jen had to stand by him
for several minutes before he ‘got the message’ that time to shut it down –
But he did have a positive take on the present Enbridge situation – suggested
1st Nations had the ‘legal means to stop it’—he did not elaborate
but here is Newspaper article Province March
23, 2010 entitled ‘1st Nations to ‘use every legal
means’ |
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Art discussed how North Coast has gone from boom to bust
--- over last 30 years – Marven suggested tourism
etc might be the present generations means to adapt traditional culture to
present circumstances—presumably issue has been contentious |
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A search on Danny Danes brought me to
a recent Master thesis: Community
Perspectives on Bioeconomic Development: Eco-Cultural Tourism in Hartley Bay, British Columbia by Katherine L. Turner Thesis explores the question with
Danny Danes making pungent insights
---- Google has the thesis online |
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Here
is Pacific
Wild page of event Or
FOR MORE
INFORMATION CONTACT AT: or phone 1 250 957 2480 |
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Created by LG on May
12th
Last updated on Thursday, May 12, 2011