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Greenpeace protests oil tankers off B.C. coast
Story with video by Peter Grainger at CTV for BC. “Protestors from Greenpeace, the Wilderness Committee and No Tanks! gathered in Vancouver’s Stanley Park Sunday to picket oil tankers off the B.C. coast, arguing it’s only a matter of time before a devastating spill occurs.” Read article
Canada’s DFO: Managed to Fail
Article by Tyee Bridge in BC Business. “The DFO is the federal government bureaucracy that presided over the collapse of Atlantic cod. Overharvesting by Canadian fleets ultimately cost taxpayers $3.9 billion in support to Newfoundland and Labrador for cod-licence buyouts, regional assistance and job retraining between 1992 – the year the cod population hit bottom and the fishery was closed – and 2007.” Read article
Volcano eruption great for salmon
Article by D.C. Reid in the Times Colonist. “In 2008, volcano, Kasatochi, in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands, blew its top and ash drifted out over a large area of the North Pacific Ocean.
Within a few days, the largest bloom of phytoplankton ever observed spread across more than 1,000 kilometres of surface water.” Read article
Fraser River system revived by biggest sockeye salmon run in nearly 100 years
Article by Mark Hume in the Globe and Mail.
Jim Cooperman, President of the Shuswap Environmental Action Society: “There aren’t many places where you can see a mass migration. There’s wildebeest in East Africa, monarch butterflies [in Mexico], there’s the caribou migration in the Arctic, but other than that there aren’t too many places that are comparable.
“The Adams is a natural wonder, a treasure, and we should really be treating the salmon better.”
Paddlers hit Chilliwack to support wild salmon
Article by Tyler Olsen in the Chilliwack Times. “The Salmon Are Sacred trip has space for 160 paddlers. Already, local First Nations Chiefs, politicians from a range of parties, and impassioned activists like Alexandra Morton, have pledged their participation.” Read article
Enemies of the State
A documentary in CBC’s The Fifth Estate series. The subject of this one is a top-secret plan called “Profunc” drawn up at the beginning of the Korean War, which would have interned people perceived to be a threat to Canadian democracy. The entire documentary (45 minutes) is on this page.
Dozens of G20 accused have charges dropped
Story from CBC News. “All of those people had their charges dropped Thursday because of a lack of evidence.” Read article
The Anti-Salmon: A Fish We Can Finally Farm Without Guilt
Article by Barry Estabrook in The Atlantic. “Joshua Goldman, working in the unlikely setting of a collection of warehouse-like buildings in an industrial park near an airport in Turners Falls, a village in western Massachusetts’s Pioneer Valley, is attempting to undo fish farming’s fundamental wrong turn.” Read article
Fish Lake’s Top Defender, Joe Alphonse
Article by Dawn Paley at The Tyee. Joe Alphonse: “At the end of the day, even if the federal government approves this mine, that’s still not a guarantee that the mine is going to become a reality, because we would then be forced to continue to look after our interest. If we have to get on the roads, we’ll get on the roads, if we have to step in the courts, we’ll step in the courts.” Read article