Could we do tbis at Queen Green’s place?
Cheers

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577,The Unluckiest Number,Ten years out./ The Enbridge pipeline disaster

The 10 year anniversary next month of the Bengal Lion Star tragedy and I had to come to ground zero to see for myself, perhaps it was a mistake to come here, from what I have seen i`m way too angry to cry and too sad for fury, in fact I almost have that peaceful easy feeling.

How I miss my dad`s analytical explanation and mom`s hope springs eternal talks, yet I fear that neither parent could explain away this tragedy, 10 years later, 10 years of black death extending it`s reach.

Looking around by boat off Banks island, one mile from ground zero the feeling is of the surreal, trees are still green but any ocean life or bird activity is eerily quiet, no salmon fry swimming , no squawking gulls just silence, for tens of miles in every direction the great kelp forests are gone, who gave us permission to gamble and lose what we didn`t own and what we could never replace, little Fish lake was a horrid environmental mistake, imagine deliberately destroying a huge natural watershed for trinkets of gold, thousands of dead migrating birds, a poisonous lake devoid of life, how many species of frogs, insects still get near or in the lake only to perish or leave half dead, but as horrible as the deliberate execution of little Fish lake was, the scale of the Bengal Lion Star oil spill off Banks island in Hecate Strait is beyond compare, how is it that my only terms of reference in attempting to describe this site is that of dead zones, in a way its very peaceful, no eternal battle for life here, those days are long gone.

Only if I could turn back the clock, why did it happen, the Bengal Lion Star should not have went out, a deep pacific low moving in, was the Captain pressured to leave, why why why, even with two large commercial tug boats assisting wasn`t going to stop the wreck, maybe if there were extra support tugs who knows but when lead tug boat Kitimat queen capsized in heavy seas nothing was going to stop the massive oil carrier from grounding on White jagged rocks that stormy (March 14, 2016) night, 30 to 40 foot high waves capped with fury pounded the Bengal Lion Star on unforgiving rocks, section after section burst like watermelons, spewing millions of gallons of tar sand oil, the 3rd largest oil spill in the world, maybe if the oil containment teams had gotten out here sooner but with storm force winds blowing for 2 days along with extreme high and low tides, my god, oil sprayed the shore line high on exposed rocks and layered thick into the lowest tidal zones, mountains of Alberta biyumen flowing in deep water, who could imagine the oil and heavy sheen would have spread 50 miles in different directions over 2 days, coves, bays, narrow channels coated in black death, as far as I can look in any direction this paradise is dead, who knows what the bird count will ultimately be, millions of direct bird deaths with millions more that died in subsequent migrations, birds all along the coast found dead, birds with clear signs of contact with heavy oil, the natural engine in this migration route blasted with Alberta crude, indeed, the scale of the Bengal Lion Star oil spill can`t be measured in millions of oiled birds or the 40 distinct salmon runs that were decimated and or all of British Columbia`s wild salmon teetering on extinction, the sea lions, otters, coastal bears, eagles, ferrets, no salmon spawning led one extinction into another, we broke nature`s bond, too many dead for one`s heart to count, oil stained carcasses feed other animals that ultimately die too, black oil`s death-grip reaches on and on, only with time, generational time, perhaps millenia before this area recovers, can it recover, and for what, to spill another tanker of crude.

I don`t what is harder to take, the fragile existence of a few northern runs of salmon and southern Sockeye, it`s almost like the cycle of life has been thrown out, this large swath of nature, thousands of square miles destroyed forever, well at least for my lifetime, perhaps 6 or 7 generations before this area will become fertile again but with continued oil tanker traffic when will black death strike again, even if the shell fish recover, even if herring spawns again, the Orca will never be seen again, the birthing females were first to die then the small adolescent Orca perished, 2 adult males are all that is left of the species, maybe mankind should have figured out how to start a new Orca pod before destroying the only one we had, unique species and west coast wildlife gone, in a blink, for all time, gone, why didn`t we learn from the Valdez disaster, there is no going back, First Nations have mourned, the northern and island tourism industry has been decimated, maybe I should have fought harder against the National review 15 years ago, 10 years out from the disaster and Hecate Strait still lay mortally wounded, you can still smell crude oil, I can only think of Charlton Heston`s Planet of the Apes movie when he sees New York`s Statue of Liberty and realizes that it was mankind itself that burned mother nature, this area is no longer worth fighting for, top scientists are mostly in agreement that outside of decades of time there is nothing on scale that can be done to remediate the damage.

It appears the only ones left fighting about the Bengal Lion Star are the litigants, where have we seen this picture before, the Exxon Valdez law suit still lingers unpaid(40 years later), the Liberian registered Bengal Lion Star oil tanker had but minimum insurance, $200 million dollars yet the insurance has been contested, Bengal Lion Star hadn`t paid premiums in 2 years, Honshu commercial carrier insurance company have claimed bankruptcy, between the Province and Ottawa more than $14.9 billion has been spent on clean-up and species mitigation, First Nations, affected business`s and local town`s folk have law suits filed worth more than $15 billion dollars, everyone suing and litigating for compensation on something no one can return, Enbridge pipeline inc washes their hands of any responsibility, Shell, Exxon Mobile and the Chinese petroleum company are all pointing fingers at each other, owners of the Bengal Lion Star blame the escort tug company, tug company blames act of god and file for bankruptcy, how long will these trials go on and who will ultimately pay, what price, what price to return nature to the way it was, all this pain to secure dirty Alberta crude oil to China, oil use falls for the last 7 years, a dying product needing desperate tyrants, we sold out nature on British Columbia`s wild west coast for a handful of pesos, how can ancient dregs of plants take so much away from present and future life cycles, I can`t shed tears anymore, my life, my personal battles, millions of wasted words warning of potential harm or should I say risk management, I `m too old to repeat the warnings and too tired to muster passion, the battle for Haida Gwaii is over.

Even the First Nation`s blockade attempting to stop the very first oil tanker, 8 First Nations elders gave their life that day, not near enough pressure to stop that massive Vessel, Oil tanker Shell diamond and its Canadian naval escort, dugout canoe versus high-speed frigate, symbolic but futile, the time to stop Enbridge was before it started, certainly native voices on opening day weren`t going to stop it, you can`t stop $5 billion dollars spent, never-the-less, January 13/2016 was the day the first super tanker left Kitimat, thousands of small protest vessels, nothing, not even Greenpeace and Suzuki foundation`s concentrated efforts could stop the Federal Conservatives and the Gordon Campbell Christy Clark B.C. Liberal administration from rubber stamping this project from the git-go, proceeding at full speed behind closed doors, no matter how much evidence anti pipeline opponents, scientists, biologists and enviro`s put forward they were all but ignored, why didn`t the NDP government stop the completion of Enbridge after they were elected in 2013, was the fix in, too much money invested to stop, too big to fail, needed economic growth, jobs jobs jobs, yes I heard everyone of those excuses justifying the completion of Enbridge, what jobs, imported foreign workers building the pipeline and 120 permanent after construction jobs, was it worth it.

Madness, I knew something really big would happen, not the 5000 barrels that spilt into the Skeena river, not the 50,000 barrels dumped at the port of Kitimat but something epic, mathematicians also knew it was coming, not if a big spill would happen but when a spill would happen, I can still hear Christy Clark talk about risk management, the best corporate spinners hired to say we can manage the risk, how come no one asked how do we manage armageddon, how do we clean up, how do we create more Orca, how do you bring back thousands of square miles from the dead, I wonder what Gordon Campbell would say today, ex premier Adrian Dix stated regrets that the NDP didn`t do more to stop Enbridge, Gordon Campbell is long since dead, yes Stephen Harper and Gordon Muir Campbell I pass blame on to you and your complicit Cabinets, your legacy, Enbridge, bankrupt utilities, a dismal health care system, a dead central coast and slow dying life cycle, well, no one is listening to me, not the Governing federal Conservatives, not Premier Gordon Coons of the newly elected Refederation party, no, no one wants to listen to the left wing, after the BC Liberal led economic collapse, the seeds of P3s, IPPs and insider deals dominated, it didn`t matter who was Government in British Columbia, so many bad deals were signed, how many can the court overturn, the extent of the economic damage that came to fruition, what happened, like the Spanish flu in 1919 that killed millions, no one talks about the harm Gordon Campbell`s corporate Government inflicted upon us, the extent of one way contracts that ate up every Provincial dollar and more, I can`t help but think back to our 2010 Olympics, the pride, the I am Canadian attitude, Super Natural British Columbia but just a few short years after the closing ceremonies we have poisoned interior lakes, lost countless wild salmon runs to fish farms and now the third largest oil spill in the world, a death blow to our BC Coast, a massive spill in our migration engine.

Just picture heaven covered in oil, and what hurts even more, the people of BC don`t seem to care anymore, in the latest public opinion poll by Ipsos Reid job creation and big industry are more important than the environment, 67% for jobs and 16% say protect the environment, it`s times like this when I stare across at Mc Caully island or look into Norway inlet, smell the oil, I see the end of the world being played out, there is no shoulder of comfort to lean on, no soothing hugs that can squelch my silent anger, 576 successful departures from Kitimat, 576 loaded oil tankers that safely managed the inside passage, risk management, reward versus risk, despite 5 years of cruise ships not plying the inside passage, despite the loss to tourism, despite a sterile ocean desert, despite the tiniest of recoveries on the outer edges of the spill zone, despite of everything tanker traffic is predicted to triple over the next 3 years, an insatiable Asian appetite for oil and now that paradise is lost there is nothing left to fight for and no reason to stop, perhaps other Edens can be spared.

Number 577, no tears of anger, no screams of silence, nothing but…

“That peaceful easy feeling.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioTi-HI8H0Q

Thanks for posting the video links criminalmind. I’m undecided on how I feel about the pipeline.

If you believe in Numerology or Prophecy or Karma or ????, then the pipeline must have gone ahead.

Does this mean it is already to late to change this visionary’s view of our future?

577 – coincidentally the number of times criminal has posted the same old story and links…

I justed looked at the link to this story on CBC and noticed something in the photo and that is the age of the protesters, of course this is just a small photo of which is probably a much larger group but this may show how diverse the opposition is.

wow…somebody get this guy a column.

Sarcasm on Opinion 250 say it is not so

Thanks Vulgar.

Hey Interceptor, you must remember, most people who read don`t comment, as a blog writer and moderator and peruser of stats, everyday thousands tune in to read my little site..

Some days there might be 30 comments or 2, but thousands read, and links, stories get sent around the world, visitors from Germany, China, Australia, lots from USA..

If I can convince 1 more person, 2…10…

A nation…

3500 people of all persuasion in Victoria today, a Monday, a school day, a work day, a cold rainy day in late October and 3500 plus sent a message..

That message is..

Clean water, salmon, wildlife and the long term survival of mankind before short term profits for shareholders..

We`re fighting for the survival of Johnnybelt`s offspring, and everyone else`s children too.

Good Day

Victoria…..oh ya. Isn’t that the big city that dumps its raw sewage into the ocean ?

For long term survival of mankind there is need for a major purge, there are already too many mouths to feed for the amount of food that can be grown or processed. Add that to the rate of extinctions of species and we already have a problem….

Oil pipelines,fish farms,share holders…

Your wasting your time writing blogs,you should be taking yoga classes so you`ll be able to kiss your ass goodbye, or start signing up volunteers to drink the kool aid…

“We`re fighting for the survival of Johnnybelt`s offspring”

Lol. I’d like to thank crim for letting me live rent free in his head.

And, he’s got delusions of grandeur to boot. Scary stuff folks.

After a no-tanker and no-pipeline ban is imposed on the West coast maybe all these protesters in Victoria can take the train (powered by bio-fuel) to our east coast and protest to stop tanker traffic and drilling off Newfoundland. After all, isn’t our east coast and the St. Lawrence Seaway just as important as our fiords and inlets?

You are all upset over the death of Enbridge, get over it..

We killed the HST and the same lot was crying the sky is falling without the HST..

As you know, McGuinty, Ontario`s now resigned premier shoved the HST down Ontario`s throat..

Ontario is hurting, $20 billion dollar deficit last year and $18 billion this year..

We were told Ontario would kick our ass economically because we rejected the HST..

The point I am making, the HST is a corporate windfall tax, the HST doesn`t lower prices or create jobs and booming economy..

In other words, corporations lie, we in BC have had BC Liberal betrayals on a grand scale, theft of railway, HST, shredded contracts, deficit lie after deficit lie, they took our debt from $25 billion to $100 billion, Basi n Virk..Boss mine..BC place naming rights, cost over run after cost over run..

The point I am making is thus..

We will be fine without Enbridge, if Enbridge had gone through we wouldn`t see $1 more dollar..

Corporations lie..

HST is dead as of March 2013..

Enbridge is dead too..

Time to move on gentlemen..And ladies(Johnnybelt, or is that garterbelt?)

criminal, how many generations of inbreeding does it take to produce you?

Your fearless Christy Clark continues to embarrass BCers..

Actually, she is an embarrassment to politicians everywhere, now that saying something.

http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/TV+Shows/The+National/ID/2295353898/

“Victoria…..oh ya. Isn’t that the big city that dumps its raw sewage into the ocean?” .. whats that got to do with anything? Victoria isn’t protesting anything. They are protesting IN Victoria, presumably because the BC Legislature is there.

When did this become about the HST?

Try and keep on topic.

Where does the Natural Gas and Oil go that is extracted in the Horn River Basin and Peace Country? How does it get to the consumer? Where is the pipelines? Do they run through the Pine Pass?

How much in revenue did the Province of BC realize with said resource?

C-mind? Can I find these numbers on your website? Will fracking be allowed under the NDP, and if so: Why?

Should the Chinese Government be allowed to buy into Nexen, as they are involved in the shale-gas play in BC, and should they be allowed to but into the Tumbler Ridge coal field? Will the NDP stand-up to Ottawa or simply take the course of least resistance?

The Northern gateway is such a red-herring.

Oh and c-mind? You love Christy…She is your only hope. It is NOT too late for the Liberals to begin a new search, and I hope they do.

So then why aren’t they protesting in Ottawa ? I don’t think the BC gov has as much to say about ENG as they think they do. Was the legislature in session ? Should be protesting at a Conservative MP’s office as well.

Lol Styxxx keep this on topic what does Enbridge have to do with fracking? It was mentioned before that the pipelines you talk of Styxxx do not carry oil sands bitumen.

I find it hilarious how JohnnyB gets dragged into this before he even makes a post! And it didn’t take long for the name calling to start.

The protests will get to Ottawa middle finger. You have to start somewhere.

As long as all those protesters don’t mind not having a pension, or the fact they are hurting the Ontario Teachers pension(remember they bought Suncor) then that’s fine. If they want to live with less they should. The hard part is they expect all of us to live with less.
Selling our oil for 60 cents on the dollar seems like a bad move to me.

“or the fact they are hurting the Ontario Teachers pension” .. do you really think the citizens of BC really give two hoots about the Ontario Teachers pension? Personally I wish our govt had the balls to play the Quebec card and start talking separation from those foreigners east of the rockies.

“…look at the BC NDP today. They are gallantly fighting Enbridge while supporting fracking and sending LNG through the Pacific Trails pipeline that is rumoured to be partnering with Enbridge for part of the route.

This has flown under the radar to a large extent with opportunities for response from British Columbians very limited at best.

It is so hypocritical that even diehard New Democrats like myself are um, shall we say, ill at ease.

Why are we fracking in BC to produce LNG for China?
The gas and pipeline corporations are winning the game to the point that they are co-opting all the political parties today. The lure of tax and royalty money trumps concerns over the environment sadly.”

Lifted from NDP blogger Richard Huges: http://richardhughes.ca/politics/bc-ndp-challenge-on-enbridge-but-embrace-fracking-and-the-pacific-trails-pipeline/

Guess not all whining dippers who own a website are so enamoured with the buffet-style environmental practices of your modern day NDPer.

Christy Clark Gordon Campbell connection..

BC Rail anyone?..David Mclean?

http://thetyee.ca/News/2012/03/02/Air-Christy/

Bob the hammer Mackin..

http://2010goldrush.blogspot.ca/2012/10/premier-photo-op-and-185000-charter.html

Once again Styxxx, LNG is not tarsands bitumen.

Prince George’s turn for a protest Wednesday at 5PM at the Civic Center.

http://www.sea2sands.ca/?event=prince-george-a-site-for-province-wide-day-of-protest

What is “tarsands bitumen”?

I would like to know how many of those protesters are on welfare?

It’s a workday. Did they take the day off from a productive job?

Most called in sick! Google it Styxxx.