100 signatures. Wow. That's got to be about equivalent to the number of people in the Georgia Strait Alliance including their families.

No Kidding hey MrPG. They might as well give up and bend over the same way anyone else should when trying to fight our own gov't for whats right. After all our gov't knows whats best for everyone right?

Wow. Someone clearly needs to switch to decaf.

Well apathy at its best. An event that could define the extinction of mankind on this planet is happening this week and the media doesn't report much on that... and so its not like we can say most people, even those that claim to be educated, are aware of much at all outside of their small worlds of comfort.

We have a deep sea drilling rig right now with a ruptured well leaking 200,000+ barrels of oil a day into the ocean... toxic stuff that kills all life in its path... at best it will kill 10% of life on earth by the time its played out, at worst it will kill our oceans the world over and thus deplete our atmosphere of the oxygen we need to sustain life everywhere... our oceans play an intrinsic role in providing our atmosphere with oxygen.

We are hoop'ed if what is going on in the Gulf of Mexico continues. They have some of the highest pressure oil in the world out of control more than a mile bellow the ocean with an oil rig sitting on top of the hole and no human ideas on how to stop the gusher yet... other than to let it stop on its own and kill off the planets oceans, or nuke it and hope that does the job. Bleak outlook to be sure and the biggest catastrophe we could possibly imagine.

Meanwhile the BC government ministers today were playing up the idea of potential off shore oil and gas developments here in our BC waters. They say they will do it all according to the latest science and safety standards... they just don't get it and will do anything and tell us anything to gain access to the resource revenue. That in itself, and the timing of it should be a wake up call to everyone who it really is we have in power... I have no doubt they would also defy the people of BC on this issue as well.

So not many people really care about protecting the ocean and our water habitat is not a big surprise, but one would hope our politicians would have at least a shred of responsibility when it came to these issues... but they don't it is plainly clear. The oceans will be largely dead in my lifetime, I do believe... if not by years end....

Time Will Tell

Let's see now:
First Obama was opposed to expanding drilling in that area.
Then, all of a sudden he announced expanding on that resource in that area.
Now 2 weeks later a major catastrophe sinks an off-shore drill rig in less than a day.

Funny thing, the safety requirements of those rigs is extreme. There are redundant safety systems all over the place. It is almost, ALMOST, impossible to deliberately sink one of those things. This is also the first production rig to sink while in production.

Kind of makes one go ,"hmmm".

Not to downplay it Eagle, but it is leaking 5000 barrels per day, not 200,000.

Again, not saying thats good but you are out by a substantial amount...

"Meanwhile the BC government ministers today were playing up the idea of potential off shore oil and gas developments here in our BC waters. "

Speaking of being off, I heard on the news that the BC Government was reconsidering their position on offshore oil and gas exploration because of this incident.

At present the leak is estimated to be 5,000 to 10,000 barrels (210,000 to 420,000 USgal) a day. Certainly a major environmental disaster especially since nobody seems to have any idea how to shut it off.

Drill first, ask questions later! The cleanup will be expensive and it will take decades.

Mankind in general seems to be in denial about the obvious effects of imperial warmongering, overfishing, overpopulation, global warming, genetic engineering...

There is no big brother to protect us from ourselves!

If we don't smarten up we will become the architects of our own demise. That's plain to see. All the evidence confirms it.

The old planet will become uninhabitable for mankind.

The planet will carry on without us, quite nicely, as it has for billions of years in the past.

To the universe it is nothing.

Well you know that, that's just typical of this pathetic government and the fascist rich people who are in control of this world.

Eagleone where did you dream that up. There is many times that amount of oil naturally seeping into the oceans everyday. There is a beach on Santa Barbara Island called tar beach, I wonder how it got called that. Yes the leak is a big deal but so is the dumping of raw sewage all over the world.

Oh I bought some alantic today, yum yum.

Getting back to the article about Farmed Fish There is a march taking place on Vancouver Island to riase awareness about the dangers thatfishfarming present to the survival of wild salmon stocks. Alexandra Morton is the driving force behind this movement. The big worry is that our government is allowing Nowegian fish farms to operate to the detriment of our fast disappearing wild stocks.
eat only wild fish and do not support foreign fisheries that are destroying ours!

Yeah, I can boycott Atlantic Salmon from Fish Farms

I don't like farmed fish - and I refuse to buy it. If no one buys it they would be out of business. I am diligent to only buy wild fish. Sometime that requires asking the store manager where the fish came from. Lot's of times it is not marked, but every grocery store or seller should know where their products come from - if they don't know, I don't buy.

...And what effect did/do the hatchery fish raised in the exact same or worse conditions as farmed fish for some half-baked scheme dreamt up by our "fish experts" to "revitalize" the fishery have on native salmon stocks? There's the million dollar question. But its one that will never be answered since it exposes the gross negligence and lack of knowledge of our so-called "fish experts".

Mr PG you are wrong about that. Only yesterday the BC Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources said the Gulf of Mexico incident would have no impact on BC liberal plans to expand off shore oil and gas developments off BC's coast. He reiterated that they would be doing it taking into account the latest technology and safety, and insinuated that because of this an incident like what happened in the Gulf of Mexico could never happen off our coast.

Heard it on the CBC from his own words. Not sure where you heard otherwise from?

Interceptor, no one really knows for sure how much oil is gushing out of that high pressure deep sea well. Its too murky down there for the submersibles to get close enough to find out for sure. Its the cement casing done by Haliburton that has fractured and thus the gusher is uncontrollable and expanding. Originally BP said it was only 1000 barrels a day, satellite imagery showed that to be a lie, so then they went with 5000 barrels a day... some of the top oil well blow out specialists have put the estimate at 100,000 to 400,000 Barrels and not gallons a day. CNN and Fox are reporting 200,000 gallons a day, but they have been down playing this since day one. I'll go with the estimates from those that have dealt with these things putting them out in the past. Its anyone's guess how much will leak out when all is said and done. Its a catastrophe in any event.

"Posted by: gamblor on May 4 2010 1:37 PM
...And what effect did/do the hatchery fish raised in the exact same or worse conditions as farmed fish for some half-baked scheme dreamt up by our "fish experts" to "revitalize" the fishery have on native salmon stocks? There's the million dollar question. But its one that will never be answered since it exposes the gross negligence and lack of knowledge of our so-called "fish experts"."

Hatchery fish are not raised in the exact same or even worse conditions as farmed Salmon.
The two are two very different things entirely.

Eagle One, the sky is not falling, well, if it is, its falling slowly. I think I get where you are coming from though, this oil catastrophe may well change the world. I heard some predictions on the CBC radio from some expert that the loss of the Gulf states fishery will mean that people in that region are going to eat more chicken and pork, to replace the fish they were buying I guess, but that means higher demand for animal feeds to supply the higher demand for chicken and pork, which in turn puts pressure on other markets, in the end, prices rise, it will affect us all in some way or another.
Naturally oil prices will have to rise, which will affect many other things, like the cost of freight. Could be stormy weather ahead folks.
metalman.