The co-founder of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, of all people, is the unlikely debunker of lots of left-wing environmentalist industry bunk these days. Therefore of course liberals hate him and cover their ears and eyes whenever he speaks, then they shout him down literally and shun him and make every attempt to besmirch him. They’d like nothing more than to bring him down. Well him and the likes of us here.
Too bad!
Today in the Vancouver Sun (subscription required), he debunks a much ballyhooed, yet lousy, “scientific study” provided by one of the darlings of the massive environmentalist industry, David Suzuki. Suzuki is also a consistent anti-corporate crusader. What a shocking coincidence. And he’s constantly getting taxpayer funds from one department or another, for one environmentalist things or another. Again with the shocks.
And whaduyaknow, the “study” slams a great new (evil, evil, private enterprise) Canadian industry trying to get off the ground.
The David Suzuki Foundation and its anti-aquaculture allies are bamboozling global media into believing sea lice from salmon farms are killing B.C.‘s wild salmon stocks.
In a report published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, David Suzuki Foundation-funded scientists claim they have “proof” the farms cause massive sea lice infestations and salmon declines.
Well, at least that’s what the authors have stated during media briefings.
In fact, the pink salmon population is far from declining. The 2004 returns in B.C.‘s Broughton Archipelago were well above the 50-year average. Aquaculture opponents would have us believe low 2002 returns were caused by sea lice from salmon farms. Yet the Department of Fisheries and Oceans recorded lower returns for five years before 2002, and three of those years—1960, 1972 and 1978—occurred before the first salmon farm was introduced to the Broughton.
John Volpe, one of the report’s authors, was quoted in The Vancouver Sun: “Absolutely … this is the silver bullet.”
Why then, one might ask, is the following statement contained on line 547 of his report? “No general conclusion can be made on the transmission dynamics of lice from farm to wild salmon based on this study alone.” Because the authors haven’t proven anything, that’s why.
[…] In contrast to agenda-driven activist scientists and their activities, which receive such wide coverage, credible experts studying the Broughton issue are preparing to report in the scientific literature that pink salmon actually depend on the larvae of sea lice for some of their food supply.
It may turn out that, on balance, the sea lice are good for wild salmon. I can already hear the shrieks of derisive horror coming from the true believers.
[…] This report, funded by activists and Canadian taxpayers, has been broadcast around the world on everything from CNN to The Associated Press to The New York Times. To say it was a highly orchestrated release with many activists involved would understate the situation.
The goal appears to be the destruction of one of B.C.‘s cleanest industries, which produces what is arguably the most nutritious source of protein and good fats on Earth. […]
Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, is chairman and chief scientist of Greenspirit Strategies Ltd. in Vancouver. http://www.greenspiritstrategies.com
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