The “Haida Nation” has deemed that it will fight any offshore drilling on Canada’s west coast. “The environment trumps the oil”, they say, sounding every bit like the liberal-leftist or greenie that you commonly find sitting in a tree protesting or chained to something or other, which they got to by driving to it in their old car.
Hands off oil, Haida Nation says
Natural environment trumps drilling in Queen Charlotte Basin, band warns
…“We’re on record as being against the development of gas and oil in our territory—in any territory that would have an impact on our environment,” Bellis said in an interview from the Queen Charlotte Islands, known to the first nation as Haida Gwaii. …
Meanwhile, in reality world, oil leaking and spilling from recreational and small fishing boats, like, say, Haida Nation fishing boats, every year account for multiple times more oil in the ocean than all of the oil spills caused by oil tankers, oil rigs, and oil pipelines combined. (Sources are legion, and I’ve gone over this before. Here’s a source.)
And what on earth do they think powers their amazingly modern Canadian/American-style and not-at-all-canoe-like fishing boats?
The amount of oil dumped by do-it-yourself auto mechanics every two and a half weeks is equivalent to the 11 million gallons spilled by the Exxon Valdez. (source: Clayton County Government Department of Information Technology)
How much oil enters the ocean? The amount of petroleum products ending up in the ocean is estimated at 0.25% of world oil production: about 6 million tons per year.
How much oil enters the oceans with oil spills? Oil spills account for only about five percent of the oil entering the oceans. source: http://www.offshore-environment.com/facts | source: http://www.offshore-environment.com/facts
The Coast Guard estimates that for United States waters sewage treatment plants discharge twice as much oil each year as tanker spills.
(…etc….)
So I’m waiting for the Haida Nation to swear off all motorized boats including their fleet of fishing boats, and their cars, and their heating needs, and to call for a ban on all related activity in their nation, since their “environment trumps” all that and more.
Or they can just get real.
BONUS:
Here’s a photo of the back of the Haida Fishing company boat.
Three gas-powered motors for extra environmental trumpyness!
Quote from web site: “Getting here is easy! You can take a plane, train, automobile or a ferry! You have many options- and you may decide to combine your method of travel by taking a ferry up the Beautiful BC Coastline, and return by air to Vancouver International Airport.”
If you like fishing, I recommend you contact Haida Fishing via their web site for some great fishing. Seriously. It sounds like a great outfit run by a good (Haida native) Canadian entrepreneur. Do it before the oil runs out.
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