Slett said her community has already seen what can happen after even a relatively small spill.
Slett said her community has already seen what can happen after even a relatively small spill. Her community hasn’t been able to have a clam fishery for two years, after an American-owned tug and barge ran aground in October 2016, spilling about 110,000 litres of diesel.
“It was a matter of minutes before our beaches were contaminated and the damage was done,” she said.
She said if a diesel spill from a sunken barge can cause that much damage and take years to clean up, a major oil spill would be catastrophic. #bcpoli
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Tragic and true.
We, who see these dangers, realize that we are so small and helpless. As if the “nation’s economy” is all that counts! The Iceberg is coming closer and the Titanic will take us all down to the bottom of the sea,
Ant Holzer The nation’s economy will collapse when the environment collapses. That is the point that that the corporatist/fossil fuel fools fail to recognize…No environment= no anything.