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Tsleil-Waututh Study Proves Damage from Marine Traffic in B.C.’s Burrard Inlet – The Energy Mix
history—it’s like having your grandmother’s quilt and watching threads
of it being pulled and torn,” said Tsleil-Waututh spokesperson Charlene
Aleck. She confirmed that higher traffic in the Inlet, which acts as
Vancouver’s central harbour, has changed the “wave climate”, leading to
degradation of shoreline ecosystems and damage to both archaeological
sites and places of present cultural importance.
After having its concerns ignored or rebuffed by regulators, the
Nation hired engineering consultants Kerr Wood Leidal to conduct a study
of the wave climate in the area. Working with Marine Labs, the experts
“found that vessel wakes significantly increase the overall wave energy
in Burrard Inlet beyond natural wind-generated waves between 1.2 and 4.6
times depending on the location, and that current tugboat traffic
contributes up to 20% of waves generated by vessels.”
79-year-old protestor arrested at Trans Mountain pipeline expansion blockade
blockade to stop the construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline
expansion.
Burnaby RCMP
arrested 79-year-old Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta for breaching a
court-ordered Injunction which stated demonstrators could not obstruct,
impeded or otherwise prevent access to the Trans Mountain work
sites. She was released on scene and will be charged with criminal
contempt in the coming weeks, police confirmed.
“This is just too close to home, it cannot be ignored,” Kaufman-Lacusta told Global News Monday.
“I’m outraged at Trans Mountains’ callous disregard for the threat to the health and safety of residents along the pipeline route, like us.”
B.C. could pay up to $15M in Indigenous foster care fraud settlement | CBC News
The province could pay out as much as $15 million in the scandal.
RCMP spent more than $13M on policing Coastal GasLink conflict on Wet’suwet’en territory | CBC News
almost two years the RCMP have maintained a near constant presence on
the Morice Forest Service Road about 300 kilometres west of Prince
George, B.C. — a remote logging road through the heart of the
Wet’suwet’en Nation’s traditional territory — to uphold a B.C. Supreme
Court injunction first granted to Coastal GasLink in December 2018.
The
670-kilometre Coastal GasLink pipeline is part of an estimated $40
billion dollar natural gas project — touted as the largest private
sector investment in Canadian history.