Little Hawk
Active Member
Here it is; a post-May 8th film production & letter from Alex to Campbell.
Bless her and all she stands for!
Hello
Please see this video on the Get Out Migration. Watch it with pride...this one
is about you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf1M-WGvfCg
The biggest environmental rally in the history of BC and government has not
reacted. We may need to do this again. We may need to run for political office
to protect our salmon, natural resources and our communities to survive. Below
is my letter to Gordon Campbell. Please build our community, let your contacts
know they can join us in keeping this part of earth alive...salmonaresacred.org
<http://salmonaresacred.org> "What you can do" The Petition.
Thanks to all of you, you are awesome in the true sense of the word, look at all
the signs, faces, towns, peaceful and powerful.... Life on earth is up to us.
alex
May 17, 2010
Dear Gordon Campbell
On the afternoon of May 8, 2010 thousands of British Columbians from all walks
of life, from the far reaches of Kingcome Inlet, Hope Town and Gwyasdums, from
Port McNeill to across the Strait of Georgia and from the bays and watersheds of
Vancouver Island traveled to your office to tell you that we want salmon farms
out of our ocean, because we want our wild salmon. Everywhere in the Pacific
Ocean where salmon farms do /not/ exist (Alaska and the western Pacific) wild
salmon remain abundant, even the Fraser sockeye that do not pass salmon farms
are thriving. The people of BC want their salmon back.
Someday we are going to learn how Canada’s governments were sold on corporate
salmon raised in public waters in cages that prevent public access when the
Constitution states no one has the right to privatize ocean spaces, nor own a
fish in the sovereign waters of Canada. In 1989, fish farms were handed to the
province to simply side-step the inconvenience of the Constitution, but this era
is over and the industry remains fundamentally unconstitutional. Farm salmon
enable dams on the Fraser River, oil wells, clear-cuts, open pit mines and I
think this is why the bureaucracy has blindly pushed it no matter which
government is in power or what scientists, lawyers, First Nations and everyone
else has to say. I think Ministry of Agriculture and Land’s handling of salmon
farms needs thorough scrutiny.
Mr. Campbell, you did not cause this problem, but you /have/ inherited it. The
era of cheap oil is over with the people on the Gulf of Mexico being the first
hit with what will be a cascading degradation of planet earth that all our
children will inherit. You cannot morally chose a salmon that robs one ocean,
to pollute a second one while consuming fuel because it feeds Atlantic salmon in
BC on fish from Chile. You must choose the salmon that comes home to us without
oil consumption feeding us, our forests and creating oxygen.
Norwegian salmon farming corporations are holding this coast ransom using the
excuse “jobs”, when at the same time they are mechanizing to reduce their
payroll. Nothing about this industry appears legitimate to me. It does not
make food. It depletes global supply. It is not sustainable as it is running
out of cheap fish to grind into pellets. It is not benign as it intensifies
disease and pollutes.
I do not believe the assurances from the Provincial Ministry of Agriculture and
Lands (MAL), nor the Federal Pacific Biological Station that salmon farms are
not damaging Canada’s public fishery resources. I believe their research has
been skewed and suppressed. I eagerly accept any invitation to argue these
points in a court of law.
The Norwegian salmon farming industry is consuming massive quantities of
Canada’s wild fish with no accounting, or licenses. If you think I am wrong,
let’s have a look. Put cameras and observers on every fish pen as it is pulled
to the surface, on every packer pumping out the pens and on the assembly line as
these fish are gutted. Commercial fishermen have accepted and borne the costs
of this scrutiny to protect wild fish and the Norwegians can too. Why did it
require an order from the Department of Justice to make DFO lay a charge against
Marine Harvest for unlawful possession of wild salmon? Something is very wrong here.
Why won’t MAL test Atlantic salmon facilities for the Norwegian ISA virus? How
can MAL say sea lice in Nootka Sound are not drug resistant without producing a
single test result?
My colleagues from the First Nations, scientific, legal, environmental and
political communities have all tried to bring reason to the Norwegian salmon
farming industry, but the government sponsored level of secrecy surrounding it
simply grows. The only reason for secrecy is activity the public does not like.
If we remove corporate farmers and the European shareholders from this equation
the solution is simple:
1- Rescind the leases under all salmon farms in British Columbia and place
covenants on these sites in trust for future generations, as they are BC’s most
productive coastal wild fishery grounds.
2- Invite Norway to graciously bow-out and go face the calamities they are
experiencing in Chile and in their own shores.
3- Protect aquaculture jobs by WISELY developing a sustainable,
community-based land-based industry
4- Use the best knowledge we have and actually restore the resilient wild
fish, not enhanced fish, which are very unlikely to survive climate change.
If the people of British Columbia are your primary concern, there is no rational
obstacle to embracing these solutions please start rescinding leases immediately.
There is something very wrong with this situation and it is only a matter of
time before we figure it out. Lets move forward. Given their track record in
Chile these Norwegian companies are not sustainable anyway. The state of the
planet is a very serious concern and it is immoral to further degrade public
resources that we will need on in the coming decades. This is about
food-security and to pretend it is anything less is deceptive. In a world
depleted of easy oil no one is going to be moving fish from the south Pacific to
make less fish in the North Pacific, but we will most definitely be thankful to
have millions of wild salmon returning to us for free!
Thousands of people showed up in person to deliver a message to you. Get salmon
farms Out of BC waters. We await your response.
Sincerely,
Alexandra Morton
Salmonaresacred.org
"Some could care less if there's any fish left for our kids!"
Bless her and all she stands for!
Hello
Please see this video on the Get Out Migration. Watch it with pride...this one
is about you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf1M-WGvfCg
The biggest environmental rally in the history of BC and government has not
reacted. We may need to do this again. We may need to run for political office
to protect our salmon, natural resources and our communities to survive. Below
is my letter to Gordon Campbell. Please build our community, let your contacts
know they can join us in keeping this part of earth alive...salmonaresacred.org
<http://salmonaresacred.org> "What you can do" The Petition.
Thanks to all of you, you are awesome in the true sense of the word, look at all
the signs, faces, towns, peaceful and powerful.... Life on earth is up to us.
alex
May 17, 2010
Dear Gordon Campbell
On the afternoon of May 8, 2010 thousands of British Columbians from all walks
of life, from the far reaches of Kingcome Inlet, Hope Town and Gwyasdums, from
Port McNeill to across the Strait of Georgia and from the bays and watersheds of
Vancouver Island traveled to your office to tell you that we want salmon farms
out of our ocean, because we want our wild salmon. Everywhere in the Pacific
Ocean where salmon farms do /not/ exist (Alaska and the western Pacific) wild
salmon remain abundant, even the Fraser sockeye that do not pass salmon farms
are thriving. The people of BC want their salmon back.
Someday we are going to learn how Canada’s governments were sold on corporate
salmon raised in public waters in cages that prevent public access when the
Constitution states no one has the right to privatize ocean spaces, nor own a
fish in the sovereign waters of Canada. In 1989, fish farms were handed to the
province to simply side-step the inconvenience of the Constitution, but this era
is over and the industry remains fundamentally unconstitutional. Farm salmon
enable dams on the Fraser River, oil wells, clear-cuts, open pit mines and I
think this is why the bureaucracy has blindly pushed it no matter which
government is in power or what scientists, lawyers, First Nations and everyone
else has to say. I think Ministry of Agriculture and Land’s handling of salmon
farms needs thorough scrutiny.
Mr. Campbell, you did not cause this problem, but you /have/ inherited it. The
era of cheap oil is over with the people on the Gulf of Mexico being the first
hit with what will be a cascading degradation of planet earth that all our
children will inherit. You cannot morally chose a salmon that robs one ocean,
to pollute a second one while consuming fuel because it feeds Atlantic salmon in
BC on fish from Chile. You must choose the salmon that comes home to us without
oil consumption feeding us, our forests and creating oxygen.
Norwegian salmon farming corporations are holding this coast ransom using the
excuse “jobs”, when at the same time they are mechanizing to reduce their
payroll. Nothing about this industry appears legitimate to me. It does not
make food. It depletes global supply. It is not sustainable as it is running
out of cheap fish to grind into pellets. It is not benign as it intensifies
disease and pollutes.
I do not believe the assurances from the Provincial Ministry of Agriculture and
Lands (MAL), nor the Federal Pacific Biological Station that salmon farms are
not damaging Canada’s public fishery resources. I believe their research has
been skewed and suppressed. I eagerly accept any invitation to argue these
points in a court of law.
The Norwegian salmon farming industry is consuming massive quantities of
Canada’s wild fish with no accounting, or licenses. If you think I am wrong,
let’s have a look. Put cameras and observers on every fish pen as it is pulled
to the surface, on every packer pumping out the pens and on the assembly line as
these fish are gutted. Commercial fishermen have accepted and borne the costs
of this scrutiny to protect wild fish and the Norwegians can too. Why did it
require an order from the Department of Justice to make DFO lay a charge against
Marine Harvest for unlawful possession of wild salmon? Something is very wrong here.
Why won’t MAL test Atlantic salmon facilities for the Norwegian ISA virus? How
can MAL say sea lice in Nootka Sound are not drug resistant without producing a
single test result?
My colleagues from the First Nations, scientific, legal, environmental and
political communities have all tried to bring reason to the Norwegian salmon
farming industry, but the government sponsored level of secrecy surrounding it
simply grows. The only reason for secrecy is activity the public does not like.
If we remove corporate farmers and the European shareholders from this equation
the solution is simple:
1- Rescind the leases under all salmon farms in British Columbia and place
covenants on these sites in trust for future generations, as they are BC’s most
productive coastal wild fishery grounds.
2- Invite Norway to graciously bow-out and go face the calamities they are
experiencing in Chile and in their own shores.
3- Protect aquaculture jobs by WISELY developing a sustainable,
community-based land-based industry
4- Use the best knowledge we have and actually restore the resilient wild
fish, not enhanced fish, which are very unlikely to survive climate change.
If the people of British Columbia are your primary concern, there is no rational
obstacle to embracing these solutions please start rescinding leases immediately.
There is something very wrong with this situation and it is only a matter of
time before we figure it out. Lets move forward. Given their track record in
Chile these Norwegian companies are not sustainable anyway. The state of the
planet is a very serious concern and it is immoral to further degrade public
resources that we will need on in the coming decades. This is about
food-security and to pretend it is anything less is deceptive. In a world
depleted of easy oil no one is going to be moving fish from the south Pacific to
make less fish in the North Pacific, but we will most definitely be thankful to
have millions of wild salmon returning to us for free!
Thousands of people showed up in person to deliver a message to you. Get salmon
farms Out of BC waters. We await your response.
Sincerely,
Alexandra Morton
Salmonaresacred.org
"Some could care less if there's any fish left for our kids!"
