HMCS Annapolis project denied?

[cram]

An obscure and little-used section of the B.C. Parks Act is being used to deny a volunteer group's efforts to sink an ex-Canadian warship at Gambier Island as an artificial reef.

Vancouver Sun Article

 

[sablefish]

i think those activists should get together with these folks:

"B.C. is now the toilet bowl of the West Coast of North America. In Canada, there are no regulations in discharging water without any further monitoring,"

vancouver sun article

I can't see how preventing a single ship from sinking in Halkett Bay could mitigate pollution in any measurable way when fully functional, floating ships are venting all manner of waste nearby. The activists play the pollution card but it's just NIMBYers.

 

[nadwidny]

I'm sure Nanaimo or many other communities would welcome the Annapolis to their area. Maybe it's time for the ARSBC to say "Screw you Vancouver" and look elsewhere.

 

[tregrrr]

doesn't this make you wish you could take some of these petulant imbeciles on a "discover scuba dive" and show them the logging residue come crap that is there now and then to the Chaudiere or Cape Breton for comparison???

come on for crying out loud!!! The fish do not like or choose to inhabit flat desolate areas with no vegetation or food. They prefer to hide in protective structures like rocks and rubble. We have ruined how much natural habitat along the coast?? Why now is it that when a potential opportunity to give back to mother nature arises all the "head up own rectum" forces have to unite??

arrgh

 

[D_B]

... it will attract people to our area and we don't want that



$5,000,000 a year, for the last 10 years ... income generated by the HMCS Yukon here as an artificial reef

 

[Roko]

... it will attract people to our area and we don't want that



$5,000,000 a year, for the last 10 years ... income generated by the HMCS Yukon here as an artificial reef

That's money that wouldn't go to the local's pockets, so why should they share "their" Provincial Park. Nor would any of it go to the politicians making the decision today. (who cares what happens after their terms over, they have to make it through to the next election, and just won 7 to 10 rich people's votes!)

 

[D_B]

It just might go to the locals

... who is making that mony? people in the local economy
... where do they spend that money? most likely, locally
... where does the tax money go? some comes back as local improvements

 

[tregrrr]

It just might go to the locals

... who is making that mony? people in the local economy
... where do they spend that money? most likely, locally
... where does the tax money go? some comes back as local improvements

D_B... these jackoffs are on a small island 15 minutes by boat from the mainland. There is 0 interaction between the increased economic activity and the "locals" since there is no Ferry service. They have somewhat of a point when they say it doesn't benefit them; the benefit goes to businesses on the mainland who will run charters out into "their" dominion.

As for the tax dollars coming back... when you are a Canadian, you learn to accept that the bulk of your tax dollars go either up in bureaucratic smoke or head east to more entitled provinces.... [/cynicism]

 

[D_B]

Oh ... I didnt know what I was talking aboot

 

[willabonger]

sink it anyway