ENVIRONMENT
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Less garbage leads Metro Vancouver to downsize waste-fired plant. Metro Vancouver's existing Waste-to-Energy Facility is located at the southernmost tip of Burnaby, near the Fraser River. It burns nearly 300,000 tonnes of garbage per year. To link to the full article in the Surrey Leader (22-02-12) Click Here
Anmore Councillor Tracy Green had a furry problem with her Green Cone for Organic Waste. "This yearling was able to rip the top off of my solar cone and dive into the 5 foot cavity and got stuck for 20-25 minutes before being able to rip himself free. Poor guy!!" To view the 2010 Youtube video Click Here
Mark Begich's Salmon Run
“I’ll eat salmon any way it comes,” Begich says. “I eat it
straight out of a jar when it comes smoked, I’ll eat it out of pack,
I’ll eat it in a spread, or I’ll eat it grilled. I’ve had everything from cooked to lox, you name it.” (20-02-12) Click Here
"I remember the day when we had wild salmon." Submitted by Anmore artist and artist-in-residence at the Mossom Creek Hatchery (20-02-12) Click Here
David Suzuki Loses it during Interview - Real News Network (20-02-12) Click Here
Fight for Free Speech and Wild Salmon - Free Don Staniford 20 Minute Documentary. Thanks to Angel Hamilton and the wild salmon warriors for all their support! (15-02-12) Click Here
Green Peace brings You Polluter Harmony Ad: Peter & Janet's Story (14-02-12) Click Here
Bruce Sandison reveals what's beneath the so-called "pristine" waters beneath salmon farms off Scotland west coast (13-02-12)Click Here
No Squirrels in My Bird Feeder (12-02-12)
David vs Goliath - Wild Salmon Looking for FreeDon
Song sung by friends to support Don Staniford in his battle facing the Norwegian Fish Farms and his fight for the Pacific Wild Salmon and his fight for Free Speech!!!! (10-02-12) Click Here
Ruth Foster reports that Nasheed, the first democratically elected president of the Maldives, has been striving to make the Maldives the first carbon neutral country in the world. (08-02-12) Click Here
Wild salmon activist Don Staniford says "Cermaq is smearing me in their closing argument and falsely accusing me of "a mud throwing incident in 2010". As I testified on the stand, I did not throw any mud nor did anyone else throw mud. Moreover, the non-incident took place in 2011 - the public is free to watch it online!" To see video Click Here (07-02-12)
Anmore artist Jay Peachy reports that Dr. Alexandra Morton was 'Sockuppied' in BC Supreme Court because she supports Don Staniford. Also joined by Wild Salmon Sockuppiers Wil D. Salmon, Alevin Al, Silver the Spawner, Earnest the Egg, Eddie Gardner and Derek Spragg. (07-02-12)
Norwegian salmon might disappear from Russian supermarket shelves as the “dangerous produce” doesn’t meet the Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus Custom Union’s standards, according to the Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Monitoring Service, or Rosselkhoznadzor. (07-02-12) Click Here
A Perspective that Farmed Salmon is Unhealthy and Unsustainable. (01-02-12) To view the video Click Here
Michelle Nickerson of the Ripple Relay sings for Don Staniford. Ruth Foster of the Mossom Creek Hatchery says it is "a Great, strong tribute song for Don." Michelle was at the Mossom Creek Hatchery on Sunday. To learn about Michele's incredible cycling journey and to hear her song for Don Click Here. (31-01-12)
Lawyer for Don Staniford speaks about the David and Goliath Salmon Court Case (31-01-12) Click Here
Scientists record Amazon's structure and biodiversity by bouncing laser beams off forest 400,000 times per second. (30-01-12) To read full article Click Here
Be Concerned About Wild Salmon!
Mid January snow changes the bright green palette of the Mossom Creek watershed to a white wonderland. The water temperature dips to an icy 3 degrees C for a couple of days. Hatchery volunteers enjoy walking in for half a kilometre to the hatchery along a snow covered road made temporarily impassable to vehicles. To see Youtube video from Ruth Foster (24-01-12) Click Here
Ancient Cedar Tree in Cathedral Grove
Ta'Kaiya Blaney poem "One Lone Cedar Tree," and song "Watching Over Me" acapella (24-01-12) Click Here
A parody of " I will Survive"- this educational video takes an inside look into the lives of salmon- their dangerous journies, emotional struggles , and ironically, their eventual deaths. (23-01-12) Click Here
Rick Mercer on the leading edge. Watch out Canada (22-01-12) Click Here
Listen to this 7 min interview of Damien Gillis from CBC's Early Edition this past Monday. Damien and host Kathryn Gretsinger discuss some of the key revelations that have emerged from the Cohen Commission into disappearing Fraser River Sockeye. (23-11-12) Click Here
Anmore's Margaret Lally Murray (above) "And that's a dam shur!"
The public inquiry into the collapse of the 2009 Fraser River sockeye salmon run was extended after SFU Prof. Rick Routledge announced two months ago he had detected ISA virus in wild BC salmon (22-12-11) To link to full Bridge River and Lillooet News article Click Here
TumTum gets down and boogies for Wild Salmon (22-12-11) Click Here
Occupy DFO - Victory with the Floating tent (21-12-11) Click Here
Proud to call these salmon warriors my friends. See salmon warriors: Our finest hour. Graham Girard (21-12-11) Click Here
Santa asked David Suzuki to help him relocate and combat the threat of climate change. Our cameras spotted David helping Santa search for a temporary home.(20-12-11) Click Here
Mossom Creek artist in residence Anmore's Jay Peachy labels himself a 'Geek to let science speak"
DFO covers up disease in wild salmon - day one of explosive testimony at the Cohen Inquiry into ISA virus (16-12-11) Click Here
To read Access to Information Click Here
Salmon virus in B.C. for decades, say biologists. To read full article on CBC News (17-12-11) Click Here
Kristi Miller Steals Show Again as Salmon Inquiry Rocked by New Virus Bombshells (17-12-11) Click Here
Canada Holds Hearings on Suspected Virus in Salmon By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Published in the New York Times: December 15, 2011
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The fate of wild salmon is a sensitive topic in the Pacific Northwest and arguments often end up in court in the United States, whether over threats to endangered fish by hydroelectric dams or sea lions swallowing them along their migration routes. Click Here to link to the full story.
Salmon Warriors just get it done. "We reopened those Cohen proceedings ourselves with no outside help, by going out into the wilderness on our own initiative and with our own limited means, by taking samples of wild salmon, and by finding the ISA virus in them. We did that as DFO and the Province of BC were sitting on their hands and laughing at us for being a bunch of amateur hippies. Today they are laughing no more, instead they are on the run." (15-12-11) To read the full article Click Here
OCCUPY DFO - Thank you to Wild Salmon Warriors at the ongoing Cohen Commission wrap-up. The camp started on December 15th.
Be part of the Christmas Bird Count in Port Moody (part of the 24km diametre from the Pitt Meadows centre). Read Elaine Golds great article for more information including contact details.
COUNT ON IT ON DEC. 17. (14-12-11) To link to the Tricity News article Click Here
Website launch - Wild Salmon Are a Gift: Save Them. Occupy Vancouver in Solidarity with Wild Salmon Actions Across BC. (15-12-11) Click Here
Dedicated to the Wild Salmon Woman. (13-12-11) Click Here
Bear Hitches a Ride to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Conservation authorities have successfully captured a large black bear that had been standing on top of a garbage truck in downtown Vancouver. An officer shot the bear with a tranquillizer dart Monday afternoon outside the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. To link to the full article and see the videos (12-11-12) Click Here
On behalf of the Board and Volunteers of the Port Moody Ecological Society
we would like to wish you a wonderful holiday season and a Happy New Year!
Port Moody Ecological Society -
Celebrating 20 years of environmental awareness and stewardship
300 Ioco Road, Port Moody, BC V3H 2V7 Tel: (604) 469-9106
Located to the right of the Port Moody Recreation Centre and Ice Hockey Rink
11-12-11
There is the realistic possibility that it is all too late...
However there are still fresh fingerprints; we are the first to see them, we must analyze carefully whom they belong to and what brought them there in the first place.
A once powerful natural system that has provided for thousands of years now limps along barely able to pass on its magical gift to the young it knows it may never have.
Mother Nature scorns at the contempt against something built so perfectly! Her veins begin to freeze in anger. Do we quiver under the uncertainty of tomorrow?
Hope is that we can still be her many, eyes and ears of which she can draw from; our resolve must be fiercely defended.
Jay Peachy, Anmore artist in residence at Mossom Creek Hatchery (11-12-11)
OH HOW I WELCOME THOSE DAYS BACK..............
The Green Thing
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."
The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right. We didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old (biodegradable) newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right. We didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?
Remember:
Don't make old people mad. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to tick us off.
Denise Sales, Frog & Nightgown (08-12-11)
Unpublished DFO report finds 100% of Cultus Lake sockeye found with deadly salmon virus (07-12-11) To link to Chilliwack Times article Click Here
Get Involved in the Christmas Bird Count
Looking for a list of circles with count dates? Coming in early December of 2011 you will be able to learn how to get involved in the 112th Christmas Bird Count by searching on circles near you. Since the Christmas Bird Count began over a century ago, it has relied on the dedication and commitment of volunteer citizen scientists. In other words, it all starts with you! (05-12-11) Click Here. For further information contact Danny Tyson at 604-888-5907 or dityson71@hotmail.com
For the December Bird Studies Newsletter (05-12-11) Click Here
Noons Creek Hatchery weighs in on the 'Real or Fake' Christmas Tree Question (04-12-11) Click Here
Santa's List by Anissa Reed
Families Caring for Wild Salmon at Mossom Creek Hatchery
Above right long-time volunteers Jim and Melanie Mattson teachers at Centennial HS
The Tricity News reports on generations of volunteers helping out at the Mossom Creek Hatchery. Centennial Salmon Project isn't about raising fish. The kids of the Centennial Salmon Project are Melanie’s responsibility now. Twenty years ago, they were his. Jim Mattson
To read the full story (30-11-11) Click Here.
The Seattle Times - Nov. 29, 2011 reports that Canada kept detection of salmon virus secret. "A decade before this fall's salmon-virus scare, a Canadian government researcher said she found a similar virus in more than 100 wild fish from Alaska to Vancouver Island. But Canadian officials never told the public or scientists in the United States about those tests." To read the full article Click Here
Tent Walk to DFO
Anmore artist Jay Peachy participates in First Nations Song at Occupy Wild Salmon / Occupy the DFO (28-11-11) Click Here
