Comments for Rafe Mair Online

Comment on Van Dongen No Hero to Me by r

Sun, 20 May 2012 02:26:44 +0000

http://blogborgcollective.blogspot.ca/2012/05/vancouver-sun-westcoast-news-on-fish.html

Comment on Enbridge Admits There Will Be Spills by JP Turcotte

JP Turcotte — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:25:37 +0000

I am 100% for no tankers and pipelines. I have also spent a few decades in the Pacific NW and in environmental activities across this country, and in SA. My position is also 100% non-negotiable, not that this would matter to Enbridge. Another concern of mine, other than those listed above would be the erosion of the pipe from th inside due to friction of the bitumen slurry that is being proposed for transfer. I’ve tried to get something called the coefficient of friction for this ‘slurry’ in order to calculate the life expectancy of the pipe itself. this has nothing to do with ‘spot’ corrosion, or cracks etc. In effect, the pipe walls would be getting thinner from the moment it is transferring material, and this would be rather uniform and probably less apparent unless there is some way to monitor pipe wall thickness constantly, since erosion of this type would also be accentuated in bends especially. I’ve yet to hear or read anything addressing this issue. Do you have info on this? Thanks for your continued efforts in this regard of informing of these inevitable disasters due to this visionless regime.

Comment on Civil Disobedience Warranted for Pipelines, Tankers, Fish Farms, Private River Power by cherylb

cherylb — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:13:12 +0000

Yes it is Rafe, and I have no doubt the day is coming.

Comment on How Clark Can Truly Help the Mentally Ill by Marie

Marie — Thu, 03 May 2012 06:19:19 +0000

Bringing back the mental health advocate would be an amazing help to everyone struggling with mental health issues. In the long run it would decrease the cost of providing reliable and useful longterm support for the mentally ill. Mental diseases are not cureable and require a lifetime of proactive support by our health care system just like diabetes, MS, muscular dystrophy, and other physical diseases. My brother lived for over 25 years as a paranoid schizophrenic. With little support during his most vulnerable episodes he turned to street drugs to dull his pain. He walked away from a secured VGH psychiatric ward last month and commuted suicide. The pain was too much to live with anymore.

Comment on Corporations’ Fearsome Hold on Government by R

Wed, 02 May 2012 21:01:34 +0000

http://www.ipolitics.ca/2012/04/30/elizabeth-may-how-the-conservatives-stole-environmental-protection-in-broad-daylight/

Comment on Harper’s Underhanded Gutting of Fisheries Act Designed to Help Enbridge and Co. by timber

timber — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:03:28 +0000

Rafe.. you are just a fresh breath of the best Canadian air, by the way.. I meant to point out this fact earlier. When a day seems lost or discouraging I can go to your site .. or the Tyee and get my bearings in the fog. Just a farm kid from Ontario, somewhat growed up.. that you can count on to understand the difference between a land, its people and values.. and a pack of looting full of their own bullshit liars in expensive suits.

I’ve actually had the chowder in Tofino, hunted the island clearcut, worked in English Bay and Banff and Swan Hills and Cal/Edmon/Jasper.. and drove the harrows & combines in Saskatchewan and Manitoba tractors too baby, where my family is from. I helped build the silos, paint the barns and get the hay to the barn.. and deliver the calf too.

I got Ontario covered fully.. and Hull, Montreal, in Quebec too. I suck re the Maritimes on my CV .. never making it to Cape Breton which truly haunts me tho I did a shoot in St. John’s and a few in Halifax plus in New Brunswick. I dream of the Arctic and other Territories in the greatest land in the entire world. Where the polar bear, seal and the Inuit are bound so seamlessly.

Who would attack this beautiful land in such treacherous ways.. Surely they aren’t well and need the support of the tribes to rest somewhere.. for a while .. and perhaps find their balance & way as Canadians again… perhaps, someday. ..

Comment on Harper’s Underhanded Gutting of Fisheries Act Designed to Help Enbridge and Co. by timber

timber — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:33:16 +0000

In ascending order of culpability ..
I will start with the low or mid level politicos that have been intimidated into supporting the fiasco.. I understand their livelihood dilemma though. But then we move up suddenly to Keith Hadfield, a maritimer who should know better or have some gumption. Oops, false assumption. The comes the resourceful environment assassin Joe Oliver, perhaps highly motivated but incredibly unaware of reality or resources. Then comes the chief french fry in the bizzare poutine.. Stephen Harper. Re-making Canada so we won’t recognize it. I just don’t quite remember that being a campaign promise. Do you ? I don’t recall that a single damn one of those liars said they would attack ‘fish habitat’ as extraneous and not worthy of Canada’s or environmental protection.

Comment on David Suzuki Was Wrong… But at Least He Gets it Now by r

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:18:02 +0000

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/shell-must-pay-us1-billion-first-step-clean-niger-delta-2011-11-10

Comment on Some Journalists Still Buying the Line that Technology Will Save Us from Oil Spills by r

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:02:46 +0000

Isnt Thats what BCFerries said?or Titanic?
online petition

http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/No_Oil_Tankers_in_Burrard_Inlet/?sbc

Comment on Why Harper Budget’s Gutting of Environmental Laws is a Good Thing by r

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 06:20:30 +0000

http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.ca/2012/04/pipelines-and-policy-stupid.html