This is a very short, but info-rich video about the recent bold occupation of the Sabine Channel protesting Fraser/Surrey docks. From the YouTube video info: More than 150 people, primarily from Lasqueti Island’s 426 population, came out in boats and on the shoreline to object to the Salish Sea being the staging ground for the export of dirty Thermal coal from Wyoming and Montana to Asia. Several boats were also there from Texada and Thetis islands. Disallowed by US ports to date, this polluting and dirty coal will come by train across the border to the Fraser/Surrey docks (up to 2 trains per day, each train up to 1km long.) From there, the coal would be reloaded onto open topped barges & transported down the Fraser River, a globally significant Important Bird Area and the largest fish spawning river for BC’s wild salmon, and up the very narrow Sabine Channel between Lasqueti and Texada Islands.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 04:39:12 +0000
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