Beautiful day - we need more like this and some fishing to go with it.
My Rant for the day:
See that South West Gas/Oil have now arrived in the area, lots of trucks and equipment even requests to drill on private property. They conducted tests along the Cains River last year and are back for more. I understand that they will be conducting seismic testing using a special vehicle and explosives where they can't access with their vehicle. Had an opportunity to speak with a crew member who worked in this field out West, he informed me that part of his job was to pacify people who had wells damaged from explosive seismic testing. He advised that they experienced a lot of damage and in some cases impacted on wells over a 1/4 mile from the test site. Another worker recently returned from Alberta stated that once the wells were in, basically everyone left, except for a skeleton crew who drove water trucks and monitored a computer - very few jobs are created.
Miramichi Salmon Assoc. have yet to announce their position. It's unfortunate that prime drilling areas appear to be in watersheds and in the vicinity of rivers and populated areas. Please become informed on the subject and voice any concerns you may have. Take a look at this site http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/27/us/fracking.html
I recall the good old "bud worm spraying days" when some of the cowboy pilots used to dump their load of DDT rather than spend time using the spray bars. Two Rangers were soaked with DDT in one such occurrence in the Dungarvon area. I recall a letter to the Editor complaining about pilots not cutting their spray off when crossing a river, only to witness the following day, a plane fly directly up the river with spray bars wide open. If the Oil Companies intend to truck waste (hydraulic fracking fluid) from drill site to Nova Scotia and you consider the cost of trucking, the cost of processing the waste fluid, think of the temptation to just dump it in one of our wooded areas!
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