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Download This Issue Environmental News THE GREEN FUSE • SKYTRAIN SALMON • PARTY ON FOREST ISSUE from BC and the World November | December 2016 Newstand Price $4.95 Old Growth on the brink Operation Justice Virus Hunter for the Peace November | December 2016 watershedsentinel.ca November | December 2016 Sentinel Vol. 26 No. 5 Features 20 6 Peace Caravan In Praise of Older Trees First Nations members from Treaty 8 Canadians have been listening to the “crack in the heartwood” for centuries as the for- travelled 4,500 kilometres to be in Mon- ests were cleared and exported. But now, as BC’s precious old growth is almost gone, treal for the court case on Site C dam. new allies are emerging to speak for the forest. Content 3 News Shorts 12 Virus Hunter 24 Science Panel Disappearing wild,climate First Nations, environmentalists BC spent millions to find an hope, and more world news and a biologist team up for alternative to clearcutting wild salmon 4 Living Waters 26 Trees Talk “Drinkable, Swimmable, Fish- 17 Party On! Underground communication able” waters across Canada It’s too late to despair over via fungi networks climate change; enjoy what we 9 Letters have 36 Wild Times Missives from our readers Joe Foy on Skytrain Salmon and 18 Green Fuse the restoration of the Brunette 11 Canada News Our new poetry and arts River Diesel spill in Inner Passage and column to feed the need for a other environmental updates deeper read Cover Credit © Lovelyday12| Dreamstime.com Printed on Rolland EnviroPrint, 100% post-consumer Process Chlorine Free recycled fibre, FSC, Ecologo and PCF certified. watershedsentinel.ca | 1 Editorial Sentinel Delores Broten Publisher Watershed Sentinel Educational Society Editor Delores Broten Editorial Assistant Claire Gilmore Graphic Design Ester Strijbos Renewals & Circulation Manager Dawn Christian Playing Hardball Advertising Sally Gellard Special thanks to Valerie Sheriff, Mike Morrell, Karen Injunctions, arrests, SLAPP suits, intimidation of journalists. At Standing Birch, Diana Esak, Patricia Robison, Dyane Brown, Norberto Rodriguez de la Vega, Anicca de Trey, Kathy Rock where tribes and allies are blocking the Dakota Access pipeline, at Muskrat Falls Smail, Ray Woollam, the writers, advertisers, distribu- where First Nations are trying to stop the spread of methylmercury into the food chain tors, and all who send information, photos, and ideas. from a flooded reservoir, at Lelu Island where First Nations are standing up for salmon, Deep thanks to our Board of Directors: Anicca de Trey, at Site C dam in BC, at Parliament Hill where young people and students came to tell Alice Grange, Mike Morrell, Norberto Rodriguez de la the Prime Minister: “Climate leaders don’t build pipelines.” Vega, Susan Yates, Lannie Keller and Sally Gellard. Published five times per year. Subscriptions: Canada $25 one year, But right now it looks as if the power structure (governments acting for corporations) is $40 two years; US $35 per year, going to play hardball – not gracefully moving into technological and cultural change, Electronic only $15 a year but going down swinging at those who want to change the way humans treat the planet. Distribution by subscription, and to Friends of Cortes Island and Reach for Unbleached! Free at Vancouver At the same time, Earth Mother herself is tossing the first warm-up pitches in her own Island and Vancouver area libraries, and by sponsor- ship in BC colleges, universities, and eco-organiza- game of hardball. With CO2 at over 400 parts per million in the atmosphere for sever- tions. al months now, there is no going back on climate change – for centuries. By then the planet will be ravaged – the forests replaced, if at all, with sterile plantations, topsoil in Disclaimer: Opinions published are not necessarily those of the publisher, editor or other staff and volunteers of the the rising oceans, drought and floods, etc., etc. This together with the almost inevitable magazine. devastation of war and more war, which we are seeing already in parts of the world. Member Magazines BC and Magazines Canada ISSN 1188-360X No wonder the young, to whom the future belongs, are furious. No wonder the First Na- Publication Mail Canada Post Agreement tions are desperately trying to fulfill their mission of saving place for future generations PM 40012720 of all life. This is an emergency far greater than any ideological threat, and we all need Return Undeliverable Canadian Addresses to: to step up and take our turn at the plate. Watershed Sentinel Box 1270, Comox, BC, Canada V9M 7Z8 250-339-6117 Delores Broten, Comox, BC, October 2016 [email protected] www.watershedsentinel.ca We acknowledge the financial support of the At the ’Shed Government of Canada. We are excited to be publishing the first book from Watershed Sentinel Books, Joyce Nelson’s Beyond Banksters: Resisting the New Feudalism. It’s a new endeavour for WS and one that’s well worth the effort to get the information out. When you want your message to reach Next! How about a new website to launch in November with an easy to use interface thousands of concerned and active and an improved ordering process? Visit www.watershedsentinel.ca and let us know readers, please contact us for our ad rate what you think. sheet: 250-339-6117 or Tiny Corrections: Burns Bog is currently 7,500 acres in size, and the documentation [email protected] shows that sphagnum moss holds 20 times its weight in water. www.watershedsentinel.ca Attention Subscribers! The insert in the magazine is to attract new subscribers. You do not need to use it to renew your subscription. When the time comes, you will receive a Next Issue Ad and Copy Deadline: friendly notice offering you an early bird discount for your renewal. Your expiry date is December 2, 2016 printed on the mailing label. Thank you to those who responded so generously to our request for extra help. We hope you enjoy the product of your support. 2 | watershedsentinel.ca International News Dolphin Free Sushi “Riot” Charge Dropped Radioactive Contamination Sea(food)Change Press Freedom Toxic Sinkhole US outlaws killing of marine mam- Criminal charges against “Democracy Mosaic Fertilizer is the target of a mals. Regulators have detailed new Now!” host Amy Goodman have been class-action lawsuit over the massive, rules that will require countries exporting dropped. She had been charged with par- radioactive sinkhole that opened under wild-caught seafood to the US to measure ticipating in a riot while she covered the its New Wales plant in Mulberry, Flor- and reduce bycatch of marine mammals protest against construction of the Dako- ida. Discovered in August but not made by 2022. An estimated 600,000 marine ta Access Pipeline. public until mid-September, the sinkhole mammals are killed globally each year has leaked an estimated 215 million gal- from accidental bycatch. The case stemmed from a September 3 lons of contaminated wastewater into the altercation where pipeline guards used Floridan Aquifer [which supplies drink- The rule will apply to the over 120 coun- pepper spray and dogs against protest- ing water for nearly 10 million people]. tries that export fish and fish products to ers. Goodman and her team filmed the the US, and countries that don’t comply confrontation and interviewed protesters, A statement from ClassAction.com not- could see their exports banned. Tuna, including members of the Standing Rock ed it is “yet unclear to what extent these shrimp and salmon from Mexico, Thai- Sioux and other tribes who say the pipe- wastes have travelled through the Aqui- land, South Korea, Vietnam, Canada, line threatens their drinking water and fer, but the wastes contain extremely Chile and Taiwan, will be the most affect- has disturbed burial grounds and sacred toxic and radioactive contaminants such ed. sites. as radium, radon, uranium, thorium, and —www.undercurrentnews.com, —www.huffingtonpost.com, lead, as well as other non-radioactive tox- October 4, 2016 October 17, 2016 ins.” ©Paulann Egelhoff Preliminary reports from private wells Only One Quarter Wild Left showed “normal” readings of sodium, sulfate and fluoride. However, radioac- tivity readings – the one thing everyone Wild Disappears was looking for – were not yet provided One-tenth of wilderness lost in 25 in the report. Years. Humans have destroyed a tenth of —www.ecowatch.com, Earth’s remaining wilderness in the last September 24, 2016 25 years, according to a recently pub- lished University of Queensland-led in- ternational study. Climate Hope from Around the World Nearly a third of the loss was in the Ama- Bright Spots zon; a further 14% was in central Africa. The mapping exercise found that 30 mil- International scientists have analyzed 100 practical, community-based initiatives lion km2 of wilderness remains globally – that enhance health, protect the environment, and benefit the climate, from over 500 23% of Earth’s land area. Strongholds in- submitted to the newly established Good Anthropocene website. Their research study- clude Canada’s boreal forests, Australia’s ing common factors behind successful projects is published in a paper, “Bright Spots: deserts and woodlands, lowland forests in Seeds of a Good Anthropocene.” Asia, and parts of central Africa. If current trends continue, there could be Initiatives range from a project in Indonesia in which forest people are offered health- no globally significant wild areas left in care in exchange for conserving natural resources, to a non-profit in the Netherlands “less than a century.” manufacturing modular, easily repairable mobile phones. Lead author Dr. Elena Bennett —www.theguardian.com, thinks there is great potential for these bright spots to be replicated around the world. September 8, 2016 —climatenewsnetwork.net, October 15, 2016 watershedsentinel.ca | 3 Living Waters 2016 Ya don’t miss yer water ‘til… Well, you know.
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