Thoughts on the English Bay oil spill
I wrote about this in Facebook, but have to post it here too.
Reading about the oil spill in English Bay makes me sick to my stomach. Because of Stephen Harper’s cut backs, and the closing of the Kitsilano Coast Guard station, the response to the spill has been disorganized and slow.
It took 6 hours for booms to go out around the spill to contain it. The former Kitsilano Coast Guard base commander Fred Moxey has said that it would have taken his team six *minutes* to respond if the base was still open.
Just heartbreaking seeing pictures of birds and beaches covered in toxic bunker fuel.











