Making matters potentially worse, the site of the proposed development is the deep Laurentian Channel, the main artery in and out of the Gulf for 2,200 marine species – including Blue whale, Right whale and Leatherback turtle.įarley Mowat it God’s waiting room with fellow activist in the new Gulf War, Mary Gorman, co-founder with Elizabeth May of the Save our Seas and Shoreline Coalition.
Lawrence move in a counter-clockwise fashion, which means that the vast area is only flushed into the wider ocean once a year. Spilled oil would ride the mostly landlocked Gulf currents for a long time. That would put thousands of species, some of them already endangered, like the Blue Whale, at greater risk. That’s because the channels and straits that make up the Gulf of St. Metaphysical resonances notwithstanding, the five provinces that border the proposed development would have hell to pay if there were ever a spill like the one that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico at BP’s Deep Water Horizon rig. I suspect that they don’t know that in literature, ‘Old Harry’ is a synonym for the devil.” But the bastards who have set this thing in motion are taking a perverse pleasure in doing it and must be opposed. They have decided to call their development “Old Harry.” The great swindle, you know, to give it a nice name that conjures up Uncle Harry. “I am doing this against my will in a way, getting involved at this time in life when I might get the Big Call tomorrow. Lawrence – a project given the innocuous name “Old Harry.” Instead, he has donned his literary armour and is riding out to face yet another dragon threatening the beauty and balance of nature – a proposed deep water oil-drilling operation in the heart of the Gulf of St. This should be a time to make morning tea for his wife, Claire, listen to the bullfrogs harrumphing in the two ponds on his 200-acre sanctuary in River Bourgeois Cape Breton, and reflect on the closet-full of books in his study, all 44 of them, that he has written over an extraordinary life. That is how Farley Mowat at 92, bearded, blue-eyed, and bemused, describes his presence in the waiting-room of eternity. This is a guest post by Michael Harris, originally published on iPolitics and reposted here with permission.
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