De
Canadese regering doet er alles aan om het Kinder Morgan, het bedrijf
dat olie uit teerzand haalt en transporteert, naar de zin te maken. Vandaar dat de regering
van deelstaat Brits-Columbia (BC) het bedrijf flink steunt in haar
smerige praktijken met maar liefst 4,5 miljard dollar…. Met dat geld koopt BC zogenaamd een aandeel in het bedrijf…. Het gaat hier om het
merendeel van het bedrag dat Kinder Morgan nodig zegt te hebben t.w.
een bedrag van ruim 7 miljard Canadese dollars…….

Dit
geld zal worden gebruikt voor nog een pijpleiding, dit ondanks groot
bezwaar van de bevolking in o.a. Alberta en BC, de pijpleiding zal dan ook lopen van Alberta naar de kust van Brits-Columbia, en zal verder een
aantal pompstations bevatten (‘goed voor de werkgelegenheid’, ook al
gaat de wereld eraan kapot……)…….

Zoals
bekend zijn er jaarlijks vele lekken in oliepijpleidingen, in de VS
is dit helemaal bar en boos. Twee weken geleden meldden de autoriteiten
van BC dat er in de Trans Mountain Pipeline (TMP) een lek was ontdekt waaruit 100 liter olie was weggelopen.

100
liter is de hoeveelheid weggelekte olie die Kinder Morgan niet hoeft
te melden, echter intussen blijkt het niet om 100 liter olie te gaan
maar om 4.800 liter…….

Zo
worden bevolkingen wereldwijd dag in dag uit bedonderd door hun onverantwoorde inhumane neoliberale overheden…….

De
Canadese premier Trudeau doet net of hij veel meer voor het milieu
wil doen dan Trump, echter dan moet je vooral niet kijken naar zaken als
smerige oliewinning, transport van olie en alle andere misdaden
tegen het milieu van het grote bedrijfsleven in ‘zijn land……’

Toch
fijn voor de bevolking van BC dat ze mee mogen betalen aan de
vernieling van hun natuur door de zoveelste onverantwoorde
deelregering en landelijke regering………

De top van Kinder Morgan heeft zichzelf als beloning maar vast 1,5 miljoen euro toegekend aan bonussen…..

Hier een artikel over deze zaak van The Star:

Trans
Mountain spill 48 times larger than B.C. government first reported

By The
Canadian Press

Sun.,
June 10, 2018

KAMLOOPS,
B.C.—Officials say a spill from Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain
pipeline two weeks ago was 48 times larger than initially reported.

The
British Columbian (B.C.) Ministry of Environment says the spill
volume reported from the company’s Darfield station north of
Kamloops on May 27 has been revised to 4,800 litres from 100 litres.

A crane operates at Kinder Morgan's Trans-Mountain marine terminal, in Burnaby, B.C., on May 29.

A crane operates at Kinder Morgan’s Trans-Mountain marine terminal, in Burnaby, B.C., on May 29. (JONATHAN HAYWARD / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO)

It
says 100 litres is the minimum threshold under the company’s spill
reporting obligations, so that’s why the ministry estimated 100
litres at the time.

Trans
Mountain spokesperson Ali Hounsell says the company never provided an
estimate of how much medium crude oil escaped, other than to confirm
with regulators that it was over the reportable threshold.

“Trans
Mountain had not provided an estimate of the volume spilled, other
than to confirm with regulators that it was over the reportable
threshold, until cleanup had sufficiently progressed to a stage where
an accurate estimation could be provided,” she said in an email.

Following
an onsite investigation, she says Trans Mountain has provided the
updated volume estimate to regulators.

She
says Trans Mountain is in the final stages of completing the cleanup.

Key
Kinder Morgan executives offered $1.5-million retention bonuses

Under
British Columbia’s spill reporting regulation, Trans Mountain was
required to report the spill immediately. The regulation says the
quantity spilled should be among the information included in that
report, “to the extent practical.”

The
company turned off the pipeline for several hours the day of the
spill, which the ministry said came from a leaking flow metre.

The
spill was contained to the station property and no waterways were
affected, the ministry said.

Two
days later, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the federal
government will spend $4.5 billion to buy the Trans Mountain
expansion and Kinder Morgan Canada’s core assets.

Kinder
Morgan had ceased all non-essential spending on the Trans Mountain
expansion in April, vowing to cancel it unless it received assurances
it can proceed without delays and without undue risk to shareholders
by a deadline of May 31.

Bald
Eagle Adopts Baby Hawk Instead of Eating Him

By: Laura
Goldman
June 15, 2017

In
the wild, bald
eagles and red-tailed
hawks are
natural-born enemies, frequently fighting each other to the death –
with larger bald eagles typically winning those bloody battles.

That’s
why it’s so amazing that instead of serving her offspring a
4-week-old red-tailed hawk she may have snatched, a bald eagle in
British Columbia has literally taken the young bird under her wing,
raising it alongside her three eaglets.

A
raptor expert says this is extremely rare in nature. Why was the
hawklet’s life spared? One theory is that the mother bald eagle’s
hormonal urge to kill it was overwhelmed by her hormonal urge to feed
it when the hungry hawklet started squawking for food.

“What
probably happened in this case is that when they brought this little
guy back, he probably begged for food, as he would do, not even
realizing the danger it was in,” Dr. David Bird (yep, that’s his
real name) told CTV
News.

Food
overrides everything for bald eagles, Bird told the Vancouver
Sun.
“He begged away and mom and dad said, ‘Okay, here’s an open,
gaping beak. Let’s put food in it.’”

David
Hancock of the Hancock
Wildlife Foundation has
a more gruesome theory of how the hawklet may have ended up in the
nest.

Red-tailed
hawks often dive-bomb bald eagle nests. “If the attacking red-tail,
egg in oviduct, did get carried back to the nearby eagle nest, it is
not unlikely that either in the death throes or upon being torn apart
(less likely in my experience!) the egg got deposited into the eagle
nest,” Hancock wrote in
a blog.

No
matter how the hawklet got there, Bird said this type of amazing
“adoption” has only been documented a couple of times in the
history of science.

However,
the red-tailed hawk is only half the size of its “siblings,”
which may eventually pose a problem.

“(If)
one of those eaglets gets hungry, they’re going to look at this
little hawk and say ‘I’m bigger than you, you’re weaker than me
and I’m going to just squeeze the life out of you and start eating
you,’” Bird rather luridly told CTV News.

It
also won’t help that sibling rivalry and fratricide is not uncommon
in eagles, according to Hancock.

But
for now, the hawklet appears to be very comfortable in his adopted
home, in a Douglas fir at the Shoal Harbour Migratory Bird Sanctuary.

“I’ve
seen it standing on the edge of the nest, right beside two eaglets,
and looking very, very cocky and sort of proud of itself,” Bird,
chuckling, told CTV News.

The
bald eagle’s nest, easily visible with binoculars, has been in the
tree since 1991 and is popular with birders. Kerry Finley, the
sanctuary’s caretaker, lives in a house next to the tree and wasn’t
initially aware of the hawklet being there.

“It
wasn’t until people started showing up with big cameras that I
noticed that there was something amiss in the nest,” he told the
Vancouver Sun.

Finley
agreed with Bird that the hawklet is extremely confident. “It’s
quite something to see the way it is treated,” he said. “The
parents are quite attentive. The other birds are keeping their
distance — they know it is something different.”

Photo
credit: YouTube

Tag: Brits-Columbia

Regering Brits-Columbia liegt over olievervuiling…….

Trans
Mountain spill 48 times larger than B.C. government first reported

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Bald
Eagle Adopts Baby Hawk Instead of Eating Him

Trans Mountain spill 48 times larger than B.C. government first reported

Bald Eagle Adopts Baby Hawk Instead of Eating Him

Trans
Mountain spill 48 times larger than B.C. government first reported

Bald
Eagle Adopts Baby Hawk Instead of Eating Him