Mr. Fletcher a little green around the gills
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Updated: November 17, 2009 3:14 PM
Editor, The News:
Re: Sockeye go on the witness stand (B.C. Views, Nov. 11).
It is always interesting to read Tom Fletcher’s somewhat controversial columns.
It seems he would refuse to lay any blame whatsoever on the environmentally destructive affects of the salmon sewage industry in terms of the collapse of the sockeye runs.
Such a statement, of course, is ludicrous, given the mountain of incriminating evidence documented by unbiased sources (and here one cannot include, for obvious reasons, statements made to the contrary by Department of Fisheries and Oceans scientists).
Global warming, my aunt’s fanny.
Would Mr. Fletcher also deny the virtual nuking of polder wildlife habitat by the local cranberry conglomerate?
In both instances, evidence indicates that negligence and (dare we say) willful neglect on the part of both municipal and provincial governments is the major cause of these catastrophes.
Either that, or government officials are simply too stupid to tie their own shoelaces.
I would like to think it is the latter, but sadly, the evidence indicates the former.
I challenge Mr. Fletcher to go for a good long snorkeling or diving expedition within vicinity of the nearest fish farm. While he may not come back with a phosphorescent glow, he may be a little green around the gills, pardon the pun.
George Clarke
Maple Ridge
