© Fisheries and Oceans CanadaThe dead grey whale washed up last week near Tow Hill.
A fourth whale has washed up on the beaches of Haida Gwaii, making this the eighth dead whale to arrive on B.C.'s coast this year.
A grey whale washed up on North Beach, east of Masset, sometime in the last week, said Andy Lewis, North Coast area chief for conservation with Fisheries and Oceans Canada. A request for comment from the federal government has not been returned.
Lewis said scientists are investigating the death and performed an autopsy on Sunday, July 7.
As of June 27, 171 grey whales have been reported stranded from Mexico up to Alaska, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - 85 in the U.S., 78 in Mexico, and 8 in Canada.
The numbers are so high, the U.S. organization declared the phenomenon an "unusual mortality event," indicating a "significant die-off" of whales that requires an immediate response.
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Just how do you figure there is no harm to wildlife resulting from many years of such a poison runoff, many tons of it daily?
incompetenceaccidents at so many of these sites), the future of waste management as well as the loss of the odd un-detonated nuclear bomb here and there before Fukushima took the front seat. When that happened I didn't need the media toreassure meinsist that there was nothing to see when I witnessed hydrogen detonating as a result of water becoming so hot that its molecular structure broke down. I assure you that the reason why TEPCO haven't found the contents of the three nuclear reactors is because the containment vessels could never contain a 100% meltdown. I stopped eating any food from the USA in 2012 when I finally put everything together and came to the astonishing realisation that the extent of nuclear contamination in the US and Canada was already widespread and significant but when coupled with the fallout from Fukushima in the weeks afterward, forced the EPA to raise the minimum radiation limits in drinking water which by association extends to animal products and fresh produce [Link] and of course, humans. I initially thought, as most people would be expected, that the EPA did this to nip any legal action in the bud but I tell you truly that it is to hide the significance of 7 decades of widespread radioactive contamination from the public. I have scared people to tell me to shut up when I spoke about these things so I no longer do but here I am doing exactly what I said I would not. I feel it is my duty to apologise for speaking as much as I have considering I have no connection whatsoever with the nuclear industry. As for the North Pacific, well, you and I know that it is contaminated sufficiently to cause widespread die off and while the cause remains ignored then there is nothing to defend or comment on from a governmental perspective. The US is an old hand at that technique. *sigh*Clearly, the scientists 'investigating' must know aright, their bureaucratic oaths (oafs).
They know (in their investigation) which procedures to follow and which questions to ask, and what must be STRICTLY avoided.
Thus, even as the whales go extinct and the oceans die, the dedicated scientists will live forever.....(in infamy).
I remind every reader that the only unforgiveable sin is that sin which goes against the holy spirit.
Too bad none of us know what that is.
It is just so murky and hard to figure out. Holy spirit?
Perhaps some of our highest bureaucrats can issue the dogma, the proclamation and all the protocol that would enlighten us.
If we (the low people, the uneducated) are properly dogmatized and penalized enough, fined and imprisoned and so on, for our egregiousness, we will all conform to the bureaucratic oaths (the oafs in office) and the holy spirit shall be preserved.
Just like it is in those wonderful, obedient and fully typecast 'scientists'.
And this is our future, hell, it is our present moment.
A life of Grey Poupon. Registered and Trade Marked.
Hallelujah.
Mind your manners, mind your top executives, your sacred oafs, and don't shit on anything.
'Cuz that would be bad.
(sarcasm)
ned,
out