anyone have anything to say, any feelings about the below video. Is it just propoganda…
Don’t know the answer without more info.
The video doesn’t mention how this culvert is any different than any other culverts on any other watercourse in the world, or even on this watercourse. Is one to assume that there are no other manmade obstacles on this stream? If there’s another one downstream, then perhaps the salmon never even get to CP’s culvert. Or if there’s another one upstream, and if the salmon would have gotten killed by that one, then CP building this one would also have less impact if it was the only obstacle
I’m green by most standards. Until I got married a year ago I never owned a car. My wife had always commuted via car, I paid for the new one when she traded in her old one. I had always and still do use bicycle or public transit to commute.
Since the narrator says CP is his neighbor then I’m going to assume he lives nearby, the area seems to be rural, so unless he’s a really extreme nature lover he probably has a car, which needs some sort of highway, which may have culverts of its own. How did that highway affect the salmon stream? There is a tendency to poke your blame at the big railroad, power plant, coal mine single source polluter, rather than all of the individual private automobile scatttered source polluters. My opinion is that the automobile is for the most part the ecological enemy, and for the most part rail is more eco friendly than automobile.
Also did this new CP rail line get built in a vacuum? It makes sense to me that CP saw some potential traffic, otherwise why did they build the line? If they hadn’t built the line, what would need to be in place to carry that traffic? Would its impact have been more beneficial, or more detrimental to the salmon, or the overall ecology, than CP’s rail line in general, and the culvert in particular?
And what remediation did CP maybe perform somewhere else that might offset the harm they’re causing here?
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If it’s propaganda then I’m not sure who’s agenda it’s meant to serve. I view this as an individual’s honest attempt to gain support to a legitimate ecological problem that many are unaware of.
I sure hope CP takes notice and does something for nature’s sake.
The rail line has been there for about 120 years now unless he is further from Vancouver than he states. Unless the CP replaced a very small bridge with the culvert. Certainly the size of the culvert reflects the maximum amount of water flow expected.