As if surviving another work week wasn’t accomplishment enough for a Friday, it turns out we need to stop a Canadian mining company from building an open pit coal mine.
Seems they want to build it smack dab atop the headwaters of the Flathead River in British Columbia.
I myself think that you simply haven’t truly enjoyed a quality outdoor experience until you’ve seen a couple dozen trout go belly up from toxins while taking in gorgeous scenery like mountains with their tops removed.
It’s OK. If it’s one thing the Trout Underground stands for, it’s Trout Protection. We worship trout.
We got their backs.
From the NRDC:
Cline’s mining proposal calls for removing mountain tops and
building waste dumps and settling ponds right on top of the
headwaters of the Flathead River in British Columbia.
That’s nice. Nice.
Here’s the part where you walk the walk: invest 18 seconds (I timed myself, honest) convincing the British Columbia government to reject the Cline coal mine and protect the trout fishery of the Flathead River at:
Take Action: Grizzly Bears and Trout need your help.
Eighteen Seconds. That’s all it takes. Eighteen (I timed myself). Do it. Now. Right now. Now.
And then let us know you did.
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Yeah, ok. I did it. It won’t make any difference, and I feel like an idiot sending a form letter to the Canadian government when I live in the suburbs of Los
Angeles. If I were them, I’d tell me to go mind my own business. On the other hand, Canadians tend to be a bit self-ritious for my taste, so F… ‘em. Maybe it’s not only their wilderness to destroy; maybe they don’t really own it.
Jim Webb(Quote)
“Like maple syrup, Canada’s evil oozes over the United States.” – Edwin S. Simon, NBS News Anchor in Canadian Bacon.
Sully(Quote)
Done. Thanks for tipping us to this horror. It doesn’t just kill trout, it kills Everything. I saw the upper Sac after the spill, and it looked like the Los Angeles river, in all it’s concrete glory..
Len(Quote)
Done. And put it in my daily fly fishing roundup.
http://hubpages.com/tag/new/fly+fishing
roundup(Quote)
Thanks everyone for signing. Yeah, it’s a Canadian project, but they’re accepting input from Americans, so why not?
Tom Chandler(Quote)
Done, Tom. Thanks for that, it’s in my sisters back yard. Canadians. That’s like Americans without guns.
Mark Latham(Quote)
Did. & thanks. For all you Canada haters, grow up for crying out loud. They’ve got a much better record than we do. Plus they all have health care.
coldH2Owi(Quote)
Americans without guns, but nicer. Lots nicer.
Tom Chandler(Quote)
Well, maybe they are, but when I listen to the Canadian news brodcast on NPR, they seem to delight in denigrating Americans. If their health care is as good as ours, then God bless ‘em. I’m not really a Canadian hater, just getting old and crusty. Haven’t been fishing lately.
Jim Webb(Quote)
I did it!
guy smith(Quote)
Hooah! Another stone atop the grave of the evil canadian coal regime.
C4CRaine(Quote)
Nice job on the heads up. It might not be a bad idea to join/donate to NRDC — I’m checking into that now.
Matt(Quote)
Say, I contacted them and asked them to approve that mine! I think most of us use electricity to some extent.
Provides good jobs too.
Roger(Quote)