Unfortunately, not enough to warrant a trip to go fish it. The Canadian National Railway was the owner/operator of the train, but as far as I know, little has been done in the way of mitigation for the disaster.
Sorry for delayed response. I just got my Mac Mini going again after removing the hard drive & installing a larger one. Neville Gosling The Enbridge pipeline is a project so toxic that it brings global shame to Canada. On Nov 8, 2013, at 7:14 AM, Don Ordes <f...@tribcsp.com> wrote: > That's really sad. Is it recovering? > > -----Original Message----- From: Neville Gosling > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 3:50 PM > To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > Subject: [VFB] Another river gone > > > I forgot to mention that one river that I used to fish for steelhead was > affected by a deadly train derailment in 2005 when a total of nine cars > derailed, including a car carrying sodium hydroxide solution. > The resulting spill of the Sodium Hydroxide (common names: caustic soda or > lye) - 40,000 litres of 73% solution occurred in a sensitive river > environment home to many species of fish and wildlife. The impacts of the > spill on the fish species were devastating, as virtually all free swimming > fish occupying the Cheakamus River at the time of the spill were killed. More > than 500,000 adult and young salmon, steelhead, trout, lamprey and other > species died of suffocation from skin burns and gill haemorrhaging. Birds and > animals that rely on the Cheakamus salmon for food were also affected by the > spill. The Cheakamus River is a tributary of the steelhead bearing Squamish > river and that too was also affected. > > I have not fished the Cheakamus river since the spill. > > > > Neville (Nev) Gosling > Greater Vancouver > BC Canada > > The Enbridge pipeline is a project so toxic that it brings global shame to > Canada. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
