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by Bob Hunter

Social side of oil

OB ROYER, THE MANAGER for the
Kwaikutl Indian band in Alert Bay, is a Cree
from Alberta who remembers vividly what it
was like when the oil rig crews arrived in the nor-

thern prairies.

‘Suddenly, your regular
seat in the pub is taken up by
all these new guys, their
pockets bulging with money.
And guess who the girls are
interested in?’’

Trouble? You bet. The in-
vading hordes of oi! workers
are mostly young single males
prone to getting drunk on
Saturday night, chasing girls
and maybe getting into a
fight or two.

That's the social side of ot!
drilling, its inevitably brutal
impact on the small remote

communities adjacent the
drilling sites. That's one
reason few people along

B.C.'s still-pristine coastline
are all that keen about the
prospect of the moratortum
on off-shore drilling and
exploration being hfted

At the Tsimshian village of
Hartley Bay, ocar Kitimat,
Chief Clifton points out the
ripple from a freighter curl
ing lazily into the bay where
his people pick oysters and
sea grass They still depend
on the sea for much of thet
tood
The foreshore mn from of
the village is thei garden tt
wom the estuaries and
Nats and deltas that marine
lite thrives, far more so than
inthe lonely. chitling depths

Ibis not just thac ob rigs
will cventually cause spills
whech affect mainly the sens:
live intertidal cones,
exploration | process
cteates messes lo places like
Alen Bay Hartley Bay
these messes become

tide

thre
tiscll!

and

catastrophes
}oowaas Alert

Ae

up oan Hay

several when oa

VCRES

freighter named the Irish
Stardust went up on the
rocks. The spilled fuel could
be seen in a gray sheen across
the water all down Johnstone
Strait. Around Alert Bay, the
beaches were ablaze as ex-
hausted men, women and
children threw straw into the
oil and raked it up into piles
to burn.

These memories don't
tade. At the time | wondered
if this was a glimpse of the
future, the final indignity toa
coast that has been gang.
banged at least as violently as
Britsh Columbia's = forests
themselves

First, the decimation of the
fur seals, then the whales,
then the sea hons, then the
halibut, then the salmon
and in the end, a crude black
funeral blanket floating on a
biological waste

All the damage that has
been done to the coast fishery
so far, by logging along
streams, damming the rivers
and pouring effluent) into
them, pumping bilges, drain
ing tailings from mines, aod
overfishing, devastating as it
is, doesn't compare to the
kind of damage we are bound
to doin the future of ob doll
ings allowed

Recentl,, Chevron and
Petro Can published thei on
ual chovironmental
tions of

cvabhua
what they think the

brological and
“sonto coonoman  anpact of
gas and os! cxaploration drill
ing would be

physical

So odlovwe that word  soce

cCOOnOMAG although bo can
Hever Qunet fipure out whatiit

means Poes tt have any thug

to do with people then tives
thett bomes’

Ccrtasnby stax ce Chas asec
that netther the people © onal

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Studying education

CAPILANO COLLEGE educators bent to the task of figuring out what's going on in the
education world Wednesday. Education Week was marked with study sessions and student
protests against the provincial government's education policies.

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company nor Chevron seem
to have much of an idea
about anything. The Chevron
report actually says: ‘‘Very
little is known regarding how
fishermen will respond to the
existence of an oil spill in
their fishing area.”*

I wonder how much money
they spent to research that
choice piece of data?

These reports chill me to
the bone. | fear for our coast.
_ More on the bad news in
the next column.

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