I first came across this very sad story in my comment section yesterday.
I didn’t much of it until I saw the story on CBC.
THANK GOD FOR CBC!!!! < Sorry Spinks! >...lol
Guess what? Not one single word in the Irving paper about this issue.
The Senate must come back to New Brunswick and investigate the way the Irvings are brain washing the readers.
Here’s the story wish was on CBC!!!!l
Logging road disrupts colony of protected herons
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 | 11:58 AM AT
CBC News
The Canadian Wildlife Service is investigating the destruction of great blue heron nests on Irving-owned land near Cambridge Narrows, N.B.
The forestry company J.D. Irving built a logging road on the land last summer. It runs through the middle of the nesting colony. Company spokeswoman Mary Keith says the company has no comment on the situation while the investigation is underway.
A heron nest dangles from a tree after it was knocked down by another tree cut by a mechanical harvester on the logged land near Cambridge Narrows.
(CBC)
Jim Brown is a member of the Kennebecasis Naturalists Society, and is among several conservationists who are outraged by the destruction. He estimated that between 12 and 20 nests were destroyed by the logging road, which cuts a wide and muddy track through the centre of the colony.
Intact nests are visible in tree tops on either side of the road, and damaged nests are also mixed up among the tangle of cut logs and brush on the roadside. Another nest dangles from a tree, knocked out of place by a falling tree cut by a harvester.
Brown received an anonymous tip about the wrecked nests, and passed the information along to investigators with the New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources, who then alerted the Canadian Wildlife Service.
"I was absolutely astonished that this thing could happen," he said. "If you were to ask a senior DNR official, or a forestry company representative, they would tell you that this is virtually impossible to have happen, with all the checks and balances that are in place."
Brown says companies are usually very careful about where they build roads. "The onus is on the forestry company to inventory that area before they go in it," Brown said. "They should know ahead of time what the water courses are, where the deer wintering areas are, if there's any heron colonies or any other sensitive issues. That obviously wasn't done in this case."
The great blue heron is protected under the Migratory Bird Conventions Act. It's against the law to hunt them or destroy their nests.
Ian Langlais of the Canadian Wildlife Service is leading the investigation. He doesn't know yet if charges will be laid, but says the act carries severe penalties including a fine of up to $1 million or three years in prison.
"There's prohibitions against the destruction of the nests, or the killing of the birds and there are also obligations on the part of corporations to ensure compliance with the act and the regulations," Langlais said.
Word of the logging road spread quickly among local conservationists, including Robina Weatherley, a member of the Canaan-Washademoak Watershed Association and a retired forest biologist.
Weatherley can't understand how the road surveyor could have missed the noisy, smelly colony when the road was mapped out during the summer, but can't believe the nests were deliberately destroyed, either.
"When I saw it, there is a sense of violation and a sense of outrage to think that such a thing would happen, because it's so needless. It's hard to see how it could be missed. Certainly the biologist wouldn't have missed it," she said.
"I honestly can't understand how it could have happened. Whether somebody chose to ignore it, I would find that hard to believe, because the repercussions are quite serious."
Bird expert Jim Wilson says the only hope to restore the colony is for activity to cease in the area when the herons return from their trip south in May. He says with intact nests on either side of the road, there is a chance the herons will repopulate the colony.
"If there is a lot of traffic and a lot of disruption, it will undoubtedly have a negative impact. If there wasn't any traffic and no people, it's possible that they may just pick up and carry on. But it's an open question, certainly, a lot of activity in there wouldn't be a good thing."
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By Katheleen Conti, Globe Staff | September 28, 2006
A recent break-in at a liquefied natural gas facility in Lynn, about a mile from the Revere border, has Revere officials questioning security there and requesting updated emergency evacuation procedures.
| Breaking News Alerts Concerned by the breach of security in what is considered a potential terrorist target, three Revere city councilors have asked representatives from KeySpan Energy , which owns the LNG tank, to appear before the Hometown/Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oct. 30 to answer questions.
Councilors also requested at their Monday meeting that officials from Irving Oil and Global Oil in Revere also attend the meeting to discuss safety protocols at those facilities.
``We're five years from 9/11 , and individuals can get that close to an LNG tank. It's scary," said Ward 5 Councilor John Powers . ``It would take an awful lot for a person to penetrate that tank and cause it to explode, but it wouldn't take a lot for people who are terrorists to do it."
On Aug. 16 , two intruders cut through a fence at the LNG storage facility and climbed the tank. Lynn police are still investigating.
The breach went undetected for five days, when a surveillance tape was reviewed.
``I was astounded that something like that could happen," Powers said. ``I want to know why they don't have adequate security down there, and I want to make sure they do."
Councilors George Rotondo and John R. Correggio said they took a drive to the facility, within the past month , got as close to it as they could , and took pictures of themselves with the tank in the background. Some of their pictures ran in a local newspaper.
``We took those pictures outside the gate to show that anybody could get through . We were just zeroing in on KeySpan," Correggio said.
The councilors' point-and-shoot trip raised some eyebrows among members of the Lynn City Council.
The company that wants to run a natural gas pipeline through the city of Saint John is promising to do what it can to address safety concerns from the city's fire chief.
Emera plans to build a pipeline from the liquid natural gas terminal in Mispec, through the city and down to the U.S. border.
Saint John fire chief Rob Simonds doesn't like the preferred route for the project. Simonds submitted a report to city council Monday night and says a rupture to the pipeline is unlikely, but could be catastrophic.
His report says a high intensity fire would rapidly burn an area extending 300 metres from the point of a rupture. The report refers to this area as the "hot zone."
Some of the facilities inside the hot zone along the proposed route include the Irving oil refinery, manufacturing plants that use hazardous materials, an electrical substation that powers the regional hospital, and a radio tower that is an important part of the police and fire departments' communication systems.
He says pipeline accidents have caused the deaths of 60 people in the past 20 years in North America.
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Thank you Charles for blogging this. Lets see what people have to say about this issue.
It goes to show Irving only cares about making money and not the environment, shame. Oh they probably will get off with it and they'll just pump some more money into a park or something like that, that's not good enough.
Irving woods bosses know every nest of large birds, bears, deer yards etc. on their land.And I mean EVERY.And all of this is reported to ST.JOHN.
Irving also knows how to eliminate beaver damage.Mckenna made a law for that.Any animal that interfers with woods operations can be exterminated.
So what you are saying 1:11 pm is that even though it's against the law to destroy the nest of the great blue heron, The bird can still be exterminated.
I know,Irving bosses,know of everything on their land,or any land they use.
Irving bosses would know of the nest and all nests.
Irving know ALL the rules.
Irving bosses report everything to St. John ,every day.
Irving monitors ALL radio traffic and require all irving contractors to have irving radios.
NO NEST would be destroyed with out St.John approval!!!!Or boss would be fired.Irving has the ability to say to ANYONE,SO SUE ME.
Irving roads go STRAIGHT,and don't make turns for no reason,without St. John approval
thanks for informing us that thier is such management in place.
What's the big deal :
Birds and animals die every day of the year.
The Birds were eliminated for profit,willingly and against the law.
If law bothers you,I will look up countries,that don't use such thing,where you and irving can go to wreck havok in peace.
Birds and animals do die everyday, but not the way they were sopposed to.
PEOPLE die every day to...what does that have to do with anything?
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