I have searched every known storage area and haven’t found any yet. The rumors that my family has a barn full of pristine and classic old canoes are not true. My great-grandfather was one of the founders of the Old Town Canoe Company and I grew up in a large family where nearly everyone had worked in the canoe business at some point. We could always find a canoe to use, but not to keep-they would be taken back to the factory and sold when we were done with them. When I began receiving the Wooden Canoe journal, every issue seemed to contain yet another article about the restoration of a wonderful old canoe with a long family history.īenson Gray with the restored canoe at the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association’s Assembly in Keuka, New York in 2009. The author now owns this canoe, after tracking it down and purchasing it. Gray, with his daughter Eleanor and the family dog in a photo from the late 1930s in Enfield, Maine. Mining Law Reform network based out of Smithers Christine McLean is a member of the Concerned Citizens of Quesnel Lake.The author’s grandfather, Samuel B. We need to get on the path to zero failures and reduce the likelihood of another disaster like Mount Polley, a toxic legacy that continues today.
must consider the cumulative risks and make concrete plans to reduce the volume of toxic mine waste that sits upstream from communities and watersheds. to be a leader in responsible mining - while also finding solutions to recycle and reuse existing minerals as much as possible. With the increasing need for minerals for EV cars and renewable energy, we all want B.C. does not have a plan to deal with this legacy of waste - just a plan to grow the problem.Īs the Mount Polley Expert Panel stated: “Simply put, dam failures are reduced by reducing the number of dams that can fail.”
Industry and investors increasingly recognize the need to reduce the volume of tailings waste at operating mines while also advancing safe closure and reclamation at tailings facilities in care and maintenance.
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