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chris gadsden

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The Silent Killer
« on: November 14, 2014, 01:37:06 PM »
From Dave and worth taking the time to read.
http://www.bucksuzuki.org/images/uploads/docs/Hidden_Killer.pdf
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Re: The Silent Killer
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2014, 02:15:50 PM »
 Thanks for sharing this Chris.Apparently everything is not as rosy as the spin doctors would have us believe.
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Re: The Silent Killer
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2014, 02:58:55 PM »
Good read, thank you Chris, I've wondered about those issues before and it was intersting to find out information on this subject.
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Re: The Silent Killer
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2014, 03:10:06 PM »
About 20 years ago the dominant species of winter feed in Georgia Strait changed and the coho abandoned the Strait as a preferred feeding ground to the considerable detriment of the sport fishing.  About that time many communities around the Strait completed pipes to dump treated sewage into deep water: Vancouver Iona, Comox, Campbell River etc.  These events may not be connected but I wonder.  Injecting huge quantities of treated effluent laced with heavy metals, antibiotics etc etc. just doesn't seem like a good idea.
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Re: The Silent Killer
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2014, 03:58:42 PM »
Our lovely Government is more concerned with spending billions on spy palaces than keeping our water (and air) clean. Makes me think the salmon that do get past this crap and return are that much more special. These outflows need to be updated immediately.
Vancouver election tomorrow...
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Re: The Silent Killer
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2014, 04:20:48 PM »
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"Oh Show me the way to the next whisky bar! Oh don't ask why! For if we don't find the next whisky bar. I tell we must die! I tell you we must die!" -from the Alabama Whisky Song  lyric by Bertolt Brecht music by Kurt Weill.

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Re: The Silent Killer
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2014, 05:46:03 PM »
Quote from: RalphH on November 14, 2014, 04:20:48 PM
this is from the T Buck Suzuki Foundation not David: http://www.bucksuzuki.org/about-us/t-buck-suzuki/
Just mentiuoned that Dave gave me the link.
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RalphH

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Re: The Silent Killer
« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2014, 06:50:55 PM »
you know Dave Suzuki? I am confused! ;D
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"Oh Show me the way to the next whisky bar! Oh don't ask why! For if we don't find the next whisky bar. I tell we must die! I tell you we must die!" -from the Alabama Whisky Song  lyric by Bertolt Brecht music by Kurt Weill.

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Re: The Silent Killer
« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2014, 06:59:05 PM »
LOL ... getting better all the time ;)
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Re: The Silent Killer
« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2014, 09:42:44 AM »
Not only is it a concern for marine life, but human life as well.  Would you let your children swim in these waters?  How many times were beaches in Vancouver and White Rock closed in the past 10 years during the summers with unsafe E.Coli levels?
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Re: The Silent Killer
« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2014, 07:02:40 AM »
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Re: The Silent Killer
« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2014, 10:36:21 AM »
the article doesn't seem to mention this:

http://www.livescience.com/14691-surprising-birth-control-pill-facts.html

other studies suggest that trace levels of progesterone, the synthetic hormone that is the active ingredient in almost all birth control pills may be responsible for the falling levels of male fertility (drop in sperm count) in parts of the Western World.
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Re: The Silent Killer
« Reply #12 on: November 18, 2014, 09:21:29 PM »
There's a lot of little towns up and down the fraser that dump basically raw sewage into the fraser. Hope for instance has just primary treatment. They just remove the solids and dump the rest into the Fraser, right where silver river joins the Fraser.
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