It's About You, Me

and the Ocean

by Ingmar Lee

Hi all, having attended a 'PNCIMA "consultation" process here in Shearwater BC, it was like having the sinister, icy breath of Stephen Harper blowing onto this wild coast.

 

The "consultations" were plainly old school manufacture of consent: Suddenly posted and videotaped meeting, a rushed bogus intro by professional PR hack, guided breakout "consultation" groups reinterpreted back to the assembly at the end.

All along this coast, there is no government  bureaucracy that is held in such unanimous contempt as DFO, and "PNCIMA" (sounds like a venereal disease) is yet another layer of this hopeless, utterly corrupt federal bureaucracy.

 

PNCIMA is entirely conceived and organized by DFO!! PNCIMA purports to be for the protection of the coast, yet it accepts Enbridge as a "legitimate stakeholder" in the process. Simply put, PNCIMA will integrate all values with the dirty-oil tanker/pipeline scheme.

At the meeting, they looked at me funny when I asked if me, being a local resident who "uses" the area, could be recognized as a "legitimate stakeholder" in the PNCIMA process.

 

NOT, apparently...

 

And a month after the meeting, the local chair of the Chamber of Commerce received the "follow-up result of PNCIMA's "widespread consultation" -basically a hundred page package of indecipherable drop-dead boring, DFO manufactured-consent bureaucratese. Nobody who is not being handsomely paid to read that gobbledegook will ever bother to read it..

One other thing, -and which I think is very worrisome, - the Coastal First Nations, -the same organization that speaks with a united voice to oppose and condemn the Enbridge dirty-oil pipeline/tanker scheme, -their logo appears on the cover of all PNCIMA propaganda.

I would advise that all BC environmentalists smell a big fat rat when they encounter PNCIMA propaganda.

Cheers,  Ingmar