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    Enbridge

    in News Discussion and Current Issues

    Posted

    As well Canada is a net importer of the fuel. This is our oil, not Enbridge's, if they want to degrade our environment why not build a massive refinery in Fort Mac? This oil should be kept here, but that won't line pockets.

    agreed...still a mystery to me why there aren't more refineries up here...but don't think ft mc. is the right answer...shipping/piping refined fuel vs. the raw material is even more of an issue?

    don't know. i'm not very smart compared to those big oil execs. like you trying to become educated and develop an informed opinion that balances economics & growth while thinking of the long term/bigger picture, the environment and the world my kids get to inherit.

     

    Why can't this pipeline be run to vancouver or tswassen where ports are already estabished, there is still a potential for environmental impact but a good portion of it will be in developped areas?

    because of the costs involved and the risk to people and property i think is the short answer.

     

    I think the tankers operating in the Douglas Channel are a major concern also.

    very good point.

    Enbridge

    in News Discussion and Current Issues

    Posted

    vote...as in fill out the survey?

     

    i think things like this are an inevitability. cash is king. the big players will eventually see enough profit forecasts that it will happen. we are not using it all here...it's got to go somehwere somehow someway, because it's cash sitting in the ground. that's the facts.

    so the developers will look for the least expensive solution vetted against the lowest risk profile. things are considered like regulatory process, permitting, public/political reaction or pressures. environmental impacts. as well as things like access to established infrastructure. demands sometimes are made to engineer out more risk, but then it becomes less attractive cost wise. so it goes another way. but go it will.

    personally i do hope there's enough opposition that it moves. i'm not a fan of the thought of a spill [another inevitability] in such a sensitive area.

    i wonder what the environmental big picture numbers look like if you trucked/train that amount of product to the coast vs a pipe. greater/lesser impact on the environment/spill risk? better or worse? don't know. there was the rail spill at wabamun recently and not too long ago that one that dumped some chemical in a river in bc and wiped it out.

     

    if there is an actual vote, i will excercise my rights as such. i guess a survey is something the politicians will use to gauge how they swing, but when jobs are created and people can feed thier kids and buy big toys and taxes stay low, that's pretty popular too.

     

    Nymphing For Steelhead

    in General Chat - Fishing Related

    Posted

    steelhead are cool. awesome. i've done it a few times, guided. i have contracted the fever. i get why people pursue them in the shittiest weather and sleep on rocks and the in back of trucks [i'm not quite there yet].

    my last trip, we hooked and landed on swung intruders, dries, and a swung nymph. made me wonder about using a more traditional nymphing set up. i was curious to try it, however, i can't say that it'd be the most effective way to fish for me, based on where you are...maybe one run we fished out of them all i could've effectivly cast/presented a dead drifted nymph. in the end didn't get the opportunity to explore that...we stuck with the guides program, and we caught fish. don't know if a dead drifted something would've made them more interested in a take. i suspected not...they seemed to like movement and some action.

    was a curiousity thing.

     

    the 'traditions' associated with any type of fishing will continue to evolve i suspect...i know that there are some who think it's blasphemy to throw a tube fly, or intruder. i got *hit on once [seriously] for not having a spey rod. wtf.

     

    i get the tug is the drug. i've gotten way better at the swung presentation. i now completely understand why a 2 hander would be a good choice, and i'm gonna get me one. but guys who cast singlehanded and do it well got game.

    i have also done the pencil lead gig, and centerpinning, or whatever the heck that is. not my scene. but yes does seem to be more effective. we caught quite a few. but i found that to be very much a case of diminishing returns.

    each to his own...why haters gotta hate?

    i'd rather throw flies. i'd rather fight one on my flyrod as opposed to on 10 on gear.

    don't know how it'd feel to catch them on a nymph. would it work any better or worse?

    no idea. was curious to see. doesn't seem to be very popular so there's not a lot of info on that i could find. i stuck with what i got taught, how i got schooled by the guides i have used.

     

    for me, for the fish of 1000 casts, the tug is indeed the drug. or now, as of this last trip...that huge head sucking down that basketball-sized skated fly - that shakes you up really bad. like it gets into your head, like right into your brain...

     

    *hit, now i have to go back again...like rfn. thought i had it out of me for a year...

    when do we leave?

    Ghost River "mystery"

    in General Chat - Not Fishing Related (NFR)

    Posted

    Yes, they've set up a diversion that moves the flow of the river more to the west to connect with Lake Minnewanka, and the primary fork is dry most of the year other than during runoff. The enormity of the dry "floodplain" of the primary fork is pretty neat to see.

    correct.

    the 'dry floodplain' can also suddenly become a very active river during a rain or storm event. the river is not far below the surface...there have been occasions where people have become stranded.

    the other structure mentioned is a 'throttle' that limits the amount of diverted water that can flow into minnewanka during runoff or a storm, redirecting the overflow down the old channel.

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