Mush mush.

And it’s not the dog; it’s the weather, in the plus’ overnight and predicted to get up to +8 with rain showers, yuckeee boy!
Added to all that crap it looks like the mv Astron will get in either late tonight early tomorrow morning, be messy down the dock way with all that traffic.

Okalakatiget Society has an update on the McNally Olympic situation re printed here.


There are discussions being held between McNally Olympic, Nunatsiavut Government and Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans regarding the barge which ran aground near Hebron.
Larry Crann is with the Environmental Response Section of Canadian Coast Guard.
He says McNally Olympic of Hamilton owns the barge which ran aground in October while transporting diesel and waste fuel from Quebec.
Crann says the discussions are about the possibility of conducting winter monitoring of the barge.
They are in the midst of scheduling monitoring surveillance.
He says a fixed wing aircraft would conduct an aerial survey starting December 03rd, 2007 until the spring of 2008.
Crann says there will be monitoring of wildlife and ice conditions, in conjunction with DFO conducting their own surveillance with Transport Canada.
By spring, Crann says they should have a complete site assessment.
They should also have a better idea what should be done with the barge.
All three parties will continue to meet over the winter months and assess as they go along.

Now CBC is reporting a tug has sunk on the Churchill River, the tug seems to be sitting on the river bottom, in white water, just below Gull Island Rapids.
Some more pictures of the Muskrat Falls, some way down the river from the rapids here, alas photos do not do the falls justice, I have been both at the bottom and top of the falls, something like this more closely portrays the feeling one gets.
NL Hydro is doing work in the area related to the proposed lower Churchill River hydro development.

With all this going on, plus the prospect of a Uranium mine near Postville, what chance is there in retaining the wild pristine environment that has lured, at times frightened away, generations of people.
To answer my own question; sweet bugger all chance if we continue on the same apathetic path.

Ops update. I first wrote that the barge was at Muskrat Falls, not so it seems, so I corrected.