WINTER/SPRING2017
MLCM
53
below
I oftenwonderwhatmyown environmental impact iswhen I go to a remote area.NearHakai Pass, we discoverNamu, a once prosperous communityof 300
people and an abandoned cannery.Now everything is rotten and leaking; forgottenboats, buildings andoils, asbestos, old industrial batteries and garbage slowly
leaching into the pristinePacific ecosystem and theGreat BearRainforest.We paddle on, wonderingwhatCanada’sDepartment of Fisheries andOceans is doing
about it, but alsoknowing the answer –nothing.
CHRISCHRISTIE PHOTOS
