Orca Whales Could Be Caught in Oil Spill
“A barge carrying heavy equipment and a diesel fuel truck overturned off northern Vancouver Island near Alert Bay today, raising fears that killer whales who frequent the area could be in danger.” Click here for the breaking story at 680News.
Is this blog starting to sound like a broken record? Oil spill story after oil spill story? Consider instead BC’s track record for spills: two this summer (so far) and two last summer. And those are the majors. BC’s coast guard estimates as many as 1200 spills occur in our waters every years, most unreported.
I am sick at heart, and worried for the whales.
According to Native traditions, whales are like living libraries, recorders of the history of the earth since the beginning of time. Many whales now are considered toxic waste, so polluted are they from having lived in the waters we’ve desecrated. They have nowhere to go. Nowhere to go. No way to leave the water. They must swim and eat and breed and live in our garbage. The stories our whales–our living libraries–are telling us are of our own shame and greed and willful stupidity.
I am so sick of these stories. Sick and sad.
There has been another oil spill. I will follow the story and keep you posted. And I will pray for the whales.