Mr. Floatie Learns to Sail

Victorian Activist, Mr. Floatie, Learns to sail aboard The Schooner Adventuress, and teaches the crew a little bit about waste managment

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[jogferjohn]

This video is a lie - there ARE no floaties from our 2 long SCREENED outfalls.

Victoria does NOT need more land-based sewage treatment plants, because our current, marine-based sewage treatment system, together with source controls, works very well.

For more information, go to arrest.ca and rstv.ca

[tykyca]

ok...? You spoke a lot without adressing waste treatment(what the video, and your first point were about). Sounds like you have a Vendetta against Victoria, which is fine really.

About the cruise ships though: They pump sewage into the Euphotic zone-majority of marine life, and they travel into many jurisdictions, so have policy to use pump out stations(fined if they dont). Getting back to the issue; waste treatment for victoria is not a simple bad vs. good issue. its multi-faceted.

[Normalman50]

When I lived in Victoria I was involved with the cruise ships. Those ships paid huge amounts of money to have their sewage pumped out by the city, into barges. Guess where the city dumped that sewage from the ships? If the cruise ships put it where the city did, they'd be fined millions of dollars. The pollution problem is only one of Victoria's problems. There are too many people earning substandard wages, over priced homes, corrupt politicians, street people, and the list goes on and on.

[tykyca]

Unfortunately, it's more complicated than that. The amount of flow out of the juan de fuca staight pushes the waste far out to sea, at very deep depths. Im not saying this is right. However, the question is do we use this natural factor as a waste sink. Or do we use monumental amounts of energy and money to treat the waste, and take the toxic parts and bury it on marginalized land. Keeping in mind that all that electricity comes from damming BC streams( incubators of our wild fish stocks).

[Normalman50]

The fact that a Canadian city is dumping raw sewage directly into the marine environment is so hard to believe. What is wrong with the politicial leaders in that city? I wonder if the tourists to Victoria know that when they flush the toilet in their hotel rooms that it goes into the ocean?