Residents in Fort Chipewyan, Alta., say they saw this fish, seen in this Aug. 15 photo, caught from Lake Athabasca last week. (Courtesy of Ling Wang)
Posted on 08/19/2008 9:22:14 AM PDT by Daffynition
Days before a conference on water quality began in Fort Chipewyan, Alta., last week, residents say a strange fish with two mouths was found at the nearby lake.
The deformed fish, which residents say children had caught off the dock at Lake Athabasca, has since been turned over to park wardens at Wood Buffalo National Park. Some residents, including officials from the Mikisew Cree First Nation, took photographs of the fish over the weekend.
It was found just days before the Keepers of the Water conference began Friday in Fort Chipewyan. The conference wrapped up on Sunday.
The event brought together western and northern Canadian aboriginal leaders and environmental activists, all of whom expressed concern with the quality of water in the Athabasca River, downstream from oilsands development in Fort McMurray.
"It's already mutating the animals, the pollution that they're causing. We need to do something quickly," Shaylene Wiley, a 16-year-old Mikisew Cree delegate, told CBC News during the weekend gathering.
"It's scary when you think about it," delegate Lionel Lepine added.
"For me, personally, it does piss me off, you know, knowing that it's not under my control right now. It's the Government of Canada that has the control over it; they have monopoly over our land. But industry … somehow they got the licence to pollute."
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Residents in Fort Chipewyan, Alta., say they saw this fish, seen in this Aug. 15 photo, caught from Lake Athabasca last week. (Courtesy of Ling Wang)
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Probably just evolution at work....
genetic inbreeding..... Gene pool too small
Natural mutations occur all the time in all species. Unless one can show a definite causal link between a specific mutation and some kind of inducing agent, I’m inclined to attribute it to natural processes.
Let me be the first to say it: Bush’s fault.
Now, we all know there were no such things as mutations before industrialization, right? Course, then you have trouble explaining evolution but whatever serves your political agenda, right?
"It's already mutating the animals, the pollution that they're causing. We need to do something quickly," Shaylene Wiley, a 16-year-old Mikisew Cree delegate, told CBC News during the weekend gathering.Yeah, it's the pollution THEY are causing, sez the teenager.
I wonder if there has been any broken arrow incidents in that area, or any nuclear accidents in Canada in that area ?
Athlete says sports steroids changed him from woman to man
CNN | August 11, 2008 | Frederik Pleitgen
Posted on 08/17/2008 4:36:54 PM PDT by lainie
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2063464/posts
Works for the Obama Campaign.
“Government of Canada that has the control over it; they have monopoly over our land”
Yuck.
Doesn’t appear to have affected it one whit.
Are these folks anti evolution.
1st thing I thought of when I saw the thread title...even before I opened it up. Good Job!
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