The Haida Nation has condemned the actions of a company owned by one of its villages that is currently in the midst of an environmental controversy over an experiment to fertilize the ocean with iron dust in hopes of boosting salmon numbers.
Environment Minister Peter Kent said a Haida-owned company was in “apparent” violation of Canadian environmental law after initiating an experiment to dump 100 tonnes of iron dust into the Pacific Ocean to boost plankton levels.
The head of a Haida-owned company at the centre of an environmental controversy after its fishing boat dumped 100 tonnes of iron sulphite to seed the Pacific Ocean says the experiment is not a potential ecological disaster, but one that has “created life.”
Environment Canada has launched a probe into reports that a U.S. businessman and a company out of Haida Gwaii dumped 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean as part of a geoengineering experiment.
