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Canadians track Japanese tsunami debris, but won't systematically test salmon for radiation
Approximately 25 million tonnes of debris was dumped off the coast of Japan and into the Pacific Ocean after an earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.
The Maritime Museum of B.C. has created a Facebook page devoted to collecting photos of debris from last year's Japanese tsunami.
The majority of the material floating across the Pacific Ocean is not expected to arrive in B.C. until 2013 and 2014.
What I find interesting is that there still doesn't appear to be a Facebook page concerning the potential effect of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the Canadian food supply.
Earlier this month, Straight reporter Carlito Pablo wrote an article noting that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has no plans to systematically test next year's wild salmon for radioactivity.
These fish travel through the same waters as the flotsam and jetsam coming from Japan, where a devastating nuclear accident crippled the Fukushima power plant.
It's okay to keep records of the garbage—but as far as the Conservative government is concerned, it appears to be not okay to examine if any of it is ending up in our digestive tracts.
If you click on the link for the previous Straight story provided in the article above you can read the response of the CFIA.
I ask that on every one of these radiation testing stories.
If you want to solve a problem, a rough estimate of what's involved is a good place to start.
Put a number out there, then use that crowdsourcing website to raise the cash. It would solve the problem and piss off Michael Mann, win/win.
Or you could just point at Harper and call him a poo-poo head, which while true, doesn't actually accomplish anything.
http://www.g4tv.com/videos/58173/radioactive-rain-the-reality-of-japans-...
Get it, people?!
Probably because even last November, the debris field was approximately the size of the state of California. Since then, it has spread out much more.
I can say with certainty though that the testing required for radiation does not require any deal above what is normally routinely done (Example: Assume you're making a beef stew and decide to toss some turnip in just for the hell of it) so it doesn't seem that this would be some sort of money saving tactic.
I agree one hundred percent that these things should be monitored, but the source that is quoted seems less than definitive on this matter.