Photos: Great Bear Rainforest in B.C. faces oil pipeline proposal

Three friends and I hiked, canoed kayaked and fished this area in 1983. We saw wolves, bears, deer and salmon on our week long journey. We traveled from the west side from Clemen's Rapids to the Kanoona River. We came across letters and bill of lading from the early 1900's when the Surf Inlet Gold Mine was in production. This was at Paradise Lake. The Surf Inlet was dammed so that the barges carrying the gold could be floated to the dam and down into the inlet to offload their tailings.
The letters and documents we found were turned over to the Kitimat Historical Society. There was a bottle dump with all kinds of 1890-1920 bottles with medicine, booze and soda pop labels on them. We couldn't pack them out so we buried them near the mouth of the Paradise River. Email me at clloydjones@telus.net for the location. I also have pictures of the electric tram line that the miners used to get the ore from the mine to the barges.
I have some of the smaller bottles that I could pack out and they are on my bookshelf in my basement.
It must have been hard work for those that lived in the camp at Paradise that we saw but what a wonderful place to spend your youth with the wildlife, the fish and the scenery! I'd do it all again in an instant. (If I was physically able to) It seemed to me it was all shut down just before the start of WWll
If you want some photos, email me to the above address.

Clayton Lloyd-Jones

I coined our group the PRICKS

P rincess
R oyal
I sland
C anoe &
K ayak
S ociety
We even have the T=shirts.

Cheers to Gary, Bruce and Detlaf

Do some magic photo-shop work and show one or two places covered in oil ...big dripping gunky oil patches covering a beautiful beach ...could be very effective.

when I looked through those pictures my mind traveled to a beautiful place in the sky, a place some would could call heaven on earth.
How could anyone think that a pipeline in the forest would be okay, and its not even BC's oil or rail whose is making off the sale of bituminous sands to China but even profit dosen't make it right when the risks out way the benefits witch are pretty much nill. I can't imagine the damage that could be done it is to horrific in the mind especially after all the magnificence and splendor in those photos but I do see a spill happening so the pipeline must be stopped as it is beyond a travesty on earth.

Fabulous photos! Thank you.
Living in the city makes it easy to forget what nature really looks like. The beauty of the images also reminded me of the freshness of the air when it's still clean. I remember being able to identify hundreds of individual smells from my childhood surroundings; old wood, new growth, different kinds of soil, ferns, water, rocks... everything has a smell. Not so in the city.
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Please everyone write your newspapers, municipalities, provincial and federal governments. Many people think this Enbridge proposal is a done deal because of our thirst for oil on this planet but we have to demand more brain-power and investment be spent on conservation and new technologies reducing our addiction to the black stuff....we can do it if there is a common will that is translated to public policy! Go to www.pacificwild.org and take action to stop this expansion of the tar sands into BC!

Thanx for these gorgeous pics!
Lets take action, yes!

This beautiful forest must not be ruined, disturbed or destroyed.

so when do i get paid by this "US interest"?