It’s as if something rises from the Ottawa River and affects them all. It’s as if we are being governed by an alien species. The ones in power just don’t think the right way. “Under the current system, the environment and resource development cannot be reconciled. Sipping his illicit glass of chardonnay (his doctor has forbidden it), he says something has gone wrong with our national fermentation process instead of wine, we are now producing vinegar as a country. Mowat appears in the film.)Īs for Gorman’s question, Farley Mowat thinks he knows why government has abdicated protection of the environment to bodies representing the petroleum industry. Lawrence will air on TVO on July 16 at 7:30 pm and again on July 21 at 8:30 pm. A documentary produced by Cinefocus Canada and based on Gorman’s fight to protect the Gulf of St. (In April 2011, Gorman was voted a Canadian Green Hero. “As it stands now, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and Environment Canada have signed memorandum of understanding with offshore boards deferring DFO and EC’s marine protection to these boards.” “How did the protection of marine habitat end up in the hands of the offshore petroleum industry?” Gorman asked. Gorman says that the federal government has literally passed responsibility for protecting marine habitat to the very people who favour development, virtually erasing the line between industry and government. With Elizabeth May, she co-founded the Save our Seas and Shoreline Coalition to challenge oil and gas leases that had been granted off the pristine shores of Cape Breton Island. Mary is a daughter of the Gulf, one of the animals who lives here. “I like her because she’s got guts,” Mowat says, “and I trust her instincts. In 1988, Gorman led the Battle of Boat Harbour to stop a local mill from dumping 26 million gallons of effluent into the Northumberland Strait near Pictou Landing First Nations community. Mary Gorman, a lobster fisherman’s wife turned unpaid activist, has been battling to protect the Gulf of St. In Canada’s pending Gulf War, Farley Mowat, lone-wolf and single-handed crusader, has a strong ally this time. Making matters potentially worse, the site of the proposed development is the deep Laurentian Channel, the main artery in and out of the Gulf for 2,200 marine species – including Blue whale, Right whale and Leatherback turtle.
That would put thousands of species, some of them already endangered, like the Blue Whale, at greater risk. Spilled oil would ride the mostly landlocked Gulf currents for a long time. Lawrence move in a counter-clockwise fashion, which means that the vast area is only flushed into the wider ocean once a year. That’s because the channels and straits that make up the Gulf of St. Metaphysical resonances notwithstanding, the five provinces that border the proposed development would have hell to pay if there were ever a spill like the one that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico at BP’s Deep Water Horizon rig. I suspect that they don’t know that in literature, ‘Old Harry’ is a synonym for the devil.” The great swindle, you know, to give it a nice name that conjures up Uncle Harry. They have decided to call their development “Old Harry”. But the bastards who have set this thing in motion are taking a perverse pleasure in doing it and must be opposed. “I am doing this against my will in a way, getting involved at this time in life when I might get the Big Call tomorrow.
Lawrence – a project given the innocuous name “Old Harry.”
Instead, he has donned his literary armour and is riding out to face yet another dragon threatening the beauty and balance of nature – a proposed deep water oil-drilling operation in the heart of the Gulf of St.
This should be a time to make morning tea for his wife, Claire, listen to the bullfrogs harrumphing in the two ponds on his 200-acre sanctuary in River Bourgeois Cape Breton, and reflect on the closet-full of books in his study, all 44 of them, that he has written over an extraordinary life. That is how Farley Mowat at 92, bearded, blue-eyed, and bemused, describes his presence in the waiting-room of eternity. By Michael Harris iPolitics Insight Jul 14, 2013įarley Mowat and Mary Gorman (Credit: CineFocus Canada)
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