988. Lively island
Qin Shiou's performance in the fishing owner's tourism perception activity organized by the Ministry of Fisheries won him the admiration of the local traditional fishermen, so when he made a phone call, Donald, Andrew and others rushed to his fishing ground with friends.
After Donald saw Qin Shiou, he said: "You are right, Qin, if Dow Chemical is built here, once the Chemical Industry City is formed, there will definitely be other chemical plants entering, and the destruction of the fishing industry will be too great at that time." ”
The fishermen arrived with fishermen, and their arrival meant more fishing boats on Farewell Island, and some were armed with weapons, claiming that if Dow Chemical brought in the police, they would engage in an armed confrontation with the police.
Hu Zhiyuan, the president of the DPS Association, had previously learned the news through Weibo, and he had not come to organize volunteers, but this time he brought more than 100 volunteers, including students and white-collar workers, who wore uniform clothing and had the phrase 'Wild animals pay for economic development' written on it, in order to satirize the Newfoundland provincial government's practice of destroying the natural environment in order to develop the economy.
Butler is most concerned about this matter, Daqin brand seafood is now his biggest source of income, if the chemical plant is opened here, then there will be no pollution-free fish in Daqin Fishery to enter the market, and his biggest sign will collapse.
This was something he could not afford, so he contacted a friend in the seafood industry and filed a complaint against the Newfoundland provincial government, demanding that if Dow Chemical built a factory on Farewell Island, he would have to pay him a high amount of compensation.
The St. John's media rushed to Farewell Island to follow up on the story, and their report sparked a reaction from more fishermen. People kept coming to Farewell Island to support the protests in Farewell Town.
Fishermen are counting on the ocean for food, and they are the ones who hate factories the most. Newfoundland fisheries, though nominally the collapse of overfishing, are now considered to be overfishing. The industrial explosion that began in the eighties and nineties is also responsible for this.
Even though the Department of Fisheries has protected the fishery in an almost comprehensive way, the waters of Newfoundland have not been able to recover one-tenth of their peak production value, which is very unbelievable, because the marine ecosystem is supposed to be self-healing.
Fishermen can't find a reason, they rarely catch fish every year, and there are still not many fish in the ocean, so why is the reproduction of fish so poor? They can only blame the polluting plant for affecting the viability and reproduction of marine fish.
In just a few days. Thousands of protesters from all walks of life gathered on the island, and Dow Chemical's transport ship was still parked outside the town's dock, waiting for the company to send someone to solve the protest problem and enter the town's dock.
But now that the situation was not good, the transport ship immediately turned around and honestly returned to the St. John's dock.
Fishermen put up long banners on the town's docks with words such as 'protest against the government's inaction to restore the fishing industry' and 'no further destruction of the fishing grounds', and new banners are added every day.
Dow was furious and called the police to St. John's, asking for a police presence to make sure their rational investments were being made. And through the media, the people in the farewell town are accused of being mobs.
The St. John's Police Department was alerted to the police, but Hamlet told the police chief in advance about the incident, and the mounted police arrived in the town to maintain order and did not participate in the eviction of the protesters.
What Dow wants is for the Mounties to clear the town's docks. But the mounted police didn't care about these things, they did their duty to maintain law and order, and they didn't go near the dock.
The protesters on the pier are fierce fishermen. They came with guns, and they were real guns.
Compared with. The armed forces of the mounted police have fallen behind, because their actions need to comply with the law. According to the rules, they are not allowed to bring real guns when participating in such protests to maintain law and order, only shields, batons and tasers.
In this case, the St. John's police should have asked the SWAT to intervene to resolve the issue, but Hamre suppressed the matter on the grounds that although the protesters were armed, they did not use them, were not aggressive, and SWAT should not be used.
Dow Chemical pinned its hopes on the provincial government of Newfoundland, which is not easy to manage now, which is related to the Canadian political system, there is no direct jurisdiction between the provincial government and the town, and the mayor of the town does not bird the provincial council in this country.
Now for Dow Chemical and the provincial government, the most difficult problem is the issue of the leatherback turtle habitat reserve, which they didn't care about at the time, thinking that Farewell Island was just a small island outside the land, and they didn't know that there were so many things involved.
Canadians are very conscious of wildlife conservation, especially where habitat reserves have been identified, and their protection is even more comprehensive.
This incident has successfully focused the attention of the inhabitants of the cities along the North Atlantic coast, and the topic of ghost ships and the Farewell Island protests have become the two most talked about events recently, and the dominant side in terms of public opinion is naturally the side of Farewell Town, because they are nominally weak.
Dow Chemical has repeatedly stated their innocence to the media: there is no problem with their procedures, the sewage discharge is up to standard, and the plant was bought with money, so why can't they go to the island to build a production line?
Farewell to the town is even more innocent, why build a chemical plant around their lives? Why didn't Dow build a production line near its headquarters in Ontario? What, Ontario does not allow the construction of agrochemical plants? Why is Ontario not allowed in Newfoundland?
Qin Shiou talked about his leatherback turtle habitat reserve, and he never mentioned the impact of the construction of a chemical plant on his fishing grounds, but said that if the water is discharged into the seawater, the jellyfish will accumulate toxins when the seawater is filtered, and the leatherback turtle's staple food is the jellyfish, and the leatherback turtle will eventually be injured.
The two sides began to quarrel around this matter, saying goodbye to the town side of the matter, how to talk about it, how to talk about it, there is nothing to do in winter, and there are no tourists, so on a rainy day big children - idle is idle.
They wish that this matter could be made bigger, and the island now relies on tourism to support the economy, and the more famous, the better.
So after understanding this, the townspeople of Farewell Town protested more vigorously, and they had to protest to the media every day.
Dow Chemical can't bear it, they have already borrowed from the bank, talents, equipment are ready, the production line is not put into production for a day, then they will not make money for a day, for enterprises, if they do not make money, it is a loss of money!
But Dow had no other way but to pull it off, and the St. John's police refused to force the protesters, and the dock was blocked, so their transport ships could not get close to the island to transport the equipment.
For the first time, Qin Shiou felt that it was good to live on such an overseas island, at least if he encountered a problem and blocked the dock, it would be able to play a role in being a husband and wife. (To be continued......)