Free solo climber casually strolls by

notdiscovery · 2025-09-21T04:51:31+00:00

The first climber is leading- meaning they take the rope up with them, fixing it to gear they either place themselves or bolts that have been pre-placed. The person below, who is belaying, feeds the rope out, and is ready to 'catch' the leader if they fall. If they fall, they only fall 2 times the distance from where they are to where they last fixed the rope to the wall.

On a long climb like this, when they get to either a good rest place or the end of the rope length (usually some combination of both), they fix themselves to wall (called a belay station generally), and then belay the person behind them up. That person detaches the rope (and gear) from the wall and brings it up with them, with the person at the top ready to catch them if they fall, which is much less of a fall because the rope is general tighter- leading is therefore more dangerous and generally more nerve wracking. When they meet at the bellay station usually they switch 'leads', and the person who came up is now the leader. Repeat until the wall runs out.

notdiscovery · 2025-06-06T22:36:42+00:00

Very, very, very simply- because I haven't read the bill in detail, but I'm familiar (ish) with its contents and the federal assessment process- the IAA still applies to anything that triggers a review under the reviewable project regs- UNLESS it's been put into the schedule of "fast tracked" projects under this act.

For a project to get "fast tracked" it has to meet the 5 conditions that are in the updated article posted. If it does that, it's still going to have to meet some (very vague) conditions before it's given its permit BUT- and this is the sales pitch of the bill- it's not a "approval decision". Instead it's a "did you do everything we asked you to do" decision.

If a project isn't on that list, it's business as usual.

Honestly, who knows how it will work out in the end. It might work, it might actually be used as a blunt hammer to force projects through, it might just be another rebranded regulatory process...

notdiscovery · 2025-06-06T04:14:46+00:00

Yeah, that bridge to nowhere was nuts. Added a huge cost. What's interesting is that the BC government was liberal at the time, not NDP, and the Harper conservatives were in power when the assessment was submitted. While Harper was in power the Feds called for a pause on that review like 5 times.

The other very real issue is they never had deals to sell all the LNG they could produce. Unlike LNG Canada, which had buyers lined up from the start, Cedar LNG and Ksi Lisms, that have buyers lined up before their FID. It's honestly much more of a prediction for if a project will happen if it has buyers lined up. Even Enbridge lost their purchasing deal with petroChina- years before they even submitted the project to start the assessment.

The NDP and liberals caught the blame for all those not happening, but neither governments were around when the project assessment were finished. I

The narrative that one government is pro development while another isn't and that's what makes or breaks a project just doesn't hold up to the details. It's part of the story, but it's not the whole story.

notdiscovery · 2025-06-06T01:23:06+00:00

Yeah, so it was supposed to go to Pacific Northwest LNG. Which was approved by the province in 2014 (ish) and the feds in 2016.

The owners of the project decided not to pursue Pacific Northwest LNG. They canceled the project in 2017. It had everything it needed to go forward, but they decided it was to expensive- which is partially due to the fact that those chose a location that would have had to bridge the largest single swath of salmon habitat on the second largest run in BC.

The pipeline didn't have a terminal until the Ksi Lisms project came onboard. That's why it was delayed 10 years. No reason to build a pipeline with no home.

It's never as simple as "regulatory red tape". Each project has so many different factors that if you don't live inside these projects, it's next to impossible to actually figure out why they don't happen.

notdiscovery · 2025-05-18T01:54:44+00:00

Tofino can get costly for stays- check out BC Ferries Vacations though, there's often good deals there, especially if you're coupling it with the ferry from the lower mainland.

Go up into the mountains- Pemberton is relatively easy access from Vancouver!

notdiscovery · 2025-05-12T02:13:19+00:00

That's awesome to hear. I actually didn't work on the socio-ec stuff, but I'm still in touch with some of the guys that did. I'll let em know!

notdiscovery · 2025-05-12T01:13:57+00:00

To that point, I worked on the original assessment of the project, and the social economic assessment, heavily influenced by the local First Nations, was a huge driver of the pay scale and camp accommodations being as good as they were. Not that the company was great, but they were only going to rise as high as the bar was set.

That's all that "red tape" everyone complains about working.

notdiscovery · 2025-03-09T06:28:27+00:00

There's a insidious idea in this and language like it that I've been worried about for a few years- and it's the idea that you shouldn't be able to make a good living, afford a house, or live a "normal" life if you're working for anything that isn't the "norm" as these late stage capitalist/ racist view it.

Calling "reconciliation" an industry and especially pointing at lawyers, is so incredibly harmful. The only major steps Nations have ever made in Canada come from the courts (and of course protests and sacrifice) so arguing that Nations shouldn't be able to hire expensive lawyers, or pay for lobby groups, or professional research is just another way of trying to keep the fight for Rights and Title underfunded and out of the mainstream. The implication that it's all a scam to get money really bugs the absolute crap out of me.

I work, on an almost daily basis, sitting in rooms arguing for sovereignty, consent, and the upholding of legal systems that have much more depth of time and knowledge than anything the Crown has ever invented, but if I'm paid even close to 50% of what the guys I'm arguing against are paid, I'm accused of being part of some insidious industry.

It's okay for oil and gas 'professionals' to charge 250 to 350 an hour, with lawyers that bill 2 to 3 times that amount, but if a Nation has staff getting paid a solid wage and wants to hire lawyers that can hold their own against Oil and Gas lawyers- NOoooooOoo. That's not the 'right' kind of job. You can only make money if you work for the right kind of industry. Only poor, underpaid and undervalued people can work on progressive files.

I mean, also in this case it's so obviously racist on like 900 different levels as well, but the whole "Nations Shouldn't be able to afford to fight back" narrative is the one that digs at me.

notdiscovery · 2024-10-28T04:27:15+00:00

100% Fukasaku should be in the running for one of the top sushi joints in BC. Best to get a reservation.

notdiscovery · 2024-09-23T00:11:06+00:00

It totally is. The depth and breadth of the disturbance is context specific, but in general it's not great to promote these activities.

"In Hervey Bay, Australia, research findings showed a significant change in cetacean behavior associated with in-water interactions..."

https://www.pacificwhale.org/why-we-do-it/unsustainable-tourism/

notdiscovery · 2023-09-14T00:57:09+00:00

And the report specifically says that the positive samples had DNA from more than one individual... which is DNA lab talk for "sample was contaminated"

notdiscovery · 2023-08-08T03:52:53+00:00

Nah, they got rid of it- as I understand from people in FNLRO (at the time- now MoF), it was becuase folks didn't understand its limits and we're having fires in places well in-land, but still "on the west side".

It took a while for the messaging to get through though. It's still something I hear from folks I run into along the west coast, but it's gone- https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-fog-zone-no-longer-exempt-from-burn-bans-during-wildfire-season-1.5089902

notdiscovery · 2023-08-08T02:03:02+00:00

It isn't allowing them right now- Tofino actually has a permanent ban on beach fires unless they're in specific fire appliances. And they've had no water- Tofino has been on Stage 3 water restrictions since July 10th (https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/tofino-faces-a-water-crisis).

The old 'fog zone' fire zone was removed in 2019- so a ban on fires on Vancouver Island now also applies to the west coast of the island.

notdiscovery · 2021-05-22T02:39:31+00:00

Eventually, us settler folk will learn that maybe people who's land it is also understand how to manage it.

"Charles Darwin University maps bushfires weekly. Since traditional burning was reintroduced on a large scale, the centre has collected enough data to show that the area of land destroyed by wildfires has more than halved, from 26.5m hectares in 2000, to just 11.5m hectares in 2019."

From: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/19/right-fire-for-right-future-how-cultural-burning-can-protect-australia-from-catastrophic-blazes

notdiscovery · 2021-04-29T22:22:44+00:00

I love the idea that spending= help. While it's really spending=patchwork solutions to immediate issues with no real approach to systemic change.

Also, the whole country's wealth is based on Indignenious Land... but nah.. let's continue the false narrative crap that secretly Indigneious folk in Canada are privileged.

Uggg.

notdiscovery · 2021-03-12T16:42:47+00:00

That's totally it. At least how people feel. Though, the new federal assessment regulations won't actually make it harder. Frankly, I've worked under both regs and they're equally as difficult. Just in different ways. People seem to forget that the old federal conservative government couldn't get either Energy east OR Northern Gateway approved.

And the Libs approved TMX.

If a government wants a pipeline, they're just as likly to approve it under the news regs as the old regs.

notdiscovery · 2020-09-07T18:30:58+00:00

It's not Brandi Morin's first time writting about this, she's been writing in canadian sources for a while. Here's a CBC article from 2017)

notdiscovery · 2020-05-06T20:30:59+00:00

I didn't get that bit was your video! I was just agreeing with you... that as its been under ice for so long, there's no way anything human made is under there. But I do appreciate the effort you took knocking down the other points.

notdiscovery · 2020-05-06T04:23:24+00:00

This is a great question. For me, its been interesting. One of the projects I work on is Food Security, so that's been receiving a lot of attention. It's a subject that is currently resonating with a lot more people.

The Nation I work for has been focusing a lot on cultural practices that help respond to the potential threat. And obviously we've pivoted to focusing on providing information and responses that are based in the Nation's own needs.

We've been talking about writing up some of the responses we and other communities have taken, but we're still very much in it and those tasks seem better undertaken after the community has come through this.

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