Well the smoke eaters are up to their eyeballs now in wildfires. JL and other authorities are handing out tickets and massive fines to bird watchers, Boy Scouts, hikers and nature lovers as fast as they can write them. The Canadian media is hyperventilating about climate change and focusing the cameras on the capering clowns and carnies.
The adults in the room are reminded that this is how old growth forests die and rejuvenate the young forests that are SUPPOSED to replace them. People forget that half the plants in these forests have evolved seedlings with wing like protuberances that evolved to ride the hellish thermal updrafts that set up during the fire. They’ll be carried aloft and come down far away as they’ve done for eons. It’s a remarkably successful survival strategy. Every year the regions go without fire…they’ll just get drier, and drier until they DO burn.
Ask California how this goes.
Um....exactly where in ALBERTA, where we BOTH live, are you going to get a ticket for walking in the woods?
ReplyDeleteQuit whining and get your damn story straight - this is happening in Nova Scotia only and only because Tim Houston, their premier, is an idiot.
Actually New Brunswick is also banning going into the woods to prevent forest fires, though the fines are much lower than the idiots in NS are selectively enforcing.
DeleteAlso newfieland has a province wide fire ban, this includes in your home and property. An enclosed wood or coal stove is banned, as is an enclosed wood or charcoal bbq, but propane bbq and furnaces are ok. Fines were just raised from $75 to $50,000 for using your bbq on your private land if your property is within 250 meters of a tree.
PEI also has new fine of 50k for using a wood fired appliance on your own property, but charcoal, coal and propane are still ok.
Regardless, it is only the maritimes enacting these stupid rules and PEI only recently (2024) removed the vaxx mandate to visit the island. They are all nuts and enjoy their slavery.
Exile1981
Well you know better than to come HERE and expect a coherent account by now, I should hope? 😂👍
DeleteOf course I am being a facetious dink - and fortunately you guys in law enforcement aren’t wasting time with similar bullshit here. Actually the map I saw should the bulk of the fires over the other provinces east. I suspect our wet weather may have saved us. We have a few… but nothing like the others…
@Exile1981:
DeleteI stand corrected - I just heard about New Brunswick's similar (and equally ridiculous) law not more than two hours ago. I wouldn't be surprised if the rest of the Maritimes follows suit, especially given how, as you astutely point out, the people who live in the Maritimes appear to relish government overreach significantly more than most other Canadians. Considering that the vast majority of Maritimers either a.) work for the government, or b.) are on some form of government income such as social assistance or pogey, this should not come as a surprise.
Just out of curiosity, I read an article in the Globe and Mail on the subject earlier today. I had to shake my head as I read comment after comment of these witless morons cheering on how the government in Nova Scotia has dealt with the dry season issue. Apparently, they have no issues with their own government treating them like toddlers and assuming they're just as stupid and irresponsible as their lowest common denominator. They think this military veteran, Jeff Eveley, is a complete kook, as well. But that's the Martitime culture today, I suppose....it's why I would never live there.
@Filthie: Yeah, I know you were just being a wiseass. To be fair to the conservation officers in NS who gave Eveley that ticket, those guys (even by Eveley's own account) went out of their way to try and avoid giving this guy a ticket. They practically begged the guy to not do this. But he went into the woods anyway for the express purpose of getting the fine. He had no ill will towards the guy who gave him the ticket. The reason he did this, according to the man himself, is because he wants to challenge the fine in court.
Personally? I think he's going to eat turds on this. I know what he's trying to do, but what will happen almost inevitably is this: he's going to go before the judge, the crown will present its case, he's going to be asked if he contravened the specific section of the Forests Act, he's going to be asked if he had any exigent reason for doing so, and when he says "no, but....", that's when the judge will cut him off and ask him if he needs time to pay his fine. The judge MAY let him plead his case, but at the end of the day, it won't amount to anything.
Do I agree with it? No. But that's how the law works...especially over in that part of the country. That's why no person who abhors government overreach should never live there or have anything to do with the place.