Submission + - Activist Disrupts Detonations to Protect Cranes
The Narrative Fallacy writes: "Nature reports that on 14 July, Ingmar Lee broke into a buried explosive charge and cut the detonation cord, later claiming responsibility and giving television interviews threatening more damage at Denny Island, an isolated Canadian island in British Columbia about 500 km north of Vancouver where a team of geophysicists is studying granite formation. The aim of the seismic studies on Denny Island is to define the formation, growth and recycling of Earth's crust in that area — events that happened in the late Cretaceous, some 65 million years ago. After Royal Canadian Mounted Police declined to provide protection to the scientists, local residents rallied to guard them so that they could complete repairs and set off a targeted charge late on the night of 16 July and over the following two days, the team were able to set off the remainder of the charges at 15 other sites in a line moving inland through a river valley. Lee, a long-time forest-protection campaigner who lives 1 km from the blast site, says that "there has been no prior community information, consultation or discussion" of the detonations and that the reason he disrupted the detonations was to protect Sandhill crane nests located within 2 km of the Denny Island blast site whose recently hatched chicks are currently in their most vulnerable pre-flight stage. "This is a very specialized wilderness area," says Lee. "I was concerned for the sandhill cranes and salmon. I consider this non-violent civil disobedience." On 17 July, police charged Lee with one count of willful mischief endangering life for disrupting the seismic studies."
