Barry Penner loves water. A lot. It seems like everything he does in some way relates to water. I mean, it makes a degree of sense, as so much of The Environment relies on the wet stuff to work properly, but perhaps with Barry Penner there is a little… more going on there.
“One of the things that gave me concern [happened] this past summer, in August. The Ministry of Environment issued [an advisory] which was in my memory unprecedented,” Penner said.
“It was a high stream flow advisory — in August during what amounted to a drought. How could that be? Because it was so hot that the glaciers on the coast were melting at a very rapid rate.
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“Those kinds of things really trouble me because that’s our heritage up there. I view that as our insurance plan for long droughts. When it starts melting at such a rate that the rivers are raging, with no precipitation contributing, all coming from the ice melt, you know you are drawing down your heritage assets at a rapid rate.” – Vancouver Sun
See? Water, in addition to being the source of our province’s finances and a wily trickster, also makes up our very heritage.
Does anyone else remember the Heritage Minute that showed nothing but a frozen glacier for 60 seconds? Barry Penner does.
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