So they removed this “precaution” and replaced it with what? Nothing! Highest percentage of work and runoff is on soil with zero precautions for the marine environment, FFS.

The blocks in the centre are what this quote is referring to – and they were removed Dec. 2022. “As an additional method of particulate filtration, a low-rise wall of lock blocks with filter cloth has been added in order to prevent solids from entering the first stage of the two stage settling tanks.”

The video below shows the start of removing those lock blocks completely in Dec. 2022. So the consultant was just to get the foot in the door – no intention of actually complying.

By Jan. 2023, blocks were removed to accommodate dismantling a barge with just about zero precautions.

Where’s the filtration? Screenshot from Rick Ward video March 2021.
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In a brief interview in July, Deep Water and Union Bay Industries director Mark Jurisich insisted his business is filling a vital role in B.C.’s marine recycling industry and that his companies had always followed the rules.

Jurisich argues his company doesn’t do “ship breaking” because they mainly dismantle barges, which are not ships.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/08/04/BC-Shipbreaking-Firm-Lands-Court/

But, as Deep Water and Union Bay Industries director Mark Jurisich told The Tyee in an interview in February, the plan was always to do ship breaking.

Later, when the nation requested a Zoom meeting with several ministries so the regulators could assure the nation “there will be absolutely no impacts to KFN’s aquaculture facility,” Jurisich reprimanded the province and called the request an “abuse of privilege” because his business has “nothing to do with a traditional way of living.”

In September 2019, another representative told the ministry it “will continue on with log handling now partially in addition to tying up barges (no dissembling of barges).”

A month later they asked if they could “store and tie up barges.”

On the same day the cease-and-desist letter was received, FOI documents show that Jurisich told a consultant who was helping him write an environmental management plan to “keep clear” of “unnecessary distractions” when the consultant asked if the area could have any archeological findings. Jurisich added he was not aware of any.

The next day, Jurisich emailed the province asking if Deep Water could do ship breaking “notwithstanding the current cease and desist letter.”

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/08/05/Who-Watchdogs-BC-Ship-Breakers/