He says the barges are dismantled on land, on a sealed asphalt surface, and that the barges are “basically big square, steel boxes” that don’t contain any hazardous materials. He says they have never taken apart any sort of motorized vehicle.

Mark Jurisich Feb. 18/22. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/local-government-says-it-will-turn-to-the-courts-to-stop-barge-recycling-business-1.6355565?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

“Our attorneys say ‘at the end of the day Mark, the law is the law and you haven’t done anything wrong. If you were you would have been shut down. Particularly with the amount of pressure and exposure that you are under right now,’” he says. “That has not happened.”

Mark Jurisich Feb. 20/23. https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/02/20/BC-Slow-Action-Ship-Breaker-Case/

Torching on the barge again today. You can see all the filings and rust visible on the soil from the guy yesterday with the blower. They torched apart all the supports where it sits so metal filings and other debris is all mixed together.

Getting the barge ready to put back in the water. Workers looking at lining it up to by pass the asbestos laden Miller Freeman.

Feb. 26/24. Started dismantling it barely above the high tide line.
Mar. 16/24. Upper portion of barge being torched apart. Notice the colour of the soil directly left of where the barge sits – now look at today.

DWR continues with no precautions in place to prevent whatever residue is left after torching/shipbreaking on SOIL. JFC.

Imagine over the last 4 years what has been intentionally directed downhill towards the ocean. The drone only captures minutes of an entire work day. 4 years of washing it out into the ocean/marine environment.

Maybe they will have used their brush vehicle and made it all disappear by my next flight.