National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Federal scientists and the Canadian Coast Guard have joined the flurry of scientific activity around the site of a massive landslide late last year in the Bute Inlet watershed on B.C.’s isolated central coast.
Continue reading Surveying impacts of the Bute Inlet slideScientists are just becoming cognizant of the environmental consequences. According to the Hakai Institute, which operates an ecological observatory on Quadra Island,10 million cubic metres of rock and earth plunged into Elliot Creek on November 28th. Andrew Schaeffer, a Pacific division seismologist with the Geological Survey of Canada, said the landslide “sent out low-frequency surface waves resembling those of a quake with an equivalent magnitude of 4.9.” The glacial lake outburst was about 100 metres high and to shot through Elliot Creek into the Southgate River and Bute Inlet.
Continue reading environmental Consequences Continue: Bute Inlet landslideNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Environmental impacts from millions of tonnes of earth and water sluicing down a valley and spilling into the ocean are just beginning to be understood, say scientists studying a massive landslide in the Bute Inlet watershed.
Continue reading Effects of Bute Inlet landslide unfoldingBy Quinn Bender, Prince Rupert Northern View, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Chief Darren Blaney expects the worst for a generation of coho and chum salmon mowed down in the Southgate River by a massive landslide last month on B.C.’s south-central coast.
Continue reading Bute Landslide: The next generation of coho and chum salmon
