Kathy Dunderdale might not be too worried about the environmental impacts of an offshore oil spill.
Charlene Johnson might have trouble from day to day figuring out if the offshore is in her jurisdiction or not.
But make no mistake: David Suzuki has the Gulf of St. Lawrence firmly in his sights. The David Suzuki Foundation is encouraging its supporters to contact the federal government to get a halt to drilling and other exploration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
A big part of the campaign is simulations of the impact of a spill at Old Harry:
Each simulation illustrates what could happen if an spill of approximately 10,000 barrels of oil per day took place over a 10-day period in various seasons. The model demonstrates the direction of the flow of oil emanating from an instant or continuous spill. Forecasts indicate the location and concentration of surface and underground oil over time.
There’s a spring, summer, fall and winter version.
The spring spill hits Newfoundland very hard.
Summer is worse for western Newfoundland.
Fall nails the south coast as far away as the Burin Peninsula. St. Pierre would take it heavily in this scenario.
Winter hits five provinces but affects only a small portion of south western Newfoundland.
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- Miles before they hit the shore (labradore)