I wasn't actually talking about forestry. It was the Mactaquac dam, Sisson mine, and energy east.
My closing is that with the cumulative impacts we have already experienced, we stand to be significantly impacted by these additional projects. Our livelihoods, culture, traditions, way of life, with respect to our traditional waters, and salmon in particular, have been impacted and will continue to be should we continue along the same path of industrial growth.
With the Sisson mine in particular, obviously it destroys two salmon habitat brooks. It's a 1,700-hectare footprint. It stomps right into the middle of salmon habitat. The study that I have was made by the Canadian Rivers Institute. It basically assumed a lot of silly things, like 100% lethality for water released from the tailings pond, which is a little absurd. It also projected, in a simplistic model, that it could have a zero return in the Nashwaak River by as early as 2028, without any negative effect from the proposed project.
We already have the decline, so any further negative impacts are really horrible for any salmon; I mean the Nashwaak in particular, because it's one of the few unobstructed habitats left for salmon. The Nashwaak River is a fairly large tributary of the Saint John River. It is unobstructed by dams, unlike say upwards of the Tobique.
I have a lot of problems with industrial projects getting approved and approved, because they all build on one another.