There are absolutely huge impacts. As I mentioned, you have the above-water noise of the generators. The ships are sitting quite high out of the water, and with the generators and noise carrying across water—if you have ever been on a lake, you can hear someone talking on the other side—that constant level has increased as high as, at some places in Ladysmith, 66 decibels. This is in the middle of the night. People are being impacted that way.
The underwater noise is extensive too. The studies are coming out now that the marine life is being affected by the vibration of these diesel generators at anchor under water.
Then add in the transits. The federal government closed an area near my home to all vessel traffic for sports—everyone—right off Plumper Sound on North Pender. However, it allows all of these bulk carriers to transit right past that exact.... The reason they closed it was that it is the southern resident killer whales' foraging zone and it was impacting that. They shut it down to us and allowed the freighters to continue.
If you want lots of data, we have been asking the federal government to accept our data. We have some wonderful data, which is all backed up factually. We have been gathering it for many years now. I have been at this for a long time. I'm going grey over it. We would be pleased to provide any information in that regard to you.