And not just any moonbat, but the Moonbat, George Monbiot himself:
You will not be surprised to hear that the events in Japan have changed my view of nuclear power. You will be surprised to hear how they have changed it. As a result of the disaster at Fukushima, I am no longer nuclear-neutral. I now support the technology.
A crappy old plant with inadequate safety features was hit by a monster earthquake and a vast tsunami. The electricity supply failed, knocking out the cooling system. The reactors began to explode and melt down. The disaster exposed a familiar legacy of poor design and corner-cutting. Yet, as far as we know, no one has yet received a lethal dose of radiation.
The old adage about a stopped clock may be right, but this is actually well-reasoned. Sane, even. Yes, Fukushima had about as bad a hand delt it as is possible, and yet it was never in any danger of becoming another Chernobyl. It simply couldn’t become that bad. The Greens did themselves no favors here:
Some greens have wildly exaggerated the dangers of radioactive pollution. For a clearer view, look at the graphic published by xkcd.com. It shows that the average total dose from the Three Mile Island disaster for someone living within 10 miles of the plant was one 625th of the maximum yearly amount permitted for US radiation workers. This, in turn, is half of the lowest one-year dose clearly linked to an increased cancer risk, which, in its turn, is one 80th of an invariably fatal exposure. I’m not proposing complacency here. I am proposing perspective.
If other forms of energy production caused no damage, these impacts would weigh more heavily. But energy is like medicine: if there are no side-effects, the chances are that it doesn’t work.
I especially like that last sentence. That is very much the truth. Even a dam and water-wheel has some effect on the environment. The Greens’ precious windmills kill birds and bats in addition to not working very well unless the environmental conditions are just right. Not suitable for running the power grid of a Third World nation, let alon that of a modern industrial/post-industrial power.
Monbiot of course gives the obligatory genuflection to “renewable” energy sources, but then he follows it with some hard-nosed analysis of a kind that most Leftists are incapable of. I like his closing paragraph:
At high latitudes like ours, most small-scale ambient power production is a dead loss. Generating solar power in the UK involves a spectacular waste of scarce resources. It’s hopelessly inefficient and poorly matched to the pattern of demand. Wind power in populated areas is largely worthless. This is partly because we have built our settlements in sheltered places; partly because turbulence caused by the buildings interferes with the airflow and chews up the mechanism. Micro-hydropower might work for a farmhouse in Wales, but it’s not much use in Birmingham.
Nothing I disagree with there. What is being said may come as no surprise to the readers of this blog, but what makes this news is the source. If the anti-Nuke “Greens” have lost George Monbiot, they have lost the war. If he stays this rational on the subject, he becomes a better spokesman for our side of the issue than any we can produce. It will be interesting to see if the Left now attack him, since he has stepped off the Green-Red Reservation.
Tags: George Monbiot, Nuclear Power
Great! Only took—what?—half a century plus for one moonbat to come around?
Spot on. Bring on the nukes. I remember TMI. It was bad because it was the first. Now…not so much. Still, nobody died. Happened right around the time that Hollywood released the masterpiece, The China Syndrome.
He will be excoriated to the point of evisceration. The left’s treatment of those on their own side who stray from the path resembles that of insects, no pity, no mercy, no understanding, and no redemption.
I imagine pretty soon we can start printing the following bumper sticker:
Chappaquiddick 1, Fukushima 0
@ doriangrey:
A certain LA Jazz Guitarist will condemn him.
And they heat the micro climate with 1 degree C. This means you get mor hot spots in the environment. Thousands and thousands of them.
@ Macker:
That is twisted. I like it.
Guggi wrote:
@ Guggi:
The whine of the turbines drives many people close by nuts too.
The problem with wind and solar energies is that they depend on what Nature is doing at any given moment; they are all about man ceding control of the supply of his necessities to an erratic and uncontrollable outside force. Coal, oil, gas and nuclear plants, and water turbines, are all controllable by man himself.
What is being falsely sold as “renewable energy” should be subjected to truth in labeling for what it is: unreliable energy.
Brick wrote:
TMI was not the first US melt-down.
How We Almost Lost Detroit in 1966.
No Gojira?
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
I’m a tad confused by the linkage of the words “Detroit” and “lost” in the same sentence like that would have been a bad thing?
vagabond trader wrote:
This too, therefore more and more communities oppose the windmills.
Swimming lesson in Gaza.
Nevergiveup wrote:
That was back in ’66 when Detroit still had a fighting chance.
Today, not so much…
@ Urban Infidel:
OmG are they completely nuts ?
Guggi wrote:
Well yES
And solar power ruins the landscape
Guggi wrote:
YES! That was vicious. What was that baby, maybe 2 years old and coldly batted into a deep swimming pool like he was a toy.
Guggi wrote:
Looks that way to me.
Leia agrees, BTW.
@ Brick:
How bad is something when the first thing they do is fly in President Carter…
//Shit! Caught by my own question
@ Guggi:
Maybe the Greens just love Dutch culture!
/
And there is the unsolved problem with the scrap of disused solar panels which are toxic waste.
@ Urban Infidel:
I have nothing to say to this sickness.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
I had no idea. A couple years before my time, but thanks for that.
Rodan wrote:
It is conditioning for violence and psychopathy.
Wow! 13 Illegal Immigrants Arrested in California Wearing U.S. Marine Uniforms
Urban Infidel wrote:
Pretty nice pool in Gaza? I wonder if the UN knows about it, since they are all starving and all?
waldensianspirit wrote:
Yeah I saw that. pretty dangerous also. But they all had the name “Perez” on their Uniflorm?
At the end of 2008 Germany had 129,167,999 square feet solarpanels which made 0,1 of the energy supply.
waldensianspirit wrote:
I’m Captain Perez of the Pretend Marines
My uniform is starched and clean
But really, I am not a gyrine
And neither am I in the Army
I crossed the border and took a chance
But first I put on these camo pants
So people would not look at me askance
And La Migra just mightn’t harm me
—apologies to “Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines”
@ Rodan:
Well, that’s the Philistines for ya.
On an unrelated subject, Comrade Hugo Chavez has really gone off the deep end…
@ Guggi:
And every one of those solar panels is covered with 10-50% snow. You don’t think that reduces their output?
They need a million squeegee kids to keep ‘em clean.
@ Philip_Daniel:
That’s tomorrow night’s thread! I even included one of his most recent singing clips.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Yea, I’m pretty sure one of the research reactors at Hanford melted down in the mid 50′s too, but because of the cold war it was hushed up until just a couple of years ago.
@ Nevergiveup:
Yeah that’s a give away.
O/T: Proxy war between Iran and KSA?
@ Nevergiveup:
They spelled it wrong. It was supposed to be “Pez”, since they pop out of a dispenser.
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
And don’t ask about the costs: from 2000 to 2008 German tax-payers and consumers had to pay additional Euro 37 Billion and although Germany has cut subsides now in 2009 tax-payers and consumers pay another Euro 10 Billion.
1389AD wrote:
A suicide bombing fight!
@ lobo91:
I remember being tossed into the waves before I could swim by a sadistic jerk. Terrifying. I couldn’t breathe nor could tell up from down. My mother had to pull me out. That’s why that clip disturbs me so much.
Libya was 20% of foreign fighters in Iraq.
@ Urban Infidel:
If you’ve ever said allah ackbar while watching your friend drown thier kid.
You might be a muslim.
waldensianspirit wrote:
I pass through that check point every couple of months, never with any illegal aliens though, usually just a shit load of legal Beer…
Rodan wrote:
doriangrey wrote:
Is beer cheaper in Mexico?
Urban Infidel wrote:
That sadistic jerk in my case was my dad, he was old skool navy, that’s how he taught me to swim.
Nevergiveup wrote:
They give you cerveza with a smile.
Naked Woman Rescued From Cliff in California
Naked women on cliffs? Maybe CA ain’t all that bad?
@ Nevergiveup:
It was when I was there in 2008.
Rodan wrote:
The Air Fare would kill me?
Nevergiveup wrote:
Whose buying the beer in Mexico? I’m taking it to my friends house, he lives about 10 miles past that check point, out in the absolute middle of no-fucking-where. The closest store to him is 20 miles away. He is about half way between the border and that check-point. I would go out there more often, cause the road is way twisty and turny, but it’s like 90 miles from where I live.
From the you know it’s only going to get worse file:
Palestinians use Responsibility to Protect Doctrine (R2P) to call on international community to clamp down in Israel
A New York man facing a driving while intoxicated charge showed up to court for a hearing, but was sent to jail before he even had a chance to step into the courtroom.
Keith Gruber, 49, of Swan Lake, arrived for his appointment 90 minutes late with an open can of beer while acting visibly drunk, officials said. At the security check, authorities uncovered four additional cans of Busch beer in a black bag Gruber was attempting to carry into the courtroom, the Times Herald-Record reports.
The bag was then presented to the judge, who in turn relieved Gruber’s attorney from the case and put the suspect in jail with no bail.
Gruber said he was sorry for the incident and tried to throw away the open beer can – but officers stopped him.
In his defense, if I lived in Swan Lake, I’d be drunk all day also
A STEERING COMMITTEE!!
Nuff said!
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
DOD is getting on the solar panel bandwagon, too.
There’s a big solar farm near the 10th SF Group compound at Ft Carson.
And they’re building one near the south gate of the Air Force Academy, too.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Saw that coming…
Nevergiveup wrote:
What’s sp depressing in Swan lake ?
lobo91 wrote:
Israel should ask for a military assault on the Palestinians under the exact same clause, just site the katusha rockets as the provocation.
Nevergiveup wrote:
ROTFLMAO… considering how much you drink Doc, I figured you did live there…
@ doriangrey:
Sorry to hear it. The sadistic jerk in my case was my mother’s ex boyfriend. I begged him not to do it before he laughed and let my hands go.
Later on at summer camp I was taught by swim instructors like a normal human being.
@ Nevergiveup:
Yeah now it would with rising oil prices. Also it’s very dangerous now.
I recommend the Caribbean for cheap beer!
@ doriangrey:
You’re right on that. I should have pointed out that was the first commercial power station accident. Using the Fermi 1 rector for prototyping the fast breeder design was not too smart that close to a major city.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
That disgusting squishy sound you hear is Samantha Power creaming her jeans.
Guggi wrote:
Ah nothing really. It’s off RT 17 NY and it’s kinda neither there nor here if ya know what I mean
doriangrey wrote:
Actually I don’t drink all that much anymore. But my tastes have gotten more expensive
@ Urban Infidel:
You WERE in the way…
@ buzzsawmonkey:
That’s going to require a whole bunch of brain bleach to get rid of that image…
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Funny thing, if Power were a Republican, her blatant anti-Semitic writings would have had every Democrat and liberal in the nation screaming that she be fired, instead because she is a Democrat they say nothing what so ever, even the damned GOP leadership says nothing.
Guggi wrote:
Standing on the point of your toes?
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Pass the ear plugs too.
U.S. issues Bahrain travel warning over threat of violent political protests (Reuters
So Bahrain gets travel warning, but Libya gets shock and awe? hum, travel warning or shock and awe?
waldensianspirit wrote:
Is that worse than hanging by your thumbs?
@ doriangrey:
Isn’t Samantha Powers married to Cass Sunstein?
doriangrey wrote:
She bought the best possible protection—a JINO husband.
Nevergiveup wrote:
SA’s King has not called for his “Blue Eye’s” to intervene in Bahrain yet, so it’s just a travel warning.
Urban Infidel wrote:
Yup
Urban Infidel wrote:
Have you read any of the crap he has written? He’s as bad as she is, Jew or not, he’s anti-Semitic.
Hey, Chunky Johnson, look! It’s a Muslim Jesus Freak!
Nevergiveup wrote:
I guess I’ll have to change my vacation plans…
//
doriangrey wrote:
As a “genocide scholar”, Samantha Power refuses to acknowledge the well-documented Pan-Islamic component to the Armenian genocide, only concentrating on the Pan-Turkic component.
CABLE NEWS RACE
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Pretty funny
@ waldensianspirit:
I guess. He sucked big time. Always chewing gum. Best moment? The time my sister with one puff bounced the paper wrapper from a drinking straw off his nose from clear across the table at a restaurant in Coney Island.
@ Philip_Daniel:
Different Jesus but don’t tell Charles Nodickens. Of course, Nodickens’ll love the islamic Jesus; they claim he’ll come as a witness against me and you.
lobo91 wrote:
Solar is practical for niche uses only. I have a small solar panel on the motorhome roof. It trickle-charges the coach batteries so that they won’t drain completely dead when the coach is parked for awhile with power off.
@ doriangrey:
Yes I have. In my profession I’ve worked with him on one of his books.
1389AD wrote:
As much as I’d like to see the House of Fraud and the Twelvers killing each other off, problem is their war will set the middle east aflame and we will see $200 a barrel oil.
And our troops in Iraq and the Israelis will be caught in the middle of it.
Only silver lining in the cloud is that we may end up with Allen West as President as a result of it as he seems like the only guy who can articulate the dangers emanating from the Muslim world and has the leadership skills to guide our ship of state though this mess.
Rodan wrote:
More here.
@ Nevergiveup:
I’m surprised that some of the shows on FOX Business Network aren’t on that list. They have to be doing better than MSNBC and CNN.
The Osprey wrote:
From your lips to God’s ears.
@ 1389AD:
Once we cut everyone’s energy use by 90% it’ll be practical…
The Osprey wrote:
I’m not getting out the popcorn here. More like Tylenol, Tums, and Pepto Bismol.
Urban Infidel wrote:
<—- Backs slowly away from Urban Infidel… Girl, there are things that even I, a former rock Star will not do for money…
lobo91 wrote:
The moonbats want to do that by cutting the POPULATION by that much. Starting with the likes of US.
1389AD wrote:
Let them prove their dedication to Mother Giai by going first.
Urban Infidel wrote:
Could be because Fox Business isn’t carried by as many cable systems, or that it’s not part of the basic packages.
lobo91 wrote:
This is the lifestyle that the tree-huggers have in mind for us. Not for themselves, of course…
Bob Gates’ Blues
Got your trousers ’round your ankles
Got your dick there in your hand
Got your trousers ’round your ankles, yes
Got your dick wavin’ in your hand
Four weeks without no plannin’
You go bomb a foreign land
Oh, you’re tryin’ to save the rebels
Though you don’t know who they are
Yes, tryin’ to save the rebels, Lord
But you don’t know who they are
If you don’t know who you’re helping,
Why did you send the boys so far?
Oh, the Arab League was whinin’
‘Bout that nasty Gaddafi
Yes, the Arab League was whinin’
‘Bout that nasty Gaddafi
But when time came to do something,
They said, “That’s for you, not me.”
doriangrey wrote:
Without totally giving myself away, I could add a whole roster, a rogues gallery if you will, of the biggest anti-semites as well as members of former and current administration and cabinet. It’s a living. It’s what I do. It’s interesting as hell and I do stir the pot. And no one knows I’m doing it.
Obama? You have a Responsibility to Protect Syrian rebels too. Get on it
Nevergiveup wrote:
The article declines to speculate on why the woman was on the cliff, but I suspect that alcohol and/or other psychoactive drugs were part of the picture.
Urban Infidel wrote:
Which one?
A new computer virus has been detected that you may wish to guard against:
This is the Palestinian Virus–a virus that settles
in your PC, claims it was there before your PC was
built or Bill Gates was born, then demands
parts of your hard drive.
If you want the virus to leave you and your PC
alone, you can try to give the virus the hard drive
space it wants, but it will refuse the deal and
start killing data on your computer.
Some people have suggested a solution for this virus
problem is to give the virus its own PC. As stated
above, this virus has been known to refuse the
offer. Other nearby PCs won’t take the virus either,
even if the virus is compatible with the other
computers. The virus seems to want nothing
less than to take over your entire computer together
with the removal and destruction of all your data.
Software based anti-virus solutions have been
proposed, but so far only hardware solutions have had
any impact. The only solution we have been able
to determine that may work is the physical removal
of the virus from your computer.
The only problem with this solution is all the other
computers will object, and you will be castigated in
the media and by the U.N.
@ 1389AD:
As someone once said, “You can’t always get what you want…”
Urban Infidel wrote:
I hope you write a tell-all book and/or blog afterward, and I hope that you pull absolutely no punches whatsoever.
@ waldensianspirit:
I heard something about an anti-christ. Hmmm.
Philip_Daniel wrote:
I’ll be glad to tell you offline if you email me. I’d be happy to tell all of you but I don’t want to broadcast it here.
1389AD wrote:
No, actually the article was very clear why she was on that cliff. She was on the way to Black’s Beach, it’s San Diego California’s local clothing optional beach. There are three ways to get to the beach, it’s a ten mile walk either coming down from the north or going up from the south. Or it’s a half mile walk if you walk down the trails from the over looking cliffs, which are about 400 feet high. She, like the vast majority of nude sunbathers who go to Blacks Beach, chose the shorter, but more dangerous route.
@ 1389AD:
Ironically, one of the more common uses of solar panels I see around here is by oil companies, who use them power telemetry instruments on remote wellheads and batteries.
You have to look a the whole package; not just the cost per kWhr, but the cost of stringing in wires from the grid. They use grid power where practical, but solar is often more practical in remote sites.
1389AD wrote:
Evil laugh.. Oh boy would I love to!
Urban Infidel wrote:
So do it, just don’t give away any national secrets (Well that Julian Asange didn’t already)…
‘Nite, folks.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Night Buzz…
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Night!
@ doriangrey:
I suppose that improving the trails would put one afoul of some loony California environmental statute?
“Ohmigod, you’re destroying the habitat of the California Goggle-eyed Sand Flea!”
Libyan war rattles Democratic political strategists in lead up to 2012 presidential election
Ehehehehhhe! Sweat you sammammabeotches
Here is a suggestion, try harder to snatch guns from the clingers
ht hotair
The wheels on the Bus fall off off off, off off off, off off off, the Wheels on the Bus fall off off off, all through the year…
doriangrey wrote:
I wish, but I have to keep my day job. It’s not easy having two secret lives. There’s things I do on my blog that I can’t tell anyone at work. There have been many times I wanted to share work stuff with you guys but I can’t. Unless I switch industries or make a million bucks on my own book, I’m staying in my perch.
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
Or something like that…
@ waldensianspirit:
Dang it, you beat me by 2 whole minutes…
@ doriangrey:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHT84A5t418
1389AD wrote:
It happened above Black’s Beach in San Diego which is a well known nudist beach…maybe she just took the wrong trail and got lost…but now if it happened near Santa Cruz I would definitely say psychoactives were involved…
Here is Ron White doing his dorian impression:
waldensianspirit wrote:
Heh heh heh, same guy who put the tires on Ron’s van must have put the tires on Obama’s bus…
The Osprey wrote:
Why didn’t she disrobe AFTER she got to the beach?
1389AD wrote:
It’s California, ya really got to ask a question like that?
@ 1389AD:
Maybe she didn’t want to fall down on top of naked people while wearing clothes (because it might make them feel uncomfortable).
Or else, people are supposed to show up naked before they get onto the beach so that they aren’t viewed as possible lookie-loos.
Many, many greens are not anti nuke. Brave new climate blog is full of them. They realistically know the sun and wind will not provide dense enough power sources for modern life. So if they had to chose between carbon based or nuclear, many go nuke.
snowcrash wrote:
Too bad nobody in the Obama administration understands that…
@ Eliana:
Was she on her way to the beach, or from it? Maybe she had gotten down there, stripped off, and had some sort of bad experience that made her want to get the hell out ASAP.
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
Yeah – maybe she thought she could hitchhike a lot faster without clothes (so she could make a fast getaway).
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
Or more likely was looking for a place to take a pee part way up the cliff in a small canyon and got stuck.
@ lobo91:
I’m sure they do understand. They want the USA to fail. It’s a feature, not a bug.
@ doriangrey:
There are no public facilities at Blacks Beach, it is a moderately remote beach.
@ doriangrey:
Of course, it does have the entire Pacific Ocean to take a pee in.
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
Stephen Chu certainly knows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Chu
@ doriangrey:
My uncles did the same to me. (at least that’s how the story goes – I don’t ever remember learning how to swim, it’s like I just always knew)
doriangrey wrote:
Don’t hippies usually pee when they’re in the ocean?
Wonderful news for the UK once the Khilafah is reestablished!
m wrote:
That’s where four-legged critters have an advantage over us.
They pretty much just walk in the water, so they don’t have to learn anything.
@ snowcrash:
Yet he believes in AGW. He’s too smart to be stupid, so he has to be evil. There’s no other explanation.
@ doriangrey:
This is blacks Beach… http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=32.89043+-117.25344&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.037246,107.138672&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=16
Zoom in and out to see the cliffs, they are at least 400 feet high.
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
Or he’s getting paid off…
@ lobo91:
That falls under “evil” in my lexicon.
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
@ 1389AD:
Either of you ever been in the water off Southern California? It isn’t as warm as most people think, this time of year it’s down right cold, 54 degree’s and only 68 to 70 degree’s on the beach. Not likely anyone is going in the water just to take a pee. Only the hard core surfers are in the water this time of year.
When was the last time any sane person agreed with Dennis Kucinich? Kucinich: Libya action ‘impeachable’
@ doriangrey:
Well, think how good you’ll feel once you come out. But really, I was just kidding a little. Your theory is quite plausible.
huckfunn wrote:
We already decided yesterday that that’s one of the signs of the Apocalypse.
Libya
Can anyone say “clusterfuck”
Hussein is trying to palm off control of the operation and everyone is saying “not me”
Geez….
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
ROTFLMAO… You don’t feel good coming out, you feel like you are going to freeze to death. There is always a off shore breeze this time a year, so even though it 68 or 70 degree’s it’s slightly chilly.
I know my theory is plausible, I’ve been to that beach, a couple of times… for.. ummm research purposes, of course…
@ huckfunn:
Lately I’m agreeing with Ron Paul. The world seems topsy turvey.
@ lobo91:
@ snowcrash:
That’s how the Apocalypse get’s you, things get so weird you suddenly find yourself agreeing with the crazy people and BANG… it’s the Apocalypse…
New DOD.
Chuck’s dream
lobo91 wrote:
Dang! I missed it. Well, as long as it’s decided, I guess I’ll go along with it.
snowcrash wrote:
doriangrey wrote:
Strange days indeed… most peculiar mama
So, the whole “1000 times worse than Hiroshima” crowd are feeling a bit red-faced about the claim after seeing the actual results of an earthquake and a tsunami on somewhat outdated nuclear facilities in Japan, eh?
huckfunn wrote:
Yup, and I have a bad feeling the it’s only going to get stranger… :sock:
@ doriangrey:
Dedicated to America…
Eliana wrote:
I caught an amusing call to Levin’s show yesterday.
This guys basically said, “In WWII, we dropped 2 atom bombs on Japan, right? And that released about a million times more radiation than these powerplants have, right? If nobody in California died from those bombs, why would they worry about the powerplants?”
I had to admit, he had a point…
@ doriangrey:
So what do experienced beach-goers do when the need arises to answer a call of Nature? As it no doubt will, once you have consumed all those adult beverages you laboriously toted down the trail…
Seems to me some kind of portable cabana or screen, and a hole dug in the sand would answer.
Of course, the obvious solution is provide a number of port-a-potties.
I think the apocalypse has arrived, when you start seeing events like 9.1 earthquakes and wars without congressional approval and no clear objective as normal everyday happenings.
I’ll be back in a bit, running out for more silver coins, beans and ammo.
doriangrey wrote:
Everything is moving at such a fast pace; much faster than what you and I grew up with. It will get much stranger much faster. Damn! It already has.
@ lobo91:
Not to mention the fact that the mushroom cloud basically injects all those radionuclides right into the stratosphere, where the jet stream can latch onto them and carry them thousands of miles. The low-energy venting of a damaged reactor, if it gets outside at all, will simply flow downhill under the influence of gravity, and settle in low areas downwind. Most of that stuff is heavy.
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
The obvious solution isnt quite as obvious as it might seem. How do you get them there? There is no road access to Black’s Beach, half of the day tide heights at points both north and south of the beach make it impossible to drive down the beach, plus those places where the tide heights make it impossible don’t actually have beach’s, they are places where the ocean pretty much goes right up against the cliffs and only at the lowest point of the tide can 4WD vehicles get past.
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
They go find a secluded canyon along the cliff and do their business.
doriangrey wrote:
Phew. Remind me not to visit that place. I hate flies.
@ doriangrey:
Ahh, the irony! Make access to the beach difficult, to preserve it as a “natural” environment, and then it becomes so popular, that people doing what comes naturally, eventually befoul the place.
There is a similarly-situated beach in Vancouver, B.C., called Wreck Beach, that faces the same problem.
Sometimes a little development is good thing. Port-a-potties could be brought in using a hovercraft, or landing craft.