tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35935973.post116232497514756318..comments2023-07-25T02:39:44.615-07:00Comments on Bill Tieleman: The Fishy Green Conspiracies of Dr. Patrick MooreBill Tielemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304971610140279157noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35935973.post-1162940861557132782006-11-07T15:07:00.000-08:002006-11-07T15:07:00.000-08:00Puleez, Mr. Tielman. Patrick Moore the bad guy, a...Puleez, Mr. Tielman. Patrick Moore the bad guy, and Alexandra Morton and David Suzuki the good guys?!?<BR/><BR/>Alexandra Morton is an avowed enemy of fish farming and any "scientific report" with which she is associated needs to be viewed with extreme skepticism.<BR/><BR/>I have no doubt that the David Suzuki foundation has carried out intimidation tactics against restaurants in Vancouver. It is a common tactic of greens desperate to force their ideology on the rest of us. Remember the phony European boycott campaigns designed to blackmail the BC forest industry?<BR/><BR/>In this case, your defense of the Looney Left, as opposed to rational leftist thinkers, is simply not credible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35935973.post-1162877592515092642006-11-06T21:33:00.000-08:002006-11-06T21:33:00.000-08:00Bill Tieleman's personal attack on Greenpeace co-f...Bill Tieleman's personal attack on Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore's support of sustainable BC aquaculture is so petty it makes you wonder what caused Tieleman to throw a tantrum now, of all times.<BR/><BR/>Moore, who holds a doctorate in ecology, has been variously practicing, studying and speaking about aquaculture since the 1980s. After roles as both a co-fonder and long-time leader of Greenpeace, Moore was the founding president of the BC Salmon Farmers Association, and operated a farm on the coast for years.<BR/><BR/>For credentials, Tieleman on the other hand, brings to bear years of experience as a partisan spin-doctor. ("Green conspiracies," Oct. 31). I'll take science over politics any day, Bill.<BR/><BR/>Tieleman falsely claims Moore, in his recent Aquaculture Committee testimony, accused Dr. David Suzuki of shaking down restaurants in order to scare them away from offering farmed salmon to their clientele. Moore, in fact, stated the Suzuki Foundation - not Suzuki himself -- had been involved in bully tactics against some Vancouver restaurants. On Suzuki the man, Moore expressed genuine admiration:<BR/><BR/>"Dr. David Suzuki... taught me genetics when I was at UBC in the late 1960s.<BR/>I did two years of genetics; it was a brilliant series of lectures. I owe David a great deal in terms of my understanding of genetic science," Moore told the committee.<BR/><BR/>On aquaculture, they disagree. Can Tieleman not accept that?<BR/><BR/>Moore told the committee that the David Suzuki Foundation and other related groups are pressuring restaurants to abandon the beneficial aquaculture<BR/>industry: "I have personally spoken to an owner of a major restaurant in downtown Vancouver who recounted to me how he was shaken down in this operation. In other words: 'You take farmed salmon off your menu, or you'll have picket signs outside this restaurant scaring away all the public."<BR/><BR/>Tieleman thinks it's "wacky" for Moore to raise this issue. The only wacky aspect of this shameful anti-aquaculture campaign Tieleman and others are waging is the serious adverse impact the campaign will have on thousands of British Columbians - predominantly women - in coastal and First Nations communities. Tieleman really ought to be ashamed of the way he so blindly accepts anything the green activists send his way.<BR/><BR/>Attacking BC's aquaculture sector, its workers and their families has become big business for the David Suzuki Foundation, which receives millions of dollars from wealthy American foundations. So, in a sense these attacks might be expected.<BR/><BR/>But Tieleman's attempts at piling on late in the game will do nothing to repair the damage already done by US-supported activists to Coastal British Columbians who deserve so much better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com