Divers remove hundreds of tires from St. Lawrence River near Montreal
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
- In southwestern Quebec, volunteers are spending much of this week underwater, as part of a critical clean-up project.
Divers are working off the city of Beauharnois near Montreal, collecting some of the thousands of tires that were intentionally placed in the St. Lawrence River.
Global's Mike Armstrong takes a deep dive into how the tires got there, and the effort to remove them.
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Unfortunately people like this will never be our politicians! Magnificent job 👏
No the politicians allow raw sewage to be pumped in the St.Lawence River.
40 000 tires. How the f did the government agree to that? Amazing
Boomers.
I kayak the Ottawa river and i always see tires but many are too dep. in the past year I've removed half a dozen. and this is just around petrie island. it really is a problem
Is that river as cold as it looks?
🙏🏾
@@GWNorth-db8vnno you can swim comfortably during the summer
Of course the marina is picking up the tab for this cleanup, right?
Its all volunteer
Such a tiring job
absolutely treadful puns incoming.
This is a job for a floating barge crane with a dragline and another barge to haul tires away. It will take decades for a few divers to do it.
Ughhhhh. Diving in cloudy water is a horrible time. This can't be easy.
@@DDRWakaLaka yes how tire ING
I think I'm funny but definitely crazy hard work
lol you need a permit to remove garbage from the lakes.
And it takes a year to get one
I was wondering where i left those
QC Mensa Members put them in
Making mistakes and walking away is what governments excell at.
That's what elections are for -- to abdicate responsibilities. That's why we need a meritorious system.
It was a marina, not the government.
@@thatcanada
Who do you think approved it?
Pretty awesome 2 do
Well done!
What a shame🫤
Nothing surprises me in Quebec, they’ve been dumping in that river for centuries
How is the government of Quebec not funding this and removing the tires itself!?
🙏🏾 May the Good Lord Bless you, and all involved. 🙏🏾
IF NOT CLIMATICALLY DONE, PLEASE STOP DISPOSING TIRES & OTHER WASTE IN THE LAKES, RIVERS & OCEANS, they have feelings too. Merci beaucoup Plongeur
If it were sunken treasure from shipwreck. They would be in a museum by now. Quick fixes are seldom productive when dealing with environmental issues.
Oh ? Don't throw garbage in the ocean?
What a surprise
shame
Thankyou so much for the clean up👏👏👏👏
Félicitations, nos héros, on a amené notre fils là et à Melocheville aussi, le mois passé, quelle belle place! Merci, Josée Noël, technicienne forestière, Pte-Claire xox...
How is the marina not held responsible and paying for this disaster?
Just drag it with hooks and pull them up for the first 10-20 thousand tires. Dragers is or use to be very common in ocean fishing. Are they going to say it will damage the lake bed ? Cause it can't get any worse in the long run . Get them out.
It would wreck the bottom and everything living there. Fishing gear is normally used far out at sea where the floor is really deep.
@@francoisleveille409 - Nothing lives on or under a pile of tires, anyway. If they dredge the bottom, the river will fill the silt back in.
@@GWNorth-db8vn "Nothing lives on or under a pile of tires, anyway."
If you drag the tires you're not just going to affect what is UNDER the tires but also everything that is along the track you're going to churn at the bottom.
@@francoisleveille409 - What's under the tires is silt. The river brings it and dumps it anywhere the current slows down. A dragline with about four big hooks would pick the tires out without moving much silt around. Tires leach toxins and oil forever.
So, instead of complaining, this woman leads a group of people who take positive action. They do something about it. They fix it. I like this.
This is your drinking water. Unbelievable.
better off dragging the waters
Should be more concerned about the plastics being dumped into the water, and the bilge pumps of ships that empty into the water.
Bilge pumps return bilge water to the sea or river where it came from in the first place.
@@rayray8687 And when the bilge pumps return the water to the sea or river, this water contains the spilled fuel and all the other garbage within the bilge
@@MrBuddy-r8w: Boats large enough to have a bilge pump should usually have screening, filtration and an oil separator so that only water is returned to the sea. Otherwise they’re required to dump at a recovery unit on shore. My small runabout had a plug in the stern that I would remove in my driveway. The water that came out was almost entirely rainwater. Also other than the steel cords car tires are mostly plastic, so these people are doing a great job entirely of their own volition.
@@rayray8687 So why don't many large boats have screening and filtration systems? How many of these boats dump at recovery units, as per the requirements? Pulling your stern plug in your driveway to release the almost entirely rain water is irrelevant
@@MrBuddy-r8w: I believe you might be confusing bilge water with ballast water? The two are entirely separate systems where ballast water is frequently pumped into or out of separated areas to maintain stability. In any case unlike you I don’t know how many large ship owners don’t follow marine bilge regulations mostly because I don’t know any people with large ships. As to why people break the law, that’s a question for philosophers not mere mortals. But my question is why would you expect a group of volunteers trying to remove a bunch of junk from a nice harbour to involve themselves in ship’s bilge pump systems where they have no legal authority?
👏🏼👏🏼 hero’s with out a cap
Great example of do as we say, not as we do.
permits to cleanup up some governments mess? We are doomed. Well done divers! Thank you for your hard work!
Dredges exist
Now I know why the odd beluga is showing up with a tire stuck on their heads.
Thank you
Thank you
Mmmmmmmm
I think it's fine, no, not really need to remove
The urethane from the straps holding the tires and the microplastics from the tires are leaching into the water, which is a water supply for Montreal. Also polluting the shorelines will result in unknown consequences for our food sources as this waterway is obviously connected to the rest of the planet.
Once again...stay classy Quebec.
Yeah those kind of things ONLY happen here.
@@redMaple_QC
Absolutely not...lots of funny things happen in "Quebec"
Give yourself more credit.
@@chrislim7976 Sorry. It was sarcasm.
Absolutely degaleuse
dégueulasse 😉
@@redMaple_QC lmao 🤣
Do they absorb the sewage Mtl dumps in.
Why? Tires are inert. I dont advocate disposing of them this way but....
Exactly
Has anyone tested for these “toxins”
@@paulthiessen6444 I bet you're against vaccines though eh?😂😂
LOLno they aren't, they're constantly degrading
@@888Longball I wasn't talking to you
@@bobwoods1302 no I’m not. I just don’t like it when people say things without any backing.
Don't know why they are putting so much effort into this. Just leave them there and let the turtles eat them
2/10
You’re eating it too. Everything’s connected.
@@brma1892 yes tires taste good and a good balance to your diet