The Liberals are something else, and that 'something' is Kakistocracy

Yes. What we worked so hard to build as a nation is gone because Liberal de-Enterprise took power from Canadians.

Yes, we lose our health care, and our cities will be patrolled by U.S. military, and our governments will be shut down, and our resources will no longer fund our way of life.

We are an illusion as a country anyway. The weather makes it impossible to keep the illusion alive. One crop per year, 7 months frozen, Canadian populations huddle close to the U.S. border, as close as possible. A few huddle around Maple trees gather syrup for trade. A few run pipes deep underground to get oil for a real economy in the U.S.. All the prattle about how great it is, not really, unless you're tough enough to play hockey, and lucky enough to avoid the Lawyer criminals scuttling down the streets, diverting ambulances. This isn't a fuck you Canada. It's a statement imploring pragmatism about what's happening here. If India has a reverse of population, as China has, as the whole world has, believe me, Canada won't be the first choice of any immigrants anywhere in the world.

Why? Mainly because the Liberal Party back room boys (and girls) are criminals, who put a gaping hole in the treasury for themselves, while we get the Two Randys, and Rainbow Trudeau, and Bungy Guilbeault, and our money disappears, and our resources are locked in, and our energy is slipped out the back door.

Meanwhile the criminals made the drugs flow, the hospitals fail, the organs available, and made people lose political choice; there is no election, there is no Opposition, there is nothing but other countries laughing, and threatening to walk in and take over.

 Why did this happen? Because Liberals fell to criminals. Could there be another reason? Not one as obvious as this. Because people in power put Trudeau in office.

It becomes obvious to the world the Prime Minister is an unwelcome presence in a government in Canada which has no moral compass, and no legitimate place in governance.  These Liberals haven't won an election since 2015. 

Here we are with a foot in the door of 2025, and the Liberals are somehow running government.  That is something else. A collective criminals, low-lifes, and incompetent people cling to power by any means possible.  

Why have Canadians fallen to the criminals? Lawyer criminals  graduate law school to be better criminals provide a rotten untenable foundation atop which they put a drama teacher in charge of Canada. 

What motivates criminals? Greed. More than power, they want to own everything, and having a dead-from-the-neck up Prime Minister opens the taxpayer's vault to the criminal syndicate stealing power. Owning everything is actually possible when you have a whole National Treasury at your disposal.

That's what this federal government amounts to. A mob of greedy criminals and their associates is called a Kakistocracy. You're living it. Look it up. It's ugly. You know it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy

These criminals have been destroying as much as they can for decades, because they are greedy. And I see what they have done.  I see them. I see their face. I see their deeds. I see their greed. 

And they are Liberals. They are federal Liberals. And they are criminals. And while they may never serve a day in prison for their murder, theft, and endless injustice, they do not belong in government any further. 

These people need to be extinguished from political power. Canada needs honest government restored, now. 

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— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) December 24, 2024

Hold on. This is the kakistocracy I am talking about. This is the perfect example of it. This form of institutional criminal minded thinking is like, a pandemic. It's like a real pandemic. Not a mask wearing old people dying make cripples stand in line phony vaccine pandemic. This is people making a living off causing you severe pain, deficit, and set-back. Like a lawyer who studied law to be a better criminal. If you know one, they're dangerous.

It's a cruel world when that's what you make it. This happens to be a lefty specialty (making it a cruel world).

This was not my position at all times. It is a position I have been taken to by long term observation and a small amount of intense investigation, and a certain amount of rumination and luck upon making discoveries.

Everybody is wearing a mask, of course. The psychopath who won't leave power no matter how much it pains the world is wearing a mask. And so is the criminal behind him pulling the strings to make him say and do the stupidest psychopathic crap imaginable.

Anyway. Liberals don't run a pathocracy as much as I have believed since the previous decade. It was in about 2020 to be exact when I became convinced that a form of governance called pathocracy had taken control of a few western governments. I have changed my mind. The form of government we have encountered under the guise of leftist policies, is called: HANG ON TO YOUR HATS "A kakistocracy is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens" These are three types: the WORST, and the LEAST QUALIFIED, and MOST UNSCRUPULOUS citizens. That can include a lot of fraternities, to go along with the other gutter sniping, back stabbing, evidence diverting ne'erdowells fighting for power, because it's profitable and you don't need brains.

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 23, 2024

Considering you are confronting an entity known as kakistocracy, yes, expect a fight. Kakistocracy - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy…… As the President encountered twice during the election, there are dangerous minds lurking in the background of a government run by criminals. This is why I suspect Democrats could disappear as a political entity due to the criminal constituency running the party. Enough investigations revealing a criminal brand would end the party permanently, as it would be outlawed like the Nazi Party is outlawed in Germany. And I firmly believe they have taken control of government levers in Canada as well. It appears to be a government which cannot be removed from office. Is that criminal enough? Pretty sure it is. I think they are obsolete in a world where change demands brains. And government needs brains enough to change to keep up with this new age of technological change, and advance.

A REVIEW OF THIS YEAR'S JOHN WICK CHRISTMAS MOVIE

Roll film:

"That 'Fucking Nobody' . . . is John Wick." (Sheesh the guy drives worse than I do) He said they saw John Wick kill three men in a bar one night, with a pencil, and bury them in his basement (like John Wayne Gacy); It was a long night. Included sledgehammering. Ya sledgehammering does make it a long night, even for John, uh, Wick. "And you steal his car and kill his fucking dog." Yeah. No kidding. Killing the dog was overkill, and a sorry assed Russian bad guy move. "Son. you need a cleaner. May I suggest a lawyer I know with impeccable credentials? Not just credentials. Reputation." John Wick is gonna get ya. Fuck yer cleaner. John Wick just killed 10 or 20 Russian lawyers and frat boys. Nasty business suit wearing commercial law practicing Russian fucking lawyers. Maybe Ukrainian. I don't know for sure. Fuck he's shooting them and strangling them and stabbing them. John Wick. Sharp as a cue ball and just as dangerous. "Wick's at the Continental." John Wick hasn't been in the local speakeasy for 5 years. That's not the word on the street. Just the chick behind the bar. An entire company of former KGB is waiting at a snazzy nightclub for John Wick, and this plot is moving faster than an Elon Musk Falcon 9 Russian kid should be wearing an armored fucking bathing suit. But the kid just doesn't get it. "You stole my car you killed my dog I break your neck." At least two dozen men have died for this 5 month old beagle puppy. And this is far from over. It's like a grudge of some kind. Ya know. Like the kind I hold. Anyway, this whole Russian / Ukrainian mob scene has to start over by the end of this movie. No doubt about it. Talk about dragging shit out. Crazy. Absolutely fucking psycho. Just shot a guy point-blank in the face, number 50. This guy is a McDavid AND a Draisaitl all wrapped up in one shooter. But he isn't much of a hit with the dance crowd. How the Ukrainian lawyer's son keeps escaping is the pull. John Wick approaches the hotel clerk with a large gapping hole in his side, and of course the rule is, "Nothing to see here, all witnesses please exit stage left." Gapping holes slight impediments. Yes, plural. Those Ukrainian mobsters don't stop shooting if you're still breathing. And the fuckers hire your sister to take you down. The filthy animals. (Home Alone) A surprise twist has the Russian Church operating as a money laundering front in the downtown of, where is this, Edmonton? Yah. Edmonton. John Wick just killed a dozen people in the Church. I presume they are bad guys. And Lawyers. A couple of priests. Okay he left and burned all the cash in his wake. This puts him in hot water with the Treasury Department. But they're Liberals in charge so the money's worth nothing. We must be nearing 200 bodies. This is Shakespearean, Churchillian, Stalinist, and Nazi, all rolled into one. Wick is taken down. It's not over (I am aware of sequels). Did John Wick want to be captured? "Do you know what was in that vault?"

"The remains of tampered witnesses?"

"Don't get smart with me, John, I am not a purchased judge." But John Wick escapes. The ability of the Russians to sustain a defense is kind of unRussian in this movie. It's like John Wick is some kind of foreign Rasputin and immune from Russian/Ukrainian/unscrupulous lawyer death wishes. (Note: No Jewish mobsters are harmed in the conduct of this review, until now.) John Wick is closing in on the puppy killer / car thief. There must be more to this rage than a puppy or a Bondo Ford from the Sixties. I know the back story is his wife is dead. The puppy didn't replace her. The puppy was new. It was a puppy. At the end, the belligerent-sister-like chick is still dogging John Wick, as persistent as her promiscuity and John Wick's herpes. He stick a knife in his leg. I didn't see who did it. Nobody did. But Merry Fucking Christmas there's a knife stuck in his leg. John Wick got an upgrade from the shitty Mustang out of an insurance settlement. This horrific driver is back behind the wheel. "What's fucking wrong with this guy?"

Took long enough. Is there a doctor in the house? One with a couch and a good ear for personality disorder? It's like this show has sequels inside the show. Sequels of killing sprees. In the end, actual end, John Wick broke into a pound and got another dog. There are no more bad Ukrainian lawyer mobsters left in Edmonton. Citizen X neither confirms nor denies these are the contents of the movie John Wick.

Population rates in decline is a world problem, not one just for Japan

The population story of now: "THE COVID-19 BABY BUMP - National Bureau of Economic Research says, The 2021 baby bump is the first major reversal in declining U.S. fertility rates since 2007 and was most pronounced for first births and women under age 25, which suggests the pandemic led …"  

We’ve Had a COVID Baby Boom. Will It Last? | BU Today | Boston University

The declining birthrates in the U.S. are happening elsewhere in the world, practically everywhere except parts of Africa.   What this means is people will become more valuable. 

It means wars stop and migrations become trickles.   Countries need people to stay to support their societies.  

It means declining productivity. Fewer people to construct houses, maintain power infrastructure, do the heavy lifting.

It is a serious problem, a way larger concern than climate change. It is a way larger concern than what form of energy we are using.  

No place in the world will be immune from the sudden deficiency in numbers of people.

The population story of now: "THE COVID-19 BABY BUMP - National Bureau of Economic Research says, The 2021 baby bump is the first major reversal in declining U.S. fertility rates since 2007 and was most pronounced for first births and women under age 25, which suggests the… https://t.co/KC42FtxJv2

— Citizen X (@MackMcColl222) December 22, 2024

A Short History of Fiat Currency Failures:

It looks familiar.

America is headed for disaster, with no money for anything, unless the government overspending is addressed https://t.co/a75jYDaTMd

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 19, 2024

What other times have currencies collapsed? Historically speaking? This is a fundamental question. Allow me to do a google search. There are two with which I am totally familiar. The German mark of the Weimar Republic in the 1920s saw run away inflation, when it so happened to cost a couple of wheelbarrows worth of marks to buy a loaf of bread. The other currency collapse was in South Vietnam during the end of occupation by the French and the arrival of Americans to defend democracy in the world by reducing the population of Vietnam. Two currencies collapsed. The piaster, and the US dollar. Nobody saw it, but the result was the so-called oil crisis, when the price went from $2USD per barrel to $40USD a barrel. That sound like a currency collapse to anybody else? Anyway. They are ugly events. Currency games.

9 Currencies That Have Collapsed https://hardmoneyhistory.com/history-of-fiat-currency-failures/ 

 The point is, history is something often seen to be repeating. Is it going to happen now? Is currency collapsing? A world currency of considerable dominance since post-World War II, for idiots that is 1945. 

 I suspect a guy like Elon Musk can arrive on a scene and stop entropy in a nation, and a world. Let's say it's been done. Churchill stopped Hitler. That is an example. 

 Can Elon Musk single handedly stop a runaway train? Like Superman, or Spiderman when it's a urban transportation train. Good question. I feel like answering it. Yes. He can. Because he can add things like trillions, and subtract them. So we're gonna see a miracle. Like a movie. 

 AS SEEN ON TWITTER:

A Short History of Fiat Currency Failures: 9 Currencies That Have Collapsed https://t.co/lUklIqjEVU

The point is, history is something often seen to be repeating.

Is it going to happen now? Is currency collapsing? A world currency of considerable dominance since post-World War… https://t.co/8dcEooiLoo

— Citizen X (@MackMcColl222) December 20, 2024

The consensus in Canadian journalism is Trudeau is delusional

The main corp of daily journalists and pundits in Canada are now of a single mind about Trudeau; they say, he is fraught with psychopathic traits and delusions.

They don't say he's surrounded by sycophants but those are the only people hanging around psychopaths.

Sycophants… https://t.co/AbpTKN2GZF

— Citizen X (@MackMcColl222) December 19, 2024

BC Salmon Farmers Concerned About Fiscal Update:

Reckless Policy Decisions Compound an Expected Dire Fiscal Forecast 

Liǧʷiłdaxʷ TERRITORY/CAMPBELL RIVER, BC -- December 16, 2004 -- The BC Salmon Farmers Association (BCSFA), representing thousands of workers across British Columbia, is deeply concerned about the grim picture painted by the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister Freeland from the Trudeau government today. 

The government's reckless actions exacerbate our ballooning debt and stagnant economy as Canadians face rising living costs, higher food prices, and a weakening Canadian dollar. The estimated $9 billion taxpayer-funded cost of phasing out the BC salmon farming sector is another example of costly political gimmicks over sound economic policy. 

Despite clear scientific evidence, the decision to ban current marine net-pen salmon farming in British Columbia by 2029 is driven by political motivations rather than long-term, responsible planning. This policy ignores the real-world consequences for thousands of workers, First Nation communities, and the broader economy.  

Less Work, More Foreplay, For Japanese

Driverless vehicle future terrifies people

Citizen X

@MackMcColl222]

It's true. People cannot see the automobile for what it is. A conveyance. People see it as an extension of the arms and legs. An automobile becomes an organic feature on their body when they climb in behind the wheel. The ego becomes deeply entwined with the automobile. It is a deeply personal ego attachment. 

 Not all people see the automobile in this light. Kids whose parents died in car accidents might not have the same ego attachment. I must confess, I have had my leg ripped up by an Oldsmobile 98. And I have had my pelvis crushed by a runaway front left wheel of a 4X4. My ego attachment to the automobile is scant. I could care less if I ever saw another automobile as long as I live, even though, I own one. 

 If the whole schmear of automobiles disappeared, to be replaced by less malign forms of transport, including self-driving cars, I would see it as cause for celebration. In Canada, says Google, "In 2021, the number of motor vehicle fatalities was 1,768; up 1.3% from 2020 (1,746). The number of serious injuries increased to 8,185 in 2021; up 4% from 2020 (7,868)." (Canadian Motor Vehicle Traffic Collision Statistics: 2021 https://tc.canada.ca/en/road-transportation/statistics-data/canadian-motor-vehicle-traffic-collision-statistics-2021…)

The Unauthorized Story of Trudeau-Singh Coalition Government

"Fake Programs By Fake People": The Unauthorized Story of the Trudeau-Singh Government's Legacy of Promising Everything and Delivering Nothing.

A 🧵.

From "free dental care" to "affordable housing" to "$10/day childcare" the legacy of the Trudeau gov't will be one of fakeness. pic.twitter.com/n5RIDbFx2C

— Alex Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) December 13, 2024

Mowachaht/Muchalaht Title Declared to B.C. Court

 Notice of Claim

"The. . . First Nation has Aboriginal title to its lands and that B.C.'s Forest Act and Land Act will no longer apply to Mowachaht/Muchalaht lands once title is declared." Vancouver Island First Nation whose ancestors met explorer Capt. Cook in 1776, only to see the disappearance of land, resources, and sovereignty, sues province of British Columbia

       Citizen X 

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/vancouver-island-first-nation-whose-ex-chief-met-capt-cook-files-claim-against-b-c/ar-AA1vLaGz?ocid=socialshare

Squirrel guest introduces hisself

Firewood CMTs an Anthropological Oddity

In the days prior to the Industrial Revolution First Nations built canoes to travel the extensive waterways of the Pacific coast. Each dugout canoe was manufactured out of a single cedar tree and these dugout war canoes were designed for ocean voyages of long duration.

 Sometimes during these journeys canoeists ran afoul of the weather. The water on the Inside Passage is a reasonably constant 6 or 7 degrees Celsius but the weather varies and rainfall is a potential threat all year long, especially from October to March. Dealing with these wet conditions called for planning, which included the invention of the 'firewood CMT,' a form of culturally modified tree (CMT) found on remote islands and inlets of the Pacific Coast of Canada.

 "Knowledge of the history of forest use is crucial for understanding the development of forests, which in turn helps to understand how societies react to forest development," said Rikard Andersson, Faculty of Forest Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. "Culturally modified trees (CMTs), recorded in the western U.S. (and Canada), northern Scandinavia, and south-eastern Australia, are features that can be dated precisely, and they bear witness to unique events of human activity."

 David Garrick is a Canadian anthropologist with specific expertise in CMTs in west coast rainforests. "These artefacts define the First Nations communities in a practical way. They had camps all over the place, often at the mouth of a river. If they were taking a three-day voyage by canoe and it started raining they would pull out of the water, but how would you start a fire?"

David Garrick and his son Aki gaze at Johnstone Strait

 An essential CMT would be found ashore where they could and often did make land and find the firewood CMT, each site containing a dry source of wood. The travelers would find a small cavern dug above the roots inside a massive cedar tree trunk. "They would peel shreds of the dry cedar found inside the hollowed trunk and they would ignite a fire inside the tree."

 These firewood CMTs were commonplace, "There's one found at every encampment." Garrick has studied these peculiar modifications from Banks Island all the way to Kitkatla. He and others have found abundant evidence of a kindling source that provided instant fire to travelers. For the past three decades David Garrick concentrated on the study of humans interacting in forests  on the Pacific Coast.

 He found a perfect place to do CMT research on Hanson Island, about 15 km south west of Alert Bay, B.C.. He set up the Earth Embassy in the heights of the 4 sq. km. island and he worked under the auspices of the Yukusem Heritage Society (composed of four First Nations from the Broughton Archipelago and Johnstone Strait).

 "If you keep the ecosystem intact it becomes a living laboratory and a living museum, and a living classroom." For further study, "We have a post-secondary learning opportunities in the area. We have trails into all kinds of nooks and crannies on Hanson Island."

 Garrick's laboratory on Hanson Island has been a welcome presence in the First Nations of coastal B.C. because his research provides a good history lesson about cedar usage in the culture and economy of the people. For instance a 'core-popped' cedar tree looks like a traumatic injury to those who pass by, but core-popping was no problem to First Nations, instead, it was a marker of time, "What happened to the cedar tree core was caused by a memorable event like a potlatch."

 First Nation forest use went into a state of chaos for a period after contact with Europeans and the anthropology is specific about describing the trauma, "After epidemics reduced the population of Indigenous people, you see the sickness of the people reflected in the cedar peelings. Suddenly there are one-tenth the number of people available to peel cedar tree bark or cultivate and harvest other plants in the cedar groves."

 Garrick's work will continue on Hanson Island where he equipped others to teach everyone from small groups of First Nation students to the First Nation CMT researchers who identify the evidence of occupation and prior use in traditional territories. He maintained beautiful gardens at the Earth Embassy and he had members of the multi-nation Society trained to cut and maintains trails to the instructive cedar groves that will stand in perpetuity on Hanson Island.

David Garrick and Mack McColl cross Hanson Island summer 2008

Major Economic Damage, Job Losses, If Salmon Farm Licenses Are Not Renewed

  Feb. 23rd, 2022

BC COASTAL COMMUNITIES FACE MAJOR ECONOMIC DAMAGE, JOB LOSSES IF SALMON FARM LICENCES ARE NOT REISSUED BY DFO CAMPBELL RIVER, BC –

NEW ECONOMIC ANALYSIS REVEALS MORE THAN 4,700 JOBS and $1.2 BILLION IN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AT RISK IF 79 LICENCES NOT REISSUED

BC Salmon Farmers Association

The BC Salmon Farmers Association have released an independent economic analysis outlining the consequences to BC’s Indigenous and non-Indigenous coastal communities if 79 salmon farming licenses are not reissued by the federal government by June 2022. The report by RIAS Inc. found BC would lose more than 4,700 jobs, $1.2 billion in economic activity annually, and $427 million in GDP if these licences aren’t renewed.

An additional $200 million in economic activity and 900 jobs would be lost outside of BC. Federal aquaculture licences at 79 BC salmon farms are due to expire on June 30, 2022. Eighty per cent of these salmon farms operate in agreement with the First Nations in whose territories they operate in. For these salmon farms to continue producing a sustainable alternative to declining wild salmon stocks, while working with First Nations, their licences must be reissued by the new Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) Minister Joyce Murray.

In December 2020, former DFO Minister Bernadette Jordan failed to reissue licences for salmon farms operating in the Discovery Islands, creating economic hardship and uncertainty for many of BC’s Indigenous and non-Indigenous coastal communities. In making her decision, Minister Jordan ignored the scientific consensus that salmon farms do not pose more than minimal risk to wild Pacific salmon, as well as her own department’s advice.

The decision is currently before the courts in the form of a judicial review. If the 79 licences up for renewal are not reissued, Indigenous and non-Indigenous coastal communities will face even greater devastation. “Coastal communities in BC deserve better, especially during an ongoing pandemic that has already caused severe stress, mental health strain, and economic pressure on many families, households and communities,” says Ruth Salmon, Interim Executive Director of the BC Salmon Farmers Association.

“After years of instability and concern, these communities deserve a secure and prosperous future,” says Salmon. To minimize any further loss to coastal communities, BC Salmon Farmers need legitimate reissuance of all 79 licences. The reissuing of these licences would drive BC and Canada’s economic recovery, deliver on Indigenous reconciliation, support the restoration of wild salmon populations, safeguard Canada’s food security and sustainability, enhance Canada’s contribution to climate change mitigation, and align with the federal government’s Blue Economy agenda as outlined in the 2021 Speech from the Throne. “We invite Minister Murray to visit the affected rural, coastal communities to better understand the integral role salmon farming plays to the socio-economic wellness of these small towns,” says Salmon.

Find the full report here: https://bcsalmonfarmers.ca/licences/

Find the Impact Map on Coastal Communities here: https://map.bcsalmonfarmers.ca/

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: BC’s salmon farming sector is the provinces #1 seafood export, #1 agri-food export, and is designated an essential service by Federal and Provincial governments. BC Salmon Farmers hold agreements with 17 First Nations on B.C.’s coast. 79 (all remaining) federal finfish aquaculture licences will expire on June 30, 2022. More than 4,700 well-paid jobs are at risk in communities like Courtenay, Comox, Cumberland, Port Hardy, Port McNeil, Tofino, Ucluelet, and Port Alberni. About the BC Salmon Farmers Association: Farm-raised salmon is B.C.’s highest valued seafood product, the province’s top agricultural export, and generates over $1.6 billion towards the B.C. economy, resulting in thousands of jobs. The B.C. Salmon Farmers Association represents over 60 businesses and organizations throughout the value chain of finfish aquaculture in B.C. Our members account for over 95% of the annual provincial harvest of farm-raised salmon in British Columbia.

Made-in-BC Semi-closed System Installed at Grieg Seafood BC Farms in Esperanza Inlet

After trialing a made-in-BC semi-closed technology solution at its farms off the Sunshine Coast region, Grieg Seafood BC Ltd. (Grieg) has announced it will be proceeding with the installation of these semi-closed system at all three of its farms in Esperanza Inlet, off the west coast of Vancouver Island.

The new CO2L Flow system (pronounced Cool Flow) is a form of semi-closed containment, which allows for farmers to raise or lower custom designed farm enclosures – ensuring the farmed fish benefit from natural ocean conditions, while also providing protection for wild salmon. The system has been used successfully to rear several generations of fish at Grieg’s farms in the Sunshine Coast region. 

In all the trials, farmers noted better growth, lower mortality, better feed conversion rates (meaning the fish are more effective at converting feed into growth), and most significantly - a dramatic reduction in the need for sea lice treatments.

“As a company, we are always looking for ways to improve our operations, and this includes transitioning from standard farming equipment, to new, cutting-edge technology aimed at reducing potential impacts from our operations. This new system utilizes retractable barriers, which are capable of being lowered to 15 metres, fully encapsulating the sides of the farm. This has several benefits, including preventing the lateral interaction of wild and farmed salmon populations, providing protection for farmed populations from harmful algae, and allowing our farmers to better control water quality in the system using a unique aeration technology,” says Rocky Boschman, Managing Director for Grieg Seafood BC Ltd.

“As ocean-based farmers, one of the most common questions or concerns we hear is regarding sea lice, and the transfer of lice between wild and farmed populations. The CO2 L Flow system with its barrier protection has resulted in drastically reduced sea lice numbers on the farmed population, which in turn reduces the need for us to treat. During the trial period at our west coast site, we were able to keep sea lice levels so low that the fish did not require treatment for lice. Overall, we are pleased with the results and there is no denying that this new system represents a transition towards what in-ocean farms can one day become.”

What sets this system apart from others is the use of local knowledge, and on-the-ground learning to guide the development of a system which would work in partnership with nature to address challenges.

“I have been farming in these waters for over 30 years. In that time, I have learned that nature is the best engineer. If you want to find a solution, you need to work with the ocean and the natural conditions. So, when we started looking at how we could adapt semi-closed technology into our operations, we looked first and foremost to the oceans’ naturally occurring deep, clean water as a guide,“ says Dean Trethewey, Seawater Production, Certifications and Regulatory Director.

“The CO2L Flow Max system has taken some tried and true technology, such as sea lice curtains, and paired them with cutting edge aeration technology, to create a completely new system. During sensitive wild salmon migration periods or times when we know there is harmful algae in the region, we can lower the barriers on the farm, forming a barrier between the wild salmon and the farmed population, this prevents lateral interaction, and significantly reduces the transmission of sea lice between the populations. The barriers can be fully lifted outside of these periods, allowing the farmed fish to benefit from natural ocean conditions, temperatures, currents, and oxygen levels.”

To bring this technology to life, Grieg relied on the expertise, knowledge and successful collaboration with several Vancouver Island based technology and services companies – like CPI Equipment and Poseidon Ocean Systems. A leading international oxygen solution company, Oxzo Technologies, was also involved in the creation of some components for the system.

Although the system has shown amazing results in initial trials, Grieg continues to look for ways to improve the system to help further reduce any potential impacts from its operations.

“As a company, we will continue to look for ways in which we can innovate and continue to improve our operations. Currently, the new system already has tremendous benefits through the elimination of lateral interaction between wild and farmed populations and provides both welfare and performance benefits for our farmed salmon – but it doesn’t collect solid waste which is the next opportunity we want to address. We are continuing to look for solutions that will support the recovery of solid waste and ways in which it could be used for some type of value-add product like fertilizer or soil enrichment,” added Boschman. “We will continue to look to nature, local technology, and our farmers to help provide us with solutions as we continue to innovate, transition and improve.”

The system will be installed at all three farms in Esperanza Inlet (Lutes Creek farm, Steamer Point farm and the Esperanza farm) in time for the outmigration of juvenile wild salmon in early 2023.

CO2L Flow system quick facts and additional Information: 

• Grieg Seafood launched the first trial of the system in 2019

• Since then, three pilot cycles of fish have been raised in the system

• Overall, fish raised in the system see an average increase of 40 per cent in growth, a 19 per cent (19%) increase in survival, and a 13 per cent (13%) improvement in feed conversion ratio (FCR)

• The system uses retractable barriers to ensure there is no lateral transmission between wild and farmed salmon populations – which is important during the critical in and out wild salmon migration periods

• During periods when the barriers are down, the system uses an innovative, cutting-edge oxygen technology, to address low-oxygen levels within the farm system - helping to ensure the welfare of the farmed population

• To date, Grieg Seafood BC has seen a dramatic reduction in the frequency or need to treat farmed populations within the system for sea lice

• The system is unique in that it can be adapted to fit existing Grieg Seafood farm sites

• The system is sourced and built locally, contributing to the local economy and supporting the development of innovation and technology on North Vancouver Island

• Moving forward, Grieg Seafood will continue to look for ways to collect solid waste for value added products such as fertilizer or enriched soils

Kris McNichol, President, CPI Equipment Inc., says, “CPI Equipment Inc. is proud to partner with Grieg Seafood BC on their full-scale CO2L Flow semi-closed system in 2022. Over the past two years, CPI has worked diligently with Grieg Seafood on trials to improve the efficiency of oxygen transfer to seawater in their sea pens by using CPI’s ODiN Aerations system in conjunction with Moleaer’s nanotechnology. By achieving a greater supply of water quality within the semi-closed environment, we have been able to support the creation of a new ocean-based system. Working with our customers for over 20 years and striving to develop better technology within the aquaculture market both locally and internationally is an important part of our company's success. The knowledge-sharing and teamwork between Grieg Seafood and CPI Equipment shows how people, ideas, and new technology can collaborate to meet the needs of aquaculture for the future.

Heather Clarke, Co-Founder, Poseidon Ocean Systems, says, “When we were first approached by Grieg Seafood to collaborate on the new semi-closed technology they were developing, we jumped at the opportunity as this project will not only provide solutions to global problems, but also addresses some of the biggest challenges faced by the industry in terms of sea lice, algae, and improved conditions within the farm system. Poseidon is a Campbell River based company, which was founded only six years ago. Because of the vision of industry leaders like Grieg Seafood who are committed to constant improvement, evolution and working head-on to address the concerns raised regarding salmon farming, we have been able to expand our business internationally to assist producers like Grieg Seafood and others meet their biggest challenges.”

Gonzalo Boehmwald, Commercial Assistant Manager Oxzo Technologies Canada, says, “This project – the CO2L Flow system - is demonstrating what is possible in salmon farming in terms of using innovation and new technology to improve operations, and Oxzo Technologies Canada is proud to be part of the team working on delivering these new systems for Grieg Seafood BC Ltd. Oxzo has been helping farmers find unique solutions for more than a decade using innovative and cost-effective solutions of supplemental aeration and oxygenation. Our proven, patented technologies and Grieg Seafood’s drive for innovation and overall operational improvements are a perfect fit."