CANADA: Environmental activist tries to dismantle seismic blast
August 1st, 2009
By Leah Germain
The threat posed to research teams by some environmental activists was starkly illustrated by a recent potentially dangerous interference with an experiment involving explosives in Canada. A joint Canadian and American research study was nearly derailed last month when a campaigner attempted to prevent a major seismic experiment.
The Batholiths Continental Dynamics Project, which has taken more than three years to plan, is a geological study aimed at investigating the structure and composition of the Coast Mountains in central western British ...
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