When the glaciers go so will the glacial flour. When the flour goes so will those pretty pale

[applegrove]

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blue lakes in Banff National Park, Alberta. Choose well for the future Kenney.

 (Moraine Lake, Lake Louise, Alberta)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Louise_(Alberta)



Western Canada glaciers retreating at an unprecedented pace because of climate change: experts:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/canada/article-glaciers-in-western-canada-retreating-at-unprecedented-pace-because-of/

(Lake Louise, Alberta)

"SNIP.....

Lake Louise is named after the Princess Louise Caroline Alberta (1848–1939),[2] the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and the wife of the Marquess of Lorne, who was the Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883.

The turquoise colour of the water comes from rock flour carried into the lake by melt-water from the glaciers that overlook the lake. The lake has a surface of 0.8 km2 (0.31 sq mi) and is drained through the 3 km long Louise Creek into the Bow River.

....SNIP"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1_lake_louise_pano_2019.jpg

Link to tweet

[MontanaMama]

1. Jeez. What an idiot.

He's happily advertising it too. As a Montanan...Banff, Lake Louise and Moraine Lake - that whole magical part of Alberta is near and dear to my heart and my home.

[applegrove]

2. I know it well too. I worked at the Lake Agnes Tea House as a teen. Woke up

every day to those lakes. Never visited Moraine Lake though. I was too afraid of heights to go hiking on my own though i lived on top of a mountain and showered every morning in a waterfall.

[MontanaMama]

3. Went on my honeymoon to Moraine Lake.

It was just the best. Makes me angry and so sad that this tool wouldn't appreciate and protect these beautiful wild places.

[cilla4progress]

4. Well, they will outlive us all,

and will perhaps be reborn in a faroff time when there are no more homo sapiens destroying the planet.

[MontanaMama]

5. I like the sound of that.

[applegrove]

6. I have no info on how the park is trying to protect itself or if the Alberta

government will soon be using bitumen to grind up rocks to make glacial flour and delivering it to the lakes. I just saw the photo of Kenney and that brought up my fear that the glaciers are all disappearing. There is a reason why the US does not have that many glacial flour pretty turquiose lakes... fewer glaciers because it is hotter. Lake Agnes itself, just above Lake Louise, was not fed by a glacier so it wasn't turquiose. Kenney should drive around in a SUV with one of those exhaust chimneys that spew black exhaust.

Let's hope Moraine lake still exists for travelers and honeymooners to come (my parents honeymooned in Western Canada too and spent time in Banff. They camped).