Parvati Magazine December 2014/January 2015: Consequence/Beginnings | Page 44

COMMUNITY

SEISMIC TESTING
in the Arctic Ocean

The Arctic needs your help!

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s I mentioned in the Letter from the Editor, when I recently learned that the Canadian
government has given clearance for oil companies to bomb the seabed of the Arctic
Ocean to test for oil deposits, I felt profoundly shaken in the depth of my being. Having
traveled to the North Pole to raise awareness of the quickly melting polar ice caps in the fall
of 2010, I feel deeply connected to the ocean there, its inhabitants and the people who
live in the Arctic. In response to the news, I could sense the Great Blue Whale totem animal,
that drew me on that polar journey and that guided the powerful healing that followed,
echoing through me with a resounding NO! I knew immediately that the sonic effect of
these blasts would kill the magnificent whales and sea creatures.
Before the oceans were permeated with ship traffic noise, the sounds emitted by whales
were heard as far as four thousand miles away. On a particularly quiet day, tones would