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[–] match@pawb.social 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

incidentally, I started a bid to attract orcas to cape breton

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Nice. Will you be outfitting them with pointed steel battering rams that they can grasp with their mouths?

I mean, let’s be kind to the Parasite Class, and shorten the terror they experience before they meet their watery deaths.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Smith says attracting superyachts is a small part of a broader strategy aimed at getting more boaters to come to the region. And he challenged the argument that superyacht owners represent the worst kind of polluters.

“I don’t agree with that,” said Smith, whose non-profit organization gets most of its budget from a levy charged to those who pay for accommodations in Cape Breton, as well the provincial and federal governments. “There are electric superyachts now. I think we’re going to see a transformation in them in terms of cleaner fuels and cleaner ways of operating.”

But where does power generation come from in Nova Scotia?

[–] hypnotoad__@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Not to mention the absolute dearth of actual electric super yachts. It's an industry pipe dream

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca -3 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] baconisaveg@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

So build a wind powered superyacht. Oh wait, they've done that for thousands of years!

[–] alabasterhotdog@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Tell me you know nothing about NS in 3 words or less:

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ideally it would but like the other commenter said that's not even a quarter of it.