Sea of Outrage over Maritime Search and Rescue Closure
by Lana Payne
For centuries, Newfoundlanders and Labradorians have made a living from and on the sea.
Our relationship to the sea is both complex and conflicting. On the one hand, the ocean’s bounty has sustained our people for hundreds of years and in recent times a large percentage of that bounty has come in the form of an offshore oil industry. Oil has bestowed a new kind of wealth on this windswept land – a land surrounded by thousands of kilometres of rugged and majestic coastline.
