The Gully is about 80 kilometres long and 50 kilometres wide. It reaches down more than 2,500 metres at its mouth. The news was welcomed by environmentalists, who have fought for almost a decade to see it protected. "I think it was a good day. It's a beautiful area, a unique area," said Mark Butler of the Ecology Action Centre, an environmental advocacy group. The Gully is the second of what federal officials hope, over the next decade, will become a system of 11 marine protected areas on Canadian coasts and in the Arctic.
Posted by Randy Olson at May 29, 2004 11:06 PM