Mystery solved: blasting behind Mount Benson causes huge booms heard across Nanaimo region
NANAIMO — No aliens. No Russian spy planes. No secret military ops.
It turns out a series of loud booms heard from south Nanaimo all the way to the Sunshine Coast has a simple and frankly boring explanation: it was crews blasting out a new logging road on the back side of Mount Benson.
A contractor, who did not wish to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media, contacted NanaimoNewsNOW Wednesday afternoon.
“We heard it this morning on the radio and we thought ‘Hey someone else is blasting too and all of Nanaimo heard it,’” he said. “Then I looked at the online story and it says the blast went off just before 11:30 Tuesday morning. And I thought, ‘Oh boy, I hit the button at exactly that time.’”