Northern Gateway slideshows
Join Raincoast for a series of slide shows discussing the real risk posed by oil tankers on the BC coast that are proposed as part of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project.
Saturday April 14 4:00 -6:30 pm Salt Spring Island
at Meaden Hall with Saanich-Gulf Islands MP Elizabeth May
Friday April 20 7:00- 9:00 pm Pender Island
at Pender Island Community Hall
Sat April 21 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm Mary Winspear Centre,
in Sidney, BC with Saanich-Gulf Islands MP Elizabeth May, artist Robert Bateman and Emcee Arthur Black
Raincoast is an official intervener in the National Energy Board hearings on the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project and have submitted several volumes of evidence about the potential ecological impacts, risks and hazards of this project.
The show is presented by Raincoast’s Director of Marine Operations Brian Falconer, a licensed maritime captain whose 35+ years navigating the B.C. and Alaskan coasts make him uniquely qualified to address and discuss the threats. Enbridge has consistently minimized the oil spill risks by their selective omissions, under representations, and misleading claim that the chance of a major spill occurring on the coast from these giant oil tankers would be “once in 15,000 years”
You can help
Raincoast’s in-house scientists, collaborating graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and professors make us unique among conservation groups. We work with First Nations, academic institutions, government, and other NGOs to build support and inform decisions that protect aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, and the wildlife that depend on them. We conduct ethically applied, process-oriented, and hypothesis-driven research that has immediate and relevant utility for conservation deliberations and the collective body of scientific knowledge.
We investigate to understand coastal species and processes. We inform by bringing science to decision-makers and communities. We inspire action to protect wildlife and wildlife habitats.