Pender Islands Northern Gateway slideshow
Friday April 20 7:00- 9:00 pm Pender Island, at Pender Island Community Hall…
Raincoast
Raincoast is a team of conservationists and scientists empowered by our research to safeguard the lands, waters and wildlife of coastal British Columbia. Read more about Raincoast.
Grizzly hunt begins – Global TV
Raincoast wants an end to the grizzly hunt. Global BC News Hour coverage includes interviews with Raincoast’s Dr. Chris Darimont and photographer Andrew Wright…
Grizzly Bear hunt begins again: Groups want event banned
Global News:
The grizzly bear hunt started April 1st, and groups such as the David Suzuki Foundation and Raincoast want the annual trophy hunt to be stopped…Help Raincoast win a $3,000 grant from SEEtheWILD
Help Raincoast win a $3,000 grant from SEEtheWILD for our efforts to protect BC’s endangered southern resident killer whales! Find out how…
May says Exxon Valdez spill calls for legislation against oil tankers
By Christine van Reeuwyk
Elizabeth May, MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands and Leader of the Green Party, hoped to spark interest in the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill with a picturesque press conference Friday morning…May calls for tanker ban on oil-spill anniversary
By Cindy E. Harnett, Times Colonist March 24
A moratorium on crude-oil supertankers on B.C.’s coast should be expanded and enshrined in legislation, Green Party leader Elizabeth May said on the eve of the 23rd anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill…
The Other Oil Sands Pipeline Project: Northern Gateway
Outside Magazine Online
If the U.S. doesn’t allow the northern half of the Keystone XL pipeline to be built, Canada will sell its oil to China. That’s one of the common rebuttals to opposition of the Keystone XL pipeline…
23rd Anniversary of Exxon Valdez: Have we learned anything?
The answer appears to be a resounding “no,” given the support to expand Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline and the dramatic escalation in oil tanker traffic that will accompany it…
Raincoast calls on military to respect the critical habitat of killer whales
The suspicious death of L112 warrants full disclosure by the Canadian military of sonar and other training activities that were occurring in the Juan de Fuca at the time of the whale’s death. Click for the CHEK TV story…
Naval Gazing: Military must address activities in Killer whale critical habitat
VANCOUVER – Eight BC conservation organizations are urging the Canadian Navy to exclude military training exercises from the critical habitat of southern resident killer whales…
Wolves scapegoated for tar sands oil development
Raincoast’s Dr. Paul Paquet speaks out on blaming wolves when tar sands development and habitat destruction are the actual cause for decline of woodland caribou…
