The extraction, shipping and use of tar sands oil threatens local, regional and global ecosystems.
Here’s what you can do:
1. Learn more, and share what you learn with friends
Articles and Opinion pieces from Raincoast staff on Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Proposal
Raincoast Reports on Northern Gateway
Embroiled: Salmon, Oil Tankers and the Enbridge Northern Gateway Proposal
What’s at Stake: The cost of oil on BC’s Priceless Coast
Raincoast Films on Northern Gateway:
Reflections: Art for an oil-free coast
Raincoast’s Book on Northern Gateway:
Canada’s Raincoast at Risk: Art for an Oil free coast
Download the free e-book for ipad
Other videos on the tar sands:
The true cost of tar sands on TEDx
An overview of the tar sands H2Oil
The NEB’s Hearings on Northern Gateway
- Raincoast was an intervenor in the NEB’s Joint Review Panel Hearings
- Click here for a chronology of our involvement in the NEB hearings
- Click here for Raincoast’s Submissions of Evidence to Joint Review Panel (JRP/NEB)
- Download the web quality (8 MB) or the high quality (30 MB) submission of evidence. Our review identifies and critiques problems with the models, assumptions and analysis as presented in Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment.
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- Table of Contents
- Part 1. Preface, Terrestrial Impacts, Cumulative Impacts, Natural Hazards and Climate Change
- Part 2. Marine Impacts – Marine Mammals
- Part 3. Marine Impacts – Marine Birds
- Part 4. Marine Impacts – Salmonids
- Part 5. Marine Impacts – Herring
- Part 6. Marine Impacts – Eulechon
- Part 7. Marine Impacts – Tankers
- Evaluating external risks to Protected Areas (supporting evidence in press in Nat. Areas J. 2012)
- Underwater Noise Impacts submitted by NRDC
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Check out Art for an Oil Free Coast
2. Talk to your friends about a new vibrant vision for BC and Canada
Say “No” to Enbridge and “Yes” to:
- uniting Canadians around a national energy strategy that promotes domestic energy security, sustainability, human and environmental health, and is in the long term interest of Canadian citizens.
- protection of water, air, and soil resources that provide food and energy for life,
- fostering healthy ecosystems that sustain wildlife, local communities and local economies,
- protecting fish and wildlife resources that are critically important to Canadians for intrinsic, ecological, cultural and economic reasons,
- meeting our domestic energy needs through low carbon alternatives,
- reducing Canada’s contribution to global carbon emissions and climate change,
- rejecting corporate profit that destroys or threatens public resources and tramples democratic process