News and Updates
From the Great Bear Rainforest to the Salish Sea, here is the latest news on our work to protect the lands, waters and wildlife of coastal British Columbia.
National Energy Board’s failure haunts governments
The cries of condemnation emanating from the Alberta and Canadian federal governments are deafening. The burgeoning conflict began when BC announced the province would limit shipments of diluted bitumen from Alberta…
Coastal bird populations and Big Oil
Times Colonist: Raincoast studies helped put nails in the coffin of the Northern Gateway pipeline. Excerpt for the book “At sea with the marine birds of the Raincoast by Dr. Caroline Fox…
Federal approval of Kinder Morgan pipeline project unlawful
Ecojustice, Raincoast and Livings Oceans launch lawsuit to protect endangered killer whales from Trans Mountain oil tankers…
Trudeau’s Pipeline Approval Faces Court Challenge From Conservation Groups
Huffington Post/Bruce Cheadle, Canadian Press
Conservation groups have filed a new court challenge to the federal government’s approval of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline…
Ship noise on government’s radar amid dispute over pipeline’s impact on whales
CTV News/Bruce Cheadle, Canadian Press
Conservation groups poised to file lawsuit challenging the Liberal cabinet’s approval of Kinder Morgan’s TMX…
It’s Oil or Orcas
by Judith Lavoie, The Tyee
Southern Resident killer whales threatened by increased tanker traffic, experts say…
Enbridge, Kinder Morgan, and hope for killer whales
We have something to celebrate. And so do you. In November, the federal government finally rejected the Northern Gateway proposal…
Endangered BC orcas could face extinction with Trans Mountain approval
CTV goes in depth with Raincoast to discuss implications to Southern Resident killer whales from Kinder Morgan approval…
Today’s approval of TMX sanctions probable extinction of the Southern Resident killer whales
Trudeau government’s approval is neither science-based nor in Canada’s best interest, and does not safeguard killer whales…
Big oil v orcas: Canadians fight pipeline that threatens killer whales
The Guardian: Trans Mountain Expansion project poses the greatest risk yet to a killer whale population on the edge of extinction…
A Diesel Spill is putting the World’s Largest Temperate Rainforest at Risk
Almost three weeks later, the sunken tug is still there, still intermittently leaking diesel, and clean-up efforts have barely begun…
Science & conservation for an oil free coast – Sidney Shaw Centre
Join Raincoast and the Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea to be informed and inspired by our legal and scientific efforts to keep our coast oil free…