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…
-
Kinder Morgan tankers threaten Salish Sea
On the 23rd Anniversary of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, CFAX interviews Raincoast’s Misty MacDuffee about the lessons learned and the consideration for the Salish Sea as Kinder Morgan rapidly expands tanker traffic. Source file: CFAX March 2012 (MP3)
-
Exxon Valdez 23rd Anniversary: Lessons Learned
Raincoast biologist Misty MacDuffee speaks with CBC about lessons we have learned…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Activists outraged by portrayal of wolves in The Grey
Wolf advocates angry over the inaccurate portrayal of grey wolves in the new action-thriller The Grey, starring Liam Neeson…
-
Proposed Enbridge pipeline threatens humpback whales: DFO
By Mike De Souza, Postmedia News
The proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline threatens critical habitat of humpback whales off the coast of BC, says newly released internal federal documents from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans…
-
Surfin’ Safari
Dr. Chris Darimont takes to the surf, with allies, to raise awareness of the risks of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project.
-
Caribou conundrum
Raincoast says wolves are being scapegoated to protect caribou instead of addressing the real problem: Alberta’s tar sands…
-
Government must protect orca habitat: court
Victoria Times Colonist
By Judith LavoieThe federal government is legally bound to protect killer whale critical habitat, the federal Court of Appeal ruled Thursday…
