What's new // Raincoast updates
Notes, details, updates and miscellaneous thoughts.
Vancouver Province
Skeena River sockeye salmon are returning in desperately low numbers this summer, causing concern among conservationists…
Raincoast’s Dr. Chris Darimont is featured in an essay by author and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben in the Patagonia Early Fall 2013 catalog…
Standing on a rocky outcrop, our field team spots a boat moving towards us on the horizon. As the boat approaches, we see our fellow bear researchers from Kitasoo Territory waving and grinning…
Global News Hour Calgary
A controversial art exhibit at city hall can stay right where it is, even though under normal circumstances it would be forced out. Global’s Reid Fiest reports…
As we have learned from previous oil spills, no response is possible in rough weather, high seas and dangerous conditions…
Toronto Star
By Chris Genovali and Misty MacDuffee
Energy Minister Joe Oliver’s announcement, however, does little to diminish the risk or change the nature of shipping oil on the B.C. coast…
Now is your chance to acquire original art pieces by incredible BC artists…
FOCUS Magazine January 2013, By Aaren Madden
Recently, David Goatley contributed two works to the exhibition and book, Art for an Oil-Free Coast. The project involved 50 artists travelling to various regions of the Great Bear Rainforest…
McLeans.ca By The Canadian Press
“They’re not lying” said Raincoast’s Captain Brian Falconer, “They’ve just chosen a way of expressing it that is meaningless in assessing risk”…
FOCUS Magazine By Briony Penn, December 2012
The Canadian Heavy Oil Association hopes a “factspill” will persuade British Columbians to support their pipelines…
Calgary Herald, By The Canadian Press
It was a fairly calm day for storm season in the North Pacific, where Brian Falconer, long-time mariner and marine operations co-ordinator for Raincoast, said waves can swell to 26 metres high…
CHEK TV covers the Victoria opening of the Art for an Oil-Free Coast exhibition tour…