Raise Your Voice for the Great Bear Rainforest
Come out tonight, Saturday February 11th, to the Wise Hall in Vancouver to hear live music, dance and support the Great Bear Rainforest Youth Paddle…
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Groundswell: The Wave of Opposition to Enbridge
The Huffington Post
Raincoast has an exciting project in the works with our friends at Patagonia, a leader among environmentally-minded businesses…
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Ambassadors for Marine Mammals
My two passions have united in a spectacular way. I have dedicated my scientific career (and life) to studying and protecting the Great Bear Rainforest. I have also dedicated a good part of my life to surfing…
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The Enbridge pipeline: Northern Gateway to what?
The recent chatter from energy industry spokespersons about the need to formulate a national energy strategy is simply code for developing an export strategy for Alberta’s tar sands…
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The Enbridge pipeline: Northern Gateway to what?
By Chris Genovali, Special to The Vancouver Sun August 12, 2011
Conflating the interests of the shareholders and investors of energy giants such as Enbridge with those of the Canadian people has become the central talking point for the promoters of Alberta’s tar sands…
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Energy giant applies for massive potential liability
While British Columbians are focused on the threat of oil tankers to B.C.’s north coast, Kinder Morgan wants to quadruple the amount of crude oil going from Burrard Inlet through Georgia Strait, the Gulf Islands, Haro Strait and the Juan de Fuca…
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Enbridge’s Northern Gateway project: profit at what price?
Does any oil spill damage cost estimate even begin to cover the price of a pod of killer whales driven to extinction or the demise of a coastal fishing community’s way of life?
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The cost of oil on B.C.’s priceless coast
By Chris Genovali and Misty MacDuffee, Vancouver Sun June 18, 2011
If the Enbridge Northern Gateway project is approved, an estimated 225 supertankers a year would enter Kitimat …..
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Saving Canada’s Pacific Coast
CounterPunch June 6, 2011
The growing emphasis on B.C.’s coast as an energy corridor has spurred substantial concerns from coastal communities and the public about the impacts and risks associated with large-scale oil operations and spills…
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British Columbia’s Coast: Priceless And Irreplaceable
Island Tides June 2-15, 2011
BC’s Coast: Priceless And Irreplaceable
By Chris Genovali, Paul C. Paquet and Misty MacDuffeeWith the conclusion of the international Marine Conservation Congress, recently held in Victoria, we cannot help but reflect on the current, and future, status of British Columbia’s coast…
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Canada’s Pacific coast: priceless and irreplaceable
The distinct assembly of iconic animals such as whales, dolphins, wolves, and bears make the coast of British Columbia qualitatively different from most other exceptional places in the world…
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Canada’s tar sands: bringing pipelines, tankers and climate disruption to an ecosystem near you
Enbridge’s Northern Gateway project invites the world’s largest supertankers and dirtiest oil to the unspoiled waters of coastal British Columbia. Similarly, Kinder Morgan’s Trans-Mountain pipeline expansion would dramatically raise the level of tanker traffic traversing through Vancouver, the Fraser estuary and the Gulf Islands. For more on Kinder Morgan proposal click here. Read below for a…
