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We won our legal challenge to stop the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion

Published on 2018 08 30 | by Raincoast | in Conservation update

Today we can all celebrate a significant win in our efforts to protect Southern Resident killer whales, Fraser River salmon and the Salish Sea. This morning, the federal court of appeal unanimously ruled that the Canadian government’s approval of the Trans Mountain Expansion project violated its legal obligations to protect endangered Southern Resident killer whales […]

Killer Whales versus Trans Mountain pipeline – decision time

Published on 2018 08 29 | by Raincoast | in For the coast

J50/Scarlet and her mother, J16/Slick, travel toward the west side of San Juan Island, Washington.

We requested the court send this unlawful approval back to Cabinet with instructions that it must meet all of the legal requirements, which include addressing the risks to Southern Resident killer whales. The court ruling is due Thursday…

Trans Mountain is now Taxpayer Mountain

Published on 2018 06 12 | by Chris Genovali, Executive Director | in For the coast

The Canadian federal government’s purchase of the Trans Mountain project from Kinder Morgan is financially and environmentally dubious. With this decision, Trans Mountain should now be renamed Taxpayer Mountain…

Oil tankers: a killer for whales

Published on 2018 05 26 | by Chris Genovali, Misty MacDuffee & Paul Paquet | in Inform

Southern Resident killer whale mother and juvenile.

The National Energy Board recommended approval of the Trans Mountain expansion knowing the Kinder Morgan project would jeopardize the survival of the Southern Residents…

Trans Mountain expansion poses unacceptable risk to Salish Sea

Published on 2018 04 26 | by Chris Genovali, Misty MacDuffee & Paul Paquet | in For the coast

A tug lines up beside a massive oil tanker.

Is Canada’s national interest best aligned with a Texas pipeline company? The suggestion of bailing out U.S.-based Kinder Morgan and investing tax dollars to access public assets in a sunset industry, while momentous questions of Canadian law are still before the courts, is nothing short of absurd…

Killer Whales versus Kinder Morgan

Published on 2017 10 03 | by Raincoast | in For the coast

Raincoast and Living Oceans Society are in court this week, represented by our lawyers at Ecojustice, to challenge the Kinder Morgan pipeline and defend BC’s endangered Southern Resident killer whales…

Misty MacDuffee explains why Southern Resident killer whales are threatened by industrialization of the Salish Sea

Published on 2017 08 17 | by Raincoast | in Interviews

MacDuffee laughs aboard a small boat on the Fraser River.

Misty MacDuffee joined Adam Stirling on CFAX 1070 to discuss the plight of the Southern Resident killer whales. Adam Stirling raises questions regarding the growing threat of oil tankers and shipping traffic…

BC government signals challenge for Trans Mountain pipeline on legal grounds

Published on 2017 08 16 | by Chris Genovali, Executive Director | in For the coast

Sockey salmon with bright red bodies swimming upstream in the Great Bear Rainforest.

The BC government’s announcement to challenge the Trans Mountain pipeline is welcome news for BC’s coast. Raincoast, with its partners, is already challenging the NEB and federal government oil tanker and pipeline approval …

Misty MacDuffee explains the lethal consequences of oil spills, tanker traffic and pipelines

Published on 2017 08 11 | by Raincoast | in Interviews

Misty MacDuffee looks over the front of a boat on the Lower Fraser River.

Hear Misty MacDuffee on CFAX 1070 with Pamela McCall discussing oil spill risks to marine mammal conservation including Southern Resident killer whales…