Tag: Kinder Morgan | Raincoast Conservation Foundation

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

Published on 2017 08 17 | by Raincoast | in Audio

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 In the News

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…

BC’s marine mammals vulnerable to oil spills – especially killer whales

Published on 2017 07 27 | by Misty MacDuffee | in For the coast

A humpback whale slips into the water near the

BC’s marine mammals are at high risk from oil spill impacts. Our understanding of this has been deepened by our newly published research paper that developed a framework to assess the impact of oil spills on marine mammals…

Rachel Notley not winning hearts or minds in B.C.

Published on 2017 07 24 | by Chris Genovali, Executive Director | in Commentary

With multiple lawsuits before the courts, including one by the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, and an anti-Trans Mountain provincial government taking power in British Columbia, Notley’s audacious guarantee seems intemperate at best. However, if Notley’s intention was to harden opposition in B.C. to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion…

Clark’s ‘5 Conditions’ Concealed Support For B.C. Oil Projects

Published on 2017 02 28 | by Chris Genovali, Executive Director | in Opinion Editorials

Chris Genovali / Huffington Post: To no one’s surprise the provincial government of British Columbia signed off on Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain oil sands pipeline and supertanker project in the Salish Sea…

Christy Clark’s ‘five conditions con’

Published on 2017 02 10 | by Chris Genovali, Executive Director | in Opinion Editorials

Christy Clark at the World Economic Forum in India in 2011

To no one’s surprise, the BC government has signed off on Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain oil sands pipeline and supertanker project in the Salish Sea.

Clark’s five pipeline conditions are a charade

Published on 2017 01 29 | by Chris Genovali, Executive Director | in Opinion Editorials

Chris Genovali / Times Colonist
To no one’s surprise, the provincial government of British Columbia has signed off on Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain project…

Pipeline expansion a death knell for endangered whales

Published on 2017 01 13 | by Raincoast | in Uncategorized

Oil tankers could travel completely according to plan -with no oil spills and no ship strikes to killer whales- and the risk of extinction still increases by up to 25% from noise alone…