‘Drift cards’ found washing ashore
Cali Bagby / Islands Sounder
Last week Sukima Hampton was walking on a friend’s private beach west of Eastsound when she was horrified to find a pink card with the words “This could be oil” printed on it…
Ottawa boosts ship surveillance
Amy Smart / Times Colonist
Vancouver Island environmental groups warn that a federal plan to expand marine pollution surveillance won’t be effective against a major spill…
Hello from Haida Gwaii
Walking down their favourite beach, Sian and Allan were not thinking of oil spills until they found a bright yellow drift card and its message, this could be oil…
Rolling the dice on the Salish Sea
By Judith Lavoie, FOCUS
As bright yellow drift cards were tossed into the Salish Sea from Raincoast’s vessel Achiever, it was a stark reminder of all that could be lost if oil spills…
Anti-pipeline groups do mock spill
By Sean McIntyre, Gulf Islands Driftwood
Anti-pipeline campaigners want Gulf Islands residents to look for hundreds of postcard-sized wooden cards released into the Salish Sea…
Environmental NGOs launch B.C. oil-spill study
By Andrea Woo, The Globe and Mail
In coming weeks, more than a thousand small, yellow cards will traverse the waters around Vancouver, the Gulf and San Juan Islands, washing up along shores of the Salish Sea…
Conservation groups launch ‘drift card’ study to measure oil spill impact
By Colleen Kimmett, The Tyee
If a tanker runs aground in southern B.C.’s coastal waters, where will the oil end up? That’s the question conservation groups are trying to answer…
Oil spill study highlights risk of rising tanker traffic in the Salish Sea
Raincoast and the Georgia Strait Alliance have launched a study on the potential spread of an oil spill along the Kinder Morgan oil tanker route through the Salish Sea…
Expert panel and films: Tar sands oil to and from our coast
Join Raincoast, Georgia Strait Alliance, Forest Ethics and the Burke Mtn Naturalists Sept 22 in Coquitlam for an expert panel, films and discussion on tar sands oil…
The government’s oil spill plans are a bit too slick
As we have learned from previous oil spills, no response is possible in rough weather, high seas and dangerous conditions…
Joe Oliver’s platitudes ignore dirty reality of oil spills
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…
Pipeliners increase flow of BS
FOCUS Magazine By Briony Penn, December 2012
The Canadian Heavy Oil Association hopes a “factspill” will persuade British Columbians to support their pipelines…