Earth Day for an Oil-Free Coast
For Earth Day 2014 Raincoast has teamed up with the Sierra Club BC to bring you an evening of inspiration and entertainment headlined by renowned artist Robert Bateman…
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‘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… -
Opinion: BC government wants grizzly bears dead
Chris Genovali / Special to the Vancouver Sun
We want these bears dead. This is the message the B.C. government’s “reallocation policy” sends to Raincoast, to British Columbians, and to the world… -
In small Canadian town democracy wins, tar sands lose
Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams
In a vote cheered as a victory for democracy, one community in BC has given a flat rejection to a proposed tar sands pipeline… -
Original Joe’s backs Raincoast
Media release / Victoria, B.C.
CHEERS !!! Original Joe’s Restaurant and Bar gives Raincoast over $2300 from its community pint program… -
Join us in Sidney for Earth Day
Join Raincoast and the Sierra Club of BC to learn the facts around the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion and much more…
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British Columbia’s controversial spring grizzly bear hunt now open
Dene Moore CP / The Globe and Mail
British Columbia’s controversial spring grizzly bear hunt opened Tuesday, with one of the highest number of hunting authorizations issued in decades… -
It’s in the cards; spread of possible oil spill tracked by ‘drift card’ study
Staff Report / San Juan Journal
Conservation groups from Washington and British Columbia commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill by launching 650 ‘drift cards’ along Salish Sea oil tanker routes… -
When Science-Based Management Isn’t
Raincoast & SFU scientists just published a letter in the international journal SCIENCE. It calls out the BC gov’t for making politically motivated decisions and calling them ‘scientific’…
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Grizzly hunt fails test of science, experts say
Stephen Hume / Vancouver Sun
BC’s management of the trophy hunt fails the most basic scientific standards, says a letter from four scientists to the international journal Science… -
What the Exxon Valdez anniversary has to do with Canada’s wild salmon
Misty MacDuffee & Chris Genovali / Huff Post
March 24 marks the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill… -
Canadian grizzly bears face expanded hunt
Nicola Jones / Nature
As BC prepares to open its annual grizzly hunt, scientists are protesting the provincial government’s decision to increase the kills…
