Oil-Free Coast art auction impresses
Gulf Islands Driftwood
ArtSpring has hosted more than a few acclaimed exhibitions, but the recent visit of the Oil-Free Coast show saw dozens of BC’s top artists unite for one impressive collective effort…
Gulf Islands Driftwood
ArtSpring has hosted more than a few acclaimed exhibitions, but the recent visit of the Oil-Free Coast show saw dozens of BC’s top artists unite for one impressive collective effort…
McLeans.ca By The Canadian Press
“They’re not lying” said Raincoast’s Captain Brian Falconer, “They’ve just chosen a way of expressing it that is meaningless in assessing risk”…
FOCUS Magazine By Briony Penn, December 2012
The Canadian Heavy Oil Association hopes a “factspill” will persuade British Columbians to support their pipelines…
Calgary Herald, By The Canadian Press
It was a fairly calm day for storm season in the North Pacific, where Brian Falconer, long-time mariner and marine operations co-ordinator for Raincoast, said waves can swell to 26 metres high…
The Globe and Mail
This week, federal hearings into the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline have come to Prince Rupert to examine marine impacts and spill response…
Island Tides, By Sara Miles
Raincoast’s sweeping ‘Oil Free Coast’ initiative began last June taking 50 artists to the coastal rainforest…
The majority of our efforts in 2012 however, have been focused on the biggest challenge we have faced yet – stopping the conversion of BC’s coast to an energy corridor for the shipment of tar sands oil…
CHEK TV covers the Victoria opening of the Art for an Oil-Free Coast exhibition tour…
A Draft Management Plan for Humans was submitted today by Ken S. Lupus with the BC Ministry of Wild Wolves…
Overall, this is a deeply flawed plan that contains many scientifically unsound and uninformed objectives…
Gulf Islands Driftwood
Art and environmental action have come together in a travelling exhibition called Art for an Oil-Free Coast that stops at Salt Spring from Dec. 11 to 16…
“Strong on killing and not very strong on conservation” says Raincoast’s Dr. Paul Paquet about BC’s wolf management plan…