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Vote to help Raincoast win a Land Rover to launch our mobile lab, Tracker

2022 October 212024 October 23

Raincoast has been selected as a finalist to win a Land Rover Defender 130.

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Juvenile killer whale and mother off the coast of British Columbia.
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National Energy Board’s failure haunts governments

2018 February 222024 July 8

The cries of condemnation emanating from the Alberta and Canadian federal governments are deafening. The burgeoning conflict began when BC announced the province would limit shipments of diluted bitumen from Alberta…

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Coastal bird populations and Big Oil

2017 May 122024 July 8

Times Colonist: Raincoast studies helped put nails in the coffin of the Northern Gateway pipeline. Excerpt for the book “At sea with the marine birds of the Raincoast by Dr. Caroline Fox…

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Federal approval of Kinder Morgan pipeline project unlawful

2016 December 212024 July 8

Ecojustice, Raincoast and Livings Oceans launch lawsuit to protect endangered killer whales from Trans Mountain oil tankers…

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Trudeau’s Pipeline Approval Faces Court Challenge From Conservation Groups

2016 December 202024 July 8

Huffington Post/Bruce Cheadle, Canadian Press
Conservation groups have filed a new court challenge to the federal government’s approval of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline…

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Ship noise on government’s radar amid dispute over pipeline’s impact on whales

2016 December 202024 July 8

CTV News/Bruce Cheadle, Canadian Press
Conservation groups poised to file lawsuit challenging the Liberal cabinet’s approval of Kinder Morgan’s TMX…

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Raincoast updates

It’s Oil or Orcas

2016 December 122024 July 8

by Judith Lavoie, The Tyee
Southern Resident killer whales threatened by increased tanker traffic, experts say…

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Notes from the field

Enbridge, Kinder Morgan, and hope for killer whales

2016 December 102024 July 8

We have something to celebrate. And so do you. In November, the federal government finally rejected the Northern Gateway proposal…

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Endangered BC orcas could face extinction with Trans Mountain approval

2016 December 12024 July 8

CTV goes in depth with Raincoast to discuss implications to Southern Resident killer whales from Kinder Morgan approval…

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Investigate and inform

Today’s approval of TMX sanctions probable extinction of the Southern Resident killer whales

2016 November 292024 July 8

Trudeau government’s approval is neither science-based nor in Canada’s best interest, and does not safeguard killer whales…

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A group of orca whales swimming in the water.
In the media

Big oil v orcas: Canadians fight pipeline that threatens killer whales

2016 November 162024 July 8

The Guardian: Trans Mountain Expansion project poses the greatest risk yet to a killer whale population on the edge of extinction…

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In the media | Investigate and inform

A Diesel Spill is putting the World’s Largest Temperate Rainforest at Risk

2016 November 52024 July 8

Almost three weeks later, the sunken tug is still there, still intermittently leaking diesel, and clean-up efforts have barely begun…

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