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Raincoast art available for display and purchase

2014 October 82024 July 8

Many pieces from the Art for an Oil-Free Coast initiative are still available for purchase or viewing. Generous local galleries and sponsors are hosting the art…

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Painting by Alan Wylie of sea lions on a rocky haulout
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Gary Holman’s community office hosts conservation art pieces

2014 October 82024 July 8

MLA Gary Holman’s community office in Sidney BC is hosting paintings from Raincoast’s Oil-Free Coast art collection as part of the 2014 ArtSea Festival.

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Oil spill simulation gets locals talking about possibility of crude along the Salish Sea

2014 August 292024 July 8

Jenny Uechi / Vancouver Observer
Tamara Phillips was swimming near Stanley Park when her eye caught a glimpse of a yellow card floating along the water’s surface…

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Oil Spill Simulated On B.C.’s Fraser River, Burrard Inlet

2014 August 282024 July 8

The Huffington Post B.C.
Researchers place bright yellow cards into the Fraser River to simulate how far a potential oil spill from the Trans Canada pipeline would spread…

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Oil cards expected to wash up along Richmond’s shores

2014 August 282024 July 8

Graeme Wood / Richmond News
If you’ve walked along the dyke recently, you might be asking yourself: What are those yellow things floating in the Fraser River or stuck on the rocks…

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Drift cards released on Fraser River to simulate pipeline oil spill risk

2014 August 272024 July 8

Larry Pynn / Vancouver Sun
400 drift cards were released into the Fraser River to better understand where a Kinder Morgan oil spill might go…

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‘This could be oil’: Drift cards tossed into Fraser River to simulate oil spill

2014 August 272024 July 8

Emily Jackson / Metro
Four hundred plywood drift cards stamped with the warning “This could be oil” were tossed into the Fraser River Tuesday to simulate how far oil could travel…

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Organizers of oil spill simulation ask for help from B.C. residents

2014 August 272024 July 8

Jen St. Denis / Business In Vancouver
Two environmental groups are asking British Columbians to help them track where and how oil would spill in the waters around Vancouver in the event of a tanker leak…

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A person holding up a yellow ticket on a boat.
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Simulation to show impact of potential oil spill in Burrard Inlet

2014 August 272024 July 8

Peter Meiszner / Global News
The City of Vancouver is teaming up with two environmental groups to conduct an oil spill simulation Tuesday on the Fraser River and in Burrard Inlet…

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Media Release: Public participation required for oil spill simulation

2014 August 252024 July 8

Raincoast and the Georgia Strait Alliance are teaming up with the City of Vancouver today to conduct an oil spill simulation on the Fraser River and in Burrard Inlet…

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Kinder Morgan: Putting the Salish Sea at Risk

2014 June 282024 July 8

Chris Genovali / Seaside Magazine
Weaving through an archipelago, the mixing of large freshwater rivers with marine waters has created an ocean rich with life…

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Supertankers to the coast: Canada approves building controversial pipeline

2014 June 172024 July 8

Joel Connelly / Seattle PI
The Canadian government gave green light to construction of a pipeline that would carry 525,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta’s tar sands…

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