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Gulf Islands Driftwood
Published: December 22, 2010
By Chris Genovali and Misty MacDuffee
This past week, Saanich-Gulf Islands MP Gary Lunn asserted that professionals should be left to decide on tanker routes for the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project…
As part of an effort to understand ocean currents, and how they would influence a potential oil spill, the Institute of Ocean Sciences teamed up with the Gitga’at First Nation and Raincoast to drop “drift bottles” into the Pacific Ocean.
Fragile Ecosystems Judith Lavoie, Financial Post Tuesday, March 24, 2010 Whales, wolves, bears and birds would be devastated by an oil spill in the waters north of Vancouver Island and off Haida Gwaii, says an extensive new study. Photo: Chris Darimont, Raincoast.org The extent of a simulated oil spill is marked in dark grey…