By Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist
December 7, 2010
A message in a bottle has washed up on the east coast of Haida Gwaii, providing one more piece of a jigsaw puzzle showing the web of currents swirling around the Pacific Ocean…
Island Tides, November 11, 2010
As part of an effort to understand ocean currents, and how they would influence the movement of a potential oil spill, scientists from IOS recently teamed up with the Gitga’at and Raincoast to drop ‘drift’ bottles…
Representatives for Enbridge were in Bella Bella to present their case for the Northern Gateway pipeline. Raincoast’s Doug Brown, a member of the Heiltsuk First Nation, was at the event…
Spills from Enbridge operations in the United States illustrate the risks of oil pipelines and tanker traffic to British Columbia’s marine and terrestrial environments, as well as First Nations and rural communities.
Read letters published last week by Raincoast’s Executive Director on the proposed shipping of oil through BC waters Globe and Mail Kitimat Northern Sentinel
Calgary Herald January 4, 2009 by Chris Genovali Re: “Syncrude duck deaths cap oilpatch’s ‘dirty’ year,” Dec. 29. The oilsands could impact avian life beyond the waterfowl migrating through and nesting in Alberta’s boreal forest.
Winnipeg Free Press Oct. 22, 2008 by Chris Genovali Re: Ex-premiers sing praises of BC offshore oil development; Campbell nixes notion, (Free Press, Oct. 21). It is unfortunate that former interim premier turned industry consultant Dan Miller is once again advocating for industry to open up British Columbia’s coast to oil rigs,