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    We’re nowhere near a ‘world class oil spill response’

    2016 October 192024 July 8

    Fuel spill in Heiltsuk Territory underscores rhetoric in federal and provincial messaging as environmental damage builds in the Great Bear Rainforest…

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    To Bear Witness

    2012 October 222024 July 8

    The story of the Groundswell expedition as featured in SBC Surf Magazine…

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    May says Exxon Valdez spill calls for legislation against oil tankers

    2012 March 272024 July 8

    By Christine van Reeuwyk
    Elizabeth May, MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands and Leader of the Green Party, hoped to spark interest in the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill with a picturesque press conference Friday morning…

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    May calls for tanker ban on oil-spill anniversary

    2012 March 272024 July 8

    By Cindy E. Harnett, Times Colonist March 24

    A moratorium on crude-oil supertankers on B.C.’s coast should be expanded and enshrined in legislation, Green Party leader Elizabeth May said on the eve of the 23rd anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill…

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    Report warns of catastrophic oil spill in waters north of Vancouver Island

    2010 March 242024 July 8

    Conservation group states case against pipeline, coastal shipping By Judith Lavoie, Victoria Times Colonist, March 23, 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. What’s at Stake: The Cost of Oil on British Columbia’s…

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