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  • Pipeline, above ground, spanning from close-up to the horizon.
    Raincoast updates

    Three Heroes Against Three Pipelines

    2013 July 112024 July 8

    Raincoast’s Dr. Chris Darimont is featured in an essay by author and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben in the Patagonia Early Fall 2013 catalog…

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  • A man in a life jacket standing in a wooded area.
    Notes from the field

    Enbridge final argument, but not the last word

    2013 June 262024 July 8

    Raincoast’s Dr. Paul Paquet speaks about our role in the Northern Gateway Joint Review process…

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  • An oil pipeline stretches through a clear cut forest
    Raincoast updates

    Pipeline spill would put 34 parks at risk

    2012 April 272024 July 8

    Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist
    Dozens of parks and protected areas in B.C. would be at risk of a spill from the proposed Enbridge pipeline says a new study by Raincoast

    Read More Pipeline spill would put 34 parks at riskContinue

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    Exxon Valdez anniversary casts shadow over Earth Day

    2012 April 142024 July 8

    Victoria News

    The recent anniversary of the Exxon Valdez disaster casts a long shadow over impending Earth Day events in BC, as two controversial pipeline projects propose to deliver “the world’s dirtiest oil” to the Pacific coast…

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  • Heavy equipment lays an oil pipe in the ground
    In the media | Investigate and inform

    The Enbridge pipeline: Northern Gateway to what?

    2011 August 132024 July 8

    By Chris Genovali, Special to The Vancouver Sun August 12, 2011

    Conflating the interests of the shareholders and investors of energy giants such as Enbridge with those of the Canadian people has become the central talking point for the promoters of Alberta’s tar sands…

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  • Two dead seabirds covered in oil lie on a dock
    Raincoast updates

    Enbridge tar sands pipeline threatens Canadian wildlife

    2011 March 222024 July 8

    Although rarely considered, many human activities deprive wild animals of their life necessities by destroying or impoverishing their surroundings, causing suffering of individuals through displacement, stress, starvation, and diminished security…

    Read More Enbridge tar sands pipeline threatens Canadian wildlifeContinue

  • A group of people standing on the deck of a sailboat.
    Investigate and inform

    Message In A Bottle

    2010 November 122024 July 8

    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…

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  • Heavy equipment lays an oil pipe in the ground
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    Vampire Blues: suckin’ blood from the earth

    2010 July 202024 October 23

    Canadian federal and provicial governments seem eager to turn BC’s coast into an energy corridor. Enbridge Inc. is pushing hard to construct a twinned pipeline from the tar sands of Alberta to the coast of BC, where Exxon Valdez-sized supertankers would ship oil to Asian and American markets.

    Read More Vampire Blues: suckin’ blood from the earthContinue

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    Take the lead: On climate action

    2009 December 12024 July 8

    By Chris Genovali Calgary Herald, Nov 30, 2009 Re: “Climate plan will take 40 years: Prentice,” Nov. 21. Climate scientist James Hansen of NASA states we have already passed the threshold for “maximum permissible concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.”

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  • Raincoast updates

    Is push to export oil to China worth risk of catastrophic spill?

    2009 August 172024 July 8

    Edmonton Journal, August 10, 2009 By Chris Genovali, A recent Canwest News report described how “China’s energy buying spree is bypassing Canada’s oilpatch.” Depending on one’s viewpoint, this could besomething to lament or something to be relieved about.

    Read More Is push to export oil to China worth risk of catastrophic spill?Continue

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    Environment debate should be the focus

    2009 May 112024 July 8

    by Chris Genovali Saanich News May 8, 2009 The May 1 News editorial: “Let’s get down to business” rightly laments that “we are less than two weeks away from election day in B.C. and we’re still waiting for the campaign to present significant debate

    Read More Environment debate should be the focusContinue

  • Raincoast updates

    Pipeline Peril

    2009 January 42024 July 8

    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.

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