By Mike De Souza, Postmedia News
The proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline threatens critical habitat of humpback whales off the coast of BC, says newly released internal federal documents from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans…
Dr. Chris Darimont takes to the surf, with allies, to raise awareness of the risks of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project.
Raincoast says wolves are being scapegoated to protect caribou instead of addressing the real problem: Alberta’s tar sands…
Island Tides
By Misty MacDuffee and Chris Genovali
Raincoast contends that the nominal information generated from deploying satellite tags to the fins of endangered killer whales does not justify the risk of serious injury…
Join Raincoast for a discussion of Enbridge’s highly misleading and selective information that was used as the basis for dismissing the real risk from oil tankers on the BC coast…
A plan to tag endangered killer whales that ply both sides of the international border between British Columbia and the United States is being met with growing opposition in Canada…
Join Raincoast and a professional mariner with over 30 years experience on the BC coast to discuss Enbridge’s Environmental Impact Assessment and tanker proposal…
Victoria Times Colonist
By Judith Lavoie
The federal government is legally bound to protect killer whale critical habitat, the federal Court of Appeal ruled Thursday…
Today’s decision from the Court of Appeal upheld an earlier ruling that the critical habitat of killer whales, including their salmon food supply must be legally protected by the federal government…
Check out Chris Darimont’s blog post at Patagonia’s ‘The Cleanest Line’ on surfing the Great Bear Rainforest, the threat from oil tankers to BC’s coast and more…
How could we possibly give voice to marine mammals and other life threatened by one of the largest industrial projects ever conceived? After all, whales, dolphins and the like – as intelligent as they are – cannot mount their own defense against the oil industry. Oil giant Enbridge Inc. and its international partners have proposed…
Victoria Times Colonist By Judith Lavoie
Canadian opposition grows to a US plan to attach satellite tags to endangered southern resident killer whales…