Courting the Next Exxon Valdez
Counterpunch,
By Chris Genovali, Paul Paquet and Misty MacDuffee
The BC coast is a fragile archipelago with a boundary between land and ocean that changes by the hour, by the season and over millennia.
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British Columbia’s coast in the balance
Island Tides, Apr 1, 2010 Chris Genovali, Paul Paquet and Misty MacDuffee In this part of the world March 24 will, to borrow a phrase from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, live in infamy; it’s the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster that took place in Alaska’s Prince William Sound in 1989.
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Tankers and oil spills could reverse years of recovery efforts
By Chris Genovali Lessons from the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska have shown that even after two decades, some species and fisheries still have not recovered. This includes killer whale populations, some seabird populations, shellfish harvesting and the commercial herring fishery. If the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline is constructed from Alberta’s tar sands…
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Oil spill would devastate BC wildlife: report
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…
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What’s at stake? The cost of oil on British Columbia’s priceless coast
What’s at Stake is based on 5 years of marine surveys on the BC coast, but puts this region in a broader ecological context.
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B.C.’s coastal wildlife would be ‘devastated’ by oil spill: report
Conservation group states case against pipeline, coastal shipping Calgary Herald By Judith Lavoie, March 24, 2010 VICTORIA – Whales, wolves, bears and birds would be devastated by an oil spill in the waters off Vancouver’s coast, says an extensive new study released a day before the anniversary of one of the world’s most devastating human-caused…
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B.C. oil profits may come at a high price
By Chris Genovali, Paul Paquet and Misty MacDuffee
Special to the Times Colonist
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Report warns of catastrophic oil spill in waters north of Vancouver Island
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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An oil spill could be ‘catastrophic’ for British Columbia killer whales
Orca population would not survive an ecological incident, researchers say By Nicholas Read, Special To The Sun March 22, 2010 British Columbia killer whales could become extinct in the long term if an oil spill similar in scope to that from the Exxon Valdez occurred off the coast of B.C., says a conservation biologist with…
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We’re a never-kill-wolf province, public says
B.C. government faced with tough decision on caribou recovery issue By Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun, March 18, 2010 The public has rejected the idea of an aerial wolf kill in B.C. to benefit threatened mountain caribou, even before the first gun has been loaded.
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Meet the Raincoast Marine Team
In 2007, the crew surveyed the stormy waters off BC’s central and north coast until December, in order to expand our understanding of abundance and distribution patterns of animals throughout the year…
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Groups call for emergency corridor for wild salmon smolts: closure of three fish farms
Dan Maclennan, Courier-Islander Wednesday, March 10, 2010 A host of environmental, recreation and tourism organizations are calling on Ottawa to shut down three fish farms to create an emergency corridor for out-migrating wild salmon smolts.
