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6/22/2010
Alberta, Ottawa at odds over oilsands exports to China
By JASON FETEKE, Calgary Herald, 06/22/10- - - Ottawa maintains it will prohibit bitumen shipments to countries with lax climate-change policies, counterintuitive to Alberta Premier Stelmach's stance.
6/22/2010Ignatieff promises B.C. oil tanker ban
By SCOTT SIMPSON, Vancouver Sun, June 22, 2010- - -A federal Liberal government would ban crude oil tanker traffic in British Columbia's north coastal waters, Michael Ignatieff announced on Monday.
5/31/2010Running with the Wolves
Hunters chase and herd wolves with snowmobiles before killing them in northern BC.
5/25/2010Natives vow ‘whatever it takes' to stop projects
Alarmed by proposed resource projects in B.C., band leaders say they’ll stand firm against those they feel threaten their communities
5/24/2010Land-based salmon farms make economic sense, report finds
Shift away from ocean-based farms could reduce ecological risk and increase harvests.
5/24/2010B.C. offshore drilling moratorium stays: Prentice
VANCOUVER — The moratorium on offshore oil development in B.C. won't be lifted any time soon, especially in the wake of the environmental disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico.
2/3/2010Prominent Oil Critic Forced from University of Alaska
By Andy Rowell, OilChange, January 22nd, 2010 There is something about Alaska that attracts a special kind of person. Many people move or live there for its rugged landscape and spectacular wildlife.
2/3/2010Sea Lice Now a Serious Issue
BY WALTER CORDERY, Nanaimo Daily News, February 01, 2010 It looks like Alexandra Morton was right and that sea lice associated with fish farms are killing wild salmon.1/28/2010Province Announces Transitional Policy for Aquaculture
The Province has placed a moratorium on issuing new finfish aquaculture licences and will no longer be accepting new applications for shellfish aquaculture, following Tuesday's B.C. Supreme Court ruling.
1/27/2010
B.C. eco-groups call for 50 percent land conservation
A coalition of environmental groups is calling on the B.C. government to conserve 50 per cent of the province's land base to fight climate change.
1/26/2010Target drops all farmed salmon from stores
All salmon sold under Target-owned brands will now be wild-caught Alaskan salmon.
12/14/2009The Enbridge Oil Sands Gamble
by Andrew Nikiforuk, Special to CorpWatch, Dec. 14/09-Patrick Daniel, the CEO of Enbridge Inc, is bullish about the future of unconventional oil from Canada’s massive tar sand deposits. READ MORE. . .
12/12/2009Bristol Bay Native Corporation Opposes Pebble
BY ELIZABETH BLUEMINK Anchorage Daily News- - - NO OIL, GAS LEASES: Hot debate ends with protection of fisheries, resources.
12/2/2009Don't let them drill off B.C.'s coast.
BY CHRIS BORDELEAU, Martlett, Dec. 2/09-The media loves to challenge Canada's position on climate change. . .12/1/2009Oil exports to Asia drive expansion plans at B.C. ports in Vancouver and Kitimat
Dredging First and Second Narrows in Burrard Inlet to allow passage of larger ships is already on the agenda
11/30/2009Canada's image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling.
By GEORGE MONBIOT, guardian.co.uk, November 30, 2009The tar barons have held the nation to ransom. This thuggish petro-state is today the only obstacle to a deal in Copenhagen11/20/2009The 10-billion-barrel battle
Henry Lyatsky, a Calgary-based oil and mining industry consultant, says the 'silent majority' in B.C. want a moratorium on offshore oil exploration lifted.11/20/2009Pipeline to West Coast gains backing
By Nathan VanderKlippe, Globe and Mail, November 20, 2009- - -Enbridge expects 'solid shipping commitments' for Gateway.10/1/2009Cargo Vessel Crash in Douglas Channel
By GEORGE T. BAKER- Prince Rupert Daily News-Oct 1, 2009 Too close for comfort, damaged freighter feeds protests. . .9/28/2009Aquacalypse Now-The End of Fish
By DANIEL PAULY, The New Republic, September 28, 2009 Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff–like callousness by the world’s fisheries.
9/21/2009
Biologist wants inquiry on salmon stocks
Biologist Alexandra Morton wants to see a full judicial inquiry by the federal government into the reasons for the collapse of the sockeye salmon run on the Fraser River this year.9/8/2009Haida Nation says no way to oil tanker traffic
Plans by a Calgary company to pipe crude oil to Kitimat, allowing it to be shipped through north coast waters, are "ludicrous" and "unbelievable", and will never be allowed to happen, says Haida Nation president Guujaaw.8/25/2009Toxic contamination will linger at Island salmon farm site, government finds
By Scott Simpson, Vancouver Sun- August 25, 2009----An August 2009 Environment Ministry study estimates that Centre Cove salmon farm will degrade seabed marine life as much as 100 metres from the site of the farm for 15 years dating from the farm’s 2004 shutdown.
6/10/2009B.C. residents want oilsands pipeline stopped
Carol Christian - Fort McMurray Today: Some B.C. residents in communities along the route of a planned Enbridge pipeline are calling for a moratorium on the transport of oil. . .
6/2/2009Humpback Whale Killed by Oil Tanker Near Valdez
Anchorage Daily News. The animal, estimated at between 40 and 50 feet long, was hit by an oil tanker. . .
5/26/2009David Suzuki: B.C.'s Trophy Hunt is Unbearable
By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola, Georgia Strait, May 26, 2009
5/22/2009Howl in the Mist
By Andrew Findley, Photography by Ian McAllister, Westworld, Summer 2009--- B.C.'s central coast is home to one of the world's least-studied wolf populations.
5/10/2009Wild Horses as wolf bait a 'hot button' issue
Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun Bureaucrats sought to insulate provincial environment minister from plan to use equine carcasses. . .
5/6/2009The Trouble with Salmon
By Taras Grescoe, Photographs: Rob Howard, Illustration: Heather Jones May 2009, Best Life5/1/2009The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill-20 Years After: The Analysis
by Michael Ricciardi in About Environment, in the Americas.
5/1/2009
4/20/2009Tapping Our Wild Rivers Can't Fix Climate Change
By Michael M'Gonigle, TheTyee.ca, April 20th, 2009
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2/23/2009
2/11/20091/8/2009Mainstream and Marine Harvest both report large numbers of Atlantic farmed salmon missing from farms
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10/7/2008
Plight of B.C. sockeye draws global concern
A combination of ignorance and neglect by the Canadian government appears to be pushing many British Columbia sockeye runs towards extinction, according to a new report by the world's leading conservation group.
9/9/2008U.N. talks seek to safeguard animals and plants
Governments will meet in the German city of Bonn from May 19 to 30 to discuss how to safeguard the diversity of life from threats such as pollution and climate change. The U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity, which meets every two years, will review a goal set at a U.N. Earth Summit in 2002 of slowing the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010.
8/25/2008
AlbertaWind Farms Prove Deadly For Bats
Air pressure changes caused by wind farms are killing large numbers of bats, say biologists who are studying the tiny corpses falling out of the sky near turbines in southern Alberta.
8/25/2008
Enbridge Pipeline Planning Begins
The largest private infrastructure project in the history of British Columbia is in the early planning stages. Enbridge Corporation hopes to construct a twin pipeline and marine facility in Kitimat. The Gateway pipeline project involves the construction of a petroleum export pipeline, a condensate import pipeline and a marine tank terminal to service both pipelines. Early estimates peg the cost near $5 billion.
8/19/2008
Public Will Get Its Say on Enbridge Pipeline
PUBLIC CONSULTATION on Enbridge’s Gateway pipeline project is set to begin in September. The 1,150 kilometre pipeline would run from Kitimat to Strathcona Country, Alberta, just outside Edmonton. The twin pipeline would transport oil to Kitimat to be loaded in oil tankers heading to California and Asia.
8/16/2008
Enbridge Renews Push For Pipeline
Enbridge Inc. has put its proposed $4.2-billion oil and condensate pipeline through northern B.C. back on the front burner after shelving it in late 2006. The company says it has raised $100 million from Western Canadian producers and key Asian refiners to get the project through the regulatory process. The company says it intends to file a regulatory application in the first three months of 2009, and hopes to have the pipeline running by 2014. "We're very much focused on moving forward on this project, and we feel in the months ahead will have a very strong case to take to communities on the benefits that will accrue across the North," Enbridge official Steve Greenaway said Wednesday.
7/2/2008Extinction Point Part 2
VANCOUVER -- Nature photographer Andrew Wright first visited the Broughton Archipelago, off Vancouver Island's northeast shoulder, in the summer of 1990, shortly after emigrating to Canada from England.
6/19/2008
Overfishing
Overfishing has shifted entire ecosystems with often surprising, and occasionally unpleasant, results. In the tropics, seaweed often dominates where coral once reigned. Around the world, jellyfish and algae proliferate where finfish previously dominated. With big predators often gone or greatly depleted, organisms lower on the food web grow more abundant, reducing their own prey in turn.
6/15/2008
As the Salmon Goes So Does The Coast
You can't talk about the future of Echo Bay, or the coast, without talking about salmon. "We're very much wild-salmon based," says Alexandra Morton. The fish are the traditional lifeblood of the coast and its economy. Even tourism depends on wildlife -- eagles, bears, whales -- that are themselves dependent on salmon.
6/9/2008
Exclusion Zone
In the 1970s, the threat of devastating oil spills on British Columbia's coast became a reality when the Trans Alaska Pipeline was completed, linking the Prudhoe Bay oil fields to the shipping port of Valdez, Alaska. Today, five pipelines are proposed from Alberta to the B.C. ports of Kitimat and Prince Rupert. But in the rush to welcome all this new development, the government seems to have forgotten what was feared back then - that in B.C.'s remote northern waters, a dead drifting tanker probably can't be saved in time to prevent an environmental catastrophe.6/6/2008Extinction Point Part 1
This spring I returned, albeit to a very different archipelago, for the potential of a barren (not beautiful) British Columbia lay before me. This visit I was afforded the dubious privilege of bearing witness to a species on the cusp of extinction.
5/30/2008
Tankers No Thanks
Those who would be hit the worst should get to decide if the world's most dangerous ships should be allowed to ply our north coast. When it comes to supertankers off B.C.'s north coast, both sides of the tanker debate talk about risks and benefits. But a crucial question is who risks and who benefits.
5/16/2008
UN Experts
Nearly 200 governments will say next week they are unlikely to meet a target of slowing the rate of extinctions of living species by 2010, a failure which could threaten future food supplies.Up to 5,000 delegates and some heads of state, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, will try to agree at the Convention of Biological Diversity in the German city of Bonn on ways to save plant and animal species.
5/16/2008