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Our newsletter is published twice a year and provides updates on our activities and other items of importance to the marine environment in and around the Salish Sea. If you’re inspired by the work GSA does, consider making a donation of any amount.

Winter 2024

Past newsletters

	Issue	Description	Link
	Summer 2024	Leveraging the law to protect biodiversity and wild salmon• CMBC Dock Walking & derelict vessels campaign update• Engaging Cowichan Tribes youth • New Marine Planning Program • Welcoming new team members and fond farewell to Christianne Wilhelmson•	View
	Winter 2023	A big biodiversity threat• CMBC Dock Walking & pump-out map • Engaging Cowichan Tribes youth • Explore the Salish Sea Raffle prize winners • Welcoming new Board members • Protecting our communites from Extreme Heat	View
	Summer 2023	Grassroots Action for Orcas • New GSA mission • Next actions to stop the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 project • Removal of open-net pen fish farms in the Discovery Islands • Conversations about Extreme Heat • People power and LNG	View
	Winter 2022	Community led organizing • Sue Big Oil campaign • United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) • Phase out open-net pen fish farms in the Discovery Islands • Dock Walking & Boater Kits • Summer raffle prize winners	View
	Summer 2022	Roberts Bank Terminal 2 project  •  Orca protection measures  •  Trans Mountain pipeline expansion  •  Human health & shoreline conditions in B.C.’s oil spill response planning  •  Return of our Clean Marine BC dock walking program  •  Campaigning Workshops  •  Interconnections between environmental & social (in)justices	View
	Winter 2021	Standing up to fish farm operators in court  •  Push for tertiary treatment at the Iona Wastewater Treatment Plant  •  CleanBC Climate plan lacks detail, ambition, and urgency  •  Calling for a transformative climate emergency plan  •  Negative Emissions Technologies  •  New community organizers hired	View
	Summer 2021	Fish farms in the Discovery Islands  •  Reducing climate emissions while B.C. increases LNG production  •  Protect B.C. shorelines from the inevitable Trans Mountain expansion spill  •  Orca protection measures for boaters  •  Festival of Ocean Films	View
	Winter 2020	Systemic racism and how it expresses itself in GSA and acting on that knowledge to build a healthier, safer and more just society  •  Advocating for advanced wastewater treatment at Metro Vancouver’s plant  •  Intervenor in the federal environmental review panel for the proposed Roberts Bank Terminal 2 expansion  •  Sharing the waters with large whales  •  Generous donation from a 24-year-old firefighter	View
	Summer 2020	Transboundary approach to protection of Southern Resident orcas  •  Advocating for tertiary wastewater treatment and a national stormwater framework  •  Impacts of the proposed Roberts Bank terminal  •  Getting climate targets into the Province’s climate legislation  •  Reducing and eliminating long-term anchorages	View
	Winter 2019	Everyday actions to support the recovery of orcas  •  Tertiary wastewater treatment for Metro Vancouver  •  Transition of open net-pen salmon farming to land-based closed containment  •  Most significant risks to BC from climate change  •  CMBC marina program to BC’s Interior	View
	Summer 2019	Boldest recovery measures ever for endangered Southern Resident killer whales  •  Communities and individuals take action on climate change  •  EcoStar Award for CMBC  •  New information on oil spill response capability to the NEB  •  Vancouver's watershed management plan	View
	Winter 2018	Taking on the Carbon Majors  •  Getting marinas into ship-shape  •  Spurring the federal government to help orcas  •  Rallying against fish farms  •  Intervening against Trans Mountain	View
	Summer 2018	Risks associated with increased tanker traffic  •  Thousands protested the Kinder Morgan pipeline project  •  State of the Waterfront Report for Vancouver  •  Kids create videos about helping to improve the health of the oceans	View
	Winter 2017	Water's Edge Day  •  Orca's Can't Wait campaign  •  Delays in Kinder Morgan’s pipeline and tanker project  •  CMBC best practices	View
	Summer 2017	Next steps needed for the orca action plan  CMBC spill training for marinas  •  How to stop Kinder Morgan  •  State of the waterfront: Preliminary analysis  •  Oil spill response in BC  •  First Wine on the Waterfront event	View

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