Press Category: Tankers and Spills

October 24, 2013 Vancouver – Today, Raincoast Conservation Foundation and Georgia Strait Alliance launched a new initiative to study the potential spread of an oil spill in the waters around Vancouver, the Gulf and San Juan Islands, and along the Kinder Morgan oil tanker route through the Salish Sea. The environmental groups were joined by high school students from the…

August 26, 2013 VANCOUVER – Commenting on documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws revealing that BC Ministry of Environment officials have warned that the province lacks the ability to manage oil spills from existing and future oil traffic, Alexandra Woodsworth, Energy and Shipping Campaigner at Georgia Strait Alliance, said: “This is the latest in a long line of warnings…

VICTORIA – Simultaneous outdoor town hall meetings will be held tomorrow on either side of the Kinder Morgan tar sands tanker route, at Arbutus Cove Park in Saanich, BC, and at Lime Kiln Park on Washington’s San Juan Island. The event will provide information and raise awareness about plans to transform the Salish Sea into a major fossil fuel export…

August 21, 2013 VICTORIA – A coalition of environmental groups will hold simultaneous town hall meetings today on either side of a tar sands and coal shipping route that follows the Canada/US border. The events – near Victoria, BC and on San Juan Island, WA – mark the launch of a new joint campaign by the Wilderness Committee and Georgia…

Kinder Morgan proposal increases risk of major oil spill without adequate insurance, report warns January 24, 2013 VANCOUVER:  A report released today by four environmental groups warns that Kinder Morgan’s new Trans Mountain Pipeline proposal represents an exponential increase in the risk of a major marine-based oil spill affecting the Salish Sea’s most populous region, including the Cities of Vancouver…

March 5 2009 Victoria, BC – Leading environmental groups from BC and Canada have declared March 24th No Tankers Day, a national day of action to keep BC’s coast safe from oil spills. The 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill will be used to highlight the importance of keeping BC’s coast safe from oil spills and the threat…

December 17, 2007 Nanaimo, BC – Fifteen community groups from around the Strait of Georgia have banded together to fight a proposed Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project on Texada Island.  The Westpac LNG Corporation wants to build an LNG plant facility, a gas-fired generation station, as well as a high voltage power transmission power line on the island, all of…

June 26, 2006The moratorium on offshore oil and gas and tanker traffic has been protecting British Columbia’s northern coast since 1972.Natural Resources Canada most recently confirmed the moratorium in 2003 when it tasked the Royal Society of Canada to conduct a public review of the BC Offshore Oil and Gas Moratorium, stating: “In 1972, the Government of Canada imposed a…

Batholiths Project December 14, 2006The project:A team of academics, mostly Americans, want to study how the earth’s crust was formed. They want to use a large airgun array (36 guns with a total volume of 6,600 in3) in the narrow fjords, inlets and coastal waters of the central coast of B.C. The ship will tow the array at 4-5 knots…

MEDIA RELEASEFebruary 17, 2004 VANCOUVER, BC – Greenpeace, the Living Oceans Society and the Georgia Strait Alliance joined forces to reject the recommendations of the Royal Society of Canada. The report suggested that there were no scientific gaps that should hold up the lifting of the moratorium on offshore energy exploration."This report fails to protect the ecosystem of the Queen…