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New Shipping Pollution Prevention Regulations only a First Step
Environmental groups from British Columbia are cautiously welcoming the new pollution prevention regulations under the Canada Shipping Act and see it as a first step to protecting Canada’s sensitive marine ecosystem. They are also encouraging the government to build on these regulations in the years to come, however the regulations will only be successful when they provide infrastructure like sewage…
Read more »Media Backgrounder: Seismic Blasting Threatens Marine Life
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…
Read more »Media Backgrounder: Canadian Military Interferes with Killer Whale Recovery Strategy
May 23, 2007Killer Whale FactsOrcas, also known as Killer Whales, are members of the dolphin family and are the highest predators in the food chainOrcas are highly intelligent mammals that live in matriarchal units comprised of a mother and one or more of her offspring, which congregate into larger social groups known as podsBiologists classify orcas in the Northeast Pacific…
Read more »NY Times Ad Calls on Safeway to Stop Selling Farmed Salmon
June 22, 2007 VANCOUVER, BC –The Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform (CAAR) is stepping up its market pressure on grocery sector giant Safeway with an advertisement in the Sunday New York Times calling on Safeway to stop selling farmed salmon until the aquaculture industry cleans up its act. The “Ingredients for Extinction” ad, playing off Safeway’s “Ingredients for Life” branding,…
Read more »Court case challenges federal failure to protect Nooksack dace: Backgrounder
Aug 22, 2007 Sierra Legal on behalf of the Wilderness Committee, Environmental Defence, and Georgia Strait Alliance, last week started a court case in Federal Court against the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans’ decision to release the National Recovery Strategy for the Nooksack Dace without including the location of its critical habitat. The following provides background to this case. Background…
Read more »Groups sue minister for failing to protect endangered fish
Scientists say feds ignored evidence to avoid protecting habitat AUGUST 23, 2007 VANCOUVER, BC – Environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against the federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans for refusing to identify critical habitat – contrary to scientific advice – and, thus, gravely weakening the recovery strategy for the Nooksack dace, an endangered fish that lives in small streams…
Read more »Greater Vancouver, BC, face trial over Lions Gate sewage pollution
Federal government to tell court on August 16 if it will back prosecution July 17, 2007 NORTH VANCOUVER, BC – Provincial Court trial dates have been set for June 2008 to hear a charge that effluent from the Lions Gate sewage treatment plant in West Vancouver is polluting coastal waters and violating federal environmental law. The charge against the GVRD…
Read more »Canadian Military Interferes with Killer Whale Recovery Strategy
Federal Government could face lawsuit over further delays May 23, 2007 VANCOUVER, BC – After nearly a year of unlawful delays, the latest caused by the Canadian military, environmental groups issued a warning to Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) today to release the Recovery Strategy for BC’s famous resident killer whales, or face a lawsuit. The Southern Resident Killer Whales…
Read more »Groups Call for Government Action on Aquaculture Committee’s Key Recommendations
New Poll shows British Columbians’ support closed, contained salmon farms May 16, 2007 VANCOUVER, BC – The Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform (CAAR) today applauded the key recommendations of the Special Legislative Committee on Sustainable Aquaculture and called on the provincial government to act immediately to implement the changes required. CAAR also released a poll showing 80.7 per cent of…
Read more »Ecological footprint of farmed and caught salmon
Hon John van Dongen 17 July 2001 Minister of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries Room #137 Parliament Buildings (Provincial Legislature) Victoria, BC V6V 1X4 Dear Mr van Dongen:Re: Moratorium on Net-Pen Salmon FarmsI am writing in response to the announcement that you are preparing to lift the moratorium on the construction of more net-pen salmon farms in British Columbia. My concern…
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