Although the particular coastline of Vancouver Island I was fishing this summer is not directly on
the proposed tanker route, any sizeable oil spill along the north coast of British Columbia would have consequences here as well.
Not exact matches
Arno Kopecky spent months sailing along a
proposed oil
tanker route off British Columbia.
Gribbell is one of two islands in B.C.'s Great Bear Rainforest where spirit bears live (and incidentally, yet another island oil giant Enbridge omitted from their
proposed tar sands
tanker route map).
It purports to show the pipeline
route, including an open sea exodus where
tankers will pass from the
proposed Kitimat, British Columbia oil port.
World Water Day is a powerful reminder to protect the ecosystems Kinder Morgan puts at risk all along the
proposed routes of its pipeline and associated oil
tankers — from the Coldwater and Chilliwack aquifers, to the Fraser River and salmon - spawning streams, to the iconic Pacific coast down to California.
The
proposed route for the oil
tankers travels through Heiltsuk and Kitasoo Xai» xais» territory, and the potential of an oil spill along the
tanker route places the Nations» very way of life at risk.
Last spring, community hearings took place in seventeen communities along the
proposed pipeline and
tanker routes.