Add in stolid First Nations resistance to a proposed pipeline from the tar sands to Kitimat, and all these powerful pressures converge on the aptly named Second Narrows, which already has seen its oil
tanker traffic rise precipitously in the past decade.
The menace of an oil spill from new Texas - bound
tankers has nature - loving British Columbians
rising up in opposition to expanded ocean
traffic along the coast, that, amongst other environmental threats, endangers the killer whale population, the iconic Orcas.