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OIled Wildlife Society AGM 2012

February 23, 6pm

All members of the Oiled Wildlife Society are invited to the Annual General Meeting on February 23, 2012 at 6pm. Activities of the past year will be discussed as well as plans for the upcoming year. Meet our board and express your vote for the executive of 2012. Contact us for more details.

Kinder Morgan oil spill clean-up working, says B.C. minister

January 25, 2012

Environment Minister Terry Lake says he's confident an oil spill at an Abbotsford crude oil terminal poses no threat to public health or the environment. More than 100,000 litres of light crude oil was spilled at Kinder Morgan's Sumas terminal on Tuesday.

Massive Richmond-bound oil tankers pose risk for Fraser River

January 19, 2012

They're as huge as the Exxon Valdez tanker that ran aground and spilled more than 11 million gallons of oil off Alaska's coast in 1989.

Ignatieff Says Liberals Will Keep B.C. Tanker Ban After Enbridge Lobbying

1 April 2011

Canada Liberal opposition leader Michael Ignatieff said his party would maintain a ban on oil shipments off the British Columbia coast, a potential obstacle to Enbridge Inc. (ENB)'s proposed C$5.5 billion ($5.7 billion) Northern Gateway pipeline.

Pipeline proposal pushed as election issue

2 April 2011

Northern Gateway project as important today as the St. Lawrence Seaway was in the 1960s: Endbridge CEO.

BP may face U.S. review for manslaughter charges

29 March 2011

Federal prosecutors are considering whether to pursue manslaughter charges against BP Plc managers for decisions made before the Gulf of Mexico oil well explosion last year that killed 11 workers and caused the biggest offshore spill in U.S. history, according to three people familiar with the matter.

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Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline Threatens Canadian Wildlife

22 March 2011

Atlantic Oil Spill Threatens Endangered Penguins

22 March 2011

Thousands of endangered penguins have been coated with oil after a cargo ship ran aground and broke up on a remote British South Atlantic territory, officials and conservationists said Tuesday.

Coastal residents oppose tanker traffic

20 March 2011

Debate on a private member's bill to bolster a 1972 ban begins March 28

MP makes Cowichan Bay stop in crusade against tanker traffic

18 March 2011

A proposed pipeline carrying crude from the oil sands of Alberta to a new port in Kitimat would result in increased traffic along the north coast, and that is a big part of Murray's concern. The pipeline might create as many as 50 jobs in Kitimat, but that number pales next to the jobs that could potentially be lost in an environmental disaster.

Tour promotes tanker ban

16 March 2011

LIBERAL MP Joyce Murray is on her way to Prince Rupert as part of a tour to oppose any move to allow tankers on the north coat.

Equip fishing boats to fight oil spills

15 March 2011

Op-ed: A bill in the legislature would give Washington state better chances of avoiding the kind of disaster seen in the Gulf of Mexico a year ago.

Northern Gateway Project threatens wildlife

11 March 2011

Although rarely considered, many human activities deprive wild animals of their life necessities by destroying or impoverishing their surroundings, causing suffering of individuals through displacement, stress, starvation, and diminished security.

100 Oiled Birds Off Southern California Coast and Counting

11 March 2011

IBRRC works to save aquatic birds impacted by natural oil seep

Kinder has own pipeline proposal

9 March 2011

n this new age of heightened energy awareness, no one is watching the controversy over Enbridge Inc.'s plan to build a pipeline from the oil sands to Canada's West coast port of Kitimat more closely than Ian Anderson, president of competitor Kinder Morgan Canada Inc.

Concerns over massive pipeline for YVR

7 March 2011

Richmond Mayor says there is another way

Oil spill link suspected as dead dolphins wash ashore

1 March 2011

The discovery of more than 80 dead dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico is raising fresh concerns about the effect on sea life from last year's massive BP oil spill.

Anger as 'lame-duck' premier Gordon Campbell calls for oil tankers in northern B.C. waters

25 February 2011

A wide-ranging coalition of environmental, business and fishery groups are furious at Premier Gordon Campbell's "lame-duck" call to end the ban on oil tankers through B.C. waters.

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Chevron locates source of ongoing oil leak at Burnaby refinery

24 February 2011

Chevron has pinpointed a source in the ongoing oil seep at the North Burnaby refinery, and it looks like the underground sewer system is part of the problem.

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Inaction over Chevron oil leak sparks walkouts in Burnaby

6 January 2011

Four members of an advisory committee for Chevron's Burnaby refinery have resigned over the company's lengthy failure to stop oil trickling into Burrard Inlet.

Read more: www.theprovince.com

Oil continues to leach into inlet

4 December 2010

Chevron has a new method to try and stop the oil that's been seeping from its North Burnaby refinery into the Burrard Inlet since spring.

MPs vote to ban oil tankers from B.C.'s north coast

8 December 2010

Environmental groups are heralding Tuesday's vote in the House of Commons calling on the Conservative government to legislate a formal oil-tanker ban for B.C.'s Pacific north coast.

Read more: www.theprovince.com

In our own backyard: Crude-oil tankers quietly slipping through Vancouver's harbour

6 November 2010

Provisions, responsibility for dealing with a spill are vague, says opponent

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Oilsands tailings ponds kill more ducks

26 October 2010

230 dead birds at Syncrude facility, small tolls at Suncor and Shell ponds

Syncrude to pay $3M for duck deaths

An Alberta judge has accepted a bargain struck by prosecutors and oil sands producer Syncrude Canada Ltd. that will see the company pay a $3-million fine - the largest environmental penalty in Alberta history - after being found guilty of the deaths of 1,606 birds on its tailings ponds two years ago.

Last birds affected by BP oil leak released

(NECN/CNN) - The animal rescue center that once cared for over 800 birds has just released the last affected birds into nature. While the release of the birds marks progress, the fact remains that more than 6,000 birds died as a result of the leak.