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Water Blogged: March 2015
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Friday, March 13, 2015. MPAs Work Together for Healthy Oceans and Communities. Canada is part of a global effort to ensure that at least 10% of our oceans are in marine protected areas (MPAs) by 2020, but we currently only protect 1.3% of our total ocean estate. A couple of great examples of MPAs in British Columbia are the Endeavour Hydrothermal Vents Marine Protected Area and the Gwaii Haanas National Marine Conservation Area Reserve and Haida Heritage Site. It’s wonderful that B.C. h...Not only would ...
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Water Blogged: The ocean needs a climate leader
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Monday, September 29, 2014. The ocean needs a climate leader. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s address to the Climate Summit in New York last week was poignant:. Laurent Fabius, Jane Goodall, Al Gore, Ban Ki Moon and Ségolène Royal join an initial count of 310,000 people marching in New York city to demand action on global warming ahead of the Ban ki Moon climate summit. Photo: Greg McNevin. The current federal government pulled Canada out of the Kyoto Protocol in December 2011, shortly before embarkin...
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Water Blogged: How to Sort the Wheat from the Chaff in the High-Stakes Game of Canadian Voter Approval
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014. How to Sort the Wheat from the Chaff in the High-Stakes Game of Canadian Voter Approval. It is no co-incidence that this campaign is set to roll out in advance of the Canadian federal election next year. With the dollar plummeting along with the price of oil, there will be a concerted effort to convince Canadian voters that the petrostate is not the cause of the problem, but our salvation. Come what may, consider the source and follow the money. Posted by Karen Wristen. What y...
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Water Blogged: Cleaning up Sea Otter Cove
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014. Cleaning up Sea Otter Cove. 8220;Hey Will, there’s a Japanese skiff washed ashore near Cape Palmerston! 8221; That was what my friend Mike called to tell me last March. 8220;I know.” I said, “I spotted it in January of 2013. It’s pretty beat up.”. 8220;No,” Mike replied, “this is another one and it’s in good shape. We could salvage it! 8221; And so we did. Removing the collected debris from the cove would require a landing craft and helicopter. Posted by Living Oceans. Subscri...
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Water Blogged: Raft Cove and Cape Palmerston cleanups
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Thursday, July 24, 2014. Raft Cove and Cape Palmerston cleanups. Cleaning up the remote beaches of northwest Vancouver Island is an ongoing challenge. This summer the Clear the Coast campaign is focusing on a large expedition to Sea Otter Cove. In early August. In addition to this we are also monitoring collector bags at remote beach locations. Clear the Coast's Will Soltau lowers a. Collector bag from a tree at Cape Palmerston. We set off on the first ferry Monday morning and, after a short stop in Port...
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Water Blogged: Chilcotin is Tsilhqot'in
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014. By guest blogger Tim Lash. The unanimous Supreme Court of Canada ruling on the Tsilhqot'in case from 1983 is good news. Here's my ridiculous opinion. 3 This Supreme Court decision is primarily about First Nations who haven't signed things over in treaties. But I imagine its long run effects will support respect and reconciliation Canada-wide. Calling for new UN and national action for the commons of the High Seas is fortunate, in a conservation and sustainability worldview. 6 Nex...
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Water Blogged: Simushir: Lessons Learned?
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Monday, October 20, 2014. I was glued to the computer all weekend, watching the agonizingly slow progress of the tugs steaming out to the west coast of Haida Gwaii, to rescue the disabled container ship Simushir. Early Friday, it was reported that the ship had lost power only 19 nautical miles off the coast of Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Cultural Area, in heavy seas with winds gusting up to 75 kph. Map of Haida Gwaii habitats at risk. Russian-flagged container ship Simushir. Still, the C...
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Water Blogged: April 2015
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015. English Bay Oil Spill Response is Instructive. The grain freighter Marathassa at anchor in English Bay, surrounded by a boom the day after it leaked an estimated 2,700 litres of bunker fuel into the ocean. If you ever wondered what the federal government really meant by “World Class” oil spill response, now you know. The English Bay spill on April 8 proved out a lot of the criticisms that Living Oceans has been making about spill preparedness in B.C,. By April 13, Coast Guard was...
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Water Blogged: English Bay Oil Spill Response is Instructive
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015. English Bay Oil Spill Response is Instructive. The grain freighter Marathassa at anchor in English Bay, surrounded by a boom the day after it leaked an estimated 2,700 litres of bunker fuel into the ocean. If you ever wondered what the federal government really meant by “World Class” oil spill response, now you know. The English Bay spill on April 8 proved out a lot of the criticisms that Living Oceans has been making about spill preparedness in B.C,. By April 13, Coast Guard was...
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Water Blogged: February 2015
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Thursday, February 19, 2015. Cohen Commission recommendations gather dust while salmon farm applications keep on coming. By now there must be half an inch of dust atop the Cohen Commission’s report on the plight of the Fraser River sockeye as it languishes on some forgotten bookshelf in an Ottawa backroom. How else to explain the total disregard for the commission’s findings? No matter. Mr. Hawthorn’s letter was an invitation to an open house his company was holding to promote two new salmo...The propose...
