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us/How a U.S. Company is Suing Canada for Rejecting Quarry in Endangered Whale Nursery
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When a Canadian federal-provincial environmental review panel ruled in 2007 that a proposed quarry would go against community core values and would threaten right whales and other marine life in th...
us/Alaskans Push U.S. Government to Investigate B.C.’s Border Mines
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Fish and wildlife in Alaska’s major watersheds are threatened by six British Columbia mines close to the Alaska border, according to a new petition that asks U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross ...
us/This Small U.S. County Just Became a Major Roadblock for Unrefined Fossil Fuel Exports in North America
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Unrefined fossil fuels won’t be shipped out of a small Washington State export facility at Cherry Point any time soon, due to a temporary moratorium imposed by the Whatcom County Council. The mora...
us/Comparing Mine Management in B.C. and Alaska is Embarrassing (and Explains Why Alaskans Are So Mad)
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Alaskans tired of living under the threat of B.C.’s poorly regulated mines are taking the matter to the state’s House Fisheries Committee in an effort to escalate an international response to ongoi...
us/Secrecy Around Composition of Oilsands Dilbit Makes Effective Spill Response, Research Impossible: New Study
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Knowledge gaps about the behaviour of diluted bitumen when it is spilled into saltwater and lack of information about how to deal with multiple problems that can result from extracting and transpor...
us/Review of 9,000 Studies Finds We Know Squat About Bitumen Spills in Ocean Environments
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Nobody knows how a spill of diluted bitumen would affect marine life or whether a bitumen spill in salt water could be adequately cleaned up, because basic research is lacking, says a new study. T...
us/Southern Resident Killer Whales Unlikely to Survive Increase in Oil Tanker Traffic, Say Experts
ByJudith Lavoie
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Under the waves of Haro Strait, hydrophones record the noise made by passing vessels and, if you happen to be a whale, the din is already disorienting and disturbing, making it difficult to echo-lo...
us/Art in the Heart of Controversy: Konelīne Cuts Through Rhetoric About Resource Extraction
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There are no good guys or bad guys in the documentary Konelīne and that extraordinary lack of judgement is what rivets attention as the film examines the changing landscape and lifestyles of northw...
us/Why Does B.C. Still Kill Grizzlies for Sport?
ByJudith Lavoie
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In early October a provincial government news release landed in the inboxes of reporters and researchers around B.C. It boasted of a new government-commissioned report that concluded B.C. has “a h...
us/Vancouver Company At Centre of Gold-Mining Controversy on Edge of Yellowstone National Park
ByJudith Lavoie
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On the doorstep of Yellowstone National Park, an area known internationally for its abundant wildlife and spectacular scenery, a Vancouver-based junior mining exploration company is causing communi...
us/First Nations Hand Eviction Notices to Fish Farms
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Members of the Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw First Nation say salmon farms in their territory are destroying wild salmon runs and polluting clam beds and they must leave. On Thursday and Friday a small ...
us/What's Fishy About the Feds' Salmon Promises?
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As federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Dominic LeBlanc was in West Vancouver Tuesday, promising that his government would act on all 75 recommendations from the 2012 Cohen Commission into the dec...
us/Alaskan Coalition Calls on U.S. to Investigate B.C. Mines
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Six B.C. mines pose threats to Alaska’s most productive salmon rivers and should be investigated by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, according to a coalition of conservation groups and Alaskan F...
us/Unimpeded Rivers Crucial as Climate Changes: New Study
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Gravel-bed rivers and their floodplains are the lifeblood of ecosystems and need to be allowed to run and flood unimpeded if species are to be protected and communities are to cope with climate cha...
us/Temperatures Could Rise Far More Than Previously Thought If Fossil Fuel Reserves Burned
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Imagine a world where average temperatures are almost 10 degrees Celsius higher than today, an Arctic with temperatures almost 20 degrees warmer and some regions deluged with four times more rain. ...
us/Republican Senators from Alaska Ask John Kerry to Help Protect Rivers, Salmon from B.C.’s Dangerous Mining Practices
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High-level international action is needed to ensure that southeast Alaskan rivers and fisheries are protected from B.C. mines along the B.C./Alaska border, say Alaska’s federal representatives. Con...
us/Immediate Action Needed to Save Pacific Northwest from Ocean Acidification: Scientists
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The Pacific coast of North America is becoming more acidic as human-produced carbon dioxide emissions dissolve into the water and communities from B.C. to California must take action now to offset ...
us/'The Blob' Disrupts What We Think We Know About Climate Change, Oceans Scientist Says
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Deep in the northeast Pacific Ocean, The Blob is acting strangely. When the abnormally warm patch of water first appeared in 2013, fascinated scientists watched disrupted weather patterns, from dro...
us/How the Media Shapes Public Response to Climate Change
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Climate change stories that give local information and emphasize positive achievements are more likely to encourage people to become active participants in climate change action than stories of pol...
us/The Trouble With Tailings: Toxic Waste ‘Time Bombs’ Loom Large Over Alaska’s Salmon Rivers
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There are a few unarguable truths about mine tailings, the pulverized rock, water and sludge left over from mineral extraction — mining is a messy business, the leftovers have to be dealt with fore...

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