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Cut, cut, cut to ocean pollution monitoring, freshwater research, Coast Guard stations and communications on BC coast
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Ottawa sinks pollution checks
Ottawa sinks pollution checks Cuts at Institute for Ocean Sciences; some work will go to private sector By Cindy E. Harnett, Times Coloni…0
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Conservative government shutting down world-class freshwater research…
OTTAWA-The Conservative government is shuttering a scientific “jewel” in northern Ontario that has put Canada at the forefront of global …0
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Mayors angry over federal coast guard cuts without consultation
VANCOUVER – B.C. mayors are slamming the federal government’s decision to close coast guard stations in Vancouver, Comox and Ucluelet, sa…0
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Three coast guard communications centres to close | CTV British Columbia
One day after the news that the Kitsilano coast guard station in English Bay will shut down, the federal government announced that three …0
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Kitsilano search-and-rescue station a victim of Coast Guard budget cuts
VANCOUVER – The Kitsilano Coast Guard search and rescue station is being shut down by the federal government due to budget cuts, a move t…0
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Coast Guard cuts hit Island centres
The Canadian Coast Guard plans to close three of five marine communications centres in B.C. and consolidate operations in Victoria and Pr…0
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Liberal MP Joyce Murray condemns Conservative government’s closure of Kitsilano rescue centre
Joyce Murray says a Conservative cut will lead to a “preventable loss of life”. The federal government’s plan to close a Vancouver marine…0
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Harper and the Environment are Like Oil and Water
The Harper government is waging war on Canada’s fresh water. Industry will now have unprecedented influence over water protection policy …0
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Enbridge, bitumen sands controversies still growing
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The Great Lakes: New Dumping Ground for Tar Sands Oil
This past week, Enbridge officially announced plans to expand the Lakehead Pipeline system in an effort to pump even more tar sands oil t…0
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Canada’s oil-sands bonanza could mean disaster for Alaska’s coastline
Twenty-three years after the Exxon Valdez spilled more than half a million barrels of oil into Prince William Sound, another threat looms…0
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AFTER more than a decade of fairly good relations, things are likely to get a bit ugly between the federal government and the B.C. govern…0
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Gambling B.C.’s Parks for a Pipeline Payoff?
The 670 kilometre B.C. portion of this proposed pipeline would include 591 water crossings, 532 of which are fish bearing. Should British…0
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The age of extreme oil: ‘This used to be a forest?’
One grey Thursday at the end of April, a plane touched down in Fort McMurray, Alta., carrying four Achuar Indians from the Peruvian Amazo…0
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Enbridge generates surprising social spike following AGM and anti-pipeline protest | News | Financial Post
Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway Pipeline project is no stranger to publicity, especially on social media networks like Twitter and Facebook0
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Draining of world’s aquifers feeds rising sea levels
Humanity’s unquenchable thirst for fresh water is driving up sea levels even faster than melting glaciers, according to new research. The…0
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Arctic melt releasing ancient gas
Scientists have identified thousands of sites in the Arctic where methane that has been stored for many millennia is bubbling into the at…0
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