Controversy in BC grows over Coast Guard cutbacks, oil spill in Alberta, hot Enbridge hearings

May 24, 2012, 12:00 PM EST The union representing fishery workers in Newfoundland and Labrador and British Columbia is raising grave conc…

The federal government’s plan to run all Coast Guard radio services out of two centres, Victoria and Prince Rupert, is madness. I have be…

VANCOUVER – Despite a loud backlash from civic officials and union members in British Columbia, there are no plans to reverse a decision …

VANCOUVER – Vancouver city officials and the Union of Canadian Transportation Employees are urging the public to help keep Canada’s busie…

The Canadian Coast Guard says closing the Kitsilano search-and-rescue station will not put lives at risk because a good enough mix of res…

North Island M.P. John Duncan doesn’t think the shutdown of the Comox Coast Guard Marine Communications center in 2015 will have any effe…

The Canada Coast Guard Marine Communications and Traffic Centre in Ucluelet, which employs people from Port Alberni and the West Coast, w…

Concerns from city officials over the closure of the Kitsilano coast guard station have prompted motions at both Vancouver city council a…

Dan Burritt VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) -The Canadian Coast Guard says a new in-shore rescue boat in Vancouver and more reliance on the auxiliar…

The federal government is promising that the closure of the Kitsilano Coast Guard station will not lengthen response time to marine distr…

VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – May 23, 2012) – In response to recent media stories about changes to Canadian Coast Guard opera…

Fred Moxey, who spent decades dispatching and manning two high-speed cutters from the Kitsilano base, spoke out at a news conference Tues…

An investigation is underway into what is being called a significant spill of oil and salty water from an energy site surrounded by muske…

AT FIRST glance, the public hearing of Canada’s National Energy Board that began on May 23rd involves only a minor matter. Enbridge, an e…

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Well, well – if I had false teeth I would have swallowed them on Monday morning when I saw, on the op-ed page of the Vancouver Sun, an ar…

Orca population would not survive an ecological incident, researchers say By Nicholas Read, Special To The Sun March 22, 2010 British Col…

On April 26, the federal government introduced Bill C-38, the 2012 budget bill. Among other things, it included a proposed new Canadian E…

Five years ago, a senior executive with a Chinese oil company voiced his frustration with Canada’s regulatory system, saying it took too …

Only by monitoring and evaluating our environment can we understand the changes happening around us. With global warming and increased in…

One must almost have to suspect that these money hungry predators are counting on people not watching, not listening or reading the news,…

If new bitumen pipelines are not built to the West Coast, Alberta must opt for both new local upgrading projects, and more capacity to pr…

B.C.’s Liberal government is poised to further choke off the flow of public information, this time with respect to disease outbreaks. The…

LONDON, ONT.-Enbridge Inc. is being “coy” about its objectives and has “studiously avoided” revealing the complete picture of its proposa…

Anger at the federal government was palpable at the latest Enbridge Joint Review Panel hearings held in Prince Rupert this week. These he…

MONTRÉAL, le 22 mai 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – Le projet d’inversion de pipeline entre Sarnia et Montréal annoncé la semaine dernière par Enbrid…

LANSING – The federal government has indicted an owner and a manager of a Texas-based company for allegedly conspiring to violate immigra…