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Coast Guard Cutbacks
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Cuts to Marine Communications Services Pose Major Safety Threat to Fishery Workers | Canadian Auto Workers | CAW
May 24, 2012, 12:00 PM EST The union representing fishery workers in Newfoundland and Labrador and British Columbia is raising grave conc…0
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Letter of the Week: Cutting coast guard radio services will result in fatalities | The Province
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…0
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Closing B.C. coast guard base no threat to lives: Commish
VANCOUVER – Despite a loud backlash from civic officials and union members in British Columbia, there are no plans to reverse a decision …0
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Coast Guard acknowledges only DND consulted about B.C. station closures
VANCOUVER – Vancouver city officials and the Union of Canadian Transportation Employees are urging the public to help keep Canada’s busie…0
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Coast Guard acknowledges only defense department consulted about B.C. station closures
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…0
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Duncan defends Comox Marine Communications Center shutdown
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…0
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Alberni Valley News – Coast guard cuts in Ucluelet could impact Alberni Inlet
The Canada Coast Guard Marine Communications and Traffic Centre in Ucluelet, which employs people from Port Alberni and the West Coast, w…0
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Concerns over Kitsilano coast guard closure lead to Vancouver council, park board motions
Concerns from city officials over the closure of the Kitsilano coast guard station have prompted motions at both Vancouver city council a…0
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New rescue boat, volunteers to help when Kits station closes
Dan Burritt VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) -The Canadian Coast Guard says a new in-shore rescue boat in Vancouver and more reliance on the auxiliar…0
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Vancouver volunteers doubtful about replacing Coast Guard personnel
The federal government is promising that the closure of the Kitsilano Coast Guard station will not lengthen response time to marine distr…0
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Statement by the Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary- Pacific on Changes to Canadian Coast Guard Operations
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – May 23, 2012) – In response to recent media stories about changes to Canadian Coast Guard opera…0
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‘Lives will be lost’ by decision to close Kitsilano Coast Guard base: Retired commander
Fred Moxey, who spent decades dispatching and manning two high-speed cutters from the Kitsilano base, spoke out at a news conference Tues…0
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Alberta oil spill
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Containment underway on ‘significant’ oil leak in northwestern Alberta near B.C. border
An investigation is underway into what is being called a significant spill of oil and salty water from an energy site surrounded by muske…0
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Politics and Environment
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The great pipeline battle
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…0
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Franke James ” What is Harper Afraid Of?
TAKE ACTION: The Green Party of Canada: Sign the Petition to Stop Bill C-38Lead Now: Tell Finance Minister Jim Flaherty: Stop the Budget …0
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BC Media and Government Don’t Want Accountability on Environment, Public Interest
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…0
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An oil spill could be ‘catastrophic’ for British Columbia killer whales | Raincoast Conservation Foundation
Orca population would not survive an ecological incident, researchers say By Nicholas Read, Special To The Sun March 22, 2010 British Col…0
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Bill streamlines environmental act
On April 26, the federal government introduced Bill C-38, the 2012 budget bill. Among other things, it included a proposed new Canadian E…0
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Why did Harper change the resource review regime? | Embassy – Canada’s Foreign Policy Newspaper
Five years ago, a senior executive with a Chinese oil company voiced his frustration with Canada’s regulatory system, saying it took too …0
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Costs may exceed savings in budget cuts
Only by monitoring and evaluating our environment can we understand the changes happening around us. With global warming and increased in…0
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Stop the Pipeline – Join the Movement0
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The Stupid Greedy Addictions of Enbridge and Mainstream | The “JLS” Report
One must almost have to suspect that these money hungry predators are counting on people not watching, not listening or reading the news,…0
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Alberta upgraders an option if pipelines blocked, analyst says
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…0
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Salmon
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B.C. law to ban information on farm outbreaks
B.C.’s Liberal government is poised to further choke off the flow of public information, this time with respect to disease outbreaks. The…0
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Enbridge: Prince Rupert & London, On hearings, Michigan oil spill
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Enbridge not telling entire story about pipeline, hearing told
LONDON, ONT.-Enbridge Inc. is being “coy” about its objectives and has “studiously avoided” revealing the complete picture of its proposa…0
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The Northern View – Anger at federal government as most speakers skip Prince Rupert Enbridge hearings
Anger at the federal government was palpable at the latest Enbridge Joint Review Panel hearings held in Prince Rupert this week. These he…0
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FEDERATION DES CHAMBRES DE COMMERCE DU QUEBEC | Projet d’inversion du pipeline Sarnia-Montréal – Une excellente nouvelle pour l’économie du Québec
MONTRÉAL, le 22 mai 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – Le projet d’inversion de pipeline entre Sarnia et Montréal annoncé la semaine dernière par Enbrid…0
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Feds indict oil spill contractors over undocumented workers
LANSING – The federal government has indicted an owner and a manager of a Texas-based company for allegedly conspiring to violate immigra…0
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