In January 2007 when thousands of migratory seabirds were travelling through the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, 74,000 litres of synthetic drilling lubricant was spilled by one of Chevron’s oil platforms. No environmental assessment was ever done. Chevron did not perform any clean-up – referring to the lubricant as “mud”. The Hebron field is located 340 [...]
The Ocean Ranger was an offshore oil rig that sank off the coast of Newfoundland in 1982. 84 crew members perished and only 22 bodies were ever found. Mitsubishi Industries in Japan built this ‘unsinkable’ rig and handed it over to Mobil Exxon who ignored every single safety warning. Oil spills went unreported. When this [...]
Here’s a look at how BP handles crises: No wonder the oil’s still gushing!
Where is Canada’s fake lake? One of the buildings the federal government built for the G8 summit includes a “fake lake” which cost millions of dollars. According to the Toronto Star: Prime Minister Harper said: “These aren’t expenditures for a fake lake but rather for a pavilion to promote Canadian tourism. Thousands of people will [...]
In 1952, the following obituary appeared in the Nechako Chronicle: OBITUARY Passed away, on Wednesday, October 8, 1952, at 10:27 a.m., the ageless and mighty Nechako River. The passing, which brings great sorrow to residents of the Nechako Valley, was slow and agonizing to the tens of thousands of minnows, trout and the few salmon [...]
The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans announced that they are considering a cull of over 200,000 grey seals on Sable Island, a continental island near Nova Scotia. This is being done supposedly to help the recovery of fish stocks such as cod, haddock, pollock, silver hake and the flatfishes. How do they get these [...]
Mary Crowley is an ocean defender but she needs your help to destroy an island. A big plastic island in the Pacific Ocean twice the size of Texas and a whole lot of other places. To this end she has started Project Kaisei which involved sending researchers and boats to this area to sample the [...]
The Deepwater Horizon Response Center released a video showing the source of a leak on the ocean floor. Only one of these leaks has been plugged since the oil rig went down in the Gulf of Mexico over two weeks ago.
Does your hair salon donate hair? What about your pet groomer? It sounds like a silly idea until you see the work being done by Matter of Trust. This amazing non-profit society is working away as we speak to create hair mats and hair booms to stop the oil spill from gunking up the beaches [...]
This is an excellent video from Al-Jazeera which shows how a reporter was harassed and followed as he tried to get some answers at the Alberta Tar sands.
