17 is too many hours to wait during a disaster. Thanks to coastal First Nations, that’s changing
Four years after a diesel spill in Heiltsuk territory, the nation, the Canadian Coast Guard...
Heiltsuk Nation, federal agencies sign agreement to establish Indigenous marine response team
More than four years after the Nathan E. Stewart disaster on B.C.'s central coast, the...
‘No World-Class Spill Response Here’: Heiltsuk First Nation Pursues Lawsuit One Year After Tug Disaster
Kelly Brown was awoken at 4:30 a.m. on October 13, 2016, by the kind of...
Why We’re Taking Canada to Court Over That Promise of ‘World-Class’ Oil Spill Response
By Chief Councillor Marilyn Slett and Councillor Jaimie Harris, Heiltsuk Nation. This piece first appeared on The...
‘Nothing Has Changed’: B.C.’s Botched Oil Spill Response Haunts First Nation
On October 13, just after 1 a.m, and only eight months after British Columbia signed...
North Coast Oil Tanker Ban Won’t Actually Ban Tankers Full of Oil Products on B.C.’s North Coast
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s November proposal to ban oil tanker traffic from B.C.’s north coast...
Why is Trudeau Backtracking On B.C.’s Oil Tanker Ban? These 86 Meetings with Enbridge Might Help Explain
Since the Liberals formed government last November, Enbridge and Northern Gateway Pipeline have lobbied Ottawa...
