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Tsunami Hazard, Possible Fault Line Discovered Near Kitimat

Robin Rowland | Posted 11.20.2012 | Canada British Columbia
Robin Rowland

The Geological Survey of Canada has identified a tsunami hazard and a possible seismic fault in Douglas Channel near Kitimat. That's the proposed site of the Enbridge Northern Gateway project and at least three liquified natural gas projects. If the projects go ahead, hundreds of supertankers with either bitumen or LNG will be sailing in the channel for years to come.

Stephen Harper vs. Science

Robin Rowland | Posted 10.21.2012 | Canada British Columbia
Robin Rowland

For all those who in Alberta that keep saying that the people of British Columbia have to be "educated" about pipelines, and just so Stephen Harper is up to date on his science: Building a pipeline over smashed, broken, uplifted, twisted Jurassic-era islands, downsized by erosion, lost islands turned into mountains, buried and shaped by kilometres of glacial ice, is a completely different story altogether.