The Sierra Club BC Scoop - GBR RAVE Wrap Up

Sierra Club BC campaigner Caitlyn Vernon and some of the world's leading conservation photographers spent two weeks in the Great Bear Rainforest for a RAVE - Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition. They were documenting this global ecological treasure, threatened by plans to send tankers carrying Alberta tar sands oil along the coast of the world's largest intact remaining coastal temperate rainforest.

The Great Bear RAVE, a project of the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP), is an effort to expose BC's plans to lift the moratorium on tanker traffic along BC's coast, which could very easily lead to a repeat of the Exxon Valdez disaster in the Great Bear Rainforest.

Crude oil from the Alberta tar sands - one of the world's greatest environmental catastrophes - is to be shipped from Kitimat through the Douglas Channel, the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest, past Gil Island, where a B.C. ferry sank in March 2006, and on to Asia and the US.

Please write to your local MP and MLAs to ask them to legislate a ban on oil tankers in the Great Bear Rainforest.

For more information, visit our website: www.sierraclub.bc.ca.

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[SierraClubofBC]

Learn more about this issue on our website - sign up to speak at the Enbridge hearings by Oct. 1st!

[DrNworb]

Excellent video, great footage, let's hope we can stop all tanker traffic along our beautiful coast.

[WildwoodMedia]

Great footage. Thanks for sharing and caring!!!