Big Oil Threatens the Spirit Bear Coast

Kevin Bacon calls attention to a proposed pipeline and supertanker traffic that would endanger the world's last 400 Spirit Bears in British Columbia.
Video: Trip Jennings, Damian Gills, , Ian McAllister, Jason Sturges, Greenpeace, Petropolis
Photos: Joe Riis/iLCP, Christina Mittermeier/iLCP, Ian McAllister/iLCP, Daniel Beltra/iLCP, Gary Davis, Dale Sanders
Produced by: Susan Emmet Reid

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Spirit
• Bear
• Coast
• First
• Nations
• tar
• sands
• pipeline
• Enbridge
• Inc
• supertankers
• Great
• Rainforest
• British
• Columbia
• Northern
• Gateway
• NRDC
• Kevin
• Bacon

[SnowBunnyHunny187]

Who's the one asshole to dislike this?

[legalizebrasil]

WE DONT NEED THAT DIRTY OIL!!!!!!!!!!!

FUC* THIS CORPORATION!!!!

[82kbrown]

@medlands and tac223:To bad they are talking about the Spirit Bear and not black bears..A white Black Bear. Obviously you dont care about our environment.

[MyVideoStop]

The kermodei subspecies ranges from Princess Royal Island to Prince Rupert, British Columbia on the coast, and inland toward Hazelton, British Columbia. It is known to the Tsimshian people as Moksgm'ol.

In the February 2006 Speech from the Throne by the Government of British Columbia, the Lieutenant Governor announced her government's intention to designate the Kermode or spirit bear as British Columbia's official animal.

[tac223]

Polar Bears are EVIL! DRILL DRILL DRILL!!!



[tac223]

@SnowBunnyHunny187 ...Me.

[medlands]

@TuringOracle FACT - "Black bears are Yellow-listed in BC, which means they are neither endangered nor vulnerable... British Columbia and Ontario have the largest populations of black bears of all the provinces. In British Columbia, black bears are found throughout the province. They are the only large mammal in the province that occupies every ecosection."

hmmmm again

[medlands]

@TuringOracle FACT - "British Columbia's black bear population is currently at an historic high. The Wildlife Branch estimates that 120,000 to 160,000 black bears live in British Columbia, having increased from around 80,000 in 1870. (Demarchi 1999). This is nearly 30% of the 443,000 black bears in the Canadian population and approximately 15% of the 803,000 black bears in the North American population (Samuel and Jackson 2000)."

hmmmm.

[medlands]

@TuringOracle Thank you for your comments, you actually sound like one of the most educated people on here. The problem is that everyone including you seems to only think oil is purely used for energy. Pretty much everything is either petroleum based or manufactured by machinery using oil...so oil is needed. Don't worry i'm against burning oils as much as the rest of you, but we still need it for so much more. So how should we get it to the coast? Burning more to get it there seems counteractive

[TuringOracle]

@medlands I've read several of your comments now, and I can see you're a redneck troll. You probably live in a rural area, make good money, and think because the world looks pretty big from where you stand, it will go on forever and resources are limitless. You simply can't see the big picture - literally can't see the forest for the trees.Yes, WE Canadians (I happen to live on the BC coast) have a lot of resources at our disposal, but that doesn't mean we should treat it like it's disposable.

[TuringOracle]

@medlands I'm not saying that human activity is inherently a bad thing. Just the stupid, shooting-ourselves-in-the-coll­ective-foot-for-short-term-gai­n-benefitting-the-already-weal­thy kind. I'm not one of those 'animals are great but people suck' types. I love humanity... happen to be part of it. I think humans are more important than animals... but we are part of the damn ecosystem. We can't devastate it willy-nilly. We might not even realize all the consequences of our actions for generations.