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Doug’s News Links

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:20:51 +0000

Dying, dead marine wildlife paint dark, morbid picture of Gulf

Toxic oil spill rains could destroy North America

Access to oil spill slowly being strangled off

Oil spill creates huge undersea “dead zones”‘

Bobby Kennedy’s Sex, Lies, and Oil Spills

Municipal system to accept ferry sewage

Reining in U.S. Rent-a-Rambos: Scandal has shone the light on America’s dirty little secret armies

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FRK Crew on CTV: Burnaby Oil Seepage

admin — Sat, 29 May 2010 06:49:37 +0000

Riverkeeper Doug Chapman, and board members John Werring and Michael Chapman, went out on the Fraser Riverkeeper boat to investigate the shoreline near the Chevron oil refinery in Burnaby, after oil was reported seeping into the Burrard Inlet. The crew will return next week to take soil samples. Their story ran on CTV earlier this evening.

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Pelican nesting grounds

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 19:56:11 +0000

What a sad pic of pelican nesting

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Oily Bird

admin — Tue, 11 May 2010 20:12:15 +0000

This is the worst oily bird pic I have ever seen. It’s from the current disaster in the Gulf. This is what could happen if they allow super tankers into Kitimat on our

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Dodgy False Creek Water

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:44:45 +0000

Doug Chapman’s letter to the editor 2/25/2010 – Vancouver Sun

Re: Athletes’ village ‘greenest in North America,’ Feb. 17

I note that one of the factors taken into consideration in awarding the athletes’ village an environmental green certificate was habitat restoration.

Surely this does not include marine habitat in southeast False Creek. It is common local knowledge that every

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Riverkeeper Doug Chapman on multi-day investigatory sailing trip

admin — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:26:54 +0000

Doug at sea

Riverkeeper Doug left Friday, August 14 from Port McNeill on Vancouver Island to make a multi-day investigatory trip looking at water pollution and other problems, such as fish farms. He headed south from the port, with board member Kari Siirala (whose boat they took) and volunteer Jim Christoff, and spent about

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Doug Chapman gives private prosecution presentations

admin — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:39:51 +0000

Fraser Riverkeeper Doug Chapman, one of Canada’s leading authorities on private prosecutions, hosted a series of workshops in Nova Scotia and PEI. Presented by East Coast Environmental Law, this workshop taught groups and citizens how to enforce environmental legislation through prosecution. July 27-28 – Annapolis Royal, NS July 28 – Halifax, NS July

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