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Resources in the rainforest
‘It's going to be bigger than Clayoquot Sound' Art Sterrit, Executive Director of the Coastal First Nation, at their Vancouver office on March 25th, 2010
The looming fight over the Great Bear Rainforest will once again put B.C. at ground zero of the global environment movement
Mark Hume
From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published on Saturday, Mar. 27, 2010 4:24PM EDT Last updated on Sunday, Mar. 28, 2010 12:31AM EDT
When a deep ocean tug called the Pathfinder lost its way in Prince William Sound one day this winter, it ended up running aground on Bligh Reef, the same ragged line of rocks that 21 years earlier had gutted the Exxon Valdez.
The accident didn't cause a lot of damage – no one was injured and only 33,500 gallons of light diesel were spilled – but it raised alarms because the tug was part of a fleet assigned to safely escort oil tankers through Alaskan waters.
Somehow a boat meant to prevent accidents had hit what U.S. Senator Mark Begich of Alaska noted was “one of the most well-marked and well-known reefs in the northern hemisphere.”
It is because of accidents like that, and the dark spectre of the Exxon Valdez disaster which still haunts the West Coast, that Premier Gordon Campbell finds himself on a collision course with a powerful coalition of aboriginal groups over a proposed multibillion-dollar pipeline.
Although first nations are fighting several big resource projects in British Columbia, the conflict over the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline is developing into an overarching issue that is about to thrust the province into the international spotlight.
“It's going to be bigger than Clayoquot Sound,” predicted Vicky Husband, who has been one of B.C.'s leading environmental voices for the past 30 years.
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