What an oil spill would mean to the West Coast

A killer whale breaches off the British Columbia coast. Letter-writer Jane Devonshire worries that Southern Resident Killer Whales risk extinction with the nearly seven-fold increase in oil tanker traffic expected from the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion.Photograph courtesy of Shawn McCready

Opinion

February 8, 2017

To my fellow Canadians, I would like to share with you what our pristine West Coast means to so many of us in British Columbia. We love our majestic and iconic orca and humpback whales. Our cherished Southern Resident Killer Whales risk extinction now with the nearly seven-fold increase in oil tank...

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