Offshore Drilling NS
Protect communities, fisheries, tourism and climate from Big Oil!
Despite the well-documented need to rapidly move toward a renewable energy future, provincial and federal governments have continued to support exploration for offshore oil and gas in Nova Scotian waters. Not only is this the opposite direction we need to go in addressing climate change, it puts Nova Scotian waters, marine life and related good jobs at risk of a serious oil spill or the harmful impacts of seismic testing.
Factsheet: Offshore Drilling Not Worth the Risk
BP, the same company responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster that saw 4.9 million barrels of oil spilled in the ...
BP’s Dirty (Huge) Nova Scotian Secret
Three years ago Cherri Foytlin, a resident of south Louisiana and author of Spill It! The Truth About the Deepwater ...
Comments on the Scotia Basin Exploratory Drilling Project
Comments on the Scotia Basin Exploratory Drilling Project” Draft Environmental Assessment Report of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, December 2017 ...
Do Oil and Water Mix? Clearly not, says South Shore Protect Offshore NS event
Around 130 people attended a session held Sunday afternoon by the Campaign to Protect Offshore Nova Scotia (CPONS) and the ...
South Shore chapter concerned by Shell offshore drilling southwest of Nova Scotia
The Council of Canadians South Shore chapter will be holding a "Do Oil and Water Mix?" strategy and information ...
South Shore chapter opposes Shell offshore drilling in Shelburne Basin
The drill ship Stena IceMax has been contracted by Shell to do exploratory drilling offshore of Nova Scotia.
The Council ...
Harper weakens rules for offshore drilling
The Harper government has weakened the rules for offshore drilling.
Now, rather than every exploratory offshore well needing an environmental ...
Offshore drilling in the Gulf of St Lawrence?
The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board has rejected an attempt by CorridorResources to limit the impact of an environmental ...
