The Board of Directors of Clear Seas Centre for Responsible Marine Shipping is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Ellis to the position of Executive Director, effective March 20th, 2017.
Clear Seas Centre for Responsible Marine Shipping (Clear Seas) responded today to the federal government’s decision to approve Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Expansion project from Edmonton to B.C.’s west coast, which is expected to increase oil tanker traffic in Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet from five tankers a month to 34.
Q&A with an independent shipping research leader
Clear Seas supports the federal government’s $1.5 billion Oceans Protection Plan to increase marine safety systems and strengthen the Canadian Coast Guard.
Dr. Richard Wiefelspuett, Executive Director of Clear Seas Centre for Responsible Marine Shipping, reflects on World Maritime Day in op-ed published in the Vancouver Sun.
As shipping volumes increase on Canada’s West Coast, the government of BC has a vested interest in better understanding the risks particularly associated with increased ship-based oil movements.
A 2-part digest of the 2013 West Coast Spill Response Study commissioned by the BC Ministry of Environment.
Clear Seas makes a case for a Marine Emergency Prevention Fund in the September issue of BC Shipping News.
Clear Seas, MEOPAR and exactEarth hosted an interactive workshop on how advances in maritime traffic monitoring and modelling can directly improve marine safety best practices, emergency response and cross-jurisdictional collaboration across the Pacific Northwest on April 11 and 12, 2016 in Vancouver, BC.
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