Please, find below the links for a new letter on the delisting of humpback whales and the development of the Enbridge Northern Gateway megapipeline project in British Columbia, Canada, recently published in Science last July.

Basically, we advocate that the decision to downlist humpback whales in British Columbia should account for threats posed by oil pipelines and associated tankers. The downlisting from ‘Threatened’ status to a species of ‘Special Concern’ was significant because the whales’ critical habitat, which overlaps proposed oil tanker routes, does not have to be protected under the revised status.

Delisted whales good news for pipeline Science. 07/2014; 345(6194):278-279.

DOI: 10.1126/science.345.6194.278-c

The article can be downloaded from the following links:

Alternatively, it can be found at  http://www.sciencemag.org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/content/345/6194/278.3.full.pdf.

 

Cheers,
Juan José Alava