This report is available only by request from the Tanker Safety Secretariat in Ottawa. But it is also included here as a PDF : transport_canada_tanker_report_accessible_eng The figure which should be of most concern for Ecological reserves in BC is the following: In this recent government-commissioned risk-analysis report on tanker traffic safety in Canada, figure 3 shows
The threat of a disastrous oil spill that would devastate some marine ecological reserves in BC is looming ever larger. Proposals for two separate sets of Pipelines to the Coast of British Columbia and the ensuing transport of diluted tar-sands bitumen ( dilbit) by giant tankers are now being considered by our governments. The first
To the east of Oak bay/ Victoria,there are several Ecological reserves. This map shows their locations in relation to each other. It is adapted from the BC Parks website.
During the fall of 1977 the vegetation of alpha and Griffin Isalnds …was described and classified. the Braun-Blanquet releve method of phytoassociation was used in conjunction with the Ceska-Roemer computer program. —- Fall, 1977, Trudy Carson and Lynne Milnes: for Biology 418, Dr. Marcus Bell See the complete report in the PDF file:Vegetation(2)
Alpha, Jemmy Jones, Great Chain Island and Chain Islets are located east of Oak Bay, Victoria District. Alpha is located between Chatham and Discovery Island, Jemmy Jones is located south of ten -Mile Point… The report has attached a map and a list of Arthropods. PDF file: Sites for Marine Research 1982
