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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Whale Has Done What People Have Not: Stop Tar Sands Oil
http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/12/10/how-endangered-beluga-whales-stopped-construction-pipeline-terminal?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2014-12-11
(Photo: Tiffany Terry/Flickr)
Only 1,000 of the marine mammals survive in the St. Lawrence estuary, and theyve been spotted near the planned project.
December 10, 2014 By Taylor Hill
Taylor Hill is TakePart's associate environment and wildlife editor.
TransCanada, the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline, halted work on an oil export terminal in Quebec after beluga whales were sighted in the area.
The move followed the decision of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada to assess the whales as endangered. They had previously been classified as threatened.
This news that theres a recommendation to place those belugas on the endangered species list, for us, was a signal that we needed to hit the pause button, TransCanada spokesman Tim Duboyce told Reuters.
The beluga population in the St. Lawrence Estuary has dwindled from a high of 10,000 to 1,000.
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A Whale Has Done What People Have Not: Stop Tar Sands Oil (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Dec 2014
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Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)1. Beautiful happy beluga
2naSalit
(86,779 posts)2. For once
a - sort of - victory for wildlife.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)3. Beautiful wonderful creatures!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)4. kicking, reccing.
We MUST save the animals. Must.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)5. beautiful!
What a gorgeous animal. Thanks for the photo, and the info.