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Review of the press--St. Lawrence
In the newspaper Le Soleil, 16 March 2004 :
Levés sismiques dans l'estuaire du Saint-Laurent; Le BAPE tiendra des
audiences publiques en avril (French only)
In the newspaper Le Devoir, 10 March 2004 :
Porte ouverte à l'exploration gazière du Golfe Saint-Laurent
(French only)
In the newspaper Le journal de Québec,
9 March 2004 :
Pétrole dans le Saint-Laurent :
La chasse à l'or noir sera soumise au BAPE (French only)
In the newspaper Le Soleil, 8 March 2004 :
Exploration dans le golfe : Mulcair joue de prudence (French only)
Interview of the GREMM at the Radio
des Îles de la Madeleine, 8 March 2004 (French only)
Radio-Canada news, 6 March 2004 :
Exploration gazière :
un comité d'experts recommande la prudence (French only)
Interview of the GREMM at D'un Soleil à l'autre, Radio-Canada, 5
March 2004 (French only)
Découverte : Prospection ou baleines (11 January 2004) (French only)
Informative article published by a group from the Magdalene Islands
(December 2003) (Download the document) (French only)
Découverte :
Report on the effects of seismic blasting and sonars on whales (7 December
2003) (French only)
Seismic exploration would be postponed, radio of Radio-Canada (Broadcast 2 December 2003)
In the newspaper Les Affaires, 27 November 2003 :
Editorial of Jean-Paul Gagné : Nous n'avons pas les moyens
d'ignorer le potentiel du golfe (French only)
Radio interview with Michel Gilbert of Fisheries and Oceans Canada,
Sans frontières programme, Radio-Canada (Broadcast 27 November 2003) (French only)
Flash information, radio of Radio-Canada, 27 November 2003 :
Recherche de pétrole et de
gaz : une découverte imminente sur l'île d'Anticosti (French only)
Report at Les Années Lumières, radio of Radio-Canada, 23
November 2003 (French only)
Answer to this editorial, by Robert
Michaud and Véronik de la Chenelière
Download the letter to the editor
Radio interview with Robert Michaud of GREMM,
Sans frontières programme, Radio-Canada (Broadcast 20 November
2003) (French only)
Verbatim of a report broadcast on 18 and 19 November on TVA Rimouski
(French only)
Verbatim of a report broadcast on 18 November on TVA
Gaspésie/Acadie (French only)
Radio interview with Émilien Pelletier, Radio-Canada
Bas-Saint-Laurent (Broadcast 18 November 2003) (French only)
Radio-Canada site, 14 November 2003 :
Forage dans le Saint-Laurent: les baleines menacées (French only)
Radio interview with Robert Michaud of GREMM, D'un soleil à l'autre,
Radio-Canada (Broadcast 13 November 2003) (French only)
Radio interview with Robert Michaud of GREMM at CBC
(Broadcast October 2003)
Radio interview with Jean Piuze of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, broadcast on
Radio-Gaspésie CJRG MF 94,5 Gaspé
(Broadcast 24 March 2003) (French only)
In the newspaper Le Devoir, 21 January 2003 :
Projet d'exploration gazière dans le golfe Saint-Laurent - L'UQCN réclame
des audiences publiques conjointes (French only)
Radio interview with Robert Michaud of the GREMM, broadcast on CJMF MF 93,3 Québec talk show
"Les matins de Stéphane". (Broadcast 8 January 2003) (French only)
In the newspaper Les Affaires, 30 December 2002 :
Editorial by Jean-Paul Gagné : Il n'y a rien à craindre de l'exploration dans le golfe (French only)
Les Affaires magazine, 9 November 2002:
Hydro-Québec investit 330 M$ dans la recherche gazière et pétrolière (French only)
The following articles are available in Cyberpresse archives for a fee.
In the newspaper Le Soleil, 4 December 2003 :
Hamad confirme le "gel" de l'exploration gazière (French only)
In the newspaper La Presse, 4 December 2003 :
Hydro cherchera encore du gaz sur terre (French only)
In the newspaper Le Soleil, 4 December 2003 :
Le prix de l'or noir (French only)
In the newspaper La Presse, 3 December 2003 :
Fin de la saga du gaz (French only)
In the newspaper Le Soleil, 3 December 2003 :
Québec suspend le programme d'exploration gazière (French only)
In the newspaper La Presse, 28 November 2003 : Ottawa dit non à
l'exploration gazière dans le Golfe (French only)
In the newspaper Le Soleil, 28 November 2003 : Pêches et Océans Canada
s'oppose aux relevés sismiques dans le Saint-Laurent (French only)
In the newspaper Le Soleil, 28 November 2003 : L'arrivée de Paul Martin
pourrait tout chambarder (French only)
In the newspaper Le Soleil, 21 November 2003 : Programme d'exploration d'Hydro : de l'eau dans le gaz (French only)
In the newspaper La Presse, 14 November 2003 : Gaz: moratoire demandé dans
le Golfe (French only)
In the newspaper Le Soleil, 14 November 2003 : L'opposition s'organise
contre l'exploration gazière dans le fleuve (French only)
In the newspaper Le Soleil, 27 October 2003 : Exploration pétrolière dans le
Saint-Laurent, Cri du coeur des artistes (French only)
In the newspaper La Presse, 31 March 2003 : Tous d'accord, sauf les baleines;
L'exploration pétrolière dans le Golfe
menacerait ces mammifères marins (French only)
In the newspaper La Tribune, 29 March 2003 : Le gaz du golfe : Ottawa pris à partie (French only)
In the newspaper Le Soleil, 29 March 2003 : Exploration gazière;
Landry se défend d'avoir suscité de faux espoirs (French only)
In the newspaper La Presse, 22 January 2003 : two editorials--Forer le golfe sans délai?
OUI : La Gaspésie a grandement besoin de projets
générateurs d'emplois, un article de Jean-Eude Gaudet, pour
la Chambre de commerce de la Gaspésie et des Îles (French only)
NON : Une évaluation indépendante s'impose, article de Luce Balthazar, pour le Regroupement national des Conseils
régionaux de l’environnement du Québec (French only)
In the newspaper Le Soleil, 19 January 2003 :
Golfe Saint-Laurent : Haro sur le forage (French only)
In the newspaper Le Soleil, 18 January 2003 :
Exploration gazière :
L'exploitation des fonds marins, ça se discute (Un texte d'Émilien Pelletier, titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en
écotoxicologie marine à l'Institut des sciences de la mer de Rimouski (ISMER)
de l'Université du Québec à Rimouski) (French only)
In the newspaper Le Soleil, 9 January 2003 :
Exploration gazière : L'UQCN demande des audiences sur tout le projet (French only)
In the newspaper Le Soleil, 8 January 2003 :
Forages dans le golfe : Frédéric Back en croisade (French only)
In the newspaper La Presse, 8 January 2003 :
Pétrole dans le golfe : Québec confierait une étude au BAPE (French only)
In the newspaper Le Soleil, 24 December 2002 :
Les pêcheurs réclament une étude d'impact (French only)
In the newspaper La Presse, 18 December 2002 :
Letter from Robert Michaud to Bernard Landry : "Petro-Québec" : au-delà des drapeaux (French only)
In the newspaper La Presse, 18 December 2002 :
Editorial by André Pratte : M. Landry au pays de l'or noir (French only)
In the newspaper Le Soleil, 18 December 2002 :
Editorial by Brigitte Breton : La guerre du golfe (French only)
In the newspaper Presse canadienne, 16 December 2002 :
Landry trouve fantaisistes les objections d'Ottawa aux forages dans le Golfe (French only)
In the newspaper Le Soleil, 14 December 2002 : Column by Michel Vastel:
À quoi joue Ressources naturelles Canada ? (French only)
In the newspaper Le Soleil, 14 December 2002 : Projets
d'exploration gazière dans le Saint-Laurent : Une menace pour les baleines (French only)
The following articles are available in Le Devoir archives for a fee.
In the newspaper Le Devoir, 9 December 2003 : Exploration gazière
dans le Saint-Laurent - L'inquiétude subsiste (French only)
In the newspaper Le Devoir, 4 December 2003 : Les enjeux de
l'exploration gazière (French only)
In the newspaper Le Devoir, 3 December 2003 : Fonds marins du
Saint-Laurent - Hydro-Québec reporte son projet d'exploration
gazière (French only)
In the newspaper Le Devoir, 14 November 2003 : Projet d'exploration gazière
d'Hydro-Québec-Des groupes réclament l'intervention d'Ottawa (French only)
In the newspaper Le Devoir, 29 March 2003 : À l'espoir succédera la prospérité,
dit Landry aux Gaspésiens;
Le chef péquiste montre du doigt
le gouvernement fédéral, qui tarde à autoriser un projet
d'exploration gazière (French only)
The following article is available in Le Monde archives for a fee.
In the newspaper Le Monde, 14 November 2003 : Les baleines du Golfe du
Saint-Laurent menacées par un projet pétrolier (French only)
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Offshore oil development in Canada
The Record (Waterloo Region), 17 February
2004, Source Canadian Press : No scientific reason to ban offshore
exploration: report
Globe and Mail, January 9, 2004: Offshore B.C. drilling backed by minister
"We've proven ... it's safe," federal politician says [it is the new federal
Natural Resources Minister John Efford]
Radio-Canada, 13 December 2003 :
Tests sismiques dans le golfe : des pêcheurs manifestent (French
only)
Canada East, 28 November 2003 :
N.S. offshore regulator approves disputed seismic testing
off Cape Breton
Television report, Radio-Canada Atlantic, 20 November 2003 (start at
minute 38) (French only)
Press Release, 13 November 2003 : Scientists urge caution in southern Gulf of St. Lawrence: Oil
and gas exploration a potential threat to fishery,
Download the document
Environmental News Network, 28 May 2003 : Oceans Under Fire, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), Nova Scotia Chapter Press
release
Reuters News Service, 31 March 2003 :
Canada looks at allowing Pacific offshore drilling
Toronto Star, 8 March 2003 :
Oil decision flies in face of facts
Maclean's, 3 March 2003 :
Sound and fury, Wildlife experts worry that undersea seismic mapping
will endanger a whale population
Le Globe and Mail, March 2003 :
Dhaliwal lobbies for B.C. offshore drilling
Lake Michigan Federation, September 2001: The case against new
Great Lakes oil & gas drilling
Download the document
Save our Seas and Shores Coalition (SOSS), December 2001: A Framework for a Full-Cost
Accounting Analysis of Oil and Gas Exploration off Cape Breton, Nova
Scotia
Download the document
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: Should BC
lift the offshore oil moratorium?
Download the document
Scientific report filed on 29 November 2002 for the work group
in charge of public consultations in Cape Breton
Download the report
Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board Science Review site
Découverte television programme:
L'île de Sable, un éden menacé (French only)
Sierra Club of Canada site:
Cape Breton Island threatened by coastal and oil development
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society site (3 December 2002) :
Nova Scotia Whale Population Upgraded to Endangered Status; Oil and Gas Exploration Implicated
COSEWIC site:
COSEWIC updates list of Species at Risk
CTV site:
Canada adds 11 more species to at-risk list
Report on oil and gas exploration in the south-eastern Gulf of St. Lawrence and
possible impacts on marine mammals
((PDF download)
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Extracts of the book
Oil pollution of the sea, by Stanislav Patin,
Head Scientist with the Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO)
Document prepared by UQCN : Les impacts environnementaux de
l'exploration pétrolière et gazière dans le golfe du Saint-Laurent
(December 2003) (French only) Download the document
Hydro-Québec site :
Oil and Gas
Ministère des Ressources naturelles, Faune et Parcs Québec
site :
Gas and oil exploration in Québec
Report prepared by Harvard Medical School: Oil a life
analysis of its health and environmental impacts Download the document
WDCS site:
Seismic Exploration
In the newspaper Le Devoir, 17 December 2002 :
À qui appartient le golfe Saint-Laurent? (French only)
Statement by Chris Clark: The potential effects of oil and gas
exploration on the marine environment (PDF download)
On Whales Online: Noise pollution: What is the danger for whales?
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