Pipeline Politics: The Endangered Whale and the Folly of Frugality The southern resident killer whale, an iconic Pacific Northwest species, teeters on the brink of extinction.
Only 75 individuals remain in the wild, and a proposed new pipeline along the West Coast would be devastating to their already precarious existence.
The pipeline, which would carry approximately one million barrels of crude oil per day through a corridor similar to the existing Trans Mountain pipeline, poses an existential threat to the southern resident killer whale.