The 37 year old ban on tanker traffic in the inside passage is under threat. Plans are being made by Enbridge to ship dirty tar sands oil from the port of Kitimat which is right in the centre of the Great Bear RainForest, the largest intact coastal temperate rain forest in the world and an area which the B.C. Government promised to preserve. To bring awareness to this issue of tanker traffic and the inevitability of oil spills, Dogwood Initiative has begun to circulate loonies with an oil soaked loon decal and the words notankers.ca You'll no doubt begin to see these coins on Quadra. Weather conditions together with narrow traffic lanes add to the likelihood of spills on this stretch of coast as a projected 6 tankers per week make their way in and out of Kitimat. Remember the Exon Valdes? The Alaskan coastline ecosystems have not yet recovered and Exon still has not compensated those affected. Go to www.notankers.ca to learn more and to sign a Canada wide petition to prevent the introduction of oil tanker traffic. Write to both the Federal and Provincial governments to demand that the ban not be lifted.