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Greenpeace Assignment – Mock Oil Spill Highlights Concerns Over Proposed BC Pipeline

Wednesday 28 July 2010

Activists occupy Enbridge’s office in downtown Vancouver, demanding the pipeline giant withdraw its Northern Gateway Pipelines application. The action comes two days after an Enbridge pipeline running from Griffith, Ind. to Sarnia, Ont. spilled more than three million litres of crude oil into a creek leading to the Kalamazoo River in southwest Michigan.

Full story here

Flickr gallery here

Photos © Greenpeace / Ben Russell

Posted 1 month, 1 week ago at 6:20 pm. 1 comment

On The Edge

Monday 26 June 2010

My girlfriend Lucy sits near to the edge of a cliff in Parksville, Vancouver Island.

Although her position appears precarious the perspective is greatly exaggerated by shooting with an ultra wide angle lens on my full frame Canon 5d.

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Greenpeace ‘Oceans Campaign’ Assignment

Tuesday 29 June 2010

Photo shoot – Greenpeace hangs longline from Costco roof to highlight need for ocean protection.

Full story here

Photos © Greenpeace / Ben Russell

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A Good Day For The UK?

Tuesday 11 May 2010

Conservative leader David Cameron has become the new UK prime minister after the resignation of Gordon Brown.

Full story courtesy of the BBC.

Picture by Ben Russell

Conservative leader David Cameron has become the new UK prime minister after the resignation of Gordon Brown.

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He’s Behind You!!

Tuesday 11 May 2010

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