A sailing trip along the proposed Northern Gateway marine route with a fresh new voice in non-fiction.

With oil and gas behemoth Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway proposal nearing approval, supertankers loaded with two million barrels of oil may soon be plying the waters from northern British Columbia down the wild Pacific Coast. This region is home to the largest tract of temperate rainforest on earth, First Nations who have lived there for millennia, and some of the world’s most biodiverse waters—one spill is all it will take to erase ten thousand years of evolution.

Arno Kopecky and his companions travel aboard a forty-one-foot sailboat exploring the pristine route—a profoundly volatile marine environment that registered 1,275 marine vessel incidents—mechanical failures, collisions, explosions, groundings, and sinkings—between 1999 and 2009 alone. Neither Kopecky nor the boat’s owner have ever sailed before, yet they brave...

沿着拟议中的 "北方门户 "海运路线的航行之旅，有一个新的非小说的声音。

随着石油和天然气巨头恩布里奇公司（Enbridge Inc.）的 "北部通道 "提案接近批准，满载200万桶石油的超级油轮可能很快就会从不列颠哥伦比亚省北部的水域沿着狂野的太平洋海岸航行。这个地区是地球上最大的温带雨林的所在地，原住民已经在这里生活了几千年，还有一些世界上最具有生物多样性的水域，只要发生泄漏，就可以抹去一万年的进化。

Arno Kopecky和他的同伴们乘坐一艘40英尺长的帆船，探索这条原始路线--一个极度不稳定的海洋环境，仅在1999年至2009年间就发生了1275起海洋船只事故--机械故障、碰撞、爆炸、搁浅和沉没。Kopecky和船主以前都没有出过海，但他们勇敢地...