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Ship noise etc is also an issue of course, and not just for the SRKW - a different route might also impact the Northern Resident Killer Whales which are a threatened species. But our expansion of fossil fuel production etc does seem like the actions of a drug pusher. "the warmer ocean is killing the salmon that the southern residents depend on," said Andrew Trites, director of the Marine Mammal Research Unit at [UBC] "It's not the boats per se, it's what they're carrying. We're effectively the drug pusher." https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/southern-resident-killer-whales-alberta-bc-oil-pipeline-9.7282483