The Spirit Of Enbridge Visits Tofino... Limited Edition Print
Each hand-signed and numbered reproduction is printed using archival inks on the finest quality, heavyweight acid free paper.
Included with each print is a signed, embossed certificate of authenticity and the painting back label story.
This edition will be limited to a maximum of 600 prints. Framing is not included.
The original art for this print is available... Click here for details
Included with each print is a signed, embossed certificate of authenticity and the painting back label story.
This edition will be limited to a maximum of 600 prints. Framing is not included.
The original art for this print is available... Click here for details
The Spirit Of Enbridge Visits Tofino, limited edition print
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The back label story...
This painting has evolved from a previous smaller study. I decided, for this larger painting to change the ship. This tanker is the actual Exxon Valdez, that I've re-christened The Spirit Of Enbridge. I know that it's bad luck to re-name a ship, but I think we're well beyond that consideration here. You might recall the Exxon Valdez, she ran aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The tanker was 301 meters long, 50 meters wide, 26 meters depth. The ship can transport up to 1.48 million barrels. The spill was estimated to be somewhere between 257,000 to 750,000 barrels of oil. She was a relatively new tanker at the time of the spill. Equipped with all the latest technology. Who, in their right mind, would believe that this will not happen again?
While walking Chesterman Beach near Tofino, BC in the summer of 2012, I started thinking of the proposed Enbridge Gateway pipeline. The concept for this painting was born. The contrast of typical coastal scenic beauty and an uncomfortable thought. Its intent was to help people visualize a possible future for the west coast of Canada if Enbridge starts shipping oil, by tanker, from a pipeline in northern BC.
The evidence of global warming is clear, although many choose to ignore it. Despite that, the risk to the BC coast is no myth. Wave buoys in Hecate Strait, a notorious passage north of Vancouver Island, have recorded wave heights of more than 100 feet, based on government data collected for the pipeline study. These are the very waters that tankers would have to regularly negotiate. Despite technology, human error is always a variable that can’t be quantified. The Exxon Valdez is proof of that, as are the hundreds of ships that line the seabed of this coast.
Moving toward sustainable energy is clearly the direction we should be pursuing. However, the cost of sustainable energy infrastructure is always the perceived deterrent. The cost of this pipeline will be in the billions, not to mention the billions in expanding oil-sands development. Strange that the infrastructure for feeding the fossil-fuel machine and its lobby always seem to have a blank cheque.
A frog put in hot water will jump out. When put in cold water and heated slowly, it will happily sit and boil to death. I’m feeling a bit green myself.
Mark Heine
This painting has evolved from a previous smaller study. I decided, for this larger painting to change the ship. This tanker is the actual Exxon Valdez, that I've re-christened The Spirit Of Enbridge. I know that it's bad luck to re-name a ship, but I think we're well beyond that consideration here. You might recall the Exxon Valdez, she ran aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The tanker was 301 meters long, 50 meters wide, 26 meters depth. The ship can transport up to 1.48 million barrels. The spill was estimated to be somewhere between 257,000 to 750,000 barrels of oil. She was a relatively new tanker at the time of the spill. Equipped with all the latest technology. Who, in their right mind, would believe that this will not happen again?
While walking Chesterman Beach near Tofino, BC in the summer of 2012, I started thinking of the proposed Enbridge Gateway pipeline. The concept for this painting was born. The contrast of typical coastal scenic beauty and an uncomfortable thought. Its intent was to help people visualize a possible future for the west coast of Canada if Enbridge starts shipping oil, by tanker, from a pipeline in northern BC.
The evidence of global warming is clear, although many choose to ignore it. Despite that, the risk to the BC coast is no myth. Wave buoys in Hecate Strait, a notorious passage north of Vancouver Island, have recorded wave heights of more than 100 feet, based on government data collected for the pipeline study. These are the very waters that tankers would have to regularly negotiate. Despite technology, human error is always a variable that can’t be quantified. The Exxon Valdez is proof of that, as are the hundreds of ships that line the seabed of this coast.
Moving toward sustainable energy is clearly the direction we should be pursuing. However, the cost of sustainable energy infrastructure is always the perceived deterrent. The cost of this pipeline will be in the billions, not to mention the billions in expanding oil-sands development. Strange that the infrastructure for feeding the fossil-fuel machine and its lobby always seem to have a blank cheque.
A frog put in hot water will jump out. When put in cold water and heated slowly, it will happily sit and boil to death. I’m feeling a bit green myself.
Mark Heine
