MurrayM
Guru
Enbridge's Northern Gateway raw diluted bitumen export pipeline proposal is close to being dead.
I believe the ban/moratorium is for "crude oil" (unrefined liquid petroleum) supertankers on BC's north coast, which does leave the door open for refined products and LNG being exported...if any of those projects get off the ground.
I'll save my happy dance for when Northern Gateway is officially dead and gone; when my hometown and boating area doesn't have to live under the triple barreled threat of dual pipelines through the geologically young and active north coast mountains, supertankers zigzagging their way daily from Douglas Channel into Hecate Strait, or a 1.3 billion litre tank farm on a ridge near the Kitimat River estuary and close to a recently discovered 50 km fault line running right up the middle of Douglas Channel.
Canada to Ban Tankers from Northern B.C. Coast
Here's Prime Minister Trudeau's mandate letter to the Fisheries Minister;
http://pm.gc.ca/eng/minister-fisheries-oceans-and-canadian-coast-guard-mandate-letter
Here are some of the key directives;
Former Prime Minister Harper directed that decades of scientific environmental research be shredded...hopefully they didn't get to it all and some was squirreled safely away...
I feel like my Canada has returned
I believe the ban/moratorium is for "crude oil" (unrefined liquid petroleum) supertankers on BC's north coast, which does leave the door open for refined products and LNG being exported...if any of those projects get off the ground.
I'll save my happy dance for when Northern Gateway is officially dead and gone; when my hometown and boating area doesn't have to live under the triple barreled threat of dual pipelines through the geologically young and active north coast mountains, supertankers zigzagging their way daily from Douglas Channel into Hecate Strait, or a 1.3 billion litre tank farm on a ridge near the Kitimat River estuary and close to a recently discovered 50 km fault line running right up the middle of Douglas Channel.
Canada to Ban Tankers from Northern B.C. Coast
Here's Prime Minister Trudeau's mandate letter to the Fisheries Minister;
http://pm.gc.ca/eng/minister-fisheries-oceans-and-canadian-coast-guard-mandate-letter
Here are some of the key directives;
In particular, I will expect you to work with your colleagues and through established legislative, regulatory, and Cabinet processes to deliver on your top priorities:
Work with the Minister of Environment and Climate Change to increase the proportion of Canada’s marine and coastal areas that are protected – to five percent by 2017, and ten percent by 2020 – supported by new investments in community consultation and science.
Restore annual federal funding for freshwater research, and make new investments in Canada’s Experimental Lakes Area.
Use scientific evidence and the precautionary principle, and take into account climate change, when making decisions affecting fish stocks and ecosystem management.
Work with the Minister of Transport to review the previous government’s changes to the Fisheries and Navigable Waters Protection Acts, restore lost protections, and incorporate modern safeguards.
Work with the Ministers of Transport, Natural Resources and Environment and Climate Change to formalize the moratorium on crude oil tanker traffic on British Columbia’s North Coast, including the Dixon Entrance, Hecate Strait, and Queen Charlotte Sound.
Re-open the Maritime Rescue Sub-centre in St. John’s, Newfoundland and the Kitsilano Coast Guard Base in Vancouver.
Work with the Minister of Public Services and Procurement to meet the commitments that were made for new Coast Guard vessels as part of the National Shipbuilding and Procurement Strategy.
Former Prime Minister Harper directed that decades of scientific environmental research be shredded...hopefully they didn't get to it all and some was squirreled safely away...
I feel like my Canada has returned
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