http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/crude-oil-tanker-traffic-moratorium-bc-north-coast-1.3318086
[Last week, U.S. President Obama killed the international portion
(Canada-U.S.) portion of the Keystone XL pipeline. With this statement,
I believe Canadian Prime Minister just killed the Enbridge Northern
Gateway pipeline. The Churchill (Manitoba) pipeline appears to be dead.
That leaves 2 still technically in play: the expansion of the
Kinder-Morgan Trans-Mountain pipeline into Vancouver which has been
getting additional unfriendly attention since the Keystone XL
announcement; and, the Trans-Canada Energy East pipeline which has just
had to give up its proposed main terminus on the St. Lawrence River. As
oil prices have had a bad week this week, I suspect the Canadian oil
industry would welcome some new friends about now.
The Kitsilano Coast Guard station in Vancouver harbour - which was
equipped for response to oil spills - was closed by the the recently
defeated Conservative Party of Canada federal government despite
widespread local opposition. The lack of local response capability was
a key factor in the poor response to the MV Marathassa bunker C oil
spill earlier this year in Vancouver harbour.
image and links in on-line article]
Trudeau orders crude oil tanker traffic moratorium for B.C. North Coast
Environmental group says moratorium would 'end' Northern Gateway proposal
CBC News Posted: Nov 13, 2015 11:48 AM PT Last Updated: Nov 13, 2015
12:53 PM PT
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called for a moratorium on crude oil
tanker traffic for B.C.'s North Coast.
Trudeau outlined the directive in a mandate letter to Canada's transport
minister, Marc Garneau, on Friday. In it, he asked Garneau to formalize
the agreement with three other ministries: fisheries, natural resources
and environment.
"This ban ends the dangerous Northern Gateway pipeline proposal," said
Karen Mahon in a statement from ForestEthics, an environmental group
that advocates for the protection of B.C.'s coast. "Without tankers,
crude oil has no place to go, that means no pipelines, no oil trains
moving tarsands to the northern B.C. coast."
It's unclear what impact a moratorium would have on the Northern Gateway
pipeline, which would carry bitumen from Alberta to Kitimat, B.C. The
project was approved in June 2014 with 209 conditions.
The company says the earliest the pipeline could be built is 2019,
prompting some analysts to question whether the company is fully
committed to the project given the obstacles it still faces.
The moratorium would require legislation and would no doubt prompt
debate in the House of Commons.
The mandate letter from Trudeau comes a week after U.S. President Barack
Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, saying it did not serve the
country's national interests.
Both leaders will be part of the G20 meeting in Antalya, Turkey, this
weekend and the United Nations climate change conference in Paris
starting on Nov. 30
Also on Friday, Trudeau asked his minister of fisheries and oceans to
re-open the Kitsilano Coast Guard station in Vancouver.
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