Federal Tanker Ban Goes to Full Senate After Committee Defeat [Campaign] – The Energy Mix
“Bill C-48 would prohibit tankers carrying more than 12,500 tonnes of
oil from docking along an area that stretches from the northern tip of
Vancouver Island to the Alaska border, which would do away with projects
like the now-defunct Northern Gateway or Indigenous-led Eagle Spirit
pipelines,” CBC News explains. “Its initial passage in the House of
Commons was celebrated by environmentalists, who said it would help keep
the coast and its diverse fishing industry safe from spills. But it’s
faced criticism from industry, First Nations, and provincial leaders,
who worried it could critically harm Canada’s oil exports.”
oil from docking along an area that stretches from the northern tip of
Vancouver Island to the Alaska border, which would do away with projects
like the now-defunct Northern Gateway or Indigenous-led Eagle Spirit
pipelines,” CBC News explains. “Its initial passage in the House of
Commons was celebrated by environmentalists, who said it would help keep
the coast and its diverse fishing industry safe from spills. But it’s
faced criticism from industry, First Nations, and provincial leaders,
who worried it could critically harm Canada’s oil exports.”
Simons, who cast the deciding vote against amending or advancing the
measure, “said she felt it was her duty as an Alberta senator to vote
against it in its current form,” CBC reports.
“I am very aware of how extraordinarily beautiful and sensitive that
particular ecosystem is and I very much want to see it protected,”
Simons said. “But Bill C-48 was not going to give that strip of land and
sea the protection it rightly deserved.”