5 Reasons to Stop Tankers in our Northern Coastal Waters
Published by Patrick May 2nd, 2007 in Fisheries Tags: action, Fisheries.via Nick Humphreys, BC Regional Council
- The certainty of spills
- The impossible clean-up
- The local ecology
- Jobs and communities
- Global warming
It looks like the Harper government is going to lift the ban on oil tanker traffic in BC’s inside waters.
The tankers would run through Caamano Sound and up the inlets to Kitimat. The likelihood of a spill are high and the results for the environment, including our salmon resource would be catastrophic.
Read more and sign a petition opposing the lift of the moratorium at www.notankers.ca.