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Tanker ban will help safeguard B.C.’s north coast, but marine management plans need attention now.
On Friday, November 13, 2015, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau released a mandate letter that seeks to place a moratorium on oil tanker traffic off B.C.’s north coast.

Northern Gateway: Emissions and Omissions
Last December, the Joint Review Panel told the federal government the Northern Gateway Project is in the Public Interest. In June, the government will make its decision based, in part, on this recommendation. In a blog series this week, WWF examines the flaws in this process.

Making Oil Tankers Safer is Common Sense. Putting them in the Great Bear Sea is not.
This week the federal ministers of Transport and Natural Resources were in Vancouver to release the Tanker Expert Safety Panel report about what Canada needs to do to prepare to respond to marine oil spills.

What would an oil spill clean-up look like in the Great Bear?
“World-class” performance for “success” of an oil spill clean-up operation is recovering about 15% of the oil.