I
have returned briefly to tell these mostly Conservative Albertan
Senators to get their collective heads out of their collective arse's
... do they really think a few dollars in a few Alberta pockets will
compensate for the destruction of the flora and fauna of the west
coast that will result from the first inevitable major spill. Never
mind the cost of the impossible clean up, the economic cost to the
area (oh wait you don't give a shit, its not your area), Never mind
the death of irreplaceable sea life that is already threatened world
wide.
Read
on if you can stomach it!
A
federal ban on tanker traffic off British Columbia’s north coast
has been defeated in a Senate committee, but that doesn’t mean it’s
dead in the water.
On
a 6-6 vote, the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and
Communications recommended not to proceed with the controversial Bill
C-48.
The
federal Liberals’ bill, otherwise known as the Oil Tanker
Moratorium Act, would ban tankers carrying more than 12,500 metric
tonnes of crude or persistent oil from stopping or unloading along
B.C.’s northern coast.
Senator
Doug Black said the development was “a good day for Alberta and for
Canada.”
The
committee voted 6-6 to to reject recommending the bill. Because of
the tie vote, the recommendation failed.
Alberta
independent senator Paula Simons voted against it, along with five
Conservative senators. Five other independents and one
self-identified Liberal voted in favour.
Canadian
oil industry.
Conservatives
in the Senate said voting down the bill is a win for Canada’s
energy industry, leaving open the possibility of exporting Canadian
oil from northern B.C. ports.
Despite
the recommendation, the bill is not dead yet. The Senate still must
vote on the bill.
The
legislation has already passed in the House of Commons but not in the
Senate.
Extracted
from
https://globalnews.ca/news/5282395/senate-committee-recommendation-against-bill-c48-oil-tanker-ban/
Senators
... go take a swim in an Alberta tailing pond and then come back and
tell us how little risk there is to allowing massive tankers to
traverse this narrow and challenging, largely unpolluted navigational
waters
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Here we sit and simmer. A lot of us have hardening attitudes toward these Albertans and their lazy, greedy ways that respect nothing but their own wants.
I think my 'simmering' days are over Mound' on this and several other fronts!
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