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deal with an incident. is part of the problem, said the Sierra Club, citing a report issued Tuesday by the federal commissioner of the environment and sustainable development.
proposing a similar style of response to a lot of other areas around the world, where Nike Shoes For Boys On Sale or without the Gateway project, we going to see vastly increased vessel traffic on the north coast, and we need to be prepared for that, Stanway said Tuesday.
is not an area that would typically be a responsibility of the project. This is a pipeline and a marine terminal project and typically their responsibility as soon as the vessel leaves the dock that becomes a shipping responsibility, Owens said.
we been urging the federal government to do the same thing on the marine environment because, of course, British Columbians are very concerned about their coastline yet we don have the regulatory ability to ensure that it is protected, Lake said.
like to remind you that we are operating in Canada, under Canadian jurisdiction, and the Canadian laws are for 10,000 tonnes within a very different model than what we proposing, McHugh said. is not just about Gateway There is a need to address this issue. Environment Minister Terry Lake agreed. Alaska, in the wake of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, requires a capacity to clean up 47,700 cubic metres within 72 hours. does exceed, basically, what anybody else has ever tried to do. an agreement on world standard response times and clean up capacity eluded the panel.
But the two cannot be compared, experts said. The type of skimmers, emulsifying of the oil in the water, the weather all affect the response, the review panel was told. is really challenging, said Owen McHugh, another expert on the company panel. The project exceeds standards simply because it has taken extended responsibility beyond the pipeline and tanker terminal, testified Ed Owens, a project consultant from Polaris Applied Sciences and one of 10 company experts being questioned under oath this week on marine oil spills.
don want a voluntary system. We want a regulated, legislated system that assures British Columbians that we have the best system available in the world to minimize risk and respond to any incidents, Lake said.
committed to a world class response plan.
The panel heard Tuesday that Enbridge (TSX:ENB) has Nike Shoes Purple And Gold reality, there is no standard, there is no number against which one can compare. government. government says its support for the Northern Gateway pipeline is partly contingent upon a world class oil spill response plan, but the federal review panel weighing the project has heard what constitutes is open to a Nike Sneakers Olive Green great deal of interpretation. Regulations are not adequate to deal with major oil spills or an expected 300 per cent increase in tanker traffic off the West Coast, the report said While Northern Gateway has said it will go above and beyond the regulatory requirements, it shouldn be up to individual companies to do so, said Lake, who attended the hearing on Tuesday.
Paul Stanway, spokesman for Northern Gateway Pipelines, said that an issue the company recognized from the outset, and that why the project includes offshore emergency response. asks Northern Gateway experts about spill plans Northern Gateway has committed to a capacity to contain 36,000 cubic metres, or 32,000 tonnes, of oil within 10 days of a spill. Canadian regulations require a capacity of 10,000 tonnes.
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