Canada to Implement Northern B.C. Tanker Ban This Year -Report
TORONTO, Nov 4 (Reuters)– Canada’s Liberal federal government will certainly this year supply on its promise for a postponement on oil vessel web traffic along the north coastline of British Columbia, CBC News reported on Friday.
Transport Minister Marc Garneau validated the strategy in a meeting with CBC Radio’s “The House,” the broadcaster stated on its internet site.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2014 advised Garneau to define the restriction on oil vessel web traffic, efficiently knocking the door on a pipe task that was currently encountering substantial growth difficulties.
The restriction is just one of a number of challenges to the structure of Enbridge Inc’s Northern Gateway pipe, which would certainly bring oil sands crude from close to Edmonton, Alberta, to a deepwater port at Kitimat, British Columbia, for export to Asian markets.
Separately, Garneau stated the federal government was considering a suggestion that it privatize flight terminals, yet that “it’s not a front-burner exercise” and also individuals need to not leap to any type of verdicts, CBC stated.
(Reporting by Jeffrey Hodgson; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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