Juno News - June 14, 2018


Canada has a double standard on oil tankers

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3 minutes

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517

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36

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In November 2015, the Trudeau government issued a tanker ban, a complete moratorium on large tanker ships near the Queen Charlotte Sound in northern British Columbia. But despite the ban, there are still more than 20,000 oil tankers coming and going from Canadian ports each and every year. Canada could be leading the way, developing and championing the most environmentally secure and forward-looking energy shipping methods in the world.

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00:00:00.520 Canada has a double standard when it comes to oil tanker ships off our coasts.
00:00:05.900 In November 2015, the Trudeau government issued a tanker ban, a complete moratorium on large
00:00:11.880 tanker ships near the Queen Charlotte Sound in northern British Columbia.
00:00:16.520 With that moratorium, the government killed the Northern Gateway Pipeline.
00:00:21.600 The Northern Gateway Pipeline was an Enbridge project that would have brought natural gas
00:00:25.640 from British Columbia to Alberta and then diluted bitumen from Alberta back to a marine
00:00:31.480 terminal in Kitimat, BC.
00:00:34.180 From Kitimat, the oil would have been transported to Asian markets via tanker ships.
00:00:41.220 But Trudeau said no to tankers off Canadian coasts.
00:00:45.480 Or did he?
00:00:46.680 In 2015, the same year as the tanker ban, there were 626 crude oil tankers that traveled through
00:00:55.060 the Salish Sea.
00:00:57.160 These tanker ships were carrying American oil to market.
00:01:01.340 The U.S. ships about 900,000 barrels of oil per day of Alaskan crude oil down to ports
00:01:08.020 in the Pacific Northwest.
00:01:10.200 These tankers travel through Canadian waters, including the Juan de Fuca Strait.
00:01:14.480 These American tankers are able to sail right by our islands and our beaches. 0.99
00:01:21.380 But they're not the only tanker ships traveling by our pristine coasts.
00:01:26.820 Despite Trudeau's travel ban, Transport Canada estimates that there are approximately 20,000
00:01:33.260 oil tankers that come and go from Canadian ports each and every year.
00:01:38.700 Not surprisingly, about 85% of these tankers are on the Atlantic coast.
00:01:45.380 Canada produces more hydrocarbons than we can consume.
00:01:49.140 And yet, because of a lack of pipelines, Canadians in eastern Canada still import foreign oil
00:01:56.220 from countries like the U.S., Saudi Arabia, and Algeria.
00:02:00.680 And of course, that oil is often imported via tanker ships.
00:02:04.820 Trudeau allowed about 17,000 oil tankers off the east coast.
00:02:10.300 And look, there's still more large ships coming and going from our ports each year.
00:02:16.380 The Port of Vancouver welcomes 3,160 vessels each year, or about nine ships per day.
00:02:22.880 This is a pretty small number compared to other cities of similar sizes.
00:02:26.580 Now, of those 3,100 ships, only about 30 to 50 of them are crude oil tankers.
00:02:33.660 According to the Port of Vancouver, the maximum size for an oil tanker ship allowed in its port
00:02:39.660 is 120,000 tons, about 800 feet long, with a maximum capacity of 80%.
00:02:47.160 But get this, Vancouver welcomes cruise ships that are much larger than that.
00:02:54.140 This year, they'll welcome the Norwegian Bliss, a ship that is 1,000 feet long and that has
00:02:59.780 a weight of 168,000 tons.
00:03:03.640 So what is with this double standard?
00:03:06.460 We let tankers come from the east, but then we ban them from the west.
00:03:11.160 We let American tankers sail through the pristine BC coastline, but then we ban our own Canadian
00:03:17.620 ships.
00:03:18.620 And we ban tankers because our politicians don't like oil.
00:03:22.540 But we also allow cruise ships that are bigger and have a much larger environmental footprint.
00:03:29.040 Canada could be leading the way, developing and championing the most environmentally secure
00:03:33.620 and forward-looking energy shipping methods in the world.
00:03:37.360 Instead, we're watching energy opportunities sail away.
00:03:42.580 For the TrueNorth Initiative, I'm Candace Malcolm.