‘Cruise ships are an important part of our economy and tourism sector, but they need to operate in a more sustainable manner,’ Transport Minister Omar Alghabra says
Canada on Friday banned cruise ships from dumping sewage and dirty water close to shore and said it would impose fines of up to $250,000 for offending vessels.
Environmental groups in 2021 denounced what they called lax Canadian regulations, saying cruise ships travelling to and from Alaska alone had dumped 31 billion litres of inadequately treated pollution into Canada’s Pacific waters in 2019. The new rules will ban the discharge of sewage and so-called greywater – the drainage from sinks, laundry machines, bathtubs and showers – within three nautical miles of Canadian shores.
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