The bill would prohibit oil tankers carrying more than 12,500 tonnes of crude oil in waters between the northern tip of Vancouver Island and the Alaska border.
EDMONTON — A Senate committee is being asked to kill or at least amend the federal government’s bill to ban tankers off the British Columbia coast.
On Tuesday morning, they heard from Mayor Don Scott of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo and Chief Craig Makinaw of the Ermineskin Cree Nation, who both expressed concerns with the bill.Makinaw said there’s a perception that all First Nations are against oil and gas development.Senators asked whether they were consulted about the tanker ban and both said they hadn’t been.“Don’t pick winners and losers,” he said. “Let’s find a way forward where we can all benefit.
Academics who addressed the committee said it will be difficult for the federal government to come up with a win-win. The committee heard earlier this month from outgoing NDP premier Rachel Notley, who urged the Senate to toss the bill “in the garbage.”
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