Smooth Sailing for Oil Tankers?
CounterPunch
Christmas Weekend Edition December 24-26, 2010
Smooth Sailing for Oil Tankers?
By Chris Genovali and Misty MacDuffee
Recently, British Columbia MP (Member of Parliament) Gary Lunn asserted that professionals should be left to decide on oil tanker routes for the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project. Lunn made the statement in response to a private members bill introduced by opposition MP Joyce Murray that would ban oil tankers on B.C.’s north coast…
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