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Story about Bill C-48 and the Notley meeting with the Senators


https://calgaryherald.com/business/l...0-ef54ec838f95

The most recent trigger is a little known bill, C-48. It would fulfill a Trudeau campaign promise and see Alberta crude oil banned from being tankered out from a key commercial shipping lane in Canada, the first time any oil product has faced such discriminatory treatment. If the ban goes ahead, it will be perfectly OK to tanker American, Saudi, Algerian or Norwegian oil into Quebec or New Brunswick, and to tanker Newfoundland oil for export, but not Alberta oilsands crude out of the major ports on the northwest B.C. coast.


The move will cripple oilsands exports to Asia. It’s also unnecessary. Marine experts have repeatedly told the Senate that new double-hull tankers and tug boat guardian ships can safely move the oil out to sea.

Quebec Sen. Julie Miville-Dechene raised the main sticking point, the possibility of an oil spill.


Reasonable safety measures can and must be taken, Notley assured her, but fairness demands we must not target a particular product with standards that are way out of whack compared to our standards for moving other products.
The coastal Aboriginal tribes want zero risk and also see the ban as a gesture of reconciliation, Miville-Dechene pointed out, so what about that?