Sentences with phrase «oil tanker ban»

All four opposition parties in the Canadian Parliament — who together won 60 percent of the vote in the last federal election — are opposed to Northern Gateway and support an oil tanker ban.

This work included representing two First Nations in a successful legal challenge to the federal government's approval of Northern Gateway, as well as advocating for a strong federal oil tanker ban law on BC's north coast.

Demand a North Coast oil tanker ban.

Spotting a powerful wedge issue, Justin Trudeau committed to rejecting the Enbridge pipeline and legislating a crude oil tanker ban on British Columbia's North Coast.

Not exact matches

The new prime minister banned oil tankers off the northern coast of British Columbia just nine days after assuming office.

Wrong on both counts, it seems, because Prime Minister Stephen Harper has shrugged off a 35 - year practice to ban oil tankers plying B.C.'s inside passage.

VANCOUVER — The Christy Clark government has asked Ottawa to lift a ban on burning oil to deal with spills, proof that Christy Clark is prepared to do anything to allow a seven-fold increase in tanker traffic on B.C.'s coast, say the...

France and Italy have also banned all oil and chemical tankers that call at their ports from using the strait.

The announced ban on tanker traffic carrying crude oil on the north coast represents an opportunity for the government to make it impossible for all practical purposes for the Northern Gateway project to operate.