Carriers to pay for oil spills

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Personal attack

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But he agrees with Dettman that it doesn’t sink right away.
“Under typical Canadian climactic conditions, you’ve got up to three weeks to clean it up before you’ve got any major sinking,” he says.

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https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/a ... pills.html

Grant you it's not BC but I thought it an interesting article:

It takes an average of four years to reach a settlement for environmental damages and then begin restoration after an oil spill.

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VANCOUVER - B. Cusano Contracting Inc., R.F. Binnie & Associates Ltd. and Kinder Morgan subsidiary Trans Mountain Pipeline L.P. were sentenced in provincial court today to pay $550,000 in fines and penalties for their role in a 2007 oil spill pollution incident in Burnaby.

There's always been a system in place to make companies accountable.
https://news.gov.bc.ca/stories/companie ... -oil-spill

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https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/about/media/who-pays-oil-spills.html

Grant you it's not BC but I thought it an interesting article:

It takes an average of four years to reach a settlement for environmental damages and then begin restoration after an oil spill.

It IS an interesting article, and although it's a US article, there are a couple of things that pertain to Canada as well. One is the sad fact that it takes at least four years for anyone to be held responsible, and the fact we agree that our unspoiled coasts are priceless, and we would rather protect them as much as possible. I don't know what that means to you, but to me it means not allowing diluted bitumen to be transported across B.C., loaded onto tankers and shipped to Asia.