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Vancouver Sun -- Coastal waters are no place for oil tankers

by Josh Paterson, Jen Lash, Nikki Skuce, Gerald Amos, Pat Moss, Eric Swanson, Ian McAlister, Jennifer Rice, Julia Hill and Chris Genovali, Special to the Sun, http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Coastal+waters+place+tankers/2937356/story.html
April 22nd, 2010

The Campbell government was quick to respond to the unprecedented coastal first nations declaration on March 23, which banned oil tankers carrying oilsands crude oil through the waters of their territories on the central and north Pacific coasts, and surrounding Haida Gwaii.

In effect, the government said that first nations -and the 75 per cent of British Columbians who support a ban on oil tankers -can't say no to the catastrophic risks that come with oil supertankers crossing through our inside coastal waters.

Instead, everyone should wait and see what the federal government's environmental assessment process has to say -a process, incidentally, that approves more than 99 per cent of all the projects submitted to it. The federal government, by ignoring the coastal first nations declaration altogether, has sent the same message.

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