Canada may actually have a real environmentalist in the House!
Trudeau orders crude oil tanker traffic moratorium for B.C. North Coast
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called for a moratorium on crude oil tanker traffic for B.C.'s North Coast.
Trudeau outlined the directive in a mandate letter to Canada's transport minister, Marc Garneau, on Friday. In it, he asked Garneau to formalize the agreement with three other ministries: fisheries, natural resources and environment.
"This ban ends the dangerous Northern Gateway pipeline proposal," said Karen Mahon in a statement from ForestEthics, an environmental group that advocates for the protection of B.C.'s coast. "Without tankers, crude oil has no place to go, that means no pipelines, no oil trains moving tarsands to the northern B.C. coast."
Even more astounding is that Trudeau knows the zero-growth economic theories of Herman Daly, and apparently understands that economic growth is the real environmental boogey-man:
Guess What Trudeau Said About Growth?
“There are a lot of people out there, environmental thinkers like Herman Daly and others, who talk about the fact that maybe endless growth within a finite system is not either possible or even desirable. Maybe we have to talk about shifting our focus so that instead of just growing, we’re actually developing and improving.” – Maclean’s, “In conversation: Justin Trudeau” 2012
He may just be one of us. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
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