B.C. Premier David Eby and coastal First Nations have signed a declaration asking Ottawa to keep the oil tanker ban on the province’s north coast in place.
Eby said at a Nov. 5 press conference that lifting the oil tanker ban, a federal law prohibiting oil tankers on B.C.’s northern coast, would expose the region to potentially devastating oil spills with no effective cleanup method in place. The B.C. premier has long opposed lifting the ban, which became law in the summer of 2019.
Eby was joined at the Nov. 5 press conference in Vancouver by Chief Marilyn Slett, president of the Coastal First Nations, who also opposes lifting the ban. The declaration was co-signed by Haida Nation President Jason Alsop, Lax Kw’alaams Mayor Garry Reece, and hereditary elder Clarence Innis….