Heavy fuel oil must be banned from the Canadian Arctic

It is time to put in place stringent environmental protection standards before the amount of maritime traffic increases significantly.

The Canadian Coast Guard Ship Louis S. St-Laurent makes an approach to the Coast Guard Cutter Healy in the Arctic Ocean. 'The momentum to ban [heavy fuel oil] in the Arctic is building and Canada should take advantage of that,' writes Retired Canadian Armed Forces Colonel Pierre Leblanc. Photograph courtesy of Patrick Kelley, U.S. Coast Guard

Opinion

BY PIERRE LEBLANC

September 22, 2017

Over the last decades, Canada has taken successive actions to monitor and minimize the impact of human activities on our environment. For the Canadian Arctic, one of the key actions was the passing of the Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act (AWPPA) in 1985. Another has been making it compulsory f...

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