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Coalition Criticizes Minister Oliver’s ‘Waffling’ on Independent Safety Regulators for Canada’s Offshore
For Immediate Release: March 13, 2012
A Coalition of fishermen, First Nations, environmentalists and coastal landowners are rallying against Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver’s recent ‘waffling’ on the need for a separate, independent safety regulator for NL’s offshore petroleum industry. The coalition is responding to recent comments made in NL by Federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver who stated he is questioning whether an independent safety regulator is needed.
“Retired Judge Robert Wells’s inquiry into the deaths of 17 offshore workers in the 2009 Cougar helicopter crash recommended a separate, independent safety regulator for NL’s offshore industry. What was the point of this Inquiry if the federal government is going to ignore Justice Wells’ vital recommendations?” says Gretchen Fitzgerald, executive director of Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter.
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Coalition Criticizes Minister Oliver’s ‘Waffling’ on Independent Safety Regulators for Canada’s Offshore
For Immediate Release: March 13, 2012
A Coalition of fishermen, First Nations, environmentalists and coastal landowners are rallying against Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver’s recent ‘waffling’ on the need for a separate, independent safety regulator for NL’s offshore petroleum industry. The coalition is responding to recent comments made in NL by Federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver who stated he is questioning whether an independent safety regulator is needed.
“Retired Judge Robert Wells’s inquiry into the deaths of 17 offshore workers in the 2009 Cougar helicopter crash recommended a separate, independent safety regulator for NL’s offshore industry. What was the point of this Inquiry if the federal government is going to ignore Justice Wells’ vital recommendations?” says Gretchen Fitzgerald, executive director of Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter.
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The people of Atlantic Canada are working together to prevent an offshore drilling disaster from happening in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Help them to halt development that could destroy severely damage Canadian coastlines in the event of an oil spill.... Read more »
FEDERAL GAME OF “HOT POTATO” LEAVES GULF OPEN TO OIL AND GAS DISASTER
For immediate release: August 16, 2011
Halifax, NS – Yesterday’s letter from Environment Minister Peter Kent to the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) shows lack of leadership to protect an ecosystem shared by half of Canada’s ten provinces according to Sierra Club Canada – Atlantic Canada Chapter and the Save Our Seas and Shores Coalition.
“At least the offshore board knew they were out of their depth when it came to measuring the impacts of oil and gas in the Gulf of St. Lawrence,” stated Gretchen Fitzgerald, Director of Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter, “They asked for the federal government to take the lead. What they got in response from the Minister and his department was the equivalent of a regulatory game of hot potato. We cannot play games when so much is at stake.”... Read more »
Tell Environment Minister Peter Kent to Get to Work to Protect the Gulf!
2011-07-26
Action Deadline:
Thu, 2011-09-15 23:00
In June, the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board cried “uncle” and asked for the federal Environment Minister to conduct an environmental assessment of the impacts of exploratory drilling at a site called Old Harry located tens of kilometres from the coast of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, PEI and the Magdelen Islands.
Without this intervention, exploratory drilling could have proceeded as soon as next year.
In its letter to federal Environment Minister Peter Kent, the C-NLOPB stated that they had never received as many letters of concern about an offshore oil project before: for all those who wrote in - it worked! Now we just have to keep it up!
We need your help to convince federal Environment Minister Peter Kent to establish a valid environmental assessment to truly determine the risks of offshore oil development to the Gulf. A spill one tenth of the size of the BP oil spill would affect the coastlines of all five provinces around the Gulf.
What do we want you to do?
Speak Up for the Gulf!
Call Environment Minister Kent and ask for a full joint review panel environmental assessment for oil and gas development in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Tell him and his staff that you don’t think we can risk this precious ecosystem and that we need everyone around the Gulf engaged in protecting it.
Honourable Peter Kent's telephone number: 1-819-997-1441
You can also write a letter or email.
Here is a sample letter:
The Honourable Peter Kent
Minister of the Environment
Les Terrasses de la Chaudière
10 Wellington Street, 28th Floor
Gatineau, Quebec
K1A 0H3
E-mail: Minister@ec.gc.ca... Read more »
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