Transport committee  I would agree with that.

Transport committee  I don't, beyond that.

Transport committee  I think one of the big concerns right now, which we need to keep in this conversation, is these articulated barges travelling between Washington state and Alaska that provide no benefit to any Canadian community and that are putting coastal communities at huge risk, as we've seen

Transport committee  You may have missed my presentation, but on the south coast, tankers pose a huge risk to the economy, communities, wildlife, the southern residents, and endangered orca whales that live in the Salish Sea. We can be supporting jobs and doing better for our communities in other way

Transport committee  It's hard to add to what Des just said. I recently had the privilege of travelling to the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador, a place that people in the world know as being rich in biodiversity. Honestly, the abundance of life, marine and land, that I saw there reminded me of the Gre

Transport committee  I can speak to that again. The Great Bear Rainforest is the world's largest intact coastal temperate rainforest. The agreements that have been formed between first nations, industry, government, and environmental groups have been recognized globally. We don't need industrial sa

Transport committee  My understanding is that they would be supertanker size, so they would be significant. They would not be captured—

Transport committee  Yes, and I think the main thing would be to look at what might happen if it spilled into the marine environments. I don't have that information, but that would be my concern.

Transport committee  I'm sure we all have lots to say on that. For one thing, that's why I raised the issue of expanding the scope of the act to include refined oil, so no matter how it gets to the refinery, whether there are supertankers shipping petroleum products through the Great Bear Rainforest,

Transport committee  First of all, the recent Transport Canada study is clear that for the purposes of community fuel resupply, 3,200 tonnes is—

Transport committee  You're talking about the refinery.

Transport committee  Thank you for the opportunity to speak to Bill C-48. Sierra Club BC strongly supports this oil tanker moratorium act. However, to truly protect the coast and all who depend on it, we believe the bill needs to be strengthened in four key ways, outlined in our written brief, whic