According to the Globe and Mail, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, believes there has been a concerted effort to play down the effects of the spill and that too many questions are unanswered, particularly on any earlier problems the Mount Polley facility may have had. If the province does not provide adequate answers, he said, his organization will call for a public inquiry. In a statement, Phillip said: Like the Exxon Valdez, Mount Polley will be synonymous with one of the most disastrous environmental events in British Columbia. The frightening fact is both environmental disasters could have been prevented if there was vigorous government oversight by an effectively resourced agency bound by robust legislative and regulatory environmental safeguards. What we have now in BC and Canada, as a consequence of weak environmental review procedures and the federal omnibus bills C-38 and C-45, are repugnant and reprehensible processes of rubber-stamp approvals that shamelessly pander to industry and tragically at the great expense of environmental devastation.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 23:54:33 +0000
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