BC Rising Oil Spill Risk from 2 major bitumen export projects terminals + tankers traffic threatens Otters: WA State Report. More tankers up chance of major spill resulting in extinction for states otters - Stanley Tromp New risks from Canadian oil tanker spills confront the 1,100 sea otters living around the Olympic Peninsula, said an internal report of March 2014 by the Washington State Ecology Department. The otters live from Point Grenville to Neah Bay on the rocky and perilous west coast of the state, about half of them around Destruction Island. Their cousins who share the Salish Sea north of the B.C. border are considered an endangered species in Canada. The relative risk of an oil spill occurring near the mouth of the Strait of Juan de Fuca may increase by over four times with the development of new oil transport facilities in British Columbia, Canada and Washington State, said the report. These include the Northern Gateway plan, the Trans-Mountain pipeline expansion, and proposed changes at Delta Port. (and its not only BC Coastal waters, its our shared Salish Seas, Juna De Fuca Strait, West Coast Vancouver Island/Olympic Peninsula WA State and Dixon Entrance/SE Alaskan waters/Inside Passage AK) thetyee.ca/News/2014/06/24/BC-Oil-Spills-Threaten-Otters/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=240614
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:50:30 +0000
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