On june 23, in the middle of what is expected to be the busiest cruise ship season ever on the west coast, canada finally announced a new legal order imposing stronger restrictions on dumping from cruise ships in canadian waters. The report made multiple recommendations such as legally requiring cruise ships to have holding tanks that are of adequate size and eliminating the exemption that permits cruise ships to discharge in areas where the shores are narrower than six nautical miles wide. Coastal waters of british columbia will be spared up to 31 billion litres of wastewater being dumped by cruise ships this year with the recent extension of a 2020 federal government ban on.
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A new report suggests the waters off of b.c
Have become the cruise industry’s toilet bowl
The report, was written by environmental organizations stand.earth and west coast environmental law. Explore the latest developments in canada cruise ship regulations All ships employing scrubbers — including cruise ships, cargo ships, tankers and more — dumped an estimated 88 million tonnes of acidic wastewater laced with toxic metals along the bc coast in 2022 alone. With hundreds of ships that will soon need to be recycled, two b.c
Politicians are advocating for a ship recycling facility in port alberni on vancouver island.
