Canada's tough stance on Arctic shipping pollution praised

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Canada is winning a rare bit of environmental praise from the international community for its stance on pollution from shipping in Arctic waters.

Documents obtained by The Canadian Press show Canada is pushing hard to outlaw the discharge of oily wastes or garbage anywhere in the North.

Canada's proposal, during negotiations for a mandatory global shipping code in the Arctic, has won the support of several countries including Germany and France — nations that often criticize Canada over the issues of climate change and management of wildlife such as seals and polar bears.

"Canada actually took quite good leadership on this issue," said Lars Erik Mangset of the World Wildlife Fund, which was an official observer at the talks held in late March in London.


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Lets hope that this time our stance is real. As a nation we seem to fall short almost every time of our long term promises. If we can keep our economy strong so that we are never in a position where the government needs to look for more money desperately perhaps industry won't be able to bully us. It's all in how we look at our resources and how fast we want expand our GDP with their input or in how slow the economy is in a time when government financial obligations can't be met...usually the latter that makes government cave over environmental blocks to fast forward moving capitalism. As we all know, it takes jobs and industry to move forward, perpetual expansion.