Feds Banning Oil and Gas Activities in Marine Protected Areas

Posted on the 25 April 2019 by Vinhta

The Trudeau government is banning oil and gas work, mining, dumping and bottom trawling - an industrial fishing technique that indiscriminately scrapes the bottom of the ocean surface - in designated marine protected areas. Fisheries and Oceans Minister Jonathan Wilkinson announced the new protection standards on Thursday, while also naming a 12,000 square kilometre stretch [...]