VANCOUVER, B.C. — An estimated 400 oil tankers a year are likely coming to inland waters of the Salish Sea, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, shared by Washington and British Columbia.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports prospects for a giant Canadian oil pipeline, and export terminal just east of Vancouver, surged on Tuesday with a second Canadian court ruling of 2020, this time sharply rebuffing native groups opposing the project.
The Federal Court of Appeals threw out a challenge by Aboriginal First Nations groups, saying the Canadian government has engaged in “reasonable and meaningful consultation.”
The decision follows by weeks a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that the British Columbia government cannot regulate or block the passage of bitumen crude oil from Alberta.