Canada unprepared for Arctic oil spill, group says

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Source: CBC News

Canada should temporarily stop giving oil companies licences to drill in the Arctic because it is unprepared to handle any oil spill that may result, a new report says.

"We need to push the pause button for a while," said Trevor Taylor, policy director for the Pew Environment Group's Oceans North Canada and one of the co-authors of the report. The group is a U.S.-based foundation focused on promoting public policy on environmental issues, and Oceans North Canada is its Arctic-focused Canadian arm.

The report released Friday follows a similar report from the World Wildlife Fund a day earlier that estimated weather conditions in the Arctic would make it impossible to deploy an emergency oil-spill response 84 per cent of the time.

Both reports were triggered by a U.S. National Energy Board review of safety measures for drilling in Canada's Arctic, which is expected to be completed by December.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/09/09/environment-canada-arctic-oil.html

[highplainsdem]

1. NO ONE is prepared for an Arctic oil spill.

[idrahaje]

2. yeah tell that to Exxon , still oil there 20 + years after

[pscot]

3. No worries

Under all that ice, you won't even be able to see it. No slick, no spill.

[Dragonfli]

4. It is all good, I am sure Sid will be here soon to explain why there is nothing to worry over /nt