Canada Not Prepared For
Maritime Oil Leaks
Audits by Canada’s federal Commissioner of the Environment & Sustainable Development have show authorities there are unprepared to handle a major oil spillzwhile liability limits have not been raised in decades (24 years). Scott Vaughn has said, “If there were a major oil spill on the Atlantic coast, I don’t think Canada would be able to deal with such a spill and control it adequately.”
The absolute liability limit for offshore damages and costs in Canada is $30 million.
Well below the U.S. at $75, the U.K. at $250 million and Norway at $1 billion (1000 million dollars) The clean up of the 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico was $40 billion. The outcome of Canada’s oil exploration in the Gulf of Maine’s more turbulent waters has some observers concerned.