Will the Pacific North Coast Oil Tanker Ban Hold Water?

What West Coast has advocated for: West Coast has argued that the scope of oil products covered by the oil tanker ban should be defined broadly to include all types of refined and crude oil cargo, from gasoline to bitumen, in order to ensure that the ban fulfills its purpose of protecting ecologically sensitive areas and local economies from the potentially catastrophic impacts of a large oil tank [...] What Canada has committed to do: Canada announced that it intends to apply the oil tanker ban to all crude oil, and to a limited range of refined oil products classed as “persistent oil,” while excluding other “non-persistent” refined oil products from the scope of the oil tanker ban. [...] West Coast also applauds Canada’s approach of prohibiting the shipment of crude oil in the Act itself rather than in a Schedule, because this closes off the possibility of any crude oils being subsequently removed from the scope of the oil tanker ban (absent amendment of the Act by Parliament). [...] A REVIEW OF CANADA’S PROPOSED NEW LEGISLATION WEST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW’S PERSPECTIVE: Concerns regarding the proposed federal approach to the oil tanker ban Canada’s approach to the oil tanker ban does cause a number of concerns from West Coast’s perspective. [...] For these reasons, West Coast submitted in meetings with Ministers that the oil tanker ban should prohibit the transport of more than 2,000 tonnes of oil as cargo in an oil tanker, with oil being defined to include any crude or refined oil products.