Canada Says Oil Pipeline Firms Must Pay Into New Spill Fund

摘要

Ottawa continues to strengthen its new "polluter pays" policy, introducing fines on Wednesday that will require operators of major crude oil pipelines to pay C$1 billion ($954 million) each into a liability fund to pay for any damage caused by spills. Federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver made the announcement in British Columbia, where the provincial government is calling for "world class" environmental protection rules to be put in place as a condition for its approval of the controversial 530,000-barrel-per-day Northern Gateway heavy oil pipeline from Alberta to Kitimat on the province's Pacific Coast.