Stalled offshore

摘要

Lifting the federal moratorium on offshore drilling off the west coast of British Columbia will take Herculean efforts on the part of the government of British Columbia.A myriad of jurisdic-tional,environmental and socio-economic issues plague these efforts and the complexities of these issues run as deep as the water in the Pacific Ocean.It is here,deep below the ocean floor,where the heart of the controversy lies.