After participating in the recent 2019 Union of BC Municipalities annual convention, it was clear that while many of these municipal leaders deal mainly with the “land-based” concerns of citizens, marine shipping and our coastal waterways have an equally important impact on all of their communities.
Clear Seas is undertaking a multifaceted analysis to help describe risks related to marine shipping activities and to assist in marine spatial planning on Canada’s Pacific coast.
Clear Seas is undertaking a project to evaluate the potential contribution of different technologies to reduce the overall environmental impacts of marine shipping.
Canada’s Minister of Transport, the Honourable Lisa Raitt, announced the launch of Canada’s first independent research organization to examine marine shipping.
Independent research centre, Clear Seas, launched to examine the safety of national marine shipping.
A narrow majority of Canadians support expanded oil tanker traffic in Bay of Fundy and along BC south coast. Their top concerns about shipping safety are potential oil spills, fuel spills and endangering marine life.
Canada is hosting the Fifth International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC5). Here’s why this event is important.
Not all marine shipping risks can be prevented, but we can learn from incidents like the Marathassa to keep our shipping lanes both safe and open for business.
March 3, 2022 – The Canadian Marine Shipping Risk Forum hosted the Salish Sea Transboundary Working Group (SSTWG) to share work, ideas, concerns, questions and issues about marine shipping risk in the Salish Sea region.
Learn about different technologies mitigating shipping risk in Canadian waters and around the world
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