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Canada Imposes C$250,000 Fine For Cruise Ships Dumping Sewage And Dirty Water
来源：marineinsight 编辑：编辑部 发布：2023/06/29 15:08:50
Several anti-pollution measures introduced voluntarily in 2022 (April) are expected to be obligatory with immediate effect, Omar Alghabra, the Transport Minister, mentioned in a statement.
Environmental groups stated that Ottawa had ignored the most important source of liquid pollution from cruise vessels: the water used for cleaning scrubbers or exhaust gas cleaning systems that remove sulfur from vessels’ fuel.
Cruise vessels are vital to the country’s economy and tourism sector. However, they need to operate more sustainably, Alghabra stated. He said that cruise vessels give out over C$4 billion a year to the economy. The rules ban sewage discharge and so-called greywater — the drainage from sinks, bathtubs, laundry machines, and showers – in three nms of the Canadian shores. Additionally, the vessels in non-Arctic waters will need to strengthen the treatments of sewage and greywater dumped from three to 12 nm from shore. Separate rules are known to regulate cruise vessel contamination in the Arctic waters. Environmentalists state that the cruise vessels travelling to and from Alaska alone dumped 31 billion litres of inadequately treated pollution into the Pacific waters of Canada back in 2019. Through statements, the West Coast Environmental Law as well as stand. Earth green groups welcomed Alghabra’s declarations but called for regulations on scrubber water that accounts for more than 90% of the liquid waste from cruise vessels. Activists have to say that it is specifically acidic. They further called for expert inspectors to be allotted on the vessels. A spokeswoman associated with Alghabra said that the government would collaborate with the entire shipping industry to develop a feasible way of lowering or eliminating scrubber water discharge.