iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Feb 22, 2021 12:59pm Oil tanker
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Israel is currently looking for the ship responsible for an oil spill which caused tar to wash up on its Mediterranean shoreline. Nine ships were about 50 kilometres off Israel’s shore on Feb. 11 when the oil spill happened.
“There is a more than reasonable chance that we will be able to locate the specific ship,” the environmental protection minister, Gila Gamliel, told Ynet TV.
If responsibility is attributed, Israel could pursue legal action, in which one option includes suing “insurance companies for compensation to help deal with the ecological fallout.” The Guardian has more.
Baselode offered to build a cell tower for the community, but Desjardin said he told them it wasn t a high priority.
Birch Narrows wanted a detailed wildlife and habitat impact study conducted before things went any further. Desjardin said the endangered woodland caribou are his biggest concern. Also as a trap line area, we carry out extensive activity: trapping, hunting, fishing. We ve done it for generations. It s been passed down to us for a long, long time, he said. We have people who have passed away on those trap lines, who have given up their lives on those trap lines in their struggle to feed their families. That area means a lot to us. It s not just an ordinary piece of land. It has a lot of significance to us as a community.
A northern Saskatchewan First Nation has blockaded a road and issued a cease-and-desist order against a Toronto uranium company. Birch Narrows Dene Nation officials say they took action after workers with Baselode Energy Corp. started surveying the band's traditional territory without consent.