Canada updates Arctic shipping rules, but still allows cheap and dirty fuel – Nunatsiaq Online
January 15, 2018
Heavy fuel oil use not included in new regulations
You won’t find any mention of heavy fuel oil, or HFO, pollutants in the new Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act regulations that came into effect this past week.
Instead Transport Canada, in a backgrounder to the new regulations, makes a point of telling Arctic shipping operators they won’t have to spend a lot of money to comply with the new regulations.
They’ll only have to spend about $25,000 per vessel to review and align their safety procedures and $10,000 on new safety equipment, the department said.
And they won’t have to stop using cheap and dirty HFOs.
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