| LNG Tankers in Bay of Fundy: Canada Says No Way, Eh? |
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| Friday, 14 September 2007 08:30 | |||
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Canadian lawmakers are entertaining a ban on the commercial passage of US-bound LNG supertankers through the Bay of Fundy, which would put a kink in US plans for two LNG terminals currently being planned in Maine, off of Passamaquoddy Bay. The waterway, which is entirely Canadian, is at the center of a brouhaha forming between Canadian and US politicians. The US Department of State considers the narrow Head Harbor Passage to be a territorial sea, which gives commercial tankers the right of innocent passage under international law. Canadian officials consider the passage to be internal waters and subject only to Canadian regulations. The passage is the only route into Passamaquoddy Bay and Canadians are sharply opposed to the tanker traffic. Click Read More for a link to the full story: From The Toronto Globe and Mail: ST. ANDREWS, N.B. -- Federal politicians say Canada is considering regulations to ban liquefied natural-gas supertankers from a sensitive waterway in the Bay of Fundy, risking renewed territorial tensions with the United States. Maxime Bernier, Canada's new Minister of Foreign Affairs, assured a citizens' group yesterday that Canada is strongly opposed to the prospect of LNG supertankers navigating the treacherous waters that lead into Passamaquoddy Bay between Maine and New Brunswick.
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