Oh gross. So our water resource is a free for all to dump their crap. Brilliant.
[H2]B.C. waters a free toilet for U.S. cruise ships[/H2] A U.S. cruise line fined $100,000 US for discharging untreated effluent into waters off the coast of Washington state would have got off scot-free had the effluent been discharged into Canadian waters, a company official said Wednesday.
Celebrity Cruises received the fine from the Washington state Department of Ecology for discharging untreated wastewater into Washington waters on 10 separate occasions in September and October of 2005. But the company's director of environmental programs, Rich Pruitt, said if the discharges had occurred in Canadian waters, they would have been perfectly legal.
"If they had all been in Canadian territorial waters, then they would have complied with Canadian guidelines," Pruitt said.
Officials at Transport Canada confirmed that, saying Canada has only unenforceable guidelines surrounding the discharge of waste water into Canadian oceans,
and no system of fines or penalties. [FONT size=1]Source: [/FONT][A href="vny!://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=cb99c3bf-7a94-42a5-9398-008a1685c366&k=51780"][FONT size=1]vny!://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=cb99c3bf-7a94-42a5-9398-008a1685c366&k=51780[/FONT][/A]
