Canada NOT PREPARED for Major Oil Spill, Environment Commissioner Warns

Image: NASA , Public domain. An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Barrel of Cure… Canada has the longest coastline in the world (well, unless you want to be clever and get into the coastline paradox ), touching three different oceans, and one of them (the Arctic) is seeing rapid increases in shipping and oil exploration because of the melting ice. But despite these facts, the country is badly prepared to deal with a major oil spill, according to a report by Scott Vaughan, Can… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Canada NOT PREPARED for Major Oil Spill, Environment Commissioner Warns

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