The federal government says some new cruise ship pollution measures are now mandatory, but environmental groups say the move isn't enough.
And the rules also call for better treatment for grey water discharge by requiringto use a marine sanitation device in order to dump grey water within 12 nautical miles of shore.
The new sewage and grey water regulations are now in line with the more stringent rules already in place in Canada’s Arctic and other comparable waters along the West Coast like Alaska, California and Washington state, Transport Canada added.vessels to dump scrubber wastewater along the length of B.C.
Both Transport Canada and the IMO should prohibit scrubbers that enable all vessels to continue using cheaper, more polluted fossil fuels, despite shipping’s growing emissions footprint and the urgency to shift low- or zero-emission fuels, Barford said.“They don’t even solve all the air pollution problems,” she added, noting the scrubber systems don’t deal with black carbon, or soot, that speeds up melting when it lands on snow in the Arctic.
The IMO is meeting this week to try to devise new shipping emission standards in an effort to limit global warming, Barford noted.
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