ExxonMobil spokeswoman Margot Bruce-O’Connell confirmed the company gave up nine permits it held in B.C. but refused to comment further
Miron said the groups’ legal challenge remains active against Chevron Canada, which also holds long-standing permits in the province.
Miron said the driving concern behind the court action is that a policy-based moratorium doesn’t fully protect ecologically sensitive areas on the B.C. coast including Queen Charlotte Sound and the Hecate Strait. “Oil and gas leases have no place in B.C.’s offshore. Now is the time for Chevron and other permit holders to follow suit,” Ritchlin said.In July 2022, the David Suzuki Foundation and World Wildlife Fund Canada filed an application in Federal Court claiming the minister of natural resources wrongfully extended the terms of oil and gas permits owned by the firms.
“Both protected areas are of outstanding ecological value and vulnerable to damage from human impacts, including oil and gas activities,” the court application states. “They did not do so,” the environmental groups claim. “To this day, the permits have not been converted into exploration licences.”With ExxonMobil relinquishing its permits, the company has been dropped as a respondent from the court case, but it remains active against Chevron, the minister of natural resources and the Attorney General of Canada.
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