Letter from B.C. ministers calls for `direct and immediate action’ at Union Bay ship breaking facility

 By Madeline Dunnett  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A letter sent from two British Columbia ministers on Feb. 20 calls for urgent federal action to regulate and respond to concerns regarding the Deep Water Recovery ship breaking site in Union Bay. The Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship, Nathan Cullen, and the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, George Hayman, urged the federal government to take more action to regulate the dismantling and recycling of vessels at the site. “The lack of appropriate federal action has put the environment at risk and culminated in the  calls for the immediate shutdown of shipbreaking operations at the site, directed to the Prime  Minister, Premier, and all levels of government and non-governmental organizations,” according to the letter. The provincial government is doing…

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