Resource Works founder and executive director, Stewart Muir, recently briefed Canadian Senators on the double standard on oil tankers.
He noted that the Gulf of St. Lawrence is one of Canada’s most productive marine ecosystems and is home to large numbers of marine mammals and seabirds. Yet huge amounts of persistent oil are routinely moved around this region by water.
On a recent day, the Marine Traffic map tool indicated the presence of five tanker ships at the north end of the Island of Montreal. This is a typical sight.
Resource Works founder and Executive Director Stewart Muir |
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Stewart Muir is the founder and executive director of the Resource
Works Society based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Resource Works is building awareness of the importance of natural resources
– energy, mining, forestry – to personal well-being. Stewart is a co-author of
The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia that won several distinctions
including the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize from the BC-Washington
chapters of the American Fisheries society.
A Vancouver native, he has worked as a journalist and media
executive in Hong Kong, Australia, Toronto, Ottawa and western Canada
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