1969 International Covnention On The Civil Liability Of Oil Pollution Damage Flashcards
What was Torrey Canyon
Super tanker retrofitted to carry extra oil. Cause massive oil spill off coast of England in 1967
What convention did Torrey Canyon help create?
International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage.
-created legal recourse
-held owner of vessel accountable
- insurance requirement and navigational requirements
- double hulled ships
-cannot enter ports without having requirements
What convention took place in 1986?
Montreal Protocol.
-Legally binding document making the release of CFCs illegal
-limited ozone depleting chemicals
- came about after discovery that CFC’s were creating a giant hole in the Ozone layer
What convention happened in 1972
Stockholm convention
- Created after the wide use of DDT and other synthetic chemicals during and after the Second World War and release of Silent Spring a book outlining and bringing to light the affects DDT has on the environment especially birds like the bald eagle.
- was created to ensure the health and well being of humans and the environment by the banning and slowing of POP’s into the environment from industrial chemicals
- (Persistent Organic Pollutants)
Name 3 Canadian enviromental Acts
- Canada Water Act
- Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act
- Canada Wildlife Act
What was the Canada Water Act
Manage water quality in the face of threats from pollution and waste and ensure health and well being
What was the Canada Water Act?
To manage water quality in the face of increased threat to health and wellbeing in the face of bio pollutants and industrial activity and human expansion
What was the Arctic Waters Protection Act?
Created to control the release of Pollution and waste into the Arctic Ocean
-Creates liability to person partaking or permitting disposal of waste in Canadian Arctic Waters
- Arctic and Northern Region accumulate POP’s and Bio persistent chemicals. End up running down the McKenzie. Full of Fertilizers
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What is Canadas Wildlife Act?
An act created in 1973 that gives the minister of environment the ability to acquire land for the preservation of Canadian wildlife in an effort to protect and manage Canadian wildlife
List 3 international Conventions
1.International Convention on Civil Liability of Oil Pollution Damage
2. Stockholm Convention
3. Montreal Protocol
1972 Agreement created in response to Cuyahoga River fire?
Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
- First trans border legislation signed by Canada and USA
- legally binding objectives were created to reduce sewage, industrial waste disposal, activist dredging of garbage and soaking up of petroleum scum
- started new phase of environmental movement and shifted toward pollution prevention
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Nuu chaah nulth gained forestry right where?
Claypoquat sound
What was the war of the woods?
Government gave rights to Macmlan bloedel to 2/3s of meares island for logging.
This was protested extensively, even published in time magazine. Nuu Chah Nulth were backed up by envirpmentalists
Was the largest act of civil disobedience in canadas history till ferry creek.
What did the war of the woods help create?
The Forest Practice Code of British Columbia.
Also gave the rights for logging to the Nuu Chah Nulth peoples.
Sets sustainability as a fore front for logging practices.
What did the war of the woods help create?
The Forest Practice Code of British Columbia.
Also gave the rights for logging to the Nuu Chah Nulth peoples.
Sets sustainability as a fore front for logging practices.
