The new regulations prohibit cruise ships from dumping greywater or sewage within three nautical miles of shore.
The federal government says some new cruise ship pollution measures are now mandatory, but environmental groups say the move still doesn’t plug gaps that permit the ongoing contamination of some of Canada’s most sensitive coastlines.
However, it leaves out more than 90 per cent of cruise ships’ polluted discharge from onboard scrubber systems — exhaust-cleaning systems that use water to “wash” pollutants such as sulphur dioxide, carcinogens and heavy metals from exhaust and then flush them into the ocean rather than the air. 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.
But the IMO and Canada’s rules allow ships to use dirty heavy fuel oil if they also use scrubber systems.
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