Skip to content
Cortes Currents

Cortes Currents

Search
  • Home
  • Hot Topics
    • BC Ferries
    • Climate Action Network
    • Cost of Climate Change
    • Environment
    • Forests
    • Folk U
    • Quadra Project
    • Rivers & Oceans
  • Indigenous
    • Homalco
    • Klahoose
    • K’omoks
    • Tla’amin
    • We Wai Kai
    • Wei Wai Kum
    • Indigenous History
  • Cortes
    • Area B Director’s reports
    • Cortes – Arts
    • Cortes Foundation
    • Cortes Food Bank
    • Cortes Island Housing
    • Cortes Island Tourism
    • CCEDA
    • FOCI
    • Forestry on Cortes
    • Salmon on Cortes
    • Cortes History
  • Quadra
    • Area C’s Director Report
    • Quadra Aquaculture
    • Quadra ICAN
    • Food Security on Quadra
    • Quadra Farmers Market
    • Quadra Forestry
    • Quadra Foundation
    • Quadra Island Housing
    • Sierra Quadra
    • Quadra History
  • Campbell River
    • City of Campbell River
  • Government
    • Gov of Canada
    • North Island Riding
    • Anna Kindy
    • North Island-Powell River
    • Gov of BC
    • SRD Board
    • Director Area B
    • Director Area C
  • Radio

Tag Archives: SynBit

Raw chunks of bitumen
Energy

Elizabeth May: ‘It is safer to Move Bitumen by Rail’

February 23, 2026 Roy Hales

Green Party leader Elizabeth May claims it is safer to move bitumen by rail than through pipelines. She has mentioned this in the House of Commons, written about it in her blog, and told reporters.

Elizabeth May: “In a marine environment, diluted bitumen is impossible to clean up.”

Michael Lowry (Western Canada Marine Response Corporation): “The biggest spill we’ve ever cleaned up was a diluted bitumen spill.”

Elizabeth May: “It wasn’t dilbit.”

Continue reading Elizabeth May: ‘It is safer to Move Bitumen by Rail’ →
2007 Burnaby spill2009 Burnaby spillAaron GunnAlbertaBakken ShaleBCCanada emissionsCanada Energy RegulatorConservative partyCortes IslandDilbitElizabeth MayEnbridgeEnergy East PipelineFossil FuelsGreen Party of CanadaJennifer LashKalamazoo oil spillLac-MéganticMax ThaysenMichael LowryNational Energy BoardNational Transportation Safety BoardNorth Island-Powell Riveroil & gas emissionsoil by railOil Sands emissionsoil spillOIl spill in BCPipelinesProposed BC pipelineRadioRoyal Society of CanadaSolar energySynBitTexada IslandTrans Mountain pipelineWestern Canada Spill Response Corporation

Whats Current on Cortes and Beyond

  • Who we are
    • Authors
    • Guest Post
    • Editorial Policy
    • Our Mission
  • Index Pages
    • Topical A-C
    • Topical D-F
    • Topical H-P
    • Topical Q-Z
    • Geographic
  • Annual Stats

Archived Posts

Daily Emails

Weekly Emails

Disclaimer

The opinions expressed on this website are those of the people expressing them and not necessarily shared by Cortes Currents, its' founders, writers or producers.
Proudly powered by WordPress