{"id":29323,"date":"2022-02-25T12:05:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T09:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/vancouver-to-ban-scrubber-discharges\/29323\/"},"modified":"2022-02-25T12:05:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T09:05:59","slug":"vancouver-to-ban-scrubber-discharges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/vancouver-to-ban-scrubber-discharges\/29323\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver to ban scrubber discharges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-before-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>The Port of Vancouver will limit the discharge of scrubber wash water from next month.<\/p>\n<p>As of March 1, ships that are anchored in the port or moored at a berth will be banned from discharging scrubber wash water.<\/p>\n<p>A study commissioned by the port in 2019 that focused on the Burrard Inlet found discharge \u201ccould result in concentrations of metals that exceed thresholds set for the protection of aquatic life.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-in-post-middle\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>The new restriction comes as Vancouver councillor Pete Fry has started a wider campaign to lobby provincial and federal governments to ban scrubber wash water discharges across Canada.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-after-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2\"> <script>googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); });<\/script> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta post-bottom-tags post-tags-modern\">\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta-title\">\n<span class=\"tie-icon-tags\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> Tags<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/tag\/canada\/\" rel=\"tag\">Canada<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Port of Vancouver will limit the discharge of scrubber wash water from next month. As of March 1, ships that are anchored in the port or moored at a berth will be banned from discharging scrubber wash water. A study commissioned by the port in 2019 that focused on the Burrard Inlet found discharge &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-port-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/28167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}