Sh*t, really
Celebrity Cruises received the fine from the Washington state Department of Ecology for discharging untreated wastewater into Washington waters on 10 separate occasions in September and October of 2005. But the company's director of environmental programs, Rich Pruitt, said if the discharges had occurred in Canadian waters, they would have been perfectly legal.
It's quite appalling," said Jennifer Lash, executive director of the Living Oceans Society.
"Not only that, it's embarrassing. To think that in the U.S. they've put regulations into place to deal with this, and in Canada they've failed to. It's completely irresponsible of Transport Canada."
From Vancouver Sun, December 21, 2006
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