B.C. Premier David Eby, speaks during a Ksi Lisims LNG announcement of an environmental assessment certificate from the Government of British Columbia in Vancouver, on Sept. 16, 2025. The Canadian Press/Ethan Cairns
B.C. Premier David Eby and coastal First Nations have signed a declaration asking Ottawa to keep the oil tanker ban on the province’s north coast in place.
Eby said at a Nov. 5 press conference that lifting the oil tanker ban, a federal law prohibiting oil tankers on B.C.’s northern coast, would expose the region to potentially devastating oil spills with no effective cleanup method in place. The B.C. premier has long opposed lifting the ban, which became law in the summer of 2019.
