NoRigs 3 calls on Harper government to extend Georges Bank drilling moratorium

For the third time in three decades a coalition of fisheries groups and environmentalists is campaigning to prevent oil and gas drilling on Nova Scotia’s lucrative Georges Bank fishing grounds. The group, known as NoRigs 3, is calling on the Harper Government to extend a federal moratorium that expires at the end of 2015.  Nova Scotia legislature unanimously passed a law in 2010 extending a provincial moratorium until 2022. Read the rest here  10:37

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