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Amy Huva is an environmental chemist and writer from Melbourne, Australia who worked for the Australian Federal Government on agricultural water reform and the Montreal Protocol. She is currently working in the environmental sector in Vancouver, Canada.
Oil giant Enbridge tried to tell Canadians last week that there were no worries getting their bitumen supertankers from Kitimat on the coast of BC out into the open ocean. That’s because...