Vancouver city councillors have voted to ban coal from being transported within the city limits – a move that is much more about the future than the present.
Coun. Kerry Jang says the decision does not affect the current coal industry:
“We don't have much coal at all, or any coal at all, going through the City of Vancouver. It's going through other terminals in isolated areas like Prince Rupert for example.”
Jang says the ban is a symbolic one to protect one of the city's great economic industries, cruise ships.
He says any future coal terminal would have been built next to the cruise ship terminal, and this opposition prevents that.