加拿大总理卡尼:政府尚未决定是否解除北极海域油气钻探禁令
加拿大总理 Mark Carney 11月10日在魁北克省蒙特利尔市对记者表示，加拿大政府尚未决定是否解除已实施十年的北极海域近海油气勘探禁令。Carney 说，上周联邦预算案中一笔四年期1100万加元的拨款条目，只是相关工作的经费安排，绝不代表政府已决定解除禁令。
加拿大的北极近海油气勘探禁令自2016年起实施，当时由时任总理 Justin Trudeau 与时任美国总统 Barack Obama 共同宣布，目的是保护北极脆弱的海洋生态系统免受漏油风险影响。这项政策定于2028年到期，每五年审查一次。
此前有加拿大媒体报道称，Carney 政府正在考虑解除禁令，并引述了财政部一名官员的说法。财政部把问询转交加拿大皇家原住民关系与北方事务部，该部未立即回应。Carney 10日的表态是加拿大政府对这一报道的公开澄清。
（来源：加拿大总理办公室）
Canada's PM Carney Says No Decision Made on Lifting Arctic Offshore Drilling Ban
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters in Montreal, Quebec, on November 10 that his government has not made a decision about lifting Canada's decade-long moratorium on offshore oil and gas exploration in the Arctic. Carney said a budget item of C$11 million in funding over four years in last week's federal budget is absolutely not, in any way, a decision about lifting the moratorium.
Canada's moratorium on Arctic offshore oil and gas exploration has been in place since 2016, when then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and then U.S. President Barack Obama agreed to impose it to protect the region's fragile marine ecosystem from the risk of oil spills. The policy is set to expire in 2028 and is reviewed every five years.
A Canadian newspaper had reported on November 9 that Carney's government is considering lifting the ban, quoting a Department of Finance official. The Finance Department referred questions to Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, which did not immediately respond. Carney's November 10 remarks were the Canadian government's public clarification of that report.
(Source: Prime Minister of Canada)
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