{"id":20876,"date":"2014-06-02T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=20876"},"modified":"2014-06-02T01:00:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T08:00:50","slug":"monday-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=20876","title":{"rendered":"Questions with Victoria's Environmental Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photo: Greater Victoria Harbour Authority<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The people of <\/span>Victoria<\/a>, British Columbia's capital city and a regular port for cruise ships going to and from <\/span>Alaska<\/a>, are choked. Or maybe that should be "choking."<\/span><\/p>\n

Here, point by point, is why:<\/p>\n

• The city scrapped plans to install shore power (electrical plug-ins) to improve air quality from visiting cruise ships.<\/p>\n

• The reasoning for the $9-million decision was that stricter environmental rules would do the job.<\/p>\n

• Residents have long complained about emissions from not just ships but also buses and related shuttle vehicles that service passengers.<\/p>\n

• The 'scrubbers" that ships are using to meet environmental standards won't be in place until sometime in 2016.<\/p>\n

• Between now and then, residents want to allow only one ship without a scrubber to be in port at any one time.<\/p>\n

All of this raises at least a few questions:<\/p>\n

1. If Canada's busiest cruise port<\/span> is right, that scrubbers will eliminate the need for shore power to meet environmental regulations, then why did "neighboring" cities like Seattle<\/a> and Vancouver<\/a> install them?<\/p>\n

2. Do residents really think schedules can be adjusted so that only one non-scrubber ship is in port at once without alienating the cruise lines that stop there?<\/p>\n

3. Whether it's shore power or scrubbers, neither will address air-quality complaints from the exhaust of buses, shuttles and taxis.<\/p>\n

4. Does Victoria have a bigger decision to make, about whether it wants to be a cruise port or not?<\/p>\n

This year, there are 207 cruise-ships visits scheduled for Victoria.<\/p>\n

Today at Phil Reimer's <\/span><\/a>portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: A photo essay about <\/strong><\/em>cruising<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Norwegian Breakaway<\/a>
\n\t7 nights<\/span>
\n\tJune 15, 2014<\/span>
\n\tNew York<\/a> (return): <\/span>King’s Wharf<\/a>
\n\tInside: $499<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $71<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.ncl.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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