Environment Minister Richard Brown is calling for a national summit to be held on P.E.I. on just how prepared the country is if a major oil spill should occur, and to make sure everyone knows exactly what their role is.
Brown told The Guardian in an interview Thursday at the Coastal Zone Canada Association conference in Charlottetown that he and his counterparts in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador want to sit down with the federal government and the National Energy Board.
Brown visited the Gulf of Mexico recently to observe the massive oil spill, which President Barack Obama has called the worst environmental disaster the U.S. has ever faced.
"One of the major things when I was in the Gulf was, who's in charge? There were conflicting things, the governor's office was in charge or was it the senator's office that was in charge, was EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) in charge? Was BP in charge?'' Brown said. "It was just a fight among lawyers to try and transfer liability, try and transfer concern and that's what I wanted to know.''
