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As B.C. continues to stand in the way of the Trans Mountain expansion, it has recently become very popular for Albertans to call out the province’s “hypocrisy” of standing up for the ocean while simultaneously dumping raw sewage in the Pacific.

“B.C. has been dumping raw sewage in its waterways for years, but are threatening Confederation because of SAFE, DOUBLE HULL, tankers delivering Alberta resources to market,” reads a recent tweet from Brian Jean, former leader of Alberta’s Wildrose party.

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“Untreated sewage” in B.C. was also the focus of a recent column by another former Wildrose leader, Danielle Smith. It also got a web mention from David Egan, a board member with the province’s United Conservative Party.

But of all the hypocritical environmental things to call out about the West Coast (here’s one, here’s another one), sewage is not one of them. As counterintuitive as it may seem, the whales and salmon are almost completely unharmed by B.C. Premier John Horgan’s toilet flushing directly into the ocean.