{"id":28996,"date":"2017-09-20T12:20:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T12:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=28996"},"modified":"2017-09-20T12:20:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T12:20:59","slug":"coast-guard-ship-fined-for-going-too-fast-in-gulf-of-st-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2017\/09\/coast-guard-ship-fined-for-going-too-fast-in-gulf-of-st-lawrence\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard Ship Fined for Going Too Fast in Gulf of St. Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transport Canada has fined\u00a0the Canadian Coast Guard Ship\u00a0<em>Sir William Alexander\u00a0<\/em>$6,000 for going too fast in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.\u00a0The ship allegedly violated\u00a0the federal government&#8217;s 10-knot\u00a0speed limit that was put in place in August\u00a0to prevent further deaths of the endangered North Atlantic right whales.\u200b\u00a0As of Sept. 16, there have\u00a0been\u00a011 right whales confirmed dead\u00a0in the Gulf. \u00a0The federal government previously fined a cruise ship on Sept. 8.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We take the speed restriction very seriously,&#8221; Delphine Denis, a\u00a0spokesperson for the federal Minister of Transport, said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No vessel over 20 metres is exempt from the conditions when travelling in the western Gulf of St. Lawrence.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/new-brunswick\/transport-canada-fines-canadian-coast-guard-ship-1.4293479\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transport Canada has fined\u00a0the Canadian Coast Guard Ship\u00a0Sir William Alexander\u00a0$6,000 for going too fast in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.\u00a0The ship allegedly violated\u00a0the federal government&#8217;s 10-knot\u00a0speed limit that was put in place in August\u00a0to prevent further deaths of the endangered North Atlantic right whales.\u200b\u00a0As of Sept. 16, there have\u00a0been\u00a011 right whales confirmed dead\u00a0in the Gulf. \u00a0The federal government previously fined a cruise ship on Sept. 8. &#8220;We take the speed restriction very seriously,&#8221; Delphine Denis, a\u00a0spokesperson for the federal Minister of Transport, said in an email. &#8220;No vessel over 20 metres is exempt from the conditions when travelling in the western Gulf of St. Lawrence.&#8221; Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29008,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28996\/revisions\/29008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}