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Proposed Oil Pipeline Puts 250 Tankers Per Year on B.C. West Coast


As someone who loves the British Columbia coast, I wanted to alert our local sailing cruisers to something that could dramatically impact our coastal waters. The Canadian government is considering a proposal to build an oil pipeline from the Alberta tar sands to the West coast of British Columbia, to be loaded onto oil tankers. These giant oil tankers would go up Douglas Channel (E. of the Queen Charlotte Islands) and be loaded at the Port of Kitimat. Information I have read stated that the proposal requires 225 oil tankers per year. You can imagine the catastrophic effect an oil spill would have on these pristine waters. There’s been nothing in the US media about this and this pipeline/oil tanker proposal has much more of an impact on us locally than the proposed Keystone pipeline to Texas. I’ve started sending emails to local newspapers trying to get someone to pick up the story. For more information, go to: http://pipeupagainstenbridge.ca/


Talia Goeke


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Since receiving this letter, President Obama announced he has turned down the Keystone pipeline permit to Texas, which means there will be even more political pressure to build the BC pipeline, serviced by tankers in the Hecate Strait. With the Provincial Parks and Ecological Reserves in the area, it should make for quite a risk/reward debate, with predictable polarization.


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