See this news item
from the Vancouver Sun
and then try to tell
me this won’t happen –again! That mess in 1973 resulted from a relative ‘thimble
full’ of fuel oil---imagine a hundred thousand barrels of bitumen
!
The KINDER MORGAN(KM)
pipe line damage in Burnaby a few years back makes one wonder how much the
shippers and pipe liners have learned?
True,there were
several parties involved in that Burnaby incident--- The Canadian Transportation
Safety Board (TSB) report http://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/pipeline/2007/p07h0040/p07h0040.asp
suggests that none of the parties were blameless. Point: things happen! ‘The
best laid plans oft’ go awry’. What to do then?
Decrease—don’t
INCREASE, the potential for more incidents in Burrard Inlet!
1.Move all Kinder
Morgan shipping and storage facilities out of Burrard Inlet—take the tanker
loading to Roberts Bank,where it belongs. Less marine traffic equals less
potential !
2.And move the KM
storage tanks to the Fraser valley—Kinder Morgan already have a right–of-way for
their pipeline traversing the Fraser Valley (to supply the Anacortes refinery in
Washington State oil refinery).Possibly relocate the Chevron refinery to the
same location?
All of us Burrard
Inlet Community residents(BICres) need to demand that our community leaders
,Premier Clark and Stephen Harper tell these Kinder Morgan folks about the RULES
for doing business and profiting in our
neighbourhood.
It’s simple—we want
Kinder Morgan to listen and do the sensible thing-
Start writing your
letters to your favourite reporter,Councilor,MLA, or MP—yes, even Christy and
Stephen would love to hear from their potential voters--eh?
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