It's about safety ,stupid

In October 1944 ,an LNG plant explosion ‘happened ’in Cleveland Ohio, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_East_Ohio_Gas_explosion. This disaster had a lengthy impact on the LNG sector of the natural gas industry.

Today, we boast that LNG can greatly help our economy--safely!

The time has come for the bitumen transport sector to respond to public/political pressure about some or our current OIL TRANSPORT issues ...that have yet have yet to be ‘resolved’,satisfactorily.

Do we need a bitumen tanker spill DISASTER or another Kalamazoo to help us better‘design’ our bitumen infrastructure?

I read that LNG ships are manned by highly skilled ,specially trained crews .Yet we intend to send HUGE bitumen loaded tankers into our coastal watereways.

Pick any location on our coastline and SHOW US how the shipping crews WILL cope with a MAJOR bitumen LEAK, from a tanker hung up on a reef in a howling gale;while we wait for many hours...or days to receive containment equipment.

UNTIL WE LEARN MUCH MORE , bitumen laden tankers should be permitted only in the COMMON SENSE locations... NOT BURRARD INLET...OR DOUGLAS CHANNEL..!

Our LNG cousins have been developing transport techniques for decades.

We need to be convinced that our bitumen transporter proponents give a damn...let’s see a ‘CULTURE of SAFETY’ in the Board rooms...

Canada has the world’s longest coastline and it’s time that those proposing a potential threat to that coastline present us only with ‘SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN’ leak recovery capabilities...

We may have golden opportunity here, to provide the shipping world with the ‘oil transport’ ocean science research leadership ... with the help our B.C. and Alberta universities and the other beneficiaries.

As Mr. Harper told us not long ago not long ago....’science ,NOT POLITICS, should help us to decide

Enbridge Culture--same old !

please see links below

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/03/14/enbridge-kalamazoo-river-oil-spill-clean-up_n_2879464.html

http://www.epa.gov/enbridgespill/ar/enbridge-AR-1718.pdf

(Recall that this pipe line failed July 26,2010 !!)

I wonder about Enbridge' culture, still. The new President gave some early signals that staff are to be rewarded for ‘safe practices; something like that?—and Al Monaco was also quoted ,in the press, saying Enbridge POSSIBLY might look at moving out of Douglas channel (soon after his appointment?).For a while things sounded hopeful—but as I see it ,nothing has changed—Janet Holder’s ubiquitous ads continue—and Enbridge sounds, to me, like the same old bunch.

I’d guess that your BC Government team would have seen the latest ‘peeing match ’ stuff going on with US EPA(see links above)—for a chuckle you might look at the Ron James’ Enbridge spoof??

Many times I’ve suggested that an OPERATIONS SAFETY EPIPHANY, by the full Board, would be welcomed--- I guess I’ll need to wait a bit longer??

Joe's back---poor Joe

http://www.vancouversun.com/Pipeline+exercise+hits+some+rough+water/8142736/story.html

As many have said—‘you can’t make this stuff up!'

Joe Oliver comes to town for a ‘photo op’ of BC’s pride of the clean up fleet! ...presumably to show the world how we intend to develop/create ‘a World Class Tanker Safety System’..Craig McInnes must have had difficulty writing this without the occasional fit of laughter...’slap stick’ for sure..

Questions

1.why is this critical piece equipment (the BURRARD Cleaner No. 9) kept in Esquimalt---I thought the congested oil tanker traffic was in Vancouver harbour??

2.we have had no serious oil spill situations –great but was that more a matter of dumb luck

3.this ‘pride of BC clean up vessel’ apparently ‘got lost’ on the way to Burrard Inlet...and goes aground on a Fraser river sand bar—slightly off course and apparently unable to operate the high tech sounder on board??

4.this incident reinforces the idea that ships rarely sink or founder unless assisted by the crew!

5.and on and on---No, this this not funny---but it is VERY SAD to see this Looney Tunes operation up close.

Poor Joe for sure...what can you say..

Remember your own famous words Mr. Harper—‘’science ,NOT POLITICS, should help us to decide...’

Are there any scientists left