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
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