The Editor,
Re. “Pipeline posturing raises questions for B.C.’s future (Letters, The Tri-City News, May 25).
I am also upset by the continuing fight over the Kinder Morgan pipeline.
I worry about the reputation of Kinder Morgan and it’s record of major spills occurring at least once a year.
They also have not figured out how to clean up bitumen. They have to dredge, at least once a year, under Lion’s Gate bridge for the tankers to go through.
There are three SeaBuses that go continually through the inlet. There are cruise ships, other smaller tankers, barges and an airport for helicopters and float planes.
The cities are left to clean up the messes the pipeline leaves behind. These small communities cannot afford this.
The pipeline is not going the same route so another disruption will be necessary in the cities it goes through such as Port Coquitlam, Coquitlam and Burnaby. The pipeline is going over creeks that spawn salmon and that will be the end of them.
Most importantly China does not want our bitumen. They are way ahead of us in renewable resources. Our crude oil is unrefined so the price is low on the market. It would start to cost more to extract it in a couple of years than what we would get for it.
I am also anxious for all the reasons above and this makes me very unhappy also.
Elizabeth Campbell
Port Moody
