The Editor,
Re. "Clean coal? Wait, isn't that an oxymoron?" (Opinion, The Tri-City News, Dec. 12).
I moved to Coquitlam a year ago in large part because of the prospect of coal dust exacerbating my COPD along with the growing truck and train diesel fumes in New Westminster. Like many, even after I protested in front of Port Metro Vancouver headquarters, I concluded that its officials were not only impervious to public opinion and the opinions of science and health professionals but, also, devoid of any accountability to the federal government politicians who appointed them.
U.S. President Barack Obama's recent conversion to coal aversion, in recognition of the impacts of burning coal and resulting CO2 emissions on global warming, led to his recent emissions accord with China.
Wouldn't it be helpful for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to instruct Port Metro Vancouver appointees to block the proposed U.S. coal train alternative, through Fraser Surrey Docks and Texada Island, to ensure that a shunting of U.S. coal through Canada, to be burned in China, is derailed?
E.C. Eddy, Coquitlam
