Dear Editor:
Re: Pipeline Chicken Littles Should Watch Out for Tar, April 13 The North Side opinion column.
Thank you to columnist Paul Sullivan for stating the truth of the matter with regard to the high toxic risk to our marine environment when tripling the amount of diluted bitumen transported on our seas. While various parties proclaim that opponents of the Kinder Morgan project are “flouting the rule of law,” the great irony is that the real miscarriage of justice lies within the process which spawned the approval of this project – a decision biased by political horse trading where the approval of the pipeline was linked to Alberta’s involvement with the national climate change plan.
Many concerned participants who were involved in that public process – First Nations, environmentalists, consultants, community and professional groups, Greater Vancouver municipalities, and various other parties – know the extent to which it was a flawed process fraught with both ethical and legal deficiencies. That is the basic reason there are so many legal challenges to the federal government’s approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
Thank you as well to B.C. Premier John Horgan and to all those who keep fighting this good fight on behalf of our current generation, our children and our grandchildren. In defending our magnificently beautiful, invaluable and “super natural” British Columbia, they stand on the right side of history and join the ranks of all those who fought the major battles which helped change our world for the better.
The following is a link to information that extensively supports the reference to “political horse trading where the approval of the pipeline was linked to Alberta’s involvement with the national climate change plan” (see paragraphs 10, 11 (PMJT quote in blue), 12, 13, 17, 18 (PMJT quote in blue), 23, 33)
John Sbragia
Bowen Island
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