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LETTER: Who will clean up oil spills from trains?

Editor: I wonder if anyone has prepared for the rail shipment of oil/products in and through Burnaby and the distinct possibility of a spill and or disaster related to same into Burrard Inlet ? Who would raise the alarm and who would clean up the mes
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Editor: I wonder if anyone has prepared for the rail shipment of oil/products in and through Burnaby and the distinct possibility of a spill and or disaster related to same into Burrard Inlet ? 

Who would raise the alarm and who would clean up the mess on land and in the waters? Financing and overall responsibility for such a disaster needs urgent attention by council, the provincial government and the Kinder Morgan corporation. 

I look forward to reading that consideration and applicable action can and would be totally effective if a railway incident is in our collective future.

Peter Dickinson-Starkey, Burnaby