Dear Editor:
My mother and I are thrilled by the news the B.C. government has proposed regulations to ban increased transportation of diluted bitumen until an independent science panel can prove that it can be cleaned up.
We think this is terrific – and essential!
When – not if – there is an accident on the pipeline route or on the inlet or the Salish Sea, evidence shows there is no adequate way to retrieve bitumen that sinks to the bottom of the water, as happened in Kalamazoo.
And when industry’s cleanup budget is exhausted, the citizens of Burnaby and B.C. and Canada are on the hook. Our beaches, our property values, our municipal budgets and jobs, are under attack.
We completely support the B.C. government’s leadership in taking this step to block, and Burnaby’s continued opposition, to Kinder Morgan’s dangerous plans.
Lise Kreps and Bonnie Kreps, Burnaby
