Dear Editor:
Re: City owed it to citizens to fight pipeline, Our View, Burnaby NOW, May 26.
Your editors and the Burnaby Board of Trade have taken a responsible position opposing the TMX project. Most British Columbians are aware of the dreadful risks of the Trans Mountain expansion project: collision or grounding of a giant tanker, absence of cleanup methods, and tank farm ruptures during the earthquake which is probable during the life of the TMX pipeline, and stand opposed to the project on these very reasonable grounds.
The fact that we have come to this point is evidence of the political betrayal by the Trudeau cabinet, the cavalier attitude of the Clark government towards the public interest, the obvious bias of a National Energy Board decision created by the Harper government, and behind all these, the smell of oil money wafting around too many of our elected officials.
When will we have senior levels of government that are clean?
J. Thornton, by email
