Dear Editor
One recent morning I watched a seal struggling with a huge salmon in its mouth about 100 feet from the seawall near the Dundarave pier in West Vancouver. When it had the salmon securely in its mouth, it immediately came to the seawall directly below me in a way that appeared to be its way of celebrating its successful catch with me.
This event has encouraged me to continue with my promotional activities to encourage the federal government to say no to the proposed Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project, which, if approved, could result in large oil spills in the Vancouver/Gulf Islands/Victoria area, with devastating effects to the sea life.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and B.C. Premier Christy Clark need to accept that no world leading marine oil spill response, prevention, and recovery system would be able to capture a major oil spill from a huge oil tanker.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau must not approve the proposed Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project so the millions of salmon and other sea life from the B.C. Coast which people all over the world eat each year, will not be poisoned from a major oil spill from a huge tanker.
Norman Gibson, by email
