Dear Editor
Not everyone is against the pipeline, Inbox, Burnaby NOW, Oct. 14.
No, Joan Wilcock, not everyone is against the pipeline, but please explain to everyone just why B.C. needs this Kinder Morgan pipeline, or any pipeline for that matter?
As has been pointed out in numerous occasions, B.C. takes all of the risks, while the only people getting any real financial benefits from this pipeline goes to the Alberta Treasury through royalties, foreign oil companies, oil-patch workers, meanwhile B.C. gains, maybe, a few more jobs at the Kinder Morgan exportterminal.
When, not if, a spill occurs the taxpayers from all across Canada will end up footing the cleanup costs, and that is if a spill can be cleaned up at all. Might I remind everyone about the poor record of Kinder Morgan at doing cleanup, at say the Kalamazoo River spill, that is still not properly cleaned up.
We along the coast of B.C. stand the chance of losing the whole fishery off of our coast, just so Kinder Morgan can report record profits to their shareholders.
Wayne McQueen, Burnaby
