Dear Editor:
Re: More protests expected, Burnaby NOW, Oct. 23.
Following the significant quake last Jan. 5 epicentered in the waters off of southern Alaska, it must be noted, and noted again, that the hollow assurances of "pipeline safety" or similarly such, repeatedly
brought up by proponents of Kinder Morgan's proposed oil pipeline project, can never be true pipeline safety, nor anything near it.
One need only consider what a major tectonic-plate shift - which the Cascadia region is overdue to experience - of even just a metre, with the fault zone land shifting in opposing directions, would do to any strength or solidity of, as good examples, the proposed Alberta-to-B.C. oil pipelines.
They'd breach, to put it mildly, leaving behind detrimental environmental consequences, very potentially throughout countless pristine and eco-sensitive regions of B.C.
Frank G. Sterle, Jr., via email
