Editor:
The National Energy Board is back. Trudeau thinks this kangaroo court still has credibility. When all is said and done, they will approve the Trans Mountain Expansion with a tweak here to protect the whales, and a tweak there to protect the salmon. But 400 noisy tankers per year will kill them, even without a spill.
Don’t they get it? Nobody wants to buy that tar sands gunk.
Sure, the feds can keep the industry on life support with our money, but it’s still high sulphur, high GHG, heavy crude crud. After the good stuff is removed, what’s left is lots of bunker C. Bunker C fuels off-shore ships. But the International Maritime Organization requires that bunker C sulphur content must be reduced from 3.5 per cent to 0.5 per cent by 2020 for health reasons. So the value of dilbit will remain low.
We all inhaled smoke last summer due to fossil fuel GHGs. SFU prof Mark Jaccard’s study for the City of Vancouver estimated that 95 per cent of 890,000 barrels of dilbit per day would produce 20 million cars worth of GHGs per da. Doesn’t China have enough pollution?
So now the NEB gives you and me until Oct. 3, 2018 to apply for the chance to comment on what they left out the last time: the Salish Sea. The NEB report is due Feb. 22, 2019. They could write it tomorrow. Without cross examination to test the evidence, it’s a fraud.
Poor MP Terry Beech. He’s got to sell this baloney. He should sit as an independent. I’m ready to fight it another six years. As climate change gets worse, we will stop this fossil fuel zombie once and for all.
Karl Perrin, Burnaby
