Four - in - five British Columbians are concerned about the expected increase in oil
tanker traffic at Kitimat and through the passage (83 %) and the risk of an oil spill (80 %) if the Enbridge Northern Gateway is authorized.
Not exact matches
At the same time, we draw inspiration and lessons from the victory against Enbridge for the ongoing fight against Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, which would see a sevenfold increase in tar sands
tanker traffic in Burrard Inlet and the Salish Sea.
If Company Man were a wreck on the interstate, it would involve multiple cars and
at least one jackknifed
tanker truck, and
traffic would be backed up for miles as passing motorists slow to gawk.
At times it's spookily free of traffic, at others it's thick with cars and dumb tanker drivers attempting to overtake another lorry just as you reach an eight - mile uphill clim
At times it's spookily free of
traffic,
at others it's thick with cars and dumb tanker drivers attempting to overtake another lorry just as you reach an eight - mile uphill clim
at others it's thick with cars and dumb
tanker drivers attempting to overtake another lorry just as you reach an eight - mile uphill climb.
We the signatories draw your attention to proposals by Enbridge, Kinder Morgan and CN Rail to expand crude oil
tanker traffic through B.C.'s coast to ship oil to Asia, which would put B.C.'s abundant salmon rivers and coast
at risk of oil spills.
And one key issue that will be — and must be —
at the centre of all of this is that the decision to go ahead, in the face of widespread opposition from numerous First Nations who are impacted by the pipeline and / or the
tanker traffic associated with the pipeline, violates international human rights law.
The Trans Mountain expansion proposes a 700 per cent increase in ocean
tanker traffic through the port of Vancouver and an expanded diluted bitumen (dilbit) storage facility (tank farm) in the city of Burnaby, both in Tsleil - Waututh territory
at Burrard Inlet.