The campaign aimed at halting the controversial jet fuel pipeline through Richmond has found a new ally.
VAPOR (Vancouver Airport Pipeline Opposition Richmond) this week handed over a near 6,000-signature petition to Fisheries and Oceans critic Fin Donnelly.
Donnelly - the NDP MP for New Westminster, Coquitlam and Port Moody - will now take VAPOR's message and petition to Ottawa and present it to the House.
Donnelly, who has long supported moves to protect the Fraser River estuary, has promised to promote the campaign and petition as much as possible in Ottawa.
He was invited in to lend his weight to the campaign by Richmond biologist and VAPOR co-founder Otto Langer, who has known Donnelly for many years.
"The issues we raised go well beyond the local community and affects all Canadians - (for example) where is the federal government when it comes to protecting our environment, property and public safety," Langer said in an e-mail to the News.
"Accordingly, we had Fin Donnelly - say a few words and accept the presentation of three large volumes of a petition with 5,500 signatures on it opposing the proposal to ship toxic and flammable jet fuel into the Fraser River estuary and urge a more environmentally friendly option to deliver fuel to YVR."
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