Dear Editor,
Re: “Loo’s jet fuel optimism naive,” Letters, April 29.
I wish to extend the concerns of letter writer David Merke in regards to the jet fuel storage facility proposed by VAFFC for Riverport.
Upon first learning of this proposal, I wondered to myself who is running our affairs? Who comes up with these ideas and how does any thinking person sign off on these plans?
For example, who thinks it is wise to store jet fuel right on the banks of the Fraser River?
Where is the logic of spending hundreds of millions of dollars for a dock, multiple fuel tanks and the laying of kilometres of pipeline and pumps across the length of Richmond, when a perfectly good pipeline is already in place?
Even now the pipeline from the Burnaby Chevron refinery that currently serves YVR is not being fully utilized.
Increasing the diameter of the current pipeline would easily serve the needs of the airport well into the future.
Beyond the environmental and safety concerns of this project, cited by Mr. Merke, when will taxpayers be given full financial accounting and justification for such an illogical and unnecessary project?
Kris von Schalburg
Richmond
