The Editor,
The VAFFC has made a minor addendum to its jet fuel proposal with the Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) by considering placing the pipeline along the Hwy 99 corridor.
The EAO has asked for comments from the public on the addendum until Feb. 1.
The airlines want to buy jet fuel as cheap as they can and are ignoring professionals such as Environment Canada, which states, "The project could present a new and unacceptable risk to the locally, nationally and internationally important fish and wildlife populations of the Fraser River Estuary..."
Maybe we should invite Duncan Dee, vice president of Air Canada, to live next door to a tank farm with six fuel tanks that are each six storeys tall and just a few hundred meters away from his home.
Richmondites, we need to support our city council and all that takes is a letter.
We also need to support the people who live along the river, the fish that swim in the river, the fisherman that depend on the fisheries and the animals that all make the Fraser river their home.
Please write to the EAO and the airlines. Tell them it is time to abandon the new pipeline to the proposed Fraser River Marine Terminal and the 80 million-litre jet fuel tank farm.
The VAFFC, Option 3 is a plan to upgraded the existing pipeline to the Burnaby refinery and Option 8 is to run a pipeline to the Cherry Point refinery, just south of the border.
Please encourage these options because they protect the Fraser River.
For more information, visit the VAPOR website at www.vaporbc.com or watch our YouTube video, "VAPOR Jet Fuel." You can also call me and I can send you the addresses. You need to make a difference.
I ask for your support so we can accomplish something great together, let's save the Fraser River for our kids and future generations.
Carol Day
Richmond
