Kinder Morgan is fake news
Dear editor: The protest by a few hundred people over the Kinder Morgan Pipeline is fueled by myths, misinformation and “fake news” often generated by dissidents funded by organizations like the Tide, Clinton, Rockefeller Foundations; or countries like the United States, Saudi Arabia and Russia. The world forecasts all show oil sales rising for the next 30 years despite alternative energy sources being installed at fast rates. Canada needs to continue to be part of that economic opportunity as the world population grows by $2-billion in that period.
An increase of less than five per cent in ship movements is a red herring in the protest against the pipeline. The myth that diluted bitumen will create more greenhouse gasses has been debunked in many ways. Canadian oil would only be displacing repressive regimes’ production in the Middle East, South America, and Russia and so it has no net world-wide increase in CO2 emissions.
For the pipeline to meet the stringent laws of Canada (among the strictest in the world) and the excruciatingly long and arduous process to get the National Energy Board, and both the Conservative and Liberal (federal and provincial) governments’ individual approval has taken several years and over a billion dollars to accomplish.
The marine response regime set in place will be able to clean any diluted bitumen spill just as effectively as any crude oil spill. That response process is considered world class.
The Lower Mainland now sees the cost of gasoline rising at alarming rates as U.S. imported production is curtailed. If Alberta does curtail existing oil shipments to B.C. refineries, you will have to buy even more jet fuel and gasoline from the U.S. West Coast refineries, which will hold B.C. up for ransom as a captive market.
This is giving all facets of other world economies a huge edge. Stopping oil shipment will make the growing class of Canadians below the poverty line move faster than ever before.
Enough posturing by John Horgan and Justin Trudeau. It is time to allow the thoroughly examined, dissected, compromised and legally approved pipeline to be built. Doug Waines West Kelowna