Let’s put Kinder Morgan pipeline to a vote, reader says
We complain about high gas prices but protest pipelines to get Canadian oil to international markets.
Do people not realize we are forced to sell our oil to the U.S. at about $20 a barrel less than world prices because we don’t have pipeline access to world markets?
Access to cheap Canadian oil allows our American neighbours to sell a significant portion of their oil production on world markets at high prices while processing cheap Canadian oil to give Americans cheap gas.
Also, because in B.C. we don’t have adequate refining capacity, our friends to the south are sending back gas to B.C. at high prices, much of which is refined from cheap Canadian oil.
Are we really this dumb?
Jack Carradice, Chilliwack
Let’s have a vote on pipeline
If Premier John Horgan were sticking up for all British Columbians, as he claims, he would have a referendum so we all can vote on whether we want the Kinder Morgan Pipeline Expansion Project — not just 200 to 10,000 people in Metro Vancouver who don’t want it.
There are about 2.5 million people in the Lower Mainland. Let’s have a vote. It’s the democratic way. Ron Eichhorst, Surrey
Oil pays bills in the province
Premier John Horgan says he is speaking for the people of B.C. when he says “we” don’t want the pipeline. Well, many of us do want the pipeline.
We want the pipeline because it provides us with food, clothing, shelter, transportation, police, bridges, roads, jobs ... you know, the basics of our civilization? The cash flow generated by the pipeline also helps to pay Horgan’s wages.
It’s time for the NDP to stop the empty posturing and the wasting of taxpayers’ dollars fighting the pipeline and get on with running the province. Al Reimer, Sardis
No pipeline means oil trains
While B.C. and Alberta bicker over whether the Kinder Morgan expansion should proceed, another pipeline — the ever-longer trains of oil tankers — go by Ashcroft and other communities daily. Do we prefer a pipeline or the trains? We could stop oil production and transport altogether. Of course, that is so utopian that none but the most starry-eyed environmentalists would seriously consider it.
Ermes Culos, Ashcroft
Nimbyism is behind protest
Congratulations! A few hundred protesters have got Kinder Morgan to put a temporary hold on the federally approved pipeline. I couldn’t help but notice in the TV news coverage that aside from a few young people, most protesters were seniors, who have long benefited from Canada’s oil industry.
I find it the ultimate hypocrisy that now that these folks already have their piece of the overpriced Lower Mainland pie they’re so willing to deny that opportunity to their children and young people throughout B.C.
While I’m sure some of the protesters are real believers, I suggest most are hypocrites using environmentalism as their excuse for self-centred nimbyism.
Andrew Richards, Summerland