Alberta is being self-centred

B.C. is standing up for all of us.

If the Kinder Morgan pipeline gets expanded, oil tanker traffic will increase by seven times in the waters off Vancouver in the Strait of Georgia and Juan de Fuca Strait.

That beautiful coastal area and its waters will be placed at risk of ruin with pollution, even without an oiltanker rupture.

If the pipeline leaks or breaks along its route through the rugged and earthquake-prone B.C. mountains, the damage to the environment will be an unrepairable catastrophe.

But Alberta doesn’t give a damn because it has no environmental risk. Its money-making oil will go into the pipeline in Alberta, travel through mountain ranges, and hopefully come out at Burnaby. Any oil spill will be somewhere else, but not in Alberta.

It’s the same selfish mentality Alberta has with the oilsands. The air pollution created by the oilsands blows eastward to somewhere else. The pollution of the Athabasca River and Lake Athabasca, again by the oilsands, has killed most of the fish, and any that are left are covered with scabs and sores. But those waters flow northward to somewhere else.

On a similar note, Alberta allowed oil drillers to walk away from tens of thousands of drilling sites across the province, leaving the land at those sites polluted and rendered unusable for agriculture, and the local landowners on the hook for any cleanup costs.

It appears that Alberta is being totally self-centred and irresponsible, as usual. Actually immoral. Robert Hall Saskatoon