Publication Source: Times Colonist
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Author: Richard MacKenzie
I tend to see Elizabeth May more in the role of the “canary in the coal mine” rather than as a latter-day Chicken Little.
As to the threat of an accident, as many as 420 vessels a year will ply the often-narrow 290 kilometres of inland waterways between the Triple Island Pilot Station at Hecate Straight and the Kitimat port facilities. In the July 2011 issue of Alberta Oil, associate editor Jeff Lewis, reporting on the proposed Kitimat oil and LNG port, pointed out that the Douglas Channel is not that big of a waterway, and asks his readers, “Could the inlet handle that amount of traffic, plus the additional tankers that would be needed if two more LNG terminals were built in Kitimat?”