Re: “Security borders on absurd in pipeline debate,” Nov. 24.
I agree with Jack Knox’s take on this with the additional comment that B.C. will take all the risks and no significant gain.
My experience is in commercial fishing in the Douglas Channel area and as master or mate on coastal shipping along the North Coast.
One tanker rupture will destroy most of the fishing areas for up to hundreds of years. Please note that there is still an attempted oil cleanup after the Exxon Valdez. This oil spill destroyed all reasonable harvesting of seafood in that area.
Enbridge and other shippers have an arrangement with tanker owners, that after a cleanup cost of a bitumen spill has reached a certain level, the tankers can duck out of higher cleanup costs, leaving the taxpayers to finance the higher costs.
As a Métis, I am very aware of CSIS, the RCMP and other pro-pipeline federal government agencies. Many of us in this category accept the label as official members of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s enemy list.
I am a retired fisher and merchant seaman, with no criminal record and not taking any taxpayer or Enbridge money.
Richard Lucier-larson
Sidney
