Dear Premier David Eby, CVRD directors, and Prime Minister Mark Carney:
Community engagement in our priceless coast’s oil release-response vessels is nice, but pure folly given a potential eco-catastrophe waiting to happen.
One major oil-product release along our 27,000-kilometre coast would basically kill B.C.’s sensitive marine environment as we know it.
The term ‘oil-spill clean-up' is arguably pure fiction.
The culprits are increasing oil-tanker and LNG-vessel traffic plying our waters, delivering toxic fossil fuels to Asia — pumping ever-more climate change, plus oil-based pollution.
Please do everything possible toward zero tanker traffic off our coast, or prepare to take responsibility for an impending environmental disaster.
Support for such cogent eco-protection must also come from local governments such as our Cowichan Valley and Capital regional-district directors.
Premier Eby and Prime Minister Carney, why are we still taking such perilous risks for economic growth?
Yours in marine ecology,
Peter W. Rusland
North Cowichan
