Re: the proposal to export low quality U.S. coal via Texada Island.
Why would a provincial government that requires all municipal and local governments to spend time planning to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions, and to buy offsets for those it can’t eliminate, allow such a ginormous and blatant mountain of low-quality coal be exported through our province?
Is it to stimulate the economy? It will produce, I was told by the project manager on Texada, no additional jobs there, and maybe a handful at Fraser Surrey Dock and with the towing the barges that will spew the dust into the ocean and onto those of us in the region.
We’ll all suffer from the increasing, and more likely catastrophic, climate change: sea level rise; more frequent and stronger storms, rainfalls, droughts, flooding, etc.; increasing acidification of the ocean. And we’ll be allowing the pollution of the ocean and its creatures with tons of coal dust. We’ll end up breathing and eating it ourselves, and our children and grand-children.
It’s a totally irresponsible and stupid proposal, and needs to be stopped.
Peter Johnston
Lasqueti Island
