Editor:
Recently, there have been hundreds if not thousands of large railway ties drenched with creosote left by the BNSF in piles along the tracks.
I know that the ties are in piles from the marina in Crescent Beach as far as south of 1001 steps and for all I know may stretch all the way to the U.S. border.
It is well-known that creosote has cancer-causing ingredients within its properties and carries a bad stench which right now, sure takes away the pleasure of living on or near the beach and all those great negative ions and fresh aromas. On a windy day the stench is bad enough, but it gets somewhat diluted by the wind, however, today (Saturday) there was very little wind and I felt sick to my stomach when I was near the tracks.
Why do our governments who you would think are there to protect Canadians and our environment allow BNSF to leave this poison lying around? We have so many kinds and numbers of shore and migrating birds injesting whatever food they can find along these delicate shores and just above the shores dangerous chemicals are now leaching into the soil and naturally washing down to the foreshore.
Why do we just sit by and over the years just let our community be inundated or bombarded with the massive intrusion of this railway and what it is not only doing to our day-to-day lives, but what it is doing to our property values.
Brian Lauder, Surrey
