Editor:
It would appear that Jeff Scott, president and CEO of the Fraser Surrey Docks LP, is determined to increase shipments at the Fraser Surrey Docks regardless of the consequences to the health of the people living along the route or the damages that would occur on the Fraser River estuary.
To do this regardless of where the coal comes from or the detrimental results that occur from the burning of the coal to our own atmosphere, even when it is burnt in furnaces in China. It is a proven fact in the U.S.A. that particulates from coal burning furnaces in China have been found to have drifted in the atmosphere, back to the mountains in Oregon and Washington and have contributed greatly to global warming.
The people living in the Northwest of the U.S.A. are diametrically opposed to any coal trains or their ports handling coal, so why are the coal mines shipping it here?
And why are we letting them?
The question needs to be asked why hasn't the mayor and council not condemned the proposal, outright, to bring eight million metric tonnes of Wyoming coal, through the residential community of North Delta, through the largest migratory bird wintering area in Canada, and the largest estuarine habitat on the Pacific Coast, Canada and the world, when the City of White Rock, Vancouver and Surrey have done so. This area in Delta includes Boundary Bay, Delta farmland, Burns Bog and the Fraser River estuary. What is the problem?
Douglas George Massey
