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Islanders Occupy the Sabine Channel for a Coal Free Salish Sea -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBMrbtTStyY&feature=youtu.be

Published on Oct 9, 2014
October 5, 2014

Lasqueti Island - In response to the announcement of the approval of
permits for the shipment of US thermal coal through Greater Vancouver,
the Fraser River, and up the Salish Sea to Texada Island, citizens in
the region protested by Occupying the Sabine Channel on
Saturday, October 4, 2014.

More than 150 people, primarily from Lasqueti Island’s 426 population,
came out in boats and on the shoreline to object to the Salish Sea being
the staging ground for the export of dirty Thermal coal from Wyoming and
Montana to Asia.
Several boats were also there from Texada and Thetis islands.

Disallowed by US ports to date, this polluting and dirty coal will come
by train across the border to the Fraser/Surrey docks (up to 2 trains per
day, each train up to 1km long.) From there, the coal would be reloaded
onto open topped barges & transported down the Fraser River, a globally
significant Important Bird Area and the largest fish spawning river for
BC’s wild salmon, and up the very narrow Sabine Channel between
Lasqueti and Texada Islands.

The open-topped barges would then be off-loaded by conveyor at the Lafarge
limestone quarry site on Texada Island, and then re-loaded onto 965’ long
huge bulk cargo freighters which will travel past Parksville, Qualicum
Beach, and many Gulf Islands to the Pacific and its final destination in
Asia. The plan is to increase the coal currently transported there from
Campbell River, from less than 400,000 tonnes per year currently to 4
million tonnes per year — and possibly to 8 million tonnes of
thermal coal per year in the future.

“We are deeply concerned that the shipping and handling of so much
thermal coal will release coal dust into the air and the marine
environment”, says Andrew Fall, from Coal Dust Free Salish Sea.
“Yet the province of BC did not require an Environmental Impact
Assessment, and neither the province nor Port Metro Vancouver required
a Health Impact Assessment, despite requests from the public and
health authorities – this is unacceptable.”

The states of Oregon and Washington take the threats of thermal coal export
seriously - Oregon denied a proposed export facility, while two proposals
in Washington are undergoing extensive public and environmental reviews
amid strong elected official and citizen opposition. The Sierra Club found
coal in nearly every stream which coal trains passed over on their way
from the US to Delta Port in Tsawwassen.

More than 90% of the respondents to the Port of Vancouver’s Fraser-Surrey
Dock’s proposal opposed the export of coal through BC from the US.
But provincial and federal governments don’t seem to be listening.

“For such a small community, this is an amazing turn out!” said Sheila
Harrington, a participant in the 40+ boat flotilla that crossed the
Sabine Channel on Saturday. Everybody on the island can get behind
objecting to the transport of coal past our islands.
The people here are taking a stand for a Coal Dust Free Salish Sea.
We want a future that is in the public, not private, interest, and that
protects the rich marine and coastal environment that creates
a healthy BC economy.“

Coal Dust particulates pollution are est. to shorten appr. 1,000,000 lives annually -
incl. >24,000 lives a year in the United States -
Coal mining generates Cancer Dust - significant additional independent adverse
environmental our health impacts, our polluted air, our water etc. -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_the_coal_industry

U.S. coal curbs would boost B.C.'s Westshore Terminals traffic -


http://static.theglobeandmail.ca/752/incoming/article18981292.ece/ALTERNATES/w620/VCRD110-Pollution+Surveilla.JPG

— The Globe and Mail
Wednesday, Jun. 04 2014, 8:00 AM EDT

B.C.’s biggest coal export dust cancer facility, Westshore Terminals Ltd.,
is operating at full capacity and regularly turns away business
from U.S. coal producers that want to get their product to export
markets.
A $275-million upgrade now under way may provide lots more people
to get cancer in ex. Ladner South Delts, Tsawwassen,
Point Roberts, Richmond, Vancouver and lower mainland -

But it likely won’t be enough to suit American producers keen to
find new customers if proposed U.S. regulations reduce domestic
demand.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/us-coal-curbs-would-boost-westshore-terminals-traffic/article18981284/

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