Editor:
Re: Ship expertise questioned, Nov. 6 letters.
In response to letter-writer Lori Ragan’s stern questioning of my credentials, let me take this opportunity to invite all who read this to look at an official map of B.C. to view the waterways that must be navigated by super oil tankers in order to transport tar sands oil from Kitimat to Asia, if the Northern Gateway project is realized.
However, I especially want to point out that Hartley Bay is on the proposed oil tanker route, where BC Ferries’ Queen of the North ran aground in 2006 and to this day remains beneath the water leaking contaminants into the environment.
Maybe a reminder of this never-ending disaster, which took place on a routine ferry trip, will instigate more awareness of the unfathomable risks that a potential increase in oil-tanker traffic could bring to our coastal waters and its people.
In fact, my homework tells me that accidents do happen.
E. Kearns, White Rock