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Saanich Inlet LNG facility would be disastrous

Re: “Beneath the waves,” Nov. 27.

Re: “Beneath the waves,” Nov. 27.

The fact that Saanich Inlet has a very shallow entrance that drastically limits the intermingling of ocean water should be conclusive evidence that locating a liquefied natural gas processing facility on its shores is a disastrous idea.

The LNG cooling process takes in ocean water and then discharges the heated, chemical-laden water back into the inlet. This would occur dozens of times a day for 25 years. With the inlet acting as a huge bowl, the resulting bouillabaisse would not only be death to marine life, but recreation and tourism as well. Add to this the potential threat from tanker traffic arriving weekly and the pipeline laid for many kilometres on the sea bed.

As oceanographer Ken Denman stated: “We have to think about, as a society, what we are doing.” Saanich Inlet is already fragile, an LNG processing factory is not worth the risk.

Maureen Alexander

Mill Bay