Re: “Six new spill-response bases put on hold,” April 14.
In early January 1989, a friend and I left Vancouver on a Friday after work and drove through a snowstorm to Tofino, where we spent the weekend trying to remove as much sticky oil (and whatever was caught up in it) as we could from Chesterman Beach. It was difficult and distressing work.
The official response to that oil spill was utterly inadequate and concentrated mainly on national park shores. A call was put out for volunteers, and the people of Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland responded.
I don’t suppose that the proponents of Kinder Morgan have ever had such an experience. If they had, they’d be out marching In the street with the rest of us.
Erica Fowles
Victoria
