Canada approval imminent: Pipeline will bring tankers to Washington waters
SEQUIM — Consequences for America if Canada approves an 890,000-barrel-a-day oil pipeline, a decision set for Tuesday, can be viewed at the top of a steep 17-mile road out of Sequim up to Deer Park in Olympic National Park.
The view below is of a marine environment admired the world over, shared by two countries, protected in each by parks. And through these marine waters would travel 400 laden oil tankers each year.
The proposed expanded TransMountain Pipeline would carry bitumen crude oil from Alberta's tar sands 700 miles down through British Columbia to an oil port at Burnaby, just east of Vancouver, B.C.
The oil would be shipped out through Burrard Inlet, and then Haro Strait, which separates the San Juan and Gulf Islands. It would turn west out the Strait of Juan de Fuca. It would exit the Strait in oft-foggy, densely traveled waters, where a Chinese freighter once sliced through a Japanese fishing vessel.
Any oil spill would be catastrophic. Gov. Jay Inslee opposes the pipeline, citing concern for endangered orca whales. British Columbia Premier John Horgan has been so-far unsuccessful legal action. He represents a riding (district) of the B.C. Legislature on the north shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
The government of Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears set on going ahead with the project, for political reasons.
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