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Eight Days To Comment on Delta’s Proposed LNG Terminal

By Roy L Hales

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The National Energy Board has already granted an export license, to US based WesPac Midstream, for a facility that could bring up to 120 LNG tankers and 90 LNG barges into the Fraser River every year.  The public’s opportunity to make their concerns known ends June 11. There are only eight days to comment on Delta’s proposed LNG terminal (WesPack Tilbury Marine Jetty).

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Protesting Service Cuts to an Overpriced BC Ferry System

Thousands of people may be descending on Victoria on March 11, protesting service cuts to an overpriced BC Ferry System.

Notices have been posted in local webpages like the Salt Spring Exchange and Cortes Island Tideline  Buses are accepting a $10 donation to transport passengers from Campbell River to Victoria, so that demonstrators can “make it back for dinner time!” Another bus will be leaving the Sunshine Coast at 6:20 am and will reach  Victoria at 11:30. On April 1, 2014, the BC Ferries system intends to cut 7,000 sailings.

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