RT @nytimes: Coal is in trouble, and that could be good news for a warming world https://t.co/CwGJNcIsVh
Jeff Nagel @jeffnagel
Surrey coal terminal gets new green light from port: http://www.peacearchnews.com/news/359159251.html … @FSDocks aims to load coal from trains to ships, not barges.
The key is ships not barges. That means they expect a ship with a large draft to go up to Fraser Surrey Docks. That is not possible with the current Massey Tunnel. This will how ever be possible once the Massey Tunnel is replaced and removed with a large tall bridge.
Furthering my suspicion that the Massey Tunnel replacement has nothing to do with car traffic.
Well, at 10 lanes I suggest it has everything to do with car traffic of the single-occupant BC Liberal voting kind.
That is the ruse to justify the removal of the tunnel. Yes both are bad, but if they just said it was allow port traffic, voters would say it is massive corporate welfare. This way the province, can have a reason for doing it that is palatable for the public.
At approximately 2.8 tonnes of CO2 emitted per tonne of combusted coal, the Port of Vancouver is enabling the injection of about 11.2 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere every year when burned overseas. That is before the emissions produced to mine and transport it. Then there are oxides of nitrogen and sulfur, mercury, and a deadly cocktail of particulates that befall people living and working downwind.
The PoV is a federal agency, and there is a new government now in power that is committed to acting on climate change, so it says. Let’s hope they act on their words wind down this hazardous commodity and switch to other goods with value-added chaacteristics that benefit far more widely the national and provincial economies.