Vancouver Used
as the Tar Sands Shipping Port
by NoTanks.org
Did you know
that real oil tankers are already using the Salish Sea and Vancouver Harbour as
the Tar Sands oil port? In 2007,
without any discussion or visible
process, Canada and China began shipping Alberta crude oil through Vancouver
Harbour. (Statistics
Canada, Nov. 27, 2007).
An Aframax
tanker, with a capacity of 700,000 barrels of crude oil approaches
the Second Narrows
railway bridge, the most dangerous section of the Burrard Inlet.
Today, 2 tankers
per week ship tar sands crude oil through Vancouver.
The oil
companies have a plan to expand this to 10 tankers per
week.
Each
tanker carries up to 700,000 barrels of heavy crude oil. By comparison, the Exxon Valdez spilled 266,000 barrels. These shipments of
oil threaten our marine environment, our coastal economy, and our reputation as
a "green" city. Crude oil spills – like recent tragedies in the Gulf of
Mexico, China, and Singapore – kill ecosystems and destroy coastal
communities.
Don't let this happen
to the B.C. Coast!
No Tanks
presents
A Day for the
Bay
Sunday,
October 17, 2010
English Bay,
Vancouver, noon to 3:00
Tankers already using Vancouver as the
tar sands shipping port!
Music, boats,
flotilla send-off
Protect
the Salish Sea and BC coast from an oil spill!
Cost
of a spill:
Based on other
recent spills, we estimate the financial damage from a large spill in this
region would be $10-50 billion, devastating
our fishing, tourism, harbour, conventions, seaside businesses, and our region's
“green” reputation.
“I’ve been fishing in
BC since 1973. If we get an oil spill anywhere in these waters, it would wipe
out every fishery we have, shellfish, salmon, herring, and the plankton that
they feed on. An oil spill would move with the wind and tides and devastate the
intertidal zones.”
Ron Fowler
Pacific Salmon Commissioner and
Director of the Area-F Trollers
Association
No Tanks is a B.C.
Citizen`s Coalition, with the support of Wilderness Committee,
Greenpeace, Code Pink, the Board of Change, Area-F Trollers, CUPE, Indigenous
Environmental Network, Science for Peace, Interntional WebExPress, Smart Change,
Salmon Are Sacred, Pipe Dreams, Council of Canadians, Salish Sea Keepers Alliance, Rabble.ca, The
Common Sense Canadian, Vancouver Peak Oil, Post Carbon
Toronto, How to Boil a Frog, One Life Productions, Transformation Projects,
Ragtag Productions, Manly Media, Vancouver Community TV, and hundreds of
citizens working together to preserve our coast.
Does your group
want to join this coalition?
Send info to Rex
Weyler at No Tanks (rw@rexweyler.com)
and please join
us on Sunday, October 17, English Bay.
How you can
help:
1. Volunteer: Contact info@notanks.org
2. Donate: You may donate through our website, www.notanks.org, or send a donation
to:
No
Tanks
#2105, 1331 Alberni Street
Vancouver, BC V6E 4S1.
3. Attend the
“Day for the Bay”: On Sunday,
October 17. By land or by sea. Bring
your boat or come to English Bay beach. Music starts at noon. Flotilla departs
for Lions Gate at 3:00.
Schedule
for No Tanks Flotilla, October 17
9:00
AM: The No Tanks
flotilla departs Coal Harbour, to Second Narrows and Westridge Terminal. Media
welcome, and boaters are welcome to join the flotilla. We’ll return through the
Harbour and around Stanley Park to English Bay.
Noon to
3:00 PM: Music,
boats, and celebration: English Bay, Vancouver
3:00: flotilla send-off
3:45:
Boats arrive at Lions Gate
Boaters: Show up any time to join the flotilla. Join
us by 15:00 at English Bay, join us in route, or just meet us at Lions Gate at
15:45 (High slack tide). For information, contact info@notanks.org. During the event,
Sunday, October 17, you can reach our Commodore, Simon Fawkes, on VHF
Channel 68 (or by cell @ 604 725 0600). We will also
send a call-out on Channel 16. The lead boat for the flotilla
will be Liquid Asset IV, with Captain Hal Moore.
Tickets on the No
Tanks flotilla boat, the Royal Vancouver:
Boat
tickets
No Tanks!
www.notanks.org
email: info@notanks.org
No Tanks Facebook Event
