Posted on 12/05/08
Carbon conundrums
Tsawwassen, B.C. -- Jeffrey Simpson (It's Time We All Paid Attention To Gordon Campbell - May 10) much overstates the B.C. greenness initiatives. Premier Campbell is not Kermit-the-Frog green.He has welcomed a third container port berth on tidal flats outside our front door. That will result in some 550 more diesel trucks a day - one truck every 75 seconds during daylight - plying our roads. The road upgrade to absorb this blitzkrieg will be built through Burns Bog, a peat-based nature sanctuary known as "the lungs of Greater Vancouver" for all the oxygen it generates.
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