Editor:
I'm writing about a recent news item on CBC April 23 telling about a fishing boat being hauled out of drydock near Esquimalt and while that was happening, it collided with a Navy vessel.
So my questions are this: if two tugs can not avoid a fender-bender (or possibly worse) while manoeuvring a little fish boat, then how on earth can anybody believe that a very large crude carrier with two tugs controlling it can ever be expected to negotiate busy shipping channels in Vancouver ports, with many other ships coming and going, or the narrow and intricate passages leading up the Sound to Kitimat?
Vancouver and Kitimat are not appropriate for the accommodation of these giant carriers filled with highly toxic materials like diluted bitumen.
If this insane idea of doubling the number of giant tankers goes ahead with nobody saying boo, then we are all doomed, here along the coastlines.
Anneke Pearse
Davis Bay
