old ladies while ' alienating
,the average hockey fan and |

"along
tanker” routes ‘now ‘proposed: 7
would : be. an. economic |

By HOWARD WHITE.

it is said army psychologists. studying troops

under fire during the Second World War quickly is a deepsea port where

learned to ignore such symptoms: as weeping,
- trembling an and incoherent speech. The dangerous
cases. they found, the ones. who. would invariably
“prove incapable of saving themselves, were the

men whe were just acting mormai..

The. principle -

What i is proposed of course

_tankers transporting North
Slope. oil from _ the newly-
‘compieted —
- Pipeline. terminias: ‘in Valdez

can feed their cargoes into a
pipeline system connecting ©

-with the . fuel-starved aa

‘ involved was that under abnormally threatening of the American: midwest.

alm

worn

conditions mime: beh

‘response and normal
_ response.

With that example in mind

‘one can’t help wondering a.

little about the.. collective.
. sanity of the B.C. public in.
face of its.: rather ho-hum _
‘response to the. increasingly
‘imminent. threat of. envir-
onmental ‘destruction ° from -
marine oil spills. ls

. Perhaps the oil spill threat _

has" been too often. charac- -

. terized in the media by
photographs of:

soaked ducks. This treatment
has certainly tended to enlist
the sympathy of sweet little

with him. the poll-fearing ,
_ Politician.

“In fact 2 single major oil
.. spill in’B.C.’s inside waters ~
either of. the two’

' catastrophe affecting. the:

‘daily lives of thousands of»

~ workmen, businessmen’ and”
politicians, in addition to’

those whose involvement ‘in: “|

_the issue is mainly senti-
mental, ae

A conthiving series of such ,
spills,, which appears inev-
itable from. any realistic.
study of the routes proposed —
and past oil tanker perfor-"
mance, represents a threat to .
existing lifestyles and liveli-
- hoods | in the coast region.
‘probably unparalleled by
anything that has happened -
since the European arrival.’
In our rather pristine history
it is difficult to find a threat
of comparable magnitude. It
_is certainly.a more real and
‘terrible threat than the
apprehended Japanese in-
‘vasion which ‘caused such

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of. tearful.
schoolchildren cuddling oil-—

aviour

wae ior Wan tne - cana.
behaviour the insane

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commotion and f¢ frantic ‘prep- .
aration: during the middle |
years of Worid War ii.

But where is the « ‘comino- .

tion and preparation now?

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The © oil: ‘cartel’s Ss. ‘first

preference would be to
' deliver to. one ‘of. the two
areas where refining and.

~ linkup facilities already exist:

Southern. California. -and —
‘Puget Sound. Unfortunately,

- Trans-Alaska.

- for us, Popular, awareness of

page 21, Jaly: 13, 1977 - - North Shore News

leads them toward the B.C. “San Juan Islands where | the
border. . ce

ane sreatiy heightened and.
any spilled oil would sweep
up Georgia Strait on to B.C.
shores. "Nevertheless. the.
Cherry Point site is preferred
‘by oil iriterests because some
facilities already exist there
—and because the residents
of Port Angeles have oppos-
ed the oil port plan in a
referendum. (Wouldn’t it be

nice if someone asked us?)

There ‘are ‘two ‘quite.
feasible Washington sites

outside the Puget Sound
Jimits, at Port Angeles on.
Juan de Fuca Strait and.
Cherry Point on the south
end of Georgia Strait. Port
Angeles is much preferable
from a Canadian standpoint
sitee its direct accessibility

to the open ocean lessens tlie
likelihodé.of accidents, and
_currents on the south side of
Juan de Fuca Strait would
keep ‘spilled oil on the.
-American side of the border,
-where spilled American oil

During the reign of the
N.D.P. government, which
was hostjle to any plans for
. increased tanker traffic. in
B.C: waters, the northward

belongs. BS flight of the oil companies
meee ‘stopped at Cherry Point but
Cherry Point,. ‘on the other withthe advent of Social

“hand, lies at. the end of a
difficult passage through the

CONTINUED, ON PAGE 24

the undesirable effects of the
oil traffic ‘in both those
localities is such that ap-
‘proval to base tanker routes ©
there would be almost
impossible to attain.

in Puget Sound for in- -
stance e, legislation: presently
on. the books" regulating the

ipping of cil is so severe
that ‘Atlantic-Ritchfield has
_ challenged it in. court as an
unwarranted. restriction on
trade. | _

The multinational-oil com-—
panies, far. from being
impervious to public: feeling
aS many peopie assume, find .
‘themselves fleeing from it, -
‘and it is this’ ‘light which ©

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