ae” 2%... A2 - Wednesday, January 26, 1983 - North Shore News strictly personal by Bob Hunter DISTRAUGHT SAILORS wondering how to clean up their boats after the oil spill that hit Whytecliff Park and Mosquito Creek marinas last week might pause, after the cursing is done, and devote some thought to the fact that plans to build a port for supertankers at Port Angeles, Washington, have been revived. You might have been one watching ducks and western grebes trying to —elean- barrels of thick bunker oil leaked from the Phillipine- registered freighter,.. Star Luzon. Imagine how you'd feel if the whole Georgia Strait was to be hit by a spill like that. Or the entire West Coast of Vancouver Island. All of Howe Sound. Huge stretches of the Inside Passage. The oT cs north end of Vancouver Island and saw a vast spill spread out between Powell River and the island. | didn’t see anything about either one of the spills in the papers or hear a thing on the news. My own boat got caught in a spill from an inner harbour oil refinery last summer. Again, there was no story. Company's plan to build a supertanker port. Shortly thereafter, U.S. Coast Guard also recommended the tem- porary ban on tankers over 125,000 tons be made permanent — and the threat of a gargantuan spill in some vulnerable location like the Strait of Juan de Fuca seemed to have evaporated. Now it has returned in the form of a new proposal from Northera Tier to route a land-based pipeline — im- stead of one under Puget Sound — to Port Angeles. There had .been nods of approval at high levels in Washington State, even the though the risk to the Strait of Juan de Fuca from a remains as great as ever. It seems to me _ there should at least be some determined throat-clearing in Victoria and Ottawa to remind our southern cousins that even if they change their minds about supertankers, we haven't changed ours. While we are forced by the reality of crude on the beaches of North and West van to think about the real costs of our oil habit, it is worth remembering that Georgia Strait faces the arrival of oil rigs in the not too distant future. There is talk of oil and gas exploration licenses being handed out by the end of this year. The oil company, Imperial, quietly handed out cheques to pay for the cleaning jobs. troubled supertanker seem to be that there is anywhere between 241 million and _ five billion barrels of oil under those waters. The reason there have been so few wells drilled is purely political. Since Georgia Strait was declared an inland water by the B.C. Appeal Court, Victoria claims jurisdiction. Ottawa of course con- siders it an offshore water and therefore federal property. It is generally expected that as soon as the dust settles on the battle _over the Hibernia oilfield between the federal and Newfoundland governments, BC. and Ottawa will cut a deal. Then come the rigs. -__Those_spills_might get to be awfully common. Queen Charlotte Islands. The Gulf Islands. By the way, most spills —=Tthere are so many of them. I flew across the Gulf Islands two months ago and saw a large — spill trailing away from an anchored freighter, a rust- bucket from somewhere-or- other. A couple of months before that, I flew back from the T rémember making a bitter joke: “At least I won't have to scrape the seaweed. off the hull this year.” The oil, you see, kills everything. It doesn't seem very long ago that Washingtn State governor John Spellman gave the thumbs-down on the Northern Tier Pipeline At last! NV City’s first pub FINAL APPROVAL has been given by North Van- couver City council for the City’s first neighborhood pub. Council gave approval Monday to two bylaws, one to zone the location of the C 4 Province of British Columbia Ministry of Environment Hon Stephen Rogers, Minister pub, at 175 East Ist Street, and the other to zone off-site parking for the pub, in the 200 block East Ist Street. The only dissenting vote was cast by Alderman Stella Jo Dean. Alderman Gary Payne called the approval of the Don’t be misted by carbonated beverage containers, mostly imported products, labelled ‘'Non-Refillable’ or ‘No Deposit’. B.C. laws require specified refunds to be paid on beer and carbonated beverage containers returned to the place of purchase. The same applies between store owners and their suppliers. As a direct result our beaches, parks and roads are cleaner and more beautiful than ever There’s no future in no return two bylaws “sort of a milestone,” and a “coming of age” for North Vancouver. 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