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British Columbia residents protesting increased coal exports
As usual not in my back yard type
As usual with this type of NIMBY protest, these people didn’t happen to notice that trains have been running through the neighbourhood for about a hundred years. If they want the tracks moved (as could be done in White Rock), let them pay for the work through their property taxes.
Ed Jordan
Lunenburg, NS
The title alone cracked me up bad. All I can think of is, why??? I mean, are they saying, “No to increased national revenues and growing business in the area!” Alright, no I’ll read the article…
First off, let me say Pandora picked a fitting song to play while I’m reading this: “Cocaine” by Eric Clapton. Someone up there is on it. Anyway, here we go again: Smalltown, Canada, doesn’t want to grow outside it’s prissy little tight-knit community, so it brings out all the excuses in the book to oppose something good for them and their country, and even American railroad BNSF. “No, the animals will die! No, we will cough and die from pollution! No, there’s no room!” and all that crap. Well, good luck my forward looking friends, that’s all I can do…
Environ-mentalists teaming up with the NIMBY street thugs again.
Meanwhile sell the coal to China because China isn’t having any of those global warming problems. Most likely because China doesn’t have any pseudo-scientists, environ-mentalists, NIMBY thugs, and panic mongers.
Anybody asking why the coal isn’t being exported via American ports? Could it be that all the west coast ports have been taken over by the environ-mentalists and NIMBY thugs, making sure that no coal gets shipped out.
Why not just keep the coal at home? It isn’t as if we don’t have coal fired power plants. Too old? Out of date? Just more excuses based on the pseudo-science of global warming. If those power plants were too old or out of date, the owners would have upgraded or shut them down in order to remain competitive in the free market. But with the regime using the iron fist of big government to shut them down, the believers in the religion of global warming are getting what they want in exchange for votes and more free stuff. Provider class paid for, of course.
For every step of progress, there’s a group of NIMBYs wanting to push everyone three steps backward!
Just last year people were worried about Canadian ports taking ocean freight away from U.S. ports… thank you, Canadian NIMBYs!
BNSF nee BN ne Great Northern has been operating through this stretch for over a 100 years. If you have a problem with the trains dont move there
Dang it, you live next to railroad tracks. What the heck do you expect. Get over yourselfs and let the railroad and port do what they need to do. There are millions of people that live next to or in cities that trains go thru, and if every time they wanted to add trains to tracks or infrastructure the had to go thru these type of analysis, the railroads would start looking like they did in the late 70’s and early 80’s. NIMBY’s hush up.
First came the tracks.
then came all the people.
Get a grip, white rock!
Bring it back to the U.S. and pay our dock workers.
“It is outrageous that this rail traffic would even be considered through a residential, highly densified city that has absolutely no industrial area at all”
Mayor Baldwin seems unaware he has a mainline railroad on his front porch, one that’s been active for 130 years, and running coal trains for at least 25. The day governments start regulating train counts is the day the railroad industry dies.
The people continue to forget that the Great Northern Railway was first through the area and initiated Vancouver residents building summer homes in White Rock. They knew the tracks were there, yet they still decided to buy their homes in the area. All I can say is the tracks have been there since 1909. No resident can say that!
So typical Vancouver. Sorry folks but Surrey does have industrial areas, right around said yard and in the south part of the city.
Not all British Columbians are protesting or opposed to this…they are a bunch of loser NIMBY’s from white rock with nothing better to complain or protest about, they dont have their facts straight and dont care about the economic loses of such.
Why don’t they just say what they mean? “We are against this project because it will create jobs for people without college degrees.”
Ask the locals to stop driving since that has more health issues.
The same arguments are being heard here in WA along the BNSF route through the cities from Vancouver, WA north to the Canadian border. The litany of the Enviro-Nazies is unchanging and it certainly coincides with the Emperor’s and his stooges anti-business position. Most lamentable in view of the decline in the demand for coal here at home because of the new finds of natural gas. China will get the coal they need from somewhere.
I can understand White Rock mayor and residents’ position on this. The tracks run along the beach front of this fine seaside resort, and a mile long unit train would be extremely disruptive to all the prople who want to cross over the tracks to the beach or the pier. There is an alternative for BNSF----run the trains up the Sumas line to join with CN. That would solve the beach route problem.