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ally the other way around ("The People's
TED," Feb. '14). Vancouver is already a
city known around the world and has a
far greater reputation than Long Beach,
a city hardly remembered by those who
have watched previous
TED events.
Rey Carr
Victoria, B.C.
Saving the Sound
The Future of Howe Sound Society has
many concerns about the industrial proj-
ect proposed for Howe Sound described
in "Resource Town Rising" ( Jan. '14).
Howe Sound has seen a remarkable
recovery of its ecosystem in recent years,
and we now have a commercial fishery—
opened because of taxpayer-funded
cleanup of pollutants left over from the
last industrial age in the Sound. The
Woodfibre
LNG plant will have a dramatic
impact on the region, which is why we
believe it is essential to develop a com-
prehensive land and marine-use manage-
ment plan before it is too late.
The company behind the Woodfibre
LNG project has no previous experience
building or operating
LNG facilities or
exporting
LNG. It has proposed a $1.7-bil-
lion floating
LNG facility, to be constructed
offshore and floated into place, which
may be the world's first such experiment.
Far from reviving the community
of Woodfibre as your article suggests,
residential development in a wide area
around the proposed plant will be quar-
antined because of the dangers inherent
in liquefying and storing some 120,000
tonnes of flammable gas.
LNG tanker traffic will inevitably dis-
rupt recreational and tourism activities,
and increase risks for communities,
boaters, ships and ferries. These are
tradeoffs requiring consultation with all
affected parties, including First Nations,
for whom this is unceded territory.
We do not believe Howe Sound
should be an experiment, particularly
not a rushed one. The Howe Sound ord
is a place of beauty, with natural capital
worth preserving for future generations.
Ruth Simons
Future of Howe Sound Society
Lions Bay, B.C.
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CorreCtion: In the April 2014 issue,
the profile of 30 Under 30 winner Trevor
Loke stated that Loke was working with
a U.S. tech company to see if its social
networking site might be of use to the
Vancouver Board of Parks. Loke's work is
independent of his work with the board.
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