Toxic Gas on the Courtenay River Estuary

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• animals
• extinction
• fish
• salmon
• hatchery

[SierraClubCV]

Thanks Tara

[Spudz007]

We will spend a lot of our time & money cleaning this up, at some point. The question is, does the Gas n Go have the financial reserve to clean up the estuary should a large spill occur. No!! The money will be supplied by the tax payer.. You & I....just like it was in Cowichan spill in 2008 ...and in sealing the leaching copper mine here. There is always someone later to clean up the mess.Prevention is the key.

[Decky11]

@TheSoupyMama Did you watch the video? Where is your heart? Do you really believe that a gas station is more important than a wildlife habitat and eagle breeding grounds? Why are you so disconnected from the beauty of nature? Can't you appreciate that beauty and nature are far more important than the convenience of ANOTHER gas station? I just can't seem to understand people these days. What has happened?

[Fishooks44]

What a bunch of fear mongering BS, what if there is an earthquake? what about all the other gas stations in the Valley where do you think their gas will end up, some of you say they have upgraded their equipment and there are collection tanks, you talk as if they are going to put rusty old tanks in the ground at the new GnG . Where were you when they were scraping the toxic paint off the bottoms of boats right in the estuary? By the way there is no right to property values!

[Decky11]

@TaraColborne Same here and I will tell all my friends and family to do the same.



[gragor11]

@TheSoupyMama -The Airpark Marina and Courtenay Slough are existing locations not new. Most abandoned locations have now been cleaned up. The Avgas dispensing situation at the airport was modernized. Oil collection systems have been put in place at all wharf heads. I have done a lot of leg work pointing officials to low hanging pollution sources in the Comox Valley that has been successfully cleaned up over the past 20 years. Seems your priority is to shop for the cheapest gas.

[gragor11]

@TheSoupyMama There are lots of ongoing efforts to clean up existing sources of petroleum pollution. No one opposed the construction of other fuel dispensing stations in other locations including GnG's stations in Black Creek and Cumberland.

But here was an opportunity to stop the placement of a environmental time bomb at THIS particular location on the edge of the estuary before it was built.

That battle has been lost but the battle for a viable business has only begun.

Boycott GnG.

[gragor11]

@TheSoupyMama . Ain't going to happen Soupy. It was pretty obvious from the outset that this was going to be a contentious roe to hoe for GnG North:

Bylaws changing the zoning, removing Fuel Dispensing from the Commercial and Light Industrial sections of the CVRD Zoning Bylaw.

Large turnouts at Public Hearings speaking against grandfathering a 2 day old application for a Permit at that site.

At the public hearing I told WP that his application was a poor business decision.

It still is.

[TheSoupyMama]

Boo Hoo. Wah Wah. Seriously? Give up already. I am pretty sure the marina up by the airpart, and the one up by lewis park pollute far worse than the gas & go will. Have you ever launched a kayak at the airpart? the water there almost always has an oil slick on it.

Why dont you put your efforts towards cleaning this up instead???

I for one support the gas and go. I will continue to buy my gas at costco however, just because it is cheaper, but think the gas and go has a right to go there.