Proposed oil pipeline to B.C. coast spurs alarm in Washington state

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The province of Alberta late Thursday announced a route for a new, one-million-barrel-per-day crude oil pipeline to Canada’s West Coast that terminates within about a mile of Washington state waters.

Environmental interests on the U.S. side of the border are worried.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney jointly detailed the fast-tracked plans for the big new pipeline stretching from the Edmonton region to a new export terminal capable of handling supertankers destined for Asian markets. The terminus they identified in the project documents is the Port of Vancouver’s Roberts Bank expansion on the Strait of Georgia.

Oil-filled ships traveling from the port pass by the San Juan Islands and Olympic Peninsula as they head out to sea from Vancouver. A spill in Canadian shipping lanes could easily reach north Puget Sound, the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Washington’s outer coast, threatening sensitive ecosystems and killer whale habitat.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/07/02/proposed-oil-pipeline-to-b-c-coast-spurs-alarm-in-washington-state/

[KT2000]

1. When there was an oil spill

in the Strait of Juan de Fuca years ago, Senators Magnusson and Jackson got a bill passed that required oil tankers that traversed the Strait have double hulls. That should be a requirement if this happens.

I picked up the dead and dying birds - it is horrible.

[Prairie_Seagull]

2. Geologist agree the Puget Sound 'region' is due/past due for

the big one. Seems like a huge risk for everyone!