“No more rallies and protests,” Rueben George  of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation told the audience at the Wilderness Committee's Stanley Park Tanker Town Hall on Thursday. “This is a time for teaching.” 

George was among the many speakers who came to speak at last night's public forum about  the devastating impacts a potential oil spill in the Burrard Inlet would have on Stanley Park, based on a new report. With Kinder Morgan’s plans to expand the Trans Mountain pipeline and bring 300 to 400 tankers a year through the Burrard Inlet, many locals expressed deep concern about the possibility of oil spills if tanker traffic were to increase four or five-fold from now.

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