Turns out....

...it's not oil tankers that are the threat to whales off the coast of BC, it's ferries and whale watching boats.  Ah ha!  Take that Elizabeth May and your sidekicks in the environmental and native cohort.  Apparently, 3,200 large container ships come into Burrard Inlet every year, along with thousands of ferries bumping and clanging around, which generate noise and commotion and disturb the killer pods.

But who cares!  It's only the oil tankers that are the problem.  "We still say no to the project," said the enlightened Chief Judy Wilson of the union of BC Indian Chiefs.  Well, of course they do!  And this in the face of yet another round of approvals of the project by the NEB.  "All I can say is this will never have Indigenous support.  The project isn't happening," said another ignorant chief with his hand in the pockets of every Canadian, Stewart Phillip.

Don't confuse me with the facts, my mind's made up, seems to be the motto of this gang.  Oh, and did I mention BC plans to increase the number of ferry trips in coastal waters by an enormous 2,700 trips per year -- 225 more per month.  To handle the pipeline expansion, the number per month would go from 29 to 35 per month.  Quite a significant difference, wouldn't you say? 

Oh, and let's not even mention that Vancouver and Victoria dump 700 million litres of untreated sewage and waste water in the Salish Sea every day.  Every day!  These people need to get their sh-t together -- literally and figuratively -- and clean up the whale habitat themselves before blocking a much-need pipeline expansion that meets every obstacle and criteria thrown against it.

Complete bullsh-t.