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We therefore urge yuu to take the following steps.

1. If you have the resources to analyze the Port's report and respond in
full, please do so. This involves consideration of the full document;
the problem areas do not show up in the report's executive summary.
Copies of the full report should be available from the Port of
Vancouver, 1900 - 200 Granville Square, Vancouver, V6C 2P9,

2. We request that you pass a resolution expressing your community's
concern that these matters be thoroughly and publicly assessed and that
the questionable areas in the Port's analysis be given further (and
public) consideration.

Here is a sample resolution you may wish to draw on:

WHEREAS the Port of Vancouver's Risk Analysis of Tanker Movement
in Vancouver Harbour has elicited significant questions, concern and
criticism, and

WHEREAS the Port's study largely failed to involve municipalities or
members of the public in the deliberations, and

WHEREAS |

- the Port's methods of assessing environmental cost and environmental
risk have been called into question;

- there is substantial discrepancy between the Port's risk predictions and
those of Environment Canada in its analysis for the BC/States Oil Spill
Task Force;

~ the study fails to address the risk and cost of a spiil outside of Burrard
Inlet;

- the study does not address such important issues as maximum tanker
size and appropriate tug capabilities;

- the study does not analyze potential increases in tanker traffic, and

WHEREAS Canada's Public Review Panel on Tanker Safety chaired by
Mr. David Brander-Smith called for a comprehensive assessment of
increasing west coast tanker traffic by the Federal Environmental
Assessment Review Office,

BE IT RESOLVED that (council) calls on the federal and provincial
governments to direct FEARO or another public consultative body
appointed by the Ministers of the Environment to conduct a
comprehensive environmental and risk assessment cf the increase in
tanker traffic in the Georgia Basin; and

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