The Editor,
Thank you for your ongoing attention to the fascinating shenanigans behind the Vancouver Airport Fuel Facilities Corporation's (VAFFC) new port and jet fuel storage scheme.
We get a lot on this topic in Richmond, but it affects the whole region. The VAFFC is the easy, but still hazy target in this discussion.
As far as I can gather, the main local linchpin (and silent partner) for this project to proceed appears to be our friends at Port Metro Vancouver.
Ostensibly, they are the folks who ensure that all our outgoing and incoming goods flow smoothly through our ports. I emphasize "our" because they appear to be a quasicrown corp answerable to the feds. Their own website doesn't make clear this accountability relationship to Ottawa (perhaps necessarily). But they wield a lot of agenda-setting power.
These are the folks who quietly bought a patch of riverside viable farmland a few years ago for "you", for future options, which now have been revealed to be the proposed site for the jet fuel dock in the South Arm.
For the full letter, visit www. richmond-news.com/opinion/index.html.
Glen Andersen Richmond
