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Baywatch star wants oil tanker ban
Dec 10, 2010, Toronto Sun (Read article on originating site site)
OTTAWA - An actress better known for running on beaches than protecting them is joining a campaign to ban oil tankers from the south coast of B.C.
Former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson, popular for her bouncing bosom in the show’s opening credits, lent her famous face to a YouTube video called Oily Beaches? No Tanks! A B.C. chapter of the Council of Canadians posted the video to its YouTube channel.
“A 30-second navigational error could be catastrophic,” Anderson, who grew up in Ladysmith, B.C., says in the video about the tankers that enter and exit the Port of Vancouver.
“If there was an oil spill here, I don’t think (the coast) would ever recover.”
“Oil on the beaches where I grew up? No tanks.”
Supporters of a ban on oil-tanker traffic off the south coast of B.C. argue the ecosystem is fragile and navigation through relatively shallow water and underneath the city’s bridges is tough.
Kinder Morgan, the owner of the pipeline that runs into the port, plans to double capacity and increase the current traffic, which hit 65 tanker loads last year.