I'm a Vancouverite and would be less opposed to this pipeline if  the oil was refined in Alberta before being transported.  All studies on dilbit prove that it will be next to impossible to clean up a salt water spill as it sinks almost immediately,  meaning it will sit on the ocean bottom for centuries, potentially ruining our fisheries and marine environment for decades.  The Enbridge dilbit spill in the Kalamazoo River has cost billions to clean up so far and only 10 - 15 % of the spilled tar crap was recovered.  Why do we continue to send our raw materials to Asia and allow them to create the higher value refining jobs.  We have to stop the Canadian mentality of being hewers of wood and drawers of water.