Well Said Gary Mason.  I completely agree.  very well articulated.  I live in Victoria on waterfront, and I am not at all worried about these tankers.  One tanker a week?  bah.  There are 5600 ships a year going by my place, and that number is down a lot, so adding 350 more of them per year is not going to equal the traffic we saw 10 years ago.  Besides, the Americans sail hundreds of tankers by us every year to their petrol ports in nearb Blaine WA.  The pipeline itself is clean and safer than rail.  The output of hydrocarbons in AB may not increase after the pipeline is built either ... Canadians will just get more money for their oil overseas than in the US!  Money that subsidizes social programs, universal health care and first nations.