text: So the only big number is $127 million to Westridge Marine, a private company. The others: $7M + $23 M + $6M = $36M total for BC.  Maybe add $25M that Christy has 'negotiated' from KM, for a grand total of $61 M.  Anyone taking bets that a large spill would be under $1 billion in cleanup costs? Not that it can ever really be cleaned up.  The BC sales tax alone brings our government $6.3 billion annually, or to put it another way, over 100 times what we will get from the pipe.  Huge risk on our part for peanuts of a return.