text: A seven-fold increase in tanker traffic?  Perhaps true in the 25km transit of Burrard Inlet where the Kinder Morgan terminal is located.  They'll ship 35 vessels per month, up from 5; seven-fold over 25 km.   But compared to overall tanker traffic in and out of Juan de Fuca strait the increase is almost inconsequential.  At present there are 13,000 ocean going vessel transits per year.  1,100 of those are tankers with the vast majority going to Washington State refineries with Alaskan oil, (oil that was first pumped across that state by pipeline.)  Kinder Morgan expansion will add one sailing per day.  
  
  It is this 2.77% increase in marine traffic that protesters claim will end the native way of life, (Chief Stewart Phillip,) this insignificant increase that the eco-nuts tell us will lead to the extinction of the southern resident orcas.  This small increase will lead to marine traffic congestion, and so collisions and spills.
  
  They are not being truthful or realistic.