Meet the New Boss
Although it completely escaped the notice of most people in the Lower Mainland, Delta-based APE (a small group opposed to the expansion of Deltaport) has hired a paid Executive Director to help them expand their “profile and presence” on the anti-Gateway battlefield.
APE's Executive Director position is reportedly being funded by a “donation” from a mysterious, unnamed APE supporter.
And just who is APE’s new front man? Well, he’s none other than Roger Emsley, APE's existing front man/spokesperson!
Like the song by the Who says: “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
Emsley has quite the unexpected background for a hard line environmentalist/anti-Gateway activist. Instead of chaining himself to trees in the forests of BC, Emsley appears to have spent his entire career working as an executive and consultant in the airline industry, hardly a carbon-neutral, environmentally-friendly industry.
Maybe it's just me, but I would have thought that a person with Emsley's sober-minded business background would be a supporter of economy-building projects like Deltaport and Gateway.
Interestingly, Emsley does appear to be in favour of expanding at least one BC port beyond the pale of his Delta backyard: The Port of Prince Rupert.
So I find myself wondering whether Emsley is truly concerned about the environment, as APE's website portrays, or whether the environment is merely a convenient tool that Emsley and Co. have slipped into APE's handy, dandy NIMBY tool box?
Carl Congestion
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Won't moving things all the way from Rupert to the population centers just cause more pollution?
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