We, the undersigned, are concerned citizens who request that Metro Vancouver appoint a task force to investigate the potential effects of a declining global oil supply on the Vancouver metropolitan area.

Prices for the food we import are rising fast, while our local farmland is being eaten up by development and our farmers slowly go out of business. Gasoline prices are skyrocketing, yet we’re preparing to increase our dependency on car travel by spending billions on the Gateway Project. We’re expanding our airport while jet fuel becomes increasing unaffordable. BC’s economy has become increasingly dependent on limited supplies of oil, natural gas, minerals, and other declining resources. We export our clean hydro-power electricity to the US, while importing dirty coal-fired electricity from Alberta. The connecting thread in this Big Picture is ENERGY, and the global supply of it is about to peak. Metro Vancouver (spanning the Greater Vancouver, Howe Sound, Fraser Valley & Sunshine Coasts Regional Districts) needs to prepare, give its citizens new and better options, and become sustainable in a future of limited supplies of fossil fuels and other resources, before energy shortages become a crisis.

Brian McConnell, 1016 Chamberlain Drive

Karen Hertz, 2795 Yale St Vancouver V5K 1C4

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Thomas Martin, Vancouver BC

Dan Kruk, 3512 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6N 2V8

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Alexander MacLean, 2972 Watson Street

Matt Thomson, 433 E. 23rd Avenue

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Michael Hansen, www.FocusVancouver.ca

J-M Toriel, 2422 Carolina Street

Richard Desaulniers, 9003 Major St. , Fort Langley, B.C.

Kamilia Kaczor, #26-250 East 15th Street, North Vancouver, B.C. V7L 2R4

Brenda Ceaser, #313 - 435 Ginger Drive, New Westminster, B.C. V3L 5L1

Monty Peters,

Justin Tilson, 104-1590 West 1st Ave. Vancouver, BC, V6J 4X4