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VANCOUVER (CUP) - A proposed jet-fuel ferrying service could destroy the nude beach which surrounds half the Univer- sity of British Columbia campus, say bathers.

Jet fuel is piped in from Wash- ington State to the small island that houses Vancouver airport. But a proposal by the Vancouver Airport Fuel Facilities Corpora- tion (VAFFC) to have the gaso- line ferried in by barge — right along Wreck Beach — is being re- viewed federally.

A spill would kill plant and animal life and threaten the lives of the up to 12,000 swimmers — including many students — who flock to the shore on weekends, said Judy Williams, chair of the Wreck Beach Preservation Soci- ety.

“We are not anti-jet fuel, we’re just anti-barge,” said Williams. A pipeline is the most environmentally sound method of delivering fuel to the airport, she added.

According to Williams, VAFFC estimates the odds of a spill at one every 10,000 years.

“We can’t afford even that. Between January and June 1986, there were six spills of (ferried) jet fuel in Des Moines Creek near (the Seattle airport). That creek is now dead. All that’s left is

brown froth.”

Over a million gallons of highly volatile, flammable and toxic jet fuel would sail from Washington State each week, Williams said.

A VAFFC official. declined comment.

Adrian Duncan, a spokesper- son for the federal Environmen- tal Protection Service, feels the VAFFC plan is unecessary.

“When the project was first brought to our attention two years ago, we informed them that in our opinion a safe and ef- fective fuel delivery system (the pipeline) already existed,” said Duncan.

And both the preservation so- ciety and the corporation deliv- ering the fuel, the Trans Moun- tain Pipe Line Company,, \re- ject an environmental impact study made by Acres Interna- tional, a Vancouver-based engi- neering firm.

“Their worst case scenario in- volves a spill (across from the site of the proposed barge facility). What’s going to happen if there’s a spill somewhere else, like abeam of Wreck Beach?” asks Williams.

Jim Pipe, assistant to the pipeline company’s president, calls the Acres report innacurate and misleading.

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