text: Whats in it for BC?
  -
   Current economic climate: 
  Trans Mountain pays $7M in tax annually to Burnaby making it the municipalities third largest tax contributor - 
  -
  Projected economic climate following expansion : 
  
  $6.8 B private sector investment into the Canadian pipeline network 
  9000 British Columbian jobs during construction x 4 years 
  1000 permanent jobs along the system and at the Burnaby terminal upon completion 
  an additional $3.7 B annually into Canadian energy exports 
  an additional $23M / year to British Columbia in property tax 
  an additional $6 M annually to the city of Burnaby 
  an additional $366,000 to the Westridge Marine terminal per tanker( = $127 M annually) 
  -
  Hundreds of jobs and hundreds of millions of tax dollars just to green light the expansion of an energy transport system that has been functioning safely  for over five decades
  -
  is there any rational reason to attempt to thwart this project?