This is the first in a series of Risk Assessment publications from US sources that I will be highlighting here as they have great implications for the risk of oil spills on Metchosin shores:
VTRA 2010–SYNOPSIS OF RMM SCENARIO COMPARISON APPLIED TO CASE T: GW–KM-DP by George Washington University. Dec 2013
Dr. J.Rene van Doop and Dr. Jason R.W. Merrick developed a vessel traffic movement baseline based on 2010 data and used that to model predictions for the future given the following projected inceases per year in Tanker Traffic:
487 gateway Bulk Carriers
348 Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (Kinder Morgan)
348 Delta Port Carriers
67 Delta Port Container Ships +Bunkering Barges
1250= Total projected increase per year
