Volunteers of BC's largest non-partisan citizen action network are planning a demonstration Saturday afternoon at Esquimalt Lagoon.
The 'Orcas versus Kinder Morgan' event from noon til 5 pm, will involve 200 signs displaying the size of Aframax tankers.
Kathryn Cass, the team lead for West Shore Dogwood, say if the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion project goes ahead, there will be a seven-fold increase in these tankers travelling past the Victoria coastline, including in Esquimalt Lagoon.
'If you stood one on it's end, it would be taller than the tallest building in Vancouver. It's 245 meters long and the capacity, the amount of diluted bitumen these tankers could carry, could fill 48 Olympic swimming pools. So it's huge. But the idea is to make people think about what's at risk, and what the potential impact of these tankers could be, that people strolling at the lagoon will see one of these giant ships going through daily."
Dogwood officials say the survival of the 76 remaining Southern Resident Killer Whales would be seriously threatened by the proposed expansion project.
Volunteers will also be inviting passersby to sign a postcard in support of Premier John Horgan's fight against the proposed expansion, and to participate in the BC government public consultation on oil spills and to participate in the BC government public consultation on oil spills, which ends April 30.