| Next comes the new container port of Fairview http://www.nonstopdesign.com/bcinvestment/container-port.html -- mostly automated, providing few jobs (despite the usual glowing promises made by politicians and their contractor buddies during construction). Here comes the balance of trade: containers by the hundred, full of miscellaneous Cheap Plastic Crap -- mostly for the US market, some for Canada. Rupert's cargo handling facility now rivals Vancouver and is a shorter haul from the Chinese industrial ports than Long Beach or even San Francisco; the popularity of the port was supposed to "revitalise" Rupert (a dying fish packing town). Is any reader still naive enough to be surprised that, in fact, it hasn't? |
