VANCOUVER -- The Vancouver Park Board is expected to make a decision Monday night on the proposed aquarium expansion. But some protestors are angry at how the decision is being made.
Jan Olsen with Liberation BC comments, "if they had gone to referendum and people had a say, then the park board would not allow the aquarium to expand any further, and they would not allow any more whales and dolphins to be brought into captivity."
Olsen, along with protestors from No Whales in Captivity, are upset the decision to expand the Vancouver Aquarium is going ahead without a referendum or plebiscite. The aquarium wants to enlarge the facility by 34-hundred square metres or half an acre. The expansion will cost $70-80 million dollars to complete. This means by the time the 2010 Olympics are here, the aquarium will be more than 25 percent larger, than it is now.
The meeting will be held at 7 pm at the Trout Lake Community Centre in East Vancouver.
Monday July 10,
