Your safety is on the line, eliminate the risk.
Keep North Vancouver Safe is a community-focused campaign, powered by K2 Pure Solutions, dedicated to providing residents with the facts and tools they need to protect their families, schools, and neighborhoods.
Our goal is to eliminate the risks associated with liquid chlorine rail transport and the threat of toxic chlorine gas leaks; empowering North Vancouver to stand together for a safer future.
Transporting Liquid Chlorine:
The Unnecessary Evil
Every day, an estimated 320 tonnes of liquid chlorine move through North Vancouver by rail. To make transport possible, chlorine gas is pressurized into a liquid which, if released, rapidly expands into toxic chlorine gas.
The consequences of a chlorine gas release are severe and largely uncontrollable, threatening both human health and the environment. These accidents are also highly disruptive, potentially leading to evacuations, school closures, and the upending of daily life.
Unnecessary risk: Less than 10% of this chlorine is used for Canadian water treatment, most is shipped out to the United States by rail for profit.
Toxic health impacts: Chlorine gas exposure can cause immediate breathing difficulties, chest pain, coughing, and sometimes permanent lung damage or death.
Environmental hazard: A chlorine gas release can deteriorate air quality and harm wildlife. Cleanup is complex and effects can last long after the initial incident.
Less than 10%
of the 180,000 tonnes of chlorine produced in North Van is used for Canadian water treatment.
What’s at Stake
When we think about North Vancouver, we think of families, neighbours, schools, and the vibrant communities so many call home. These are the people and places we want to protect; not just for today, but for the future. Every person who lives, works, or learns in North Van deserves to feel safe.
The continued rail transport of liquid chlorine puts all of this at risk. One accident could upend your health, your kid’s education, your local businesses, and your peace of mind.
If catastrophic chlorine gas incidents can happen in places like Mississauga, Graniteville, or Atlanta, they can happen in North Van too.
That’s why standing together to eliminate this risk is so important; because when your community is at risk, you demand change.
Bleach: The Safer, Proven Solution
There is a way to keep North Vancouver safe; one that doesn’t put your community at risk. Bleach can be made easily and safely, using just salt, water, and electricity – so there’s no need for risky pressurized rail transport. Even if bleach is transported, it’s much safer: there’s no need for pressurization and it can be transported in its original form. If bleach leaks, it can be quickly contained and cleaned up with simple equipment, causing minimal impact on the environment and allowing daily life to go on uninterrupted.
Controllable and safer
Bleach is easy to handle and store, and spills are manageable without specialized emergency response.
Practical, widespread use
About 80% of towns and cities in Western Canada already use bleach for water treatment.
Minimal
environmental impact
Bleach is easy to handle and store, and spills are manageable without specialized emergency response.