Port Metro Vancouver has put Roberts Bank Terminal 2 back on the agenda. They have got to be stopped as soon as possible. A second container port out on Roberts Bank will severely damage or perhaps even destroy this ecosystem. Join us in voicing opposition as loud as you can.

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Goodbye Delta as we know (and like) it? - Vancouver Province


If longtime Richmond councillor and farmland advocate Harold Steves is correct, the municipality of Delta that we know today is as dead as a doornail.

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Priorities shift for subsidies - Peace Arch News


An open letter to provincial Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Shirley Bond...

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Vancouver port may be left waiting for its ship to come in


Geography, some historians say, is destiny. If so, Vancouver as a West Coast port may be destined for some leaner times.

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Container Forecasts

Latest Port Container Volumes and Forecasts show there is no need for Robert's Bank Terminal 2...

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As published in The Delta Optimist:

I'd like to thank the premier for taking the time to provide his thoughts and views about the Delta South riding. Sadly, his staff and certain cabinet ministers have misinformed him when it comes to container ports and port expansion.  The facts are that once the third berth expansion at Deltaport is complete, B.C. will have sufficient port capacity for at least the next 12 to 15 years, without any further expansion at Lower Mainland ports.

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On January 21, 2008, David Emerson (the then Minister for Gateway) released a Strategic Advisors Report on the Asia Pacific Gateway Initiative.  Authored by three prominent business leaders who were appointed by Emerson, the report made a number of sensible recommendations concerning Canada’s west coast container ports.  Amongst those recommendations:  "We recommend that policy makers develop container capacity in Prince Rupert before making any investments in Vancouver beyond what have been announced to date."

Port Metro Vancouver is trying to ignore this and is quietly proceeding with its plans for Terminal 2.

ENVIRONMENT CANADA COMMENTARY ON THIRD BERTH APPLICATION

See what comments and concerns Environment Canada had in 2005 when they reviewed the original Deltaport Third Berth environmental assessment application.

Click here for a reference list (by page number) to locate just some of the very critical concerns raised by Environment Canada.

Port Metro Vancouver are ignoring warning signs that the Deltaport Third Berth Project is already damaging the environment and the fragile ecosystem of Roberts Bank. The first annual Adaptive Management Strategy Report – produced by consultants paid by Port Metro Vancouver – admits that there are elevated nutrient levels in the inter causeway area. The same report also owns up to the fact that third berth construction caused the formation of new drainage channels. Both of these have the potential to result in significant impacts in the inter causeway area. Elevated nutrient levels can result in eutrophication – whereby an algal bloom, reduces dissolved oxygen in the water when dead plant material decomposes and can cause other organisms to die. Environment Canada in its 2005 review of the Deltaport Third Berth Project warned that “If it does occur the state of eutrophication is predicted to result in such massive environmental change between the causeways that there would be public outrage as well as agency embarrassment on an international scale.”