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August 26, 2008

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.

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

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August 23, 2008

Deltaport Adaptive Management Strategy Report

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.”

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April, 2008

APE Update for April

Read up on the upcoming events, summary of this month's news articles and more in this edition of the APE Update.

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Feb, 2008

Press Release is from the Livable Region Coalition

Gateway air quality promises running on empty. Feds call Gateway Program air quality studies inappropriate and misleading: Study of transit solutions required.

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APE Update

A couple of quick things... Click on the following link.

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August, 2007

APE Special Announcement

APE organizers are pleased to announce that, as a result of a donation from one of our supporters, we've been able to appoint an Executive Director – something we had wanted to do but lacked the funds to provide for.

Roger Emsley has agreed to fill that role and has taken up the position as of August 1, 2007.

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Please read the press release for information for and update on VPA's
investigation of improper ocean disposal related to the DP3 and BCTC
transmission line:

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July, 2007

Highway Robbery?

Two million profit in less than a year for SFPR Properties!

In 2005, land speculators earned $2 million profit in less than a year when the B.C. Government purchased their industrial properties for the South Fraser Perimeter Road. The same profits are not being paid to homeowners whose homes are being expropriated for the road in North Delta and Surrey.

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June 6, 2007

A.P.E. Update

Just taking a moment to bring you up to speed on APE's activities before summer sets in and your time is taken up with beaches, barbeques, lakeside vacations and all that other fun stuff.

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June 4, 2007

Rafe Mair has written a great article in The Tyee on the South Fraser Perimeter Road which he describes as a Monster road in Delta which runs over local rights. He slams the environmental assessment process as occurring after the decision was already made.

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May 15, 2007

A.P.E. members meet with four provincial cabinet ministers in Victoria to discuss concerns about expanding the Deltaport container facility

Read Article       May 23 - Followup Letter to Gordon Campbell


April 2007

Comments on Vancouver Port Authority Press Release of March 31, 2007.

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March 31, 2007

Hundreds of people came out to the STOP Gateway Rally on March 31st to voice their opposition to the provincial government's Gateway Program.

Rally speakers included radio personality Rafe Mair, Delta-Richmond East MP John Cummins, Delta Councillor Vicki Huntington, Adriane Carr of the Green Party, and David Chudnovsky, NDP's Transportation Critic.

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Pacific Gateway Strategy Plan


March 17, 2007

On March 13th, 2007, Delta Mayor Lois Jackson made the following presentation to the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications (TRAN).

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About the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications


September 2006

Connecting dots creates picture by Ian Robertson (Delta Optimist, September 2006)

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