APE - Against Port Expansion in Delta, BC
Say NO to Roberts Bank Terminal 2
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APE - Against Port Expansion in Delta, BC
Say NO to Roberts Bank Terminal 2
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Against Port Expansion in the Fraser Estuary BC

APE (Against Port Expansion in the Fraser Estuary BC) is a group of concerned citizens who recognize that plans for container terminal expansion on Roberts Bank (RBT2) will see the loss of globally-significant wetlands and habitat (classified as a Globally Significant Important Bird and Biodiversity Area - IBA/KBA and under threat) for migratory birds, shorebirds, waterfowl, salmon, herring, crabs and orca whales; degradation of the quality of life for thousands of Lower Mainland residents; and the industrialization of prime agricultural land. 

View the latest powerpoint presentation

Roberts_Bank_Terminal_2__March_2024.pptx

Building Roberts Bank Terminal 2 in the Fraser Estuary  means:

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    Upsetting Roberts Bank’s natural chemistry
  • Destroying the unique quality of its intertidal  biofilm
  • Breaking the chain of the Pacific Flyway
  • Destroying a key refueling stop  for migratory birds
  • Further declines in the western sandpiper population towards eventual species extinction
  • Pushing Orca whales towards their eventual extinction
  • Putting juvenile salmon at increased risk
  • Further declines in commercial crabbing
  • Infringing on First Nations livelihoods and cultural practices
  • Increased air, noise and light pollution
  • More traffic congestion caused by Port truck traffic

For What? A new $4-6 billion container terminal that can never be economically justified, because there are better cheaper alternatives to satisfy Canada’s trading needs. Demand governments stop this. Email ec.ministre-minister.ec@canada.ca and copy saynotot2@gmail.com

On April 20 2023 the federal cabinet approved RBT2, effectively signing the death certificate for the Fraser Estuary. The BC Government gave its approval on September 28 2023.

Dear Against Port Expansion Community Group Supporters and Members of the Public:
October 13, 2023

Governments Have Betrayed The Environmental Values of the Fraser Estuary

As Executive Director of Against Port Expansion Community Group I write to you, APE Supporters and Members of the Public, after reflecting on the BC Government's  approval of Roberts Bank Terminal 2 (RBT2), which effectively ends attempts to stop RBT2 within the federal and provincial legislative framework established to carry out environmental assessments and make decisions. This environmentally disastrous, unnecessary and uneconomic project can still be stopped. Read the letter to find out what you can do to stop the Fraser Estuary from breaching its environmental tipping point.

Read the full letter here:

Governments_Have_Betrayed_The_Environmental_Values_of_the_Fraser_Estuary_APE_Website.pdf

Below is a summary and dateline of the RBT2 project. It was approved:

  • Over a mountain of opposition;
  • With political interference
  • Ignoring Environment Canada scientists’ concerns
  • Ignoring significant wide ranging credible research and science, much of it published in peer-reviewed science journals, demonstrating the project’s significant adverse environmental effects that cannot be mitigated.
  • Ignoring the facts and evidence.

Major environmental groups, scientists expert in their field, citizen scientists, the Cities of Delta, Richmond and White Rock, MPs, members of the public rose up and voiced their opposition to RBT2. As the final phase of the environmental assessment concluded that opposition grew and grew. The politicians ignored all of that and by approving the project signed the death certificate for what little remains of the natural habitat in the Fraser Estuary and the wildlife that relies on it.

WHEN IT WAS APPROVED THESE WERE THE CABINET MINISTERS KNOWN TO HAVE SUPPORTED RBT2: MESSRS WILKINSON, ALGHABRA, SAJJAN AND CHAMPAGNE

THESE CABINET MINISTERS WERE KNOWN TO OPPOSE RBT2:  GUILBEAULT, QUALTROUGH, MURRAY 
BUT THEN TRUDEAU SHUFFLED HIS CABINET. 

THESE ARE THE MINISTERS STILL IN CABINET. EMAIL EACH OF THEM, ASK THEM TO EXPLAIN WHY THEY IGNORED SCIENCE FACTS AND EVIDENCE AND DEMAND THEY REVIST THEIR APPROVAL

JONATHAN WILKINSON:
minister.ministre@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca

STEVEN GUILBEAULT 
ec.ministre-minister.ec@canada.ca;Steven.Guilbeault@parl.gc.ca

CARLA QUALTROUGH: 
info@pch.gc.ca
Carla.Qualtrough@parl.gc.ca

FRANCOIS- PHILIPPE CHAMPAGNE: francois-philippe.champagne@parl.gc.ca

TELL THEM TO HONOUR THE AGREEMENTS CANADA HAS SIGNED TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT (MOST RECENTLY AT THE UN BIODIVERSITY CONFERENCE). TELL THEM TO REVERSE THE RBT2 APPROVAL. 

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THIS IS THE TORTUOUS PATH THAT LED TO RBT2 APPROVAL

MARCH 2023 STILL NO DECISION - AFTER EIGHT YEARS !!

  • MAR. 27 2020 THE FEDERALLY-APPOINTED REVIEW PANEL PUBLISHED ITS REPORT IDENTIFIYING SIGNIFICANT ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS IN MANY AREAS SHOULD RBT2 BE BUILT.
  • AUG. 24 2020 THE FEDERAL ENVIRONMENT MINISTER PAUSED THE DECiSiON PROCESS AND ASKED THE PORT FOR MORE INFORMATION. 
  • AUG. 28 2020 THE PORT SAYS IT WILL HAVE COMPLETED GATHERING THE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PRIOR TO YEAR END
  • NOV. 5 2020 THE PORT SAYS IT WILL NOT PROVIDE THE INFORMATION UNTIL SUMMER 2021.
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  • SEP 24 2021 PORT PROVIDED ITS RESPONSE
  • DEC 15 GOVERNMENT PROVIDED A DRAFT OF POTENTIAL CONDITIONS FOR APPROVAL AND OPENED FINAL ROUND OF PUBLIC COMMENT
  • MAR 15 2022 PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD CLOSED WITH THOUSANDS OF OPPOSING SUBMISSIONS
  • APR 22 2022 PORT RESPONDED TO SOME OF THE OPPOSING SUBMISSIONS, BUT NOT ON THE KEY ISSUE, BIOFILM
  • JUNE 10 2022 PORT RESPONDED ON THE BIOFILM ISSUE. SAME OLD FLAWED SCIENCE, PROMOTING BIOFILM REPLACEMENT WHEN INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED SCIENCE SAYS THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE ON THE SCALE NECESSARY TO REPLACE WHAT WILL BE LOST
  • SEPTEMBER 2022 - A WALL OF SILENCE REMAINS OVER OTTAWA ON RBT2
  • OCTOBER 26 2022 - ENVIRONMENT CANADA RESPONDS TO THE VFPA WITH A DETAILED ANALYSIS DEMONSTRATING YET AGAIN THAT RBT2 WILL RESULT IN SIGNIFICANT ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS THAT CANNOT BE MITIGATED. ECCC SCIENTISTS STATE:
    "Given the importance of the Roberts Bank site for the Western Sandpiper, the nutritional requirements for fatty acids of migrating shorebirds, and the predicted effects of the Project on biofilm quantity and quality, ECCC continues to advise that the changes predicted as a result of the Project, as currently designed, would likely constitute an unmitigable species-level risk to Western Sandpipers, and shorebirds more generally". 
  • January 23 2023 Ottawa decides it has all the information it needs to make a decision
  • Febuary 2023 - The RBT2 Decision is with the Federal Cabinet acting as Governor in Council
  • April 3 2023 Still waiting for a decision from Ottawa. Three cabinent ministers are known to support it. Amazing!!!
  • April 20 2023. The federal government approves terminal 2 stating
    " I (Environment Minister) have determined that the Designated Project (RBT2) is likely to cause significant adverse environmental effectsreferred to in subsection 5(1) of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012.

     In accordance with paragraph 52(4)(a) of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012, the Governor in Council (Federal Cabinet) decided that the significant adverse environmental effects referred to in subsection 5(1) that the Designated Project is likely to cause are justified in the circumstances. 

THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IGNORED ITS OWN SCIENTISTS AND THEIR CONCERNS.

WE NEED YOUR HELP. EMAIL THE PRIME MINISTER AND DEMAND HE REVERSE THIS DECISION. pm@pm.gc.ca

The govenrment  has the science, facts and evidence. Its own scientists say RBT2 will result in significant adverse environmental effects that cannot be mitigated. How much more does the government need to reject this project?

KEEP THE PRESSURE ON THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

TELL THEM YOU WILL NOT ACCEPT RBT2 BEING APPROVED.

WRITE TO MINISTER GUILBEAULT. SELECT COPY & PRINT THIS

Attention Minister Steven Guilbeault: 

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Roberts Bank Terminal 2 (RBT2) is environmentally unsustainable. 
Environment and Climate Change Canada scientists have consistently characterized the negative environmental impacts of the RBT2 project as permanent, irreversible and continuous, disrupting and eliminating quality fatty acid production from diatoms in biofilm across Roberts Bank by dampening and reducing salinity. These particular fatty acids are absolutely required by Western Sandpipers and disrupting their production may also have negative implications for salmon and crab production, as well as eulachon a major part of Indigenous heritage. Many international scientists agree, as do Birds Canada, Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network, BC Nature, Nature Canada and others. 

I am opposed to RBT2 and petition you and Cabinet to reverse your approval for this project. 

Date___________________________

Signed________________________Email______________________________

 Name_______________________________Postal Code__________________

AND MAIL TO

Minister Steven Guilbeault               POST FREE
    House of Commons

     Ottawa, Ontario, K1A0A6

See what others are doing to stop RBT2:

1. Fraser Delta in the International spotlight. Birdlife Interantional has joined the fight to stop RBT2.
https://www.birdlife.org/worldwide/news/waterfowl-winter-refuge-fraser-river-delta-risks-being-lost-forever?utm_source=BirdLife+International+News+Notifications&utm_campaign=a1bb67f58b-Summary_news_notification&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4122f13b8a-a1bb67f58b-131704081&mc_cid=a1bb67f58b&mc_eid=0757e28fcf 

2. In May 2022 The Garden City Conservation Society published a comprehenisive analysis of all that is wrong with the RBT2 project, under the title Stop RBT2 - To Enable Success, and sent it to the federal Environment Minister and the Cabinet

stoprbt2_enablesuccess_gccs_0.pdf

3. A video by Ranincoast Conservation
https://youtu.be/HkKLY3P2_ys

4. Natural Legacies versus Waste

https://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2020/04/04/fraser-voices-urges-federal-government-to-reject-roberts-bank-port-expansion/

5. Fraser Voices

https://www.facebook.com/FraserVoices/posts/2525873930958632?__cft__[0]=AZUdM4gLQGuLAuiIVb_6PxF5BNrdBoz4KiElrrlqVoUBShwuJp6UHSY5mWAGz0etwKLQsE10_Ss-qK7aGDQemFBPCb8nyQsjtbRBGMWEMaqncH-9Dc-WYdwptkuZASF4OsN487dcEmp0wBKuk9JfpC8C0GMYxI1uj79xp-tiD_FXKA&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R

6. Georgia Strait Alliance 

https://georgiastrait.org/work/species-at-risk/proposed-terminal-2-deltaport-expansion-2/

How Can Scientists and Major Environmental Groups All be Wrong About Roberts Bank Terminal 2?

Can hundreds of scientists, including federal government scientists, all the major environmental groups in Canada, fisheries experts, birders, wildlife experts, marine mammal researchers and watchers all be wrong? Can the major Canadian port operator be wrong?

Can all these people and groups be wrong? Can PM Trudeau’s cabinet (acting as Governor In Council) be right when it approved the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 (RBT2) project stating it is “justified in the circumstances”? 

There is still time to right this wrong. RBT2 still needs a fisheries act authorization.
Write to Fisheries Minister Lebouthilier DFO.Minister-Ministre.MPO@dfo-mpo.gc.ca and tell her not to give RBT2 the fisheries act authorization it needs. 

Science, facts and evidence demonstrate RBT2 will denigrate sensitive intertidal habitat critical for the survival of migratory and other shorebirds, with the negative effects cascading all the way up the food web impacting pacific salmon, other fishes, crabs and southern resident killer whales (SRKW). Government scientists told the federal government repeatedly RBT2’s significant adverse environmental effects will be immediate, permanent, continuous, and irreversible and cannot be mitigated. Other scientists independent of government, as well as environmental groups and first nations leaders all agree. 

In approving RBT2 the federal cabinet misled Canadians. At no time have they explained what is justified in the circumstances. Is the path towards extinction for SRKW, the further degradation of salmon stocks and crabs, declines in migratory bird species towards extinction, all justified in building another container terminal on the last remaining natural large intertidal bank in the Fraser Estuary?  

 

The federal cabinet never looked at the RBT2 economics and they ignored the significant adverse environmental effects. Why? What was it that caused these cabinet ministers to go against all the environmental evidence? Why did they ignore the economics? Is there something being hidden from the public?  Why has the federal cabinet never said exactly what is justified in the circumstances?

Are there entities that stand to gain influencing cabinet ministers in ridings held by cabinet ministers? Why did Ministers Wilkinson, Sajjan and Champagne all support RBT2 going against all the scientific evidence? Why did Minister Qualtrough, the MP for Delta, not oppose RBT2?

When governments make decisions based on science, facts and evidence, having respect for the environment, Canadians can expect our ecosystems and biodiversity to survive and once again thrive.

For more information visit www.againstportexpansion.org 
or email info@againstportexpansion.org

What the Trudeau Government Ignored in Approving RBT2

The Trudeau federal cabinet (acting as governor in council) approved the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project in April 2023 as “justified in the circumstances” despite the mounds of evidence that this project will be an environmental catastrophe. 

How can the Trudeau government be trusted when it continues to ignore science, national and international environmental and other groups? Here is what the government’s own scientists told the federal cabinet:

“Environment and Climate Change Canada characterizes the Project's residual adverse impacts on biofilm due to predicted changes in salinity as potentially high in magnitude, permanent, irreversible, and, continuous. ECCC's confidence in the EIS's predictions is characterized as low (IBID). In particular, impacts to biofilm could potentially implicate the long-term viability of Western Sandpipers as a species (IBID). ECCC similarly characterizes impacts to Western Sandpipers as potentially high in magnitude, permanent, irreversible, and continuous”.

(see https://iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/documents/p80054/121632E.pdf). 

Science, facts and evidence led the following groups and entities to all oppose Roberts Bank Terminal 2.

BC NATURE

https://bcnature.org/roberts-bank-3/

GEORGIA STRAIT ALLIANCE

https://georgiastrait.org/press/roberts-bank-terminal-2-opposition-demands-answers-from-governments-on-expansion/ 

RAINCOAST CONSERVATION

https://www.raincoast.org/2023/07/science-protecting-biodiversity-fraser-river-estuary/

https://www.raincoast.org/2023/05/legal-challenge-federal-government-terminal-2/ 

BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL

https://www.birdlife.org/news/2020/12/16/waterfowl-winter-refuge-fraser-river-delta-risks-being-lost-forever/

https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/boundary-bay--roberts-bank--sturgeon-bank-(fraser-river-estuary)-iba-canada

BIRDS CANADA

https://www.birdscanada.org/federal-government-fails-to-protect-birds-and-biodiversity-with-rbt2

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=649261319449556 

WILDERNESS COMMITTEE

https://www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/conservation-groups-are-back-court-protect-southern-resident-killer-whales-devastating-impacts

NATURE CANADA

https://naturecanada.ca/news/press-releases/roberts-bank-terminal-2-opposition-demands-answers-from-governments-on-expansion/?

ILWU

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/longshore-union-sides-with-environmental-groups-opposed-to-delta-terminal-expansion-1.6441720

LUMMI FIRST NATION

https://www.cascadiadaily.com/2023/jun/07/lummi-nation-canada-failed-to-fulfill-duties-in-bc-terminal-project/

FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS

https://sanjuans.org/?s=Roberts+Bank+Terminal+2

UNION OF BC INDIAN CHIEFS

https://www.ubcic.bc.ca/ol_roberts_bank_terminal_2_development_approva

AGAINST PORT EXPANSION IN BC

https://www.againstportexpansion.org/news/#RBT2%20-%20both%20an%20economical%20and%20environmental%20disaster 

LETTER FROM 12 SCIENTISTS 

https://fraserestuary.scienceletter.ca/press/

https://fraserestuary.scienceletter.ca/resources/

https://fraserestuary.scienceletter.ca/letter/

The scientists said it best:

If the recovery of Canada’s endangered and iconic wildlife is a priority for the government of Canada, as stated, then it must reject the proposed Terminal 2 project”. 

So why did the Trudeau cabinet ignore all this evidence and every major environmental group when it approved RBT2?

Ask the politicans.

Write to:

Prime Minister Trudeau pm@pm.gc.ca
Environment Minister Guilbeault - ec.ministre-minister.ec@canada.ca
Trade Minister Ng - Mary.Ng@international.gc.ca
Global Affairs Minister Joly melanie.joly@international.gc.ca
Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier DFO.Minister-Ministre.MPO@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

 

 


Sandpipers Last Supper

Sandpipers' Last Supper is a documentary now in production. It tells the story of the Western Sandpiper’s (WESA) long distance migration and the biofilm in the mud on Roberts Bank that is critical to the WESA survival.

Read about the film here, those involved and how you can help.
https://sandpiperbiofilm.com/

"Justified in the Circumstances" is how Trudeau's federal cabinet gave its approval for the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 (RBT2) project, ignoring its own government scientists who have proven, along with independent scientists, expert in wetlands and wetlands ecology, that the significant adverse environmental effects will be catastrophic They documented their findings in peer-reviewed science journals, characterizing the RBT2 negative impacts as immediate, permanent, continuous, irreversible and unable to be mitigated. 

It is in nobody's interest that RBT2 gets built at a cost likely to exceed $6 billion and making it the most expensive terminal development anywhere in the world. Well almost nobody:

  • Certainly not the shorebirds, salmon, other fishes, Orcas, and other wildlife that rely on the Roberts Bank mud for their very survival.
  • Not Canada's trade that has better cheaper alternatives to get goods to market.
  • Not the longshoremen that stand to lose jobs.
  • Not those living close by that will experience even more noise, air and light pollution.
  • Not residents and tourists using area highways that will experience even more traffic congestion from ever increasing port semi trailer trucks moving containers in and out.

But there are some who will benefit, including those:

  • Who financed and built warehouses on the now paved over rich farmland adjacent to Roberts Bank
  • Who will bid to develop the huge new main made island, its cranes and lighting infrastructure, expanded roadways and rail and later operate it, some of which are likely to bid include Chinese government-owned entities.

The most important thing you can continue to do is to raise awareness of the federal government's ridiculous approval of the Roberts Bank Container Terminal 2 (RBT2) project.

Tell your friends, neighbours, work colleagues. Get them to write the federal government and insist that the RBT2 project be scrapped. Write to:

         Prime Minister Trudeau pm@pm.gc.ca
         Environment Minister Guilbeault  ec.ministre-minister.ec@canada.ca
         Trade Minister Ng Mary.Ng@international.gc.ca
         Global Affairs minister melanie.joly@international.gc.ca

Here are some pointers for your email:

Dear Prime Minister and Ministers:

In April 2023 you approved the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority (VFPA) Roberts Bank Terminal 2 (RBT2) project as "justified in the circumstances", even though you acknowledged that the project will result in significant adverse environmental effects.

Can you please explain your justification for the RBT2 project when:

  1. It has been proven there is no need for additional container terminal expansion in Vancouver, where there is in excess of 2 million containers (TEUs) spare capacity today.
  2. Federal government expert advisors have stated – do not add any more container terminal capacity in Vancouver until Prince Rupert’s container terminal growth has been maximized.
  3. Prince Rupert, two sailing days closer to Asia, with a year round ice free port, easy uncongested entrance into the port (unlike Vancouver), and superior access to Eastern Canada and US markets, has expansion ready to go when the market warrants it by providing up to 5 million in additional container terminal capacity at less than half the cost of RBT2 and few environmental concerns.
  4. By the time construction starts and RBT2 is completed its cost will have ballooned to over $6 billion, making it the most expensive container terminal development anywhere in the world.
  5. Marine access to Vancouver ports via Juan de Fuca and Georgia Strait is already congested and will get worse with additional vessel transits for the Trans mountain Pipeline as well as two LNG terminals.
  6. Vancouver port vessel transits pass right through feeding grounds and critical habitat for the already endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKW) that will result in more vessel noise, more vessel strikes and lead to further deaths of the SRKW already supposedly protected under the Species at Risk Act.
  7. With the majority of VFPA container shipments destined for or originating in Eastern Canada and the US the already congested rail and highway routes through the Fraser Canyon and the Rocky mountains simply cannot handle more containerized traffic.
  8. Your government scientists provided you with internationally validated scientific proof that RBT2 will result in negative impacts that will be immediate, permanent, continuous, irreversible and unable to be mitigated. 
  9. That science predicted RBT2 would destroy the biofilm that supports hundreds of thousands of shorebirds who will lose access to the vital nutrients in the unique biofilm of Roberts Bank and as part of the intertidal food web will have disastrous effects all the way up the food chain.
  10. Those same scientists provided you proof that the VFPA plans to mitigate negative biofilm impacts by re-creating biofilm is not feasible and cannot be done on the scale necessary to replace that which will be lost. Yet you then made that as one of your mitigation conditions.

All of this negates any "justified in the circumstances",

I call on you Prime Minister and your cabinet to recognize RBT2 is neither environmentally nor economically justified and I demand you withdraw your approval for the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 project.

And please send copies of your emails to APE at saynotot2@gmail.com.

RBT2 - both an economical and environmental disaster

The Roberts Bank Terminal 2 project is not only an environmental disaster. Economically it spells trouble for Canada as well. 

Justified in the circumstances (the federal cabinet’s rational for approving it) despite significant adverse environmental effects that cannot be mitigated is only part of the disaster. 

The project, if it is ever built, is going to cost in the region of $6 billion, making it the most expensive greenfield container terminal project (on a per container basis) worldwide. But the long term impacts on Canada's economy are the real issue.

RBT2 is the engine that will deliver more Chinese imports into Canada. That means lower productivity for Canadian businesses, fewer manufacturing jobs and great reliance on a vast range of goods that could and should be manufactured in Canada. In turn that means less skilled job opportunities for Canadians. 

Why are we facilitating increased trade with China when it:

  • Interferes in our elections
  • Spy’s on our governments
  • Steals trade secrets and patents
  • Supports Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine by buying embargoed Russian oil and supplying them with goods and material used in their war effort
  • Harasses and threatens MPs, as well as Canadians and immigrants of Chinese origin
  • Applies anti competitive subsidies that then undercut Canadian manufactured products
  • Imposes unilateral tariffs, sanctions and embargoes on Canadian exports for no other reason than retaliation. 
  • Trespasses on other countries exclusive economic zones and ignores the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. 
  • Wilfully violates WTO trade rules.

Look at the percentage of Chinese imports through the port of Vancouver. China is the ports’ top importer of containerized cargo with 2.5 times more tonnes imported than all other countries combined and representing 2/3 of all imports. 

 Containerized exports to China are 1/3 of what is imported. 

 Why did the Canadian government approve the construction of a new container terminal that will:

  • Eliminate more Canadian manufacturing jobs?
  • Put more Canadian manufacturers out of business?
  • Compete unfairly?
  • Help China to give more support for Russia’s war against Ukraine when Canada is spending millions in support of Ukraine?

RBT2 makes no environmental nor economic sense. 

The federal and BC governments must withdraw their project approval, thereby promoting more investment in Canada and Canadian manufacturing and creating more skilled jobs for Canadians.
Tell:
 - Prime Minister Trudeau pm@pm.gc.ca,
 - Enviroment Minister Guilbeault, ec.ministre-minister.ec@canada.ca
 - and MP For Delta, Minister Carla Qualtrough carla.qualtrough@parl.gc.ca

that you want cabinet to revisit its approval for RBT2, based on negative economic impacts for Canada and environmental damage to one of Canada's most important biodiversity areas.