Tilbury LNG expansion
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We have to act fast to stop this new LNG project in Metro Vancouver
The Fraser River is the longest river in British Columbia, carrying spring water all the way from the Rockies to the Strait of Georgia in Vancouver. It is one of the most important rivers in the world for wild salmon and feeds into the home waters of Southern Resident Killer Whales.
It’s also where FortisBC is currently trying to expand its Tilbury LNG terminal.
Most B.C. residents haven’t even heard about this project, let alone its potentially devastating impacts on the climate and on endangered species.
Fortunately, it’s not too late to make your opposition known and help stop the project in its tracks. The first step in expanding Tilbury is building a jetty for transporting the LNG – and the BC Environmental Assessment Office (BC EAO) is currently accepting public comments that will determine if the project will live or die.
STOP TILBURY LNG
An aerial photo of the existing Tilbury LNG plant, that FortisBC wants to expand
If the project is allowed to go ahead, the Tilbury LNG expansion and its accompanying jetty could threaten some of the most important salmon runs on the West Coast. The resulting increase in tanker traffic could also harm endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales, due to greater ship noise in their critical habitat. These are the same whales whose critical habitat is already being threatened by the Trans Mountain pipeline.
It could also spell the end for endangered fish like the Eulachon – a species that nearby Indigenous communities rely on, and a population of Steelhead fish with a mere 40 adults who returned to spawn last spring.
But hey, it’s all worth it if it means more ‘clean’ LNG, right? Wrong.Despite what you may have heard peddled by the government, LNG is almost as bad for the climate as burning coal. Using it for ship fuel (one of the main purposes of the Tilbury expansion), is even worse than the dirty fuels currently used by the shipping industry. Expanding an LNG plant in Metro Vancouver also means more harmful fracking in northern B.C. – adding even more highly polluting methane to the atmosphere and producing swimming pools worth of radioactive fracking waste.
We have just a few short weeks to make our concerns heard while the BC EAO is accepting pubilc comments about FortisBC's proposal.
We're so glad you're part of this campaign and part of the Stand.earth online community. Over the last year, we’ve been building some exciting momentum in the fight to stop Tilbury LNG. Stand members in Richmond and Delta – who are facing the risk of this project running through their backyards – have been flooding the inboxes of their MLAs. Thousands of others across B.C. have now signed the petition against Tilbury. Last month, a group gathered at the project site for an important physical protest (grateful we can do that now!) – and that’s just the start.
Now we need to focus our collective energy into the BC EAO’s latest public comment process, because we know that every single comment will be counted and weighed up against submissions from project proponents.
Thank you for taking action,
Kiki Wood
Senior Oil and Gas Campaigner
Stand.earth
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