Protect the Fraser Estuary and species that call it home
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- Published on Sunday, 29 November -0001 16:00
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Reject Roberts Bank Terminal 2
Hi Paov,
The Fraser Estuary in BC has supported marine life and First Nations communities since time immemorial. But it’s at risk.
The Port of Vancouver is planning to dredge and fill the ecologically significant Fraser River Estuary with cement, in order to build an island 250 football fields in size for a new container terminal.
We have a chance right now, while public consultations are still open this week, to stop this disastrous project in its tracks. With the appointment of the new federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault we can use this consultation to get the project on his radar!
Just last week we got new information that the federal government withheld critical evidence of how harmful this project is to western sandpipers and other shorebirds in the federal review. Even then, the review still found there will be significant adverse environmental effects to wetlands, barn owls, Dungeness crab, chinook salmon and southern resident killer whales.This project comes at a time when we should be working on ways to reduce current disturbance levels in the Salish Sea, the inland sea that encompasses Puget Sound, the San Juan Islands and the waters off of Vancouver, BC. We shouldn’t even be considering increasing disturbances.
Write into the public consultation today and tell Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault to cancel the project. We have until next week to write in! Write my letter now Harm from this project cannot be avoided and we cannot allow new projects to be approved that further deteriorate the Salish Sea. Let's stop it together.
For the wild,
Charlotte Dawe
Conservation and Policy Campaigner
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