Digging Deep Column: Terminal Puts Estuary at Risk

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Port of Vancouver, with its self-granted “supremacy” over Metro Vancouver and the ALR, recently changed its name from Port Metro Vancouver — but kept its ways. They’re not so great for our island city and estuary, the Fraser River Estuary. That’s a challenge.

A current issue is the port’s proposal for Roberts Bank Terminal 2. It would require an artificial island twice the size of the Garden City Lands. As well, a widened causeway and dredging would make the project directly harmful to wildlife and fish in a much larger area.

A B.C. Ministry of Environment guide describes what’s at stake: “Estuaries, formed where rivers enter the ocean and fresh water mixes with the saltwater environment, are among the most productive ecosystems on earth.”

That’s still fairly true of ours, but the port’s empire building doesn’t help.

Read full article here.

Jim Wright – Richmond News – October 25, 2016.

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