Environmental groups launch legal challenge against B.C.’s Roberts Bank port project
Five environmental groups have launched a combined legal challenge against the port expansion plan at Roberts Bank, south of Vancouver, that was approved by the federal government last month.
The group, which is represented by environmental law organization Ecojustice, said such actions would contravene the Species at Risk Act, given the project’s environmental impacts on the whales “cannot be fully mitigated.” Alex Munro, a port authority spokesman, deferred comment on the legal challenge to the federal government, but said the port remains focused on advancing Terminal 2 “in a way that protects and enhances the environment, is reflective of Indigenous priorities, and considers the needs of local communities.”
The environmental groups challenging Terminal 2said a March 2020 report by an independent federal review panel found the new terminal would both reduce the availability of chinook salmon to whales and disrupt pods with increased underwater noise.
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