Ottawa cites jobs, capacity, approves B.C.’s Roberts Bank Terminal 2 port expansion
BC Green Party House Leader Adam Olsen said he is not surprised that the federal government approved the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project.
“I don’t want to undermine the process entirely,” he said. “But every indication that I have had over the last few years is that they had every intention on approving this project.” Olsen added that his riding Saanich North and Islands as well as other Vancouver Island ridings have also been dealing with ships anchoring off local shores while waiting to enter the Port of Vancouver. He predicts this issue will only get worse.
The federal government said in a release that the project is expected to create 1,500 direct jobs and 15,000 indirect jobs. Charlotte Dawe, Conservation and Policy Campaigner with the Wilderness Committee, said approval of the project will endanger southern resident killer whales, pointing to the death of a recently born calf.
“The Terminal 2 expansion project is the opposite of COP15’s aim to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by the end of the decade.”The federal government’s release also touted support from First Nations. Ottawa announced more than $45 million to accommodate project impacts on Indigenous rights in order to preserve, promote and develop Indigenous culture, heritage and stewardship activities.
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