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ILWU Canada wants Ottawa to reject Roberts Bank Terminal 2
来源：shippingazette 编辑：编辑部 发布：2023/02/17 13:54:25
THE International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada (ILWU) has written a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to reject the Roberts Bank Terminal Two, reports Singapore's Splash 247.
In the letter, ILWU offers congratulations to the government for hosting "the successful COP15" and for other recent achievements but notes that the government is "deliberating the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority's controversial Roberts Bank Terminal 2 new island mega-project proposal that in many ways flies in the face of these landmark achievements and goals."
RBT2 plans involve constructing an artificial island in what the ILWU refers to as the "ecologically sensitive" Salish Sea.
The union letter notes that, in 2018, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) "characterised the environmental impacts of RBT2 as permanent, irreversible and continuous."
The letter says that ECCC reiterated in October 2022 that attempts at mitigation had not reduced risks to shorebirds, salmon, killer whales and Indian crabbing grounds.
The ILWU's "other significant concerns" related to the project include "sliding timelines and ballooning costs," the proposed level of automation and "subsequent job losses" and "the borrowing of huge amounts of capital by the port authority, which it is currently not permitted to do."
The union acknowledges that "Canada's west coast will eventually need additional marine container terminal capacity," and recommends private-sector terminal development.
In the letter, ILWU offers congratulations to the government for hosting "the successful COP15" and for other recent achievements but notes that the government is "deliberating the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority's controversial Roberts Bank Terminal 2 new island mega-project proposal that in many ways flies in the face of these landmark achievements and goals."
RBT2 plans involve constructing an artificial island in what the ILWU refers to as the "ecologically sensitive" Salish Sea.
The union letter notes that, in 2018, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) "characterised the environmental impacts of RBT2 as permanent, irreversible and continuous."
The letter says that ECCC reiterated in October 2022 that attempts at mitigation had not reduced risks to shorebirds, salmon, killer whales and Indian crabbing grounds.
The ILWU's "other significant concerns" related to the project include "sliding timelines and ballooning costs," the proposed level of automation and "subsequent job losses" and "the borrowing of huge amounts of capital by the port authority, which it is currently not permitted to do."
The union acknowledges that "Canada's west coast will eventually need additional marine container terminal capacity," and recommends private-sector terminal development.