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Attachment FW: RBT2 Conditions (Maa-nulth)

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Administrator on behalf of Maa-nulth First Nations
  • Reference Number: 3544
  • Submitted: 2022-04-04
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • Please see the attached submission. 
  • Attachment Included
  • Huu-ay-aht First Nations ׀ Ka:'yu:k't'h'/Che:k'tles7et'h' First Nations Toquaht Nation ׀ Uchucklesaht Tribe Government ׀ Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ Government – Ucluelet First Nation02026742 THE FIRST NATIONS OF MAA-NULTH TREATY SOCIETY 5091 Tsuma-as Drive Port Alberni V9Y 8X9 Phone: (250) 724-1802 ♦ Fax: (250) 724-1852 Website: www.maanulth.ca April 4, 2022 Impact Assessment Agency of Canada Crown Consultation Operations Directorate Attention: Stephen Fitzpatrick, Senior Consultation Analyst Via Email: Stephen.Fitzpatrick@canada.ca Dear Mr. Fitzpatrick: Re: Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project Response to Federal Information Request and Draft Federal Conditions We write in response to the draft federal conditions and the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority’s (the “Port’s”) response to the federal information request for the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project (the “Project”). We previously communicated our preliminary comments ...
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Attachment RBT2 Conditions feedback

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Administrator on behalf of S'ólh Téméxw Stewardship Alliance (STSA)
  • Reference Number: 3538
  • Submitted: 2022-03-23
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • Please see the attached submission.
  • Attachment Included
  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Impact Assessment Draft Conditions Feedback Introduction This document contains technical feedback, communicated via the People of the River Referrals Office (PRRO). It is based on a technical review of the proposed conditions in relation to the project description, the review panel conclusions, and the review panel recommendations. PRRO also sought advice from external experts, including wildlife biologists and Indigenous law experts. On behalf of the STSA, we have previously submitted an integrated cultural assessment of the RBT2 project proposal. That submission remains a reference for understanding Stó:lō cultural and ecological needs, attachments, and relational connections within S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō territory). This review of the draft conditions focuses on three aspects: 1) The limitations of the specific recommendations in terms of ecological protections. 2) The extent to which the draft conditions as a whole protect and ...
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Attachment Re: Roberts Bank Terminal Expansion

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Administrator on behalf of Berni Claus
  • Reference Number: 3549
  • Submitted: 2022-03-17
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • The Honourable Steven Guilbeault   Minister of Environment and Climate Change       and       Terry Hubbard President, Impact Assessment Agency of Canada       Re: Roberts Bank Terminal Expansion       How many more Panels, Studies, and Agency/CEAA/FEARO Reviews, and Ministerial Decisions are needed before the continuing expansion of the Terminal and the ...

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Attachment RBT2

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Administrator on behalf of Charles Vaughan
  • Reference Number: 3539
  • Submitted: 2022-03-17
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  •     To the Impact Assessment Authority: I am opposed to Roberts Bank Terminal 2.It is an unacceptable development which would have profound negative impacts on an environment already stretched to the limits of tolerance.It threatens millions of shorebirds dependant on the estuary, and threatens the remaining salmon populations and orcas which feed on salmon.The planet is already labouring under a biodiversity crisis. It would be immoral and unethical to permit this development to proceed.Cancel this proposal now. Yours sincerely, Charles Vaughan, <personal information removed>, Black Creek, BC
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  • To the Impact Assessment Authority: I am opposed to Roberts Bank Terminal 2. It is an unacceptable development which would have profound negative impacts on an environment already stretched to the limits of tolerance. It threatens millions of shorebirds dependant on the estuary, and threatens the remaining salmon populations and orcas which feed on salmon. The planet is already labouring under a biodiversity crisis. It would be immoral and unethical to permit this development to proceed. Cancel this proposal now. Yours sincerely, Charles Vaughan, , Black Creek, BC, <personal information removed> <personal information removed>

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Attachment Submission to Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project 80054

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Administrator on behalf of Joachim Ruether
  • Reference Number: 3531
  • Submitted: 2022-03-17
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • To Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, re: Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project 80054   The minister must listen to the review panel and conclude that the environmental effects of Roberts Bank Terminal 2 are adverse and significant. The Governor in Council must not determine that the effects are justified in the circumstances. Senior Liberal officials withheld evidence of the environmental harm the project will have. This is shameful and the project must be canceled as the environmental assessment process has been compromised. Further harm to the Salish Sea, already at its capacity for disturbance, is not justifiable in the name of economics, especially when BC relies on a healthy Salish Sea for our economy, livelihoods, food and health. The Port of Vancouver’s strategy to reduce harm to fish and fish habitat would only protect them from a measly 8 per cent of the current proposed project footprint. This strategy ...

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Attachment Please reject the RBT2 expansion

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Emily Clark
  • Reference Number: 3369
  • Submitted: 2022-03-16 - 2:56 AM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • Along with thousands of others, I am writing to emphatically oppose the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 expansion. The science is clear that this project will inflict unacceptable and irreversible destruction to the Fraser River Estuary and Salish Sea ecosystems. These ecosystems are of global ecological significance, connecting food webs and essential migratory routes spanning 20 countries. Over one hundred imperilled species are at risk of extinction if cumulative pressures continue to intensify. Offsetting on such a scale is untenable. The predicted consequences of the expansion are overwhelming, and although the impacts will be felt most acutely in British Columbia the burden will be carried by all Canadians for generations to come. Please reject this project. Emily Clark

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Attachment The Project's significant adverse effects cannot be justified in the circumstances

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Ian Peace
  • Reference Number: 3368
  • Submitted: 2022-03-16 - 2:56 AM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • Thank you, for inviting comments on the potential conditions under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012. As a qualified individual, I agree with Venton and Tuytel’s conclusion from paragraph 360 “The Project’s (significant adverse environmental) effects cannot be justified in the circumstances. Significant adverse effects on federally protected endangered species cannot be justified under CEAA 2012.”   Part of the reasoning for supporting the conclusion reached by Venton and Tuytel rests on information they included in their submission below.   Paragraph 272 of the David Suzuki Foundation, Raincoast Conservation Foundation and Georgia Straight Alliance Submission. “DFO’s recent comments echo the Panel’s finding that “an objective of net overall decrease in underwater noise by commercial vessel traffic” is necessary. Drs. Scott and Val Veirs agree. Consistent with DFO’s ...

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Attachment RBT2 threatens salmon, our orca relations, and Indigenous life ways and livelihoods

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Sacred Lands Conservancy submitted by Ellie Kinley
  • Reference Number: 3366
  • Submitted: 2022-03-16 - 1:54 AM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • March 15, 2022 Re: the proposal for Roberts Bank Terminal 2 To the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency: The Sacred Lands Conservancy / Sacred Sea is an Indigenous-led non-profit committed to the protection of Xw’ullemy (the Salish Sea and its rivers and waterways), and the life, sacred sites, and Treaty rights connected to and held within those waters. Our organization is headed by President Tah-Mahs (Ellie Kinley) and Vice President Squil-le-he-le (Raynell Morris), two enrolled Lummi tribal members. Tah-Mahs is also a fisherman, whose family has always fished. She has personal, first-hand knowledge of what it is like to fish amongst oil tankers and vast container ships. The Lhaq’temish people have lived on and by the Salish Sea since time immemorial. We are a Salmon People. We hold salmon to be sacred. Salmon forms the basis of our culture, traditional life ways and livelihoods. Roberts Bank Terminal 2 would disrupt ...
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  • Sacred Lands Conservancy doing business as Sacred Sea An Indigenous-led 501c3 non-profit 2321 West Street Bellingham, WA 98225 www.SacredSea.org 360-305-5880 March 15, 2022 Re: the proposal for Roberts Bank Terminal 2 To the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency: The Sacred Lands Conservancy / Sacred Sea is an Indigenous-led non-profit committed to the protection of Xw’ullemy (the Salish Sea and its rivers and waterways), and the life, sacred sites, and Treaty rights connected to and held within those waters. Our organization is headed by President Tah-Mahs (Ellie Kinley) and Vice President Squil-le-he-le (Raynell Morris), two enrolled Lummi tribal members. Tah-Mahs is also a fisherman, whose family has always fished. She has personal, first-hand knowledge of what it is like to fish amongst oil tankers and vast container ships. The Lhaq’temish people have lived on and by the Salish Sea since time immemorial. We are a Salmon People. We hold salmon to be ...
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Attachment An elegy

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Jeremy Schmidt
  • Reference Number: 3365
  • Submitted: 2022-03-16 - 1:48 AM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • Brunswick Point, Roberts Bank - February 13, 2022 We put the battered rowboat in the Fraswer, down a bank of sand piles thick with the debris of dead and broken reed grass, slipping it off of the muddy hummocks that soften the hardened edge of the river. It is a flood tide, but barely, and the downstream current adds to our rowing. The ripple on the water nearer to the mouth of the river proves to be nothing, but puts a chill in the air that wasn't there on the sunny roadside where we launched. It is difficult to know where the land ends and the ocean begins; we are in the long stretch of intertidal wetland that forms Roberts Bank. Ahead, a narrow passage open as we approach, between two muddy drying flats. The oars dig into the mud below the water every so often, but there is still enough to keep afloat and keep moving. The air shimmers with the calls of birds, teeming as if in the first days of exultant creation off the muddy banks of ...

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Attachment Rogers Bank Terminal 2 Project

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Alex C
  • Reference Number: 3364
  • Submitted: 2022-03-16 - 1:46 AM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • I am voting against the approval of the Rogers Bank Terminal 2 Project. I am a 25 year resident of the Lower Mainland, and my main concern is heath of the environmental destruction this project will cause.  Multiple native wildlife species are at risk, including Orcas and salmon, which are not worth losing for more mass consumer goods that we could make here.   I support other countries, and also support Canada, which is why buying local goods when possible is a great way to prevent unsustainable growth like we are currently facing on a global scale. Growth is inevitable, but how we grow is up to all of us collectively.

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Attachment Proposed Terminal 2 expansion

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Jessica Meier
  • Reference Number: 3363
  • Submitted: 2022-03-16 - 1:33 AM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • Over the decades the historic Fraser River Salmon runs have dwindled before our eyes. So much of our expanding way of life on this earth has detrimental effects on other species. If we are serious about protecting species at risk, migratory birds, SRKW, and salmon, we need actions that are congruent with those promises and regulations. This would mean to deny the expansion of Roberts Bank-terminal 2 expansion as it encroaches on ecologically and biologically important areas key to species at risk's survival.

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Attachment Concerns about "significant adverse" effects on southern resident killer whales

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project submitted by Damian Kettlewell
  • Reference Number: 3362
  • Submitted: 2022-03-16 - 1:09 AM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • Good day, Thank you for the opportunity to submit a comment on the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project.  As a long term Metro Vancouver resident I have a spiritual connection to the dwindling population of our southern resident killer whales of which just over 70 remain in the wild.  Approving this expansion is not in the public interest as ensuring that our southern resident killer whales does not continue to decline and thus lead to potential extinction.  The expansion of the Port of Prince Rupert is expanding and can support additional transportation needs to support economic development and supply chain stability.  Sincerely, Damian Kettlewell

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Attachment Asking you to reject the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority's Terminal 2 expansion project

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: William Bamberg
  • Reference Number: 3361
  • Submitted: 2022-03-16 - 12:56 AM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • I would like the federal government to reject the Roberts Bank expansion project. This part of the Fraser estuary is an important habitat for marine and bird life and the impact assessment has shown it will have a severe impact on salmon, orca, and bird populations, and that thee is no evidence that habitat mitigations will compensate for the damage caused.

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Attachment Against the Expansion

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: None submitted by Colleen Doty
  • Reference Number: 3360
  • Submitted: 2022-03-16 - 12:42 AM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • I strongly oppose the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project. With threatened species such as the orca, and rapid climate change before us, it would be irresponsible for our regulatory authorities to approve the terminal expansion. We owe it to future generations not to expand the fossil fuel industry.  Colleen Doty

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Attachment Pacheedaht comments on Proponent's response to IR2020-3

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Pacheedaht First Nation submitted by Virginia Mathers
  • Reference Number: 3359
  • Submitted: 2022-03-16 - 12:31 AM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • Please find attached comments from the Pacheedaht First Nation on the Proponent's response to IR2020-3 (SKRW mitigation). 
  • Attachment Included
  • Pacheedaht First Nation 350 Kalaid Street Port Renfrew, BC V0S 1K0 Phone: (250) 647-5521 Fax: (250) 647-5561 March 15, 2022 Submitted online Impact Assessment Agency of Canada Pacific Yukon Region 210a-757 West Hastings Street Vancouver, BC V6C 3M2 Canada To whom it may concern: Re: Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project (the Project) Pacheedaht First Nation Comments on Additional Information Provided by the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority (Reference number 80054) On behalf of the Pacheedaht First Nation (Pacheedaht), I am writing to provide Pacheedaht’s comments on the additional information provided by the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority (the Proponent) in response to the Minister’s Information Request IR2020-3 relating to mitigation measures for Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKW) from the Project. Pacheedaht has very serious concerns with the Proponent’s response, both in terms of the new report by Mercator International, and also in ...
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Attachment LTR PFN to IAAC on Draft Project Conditions 3.15.2022

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Pacheedaht First Nation submitted by Virginia Mathers
  • Reference Number: 3358
  • Submitted: 2022-03-16 - 12:29 AM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • Please find attached comments from the Pacheedaht First Nation on the draft conditions for the Project. 
  • Attachment Included
  • Pacheedaht First Nation 350 Kalaid Street Port Renfrew, BC V0S 1K0 Phone: (250) 647-5521 Fax: (250) 647-5561 March 15, 2022 Submitted online Impact Assessment Agency of Canada Pacific Yukon Region 210a-757 West Hastings Street Vancouver, BC V6C 3M2 Canada To whom it may concern: Re: Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project (the Project) Pacheedaht First Nation Comments on Draft Project Conditions On behalf of the Pacheedaht First Nation (Pacheedaht), I am writing to provide Pacheedaht’s preliminary comments on the draft conditions for the Project. Marine Mammals (8.1): Please see Pacheedaht’s comments on the Proponent’s response to IR2020-3, also submitted on today’s date. In our view, the measures identified by the Proponent so far to mitigate impacts to SRKW from marine shipping have not been sufficient. Marine Mammals (8.4): Pacheedaht’s strong view is that the plan to reduce underwater noise from the vessels associated with the Project ...
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Attachment Please reject the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority's Terminal 2 expansion project.

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Mallori Walker
  • Reference Number: 3357
  • Submitted: 2022-03-16 - 12:03 AM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • I am urging the federal government to reject the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 expansion project.  The Impact Assessment Agency report has found that RBT2 will have significant adverse and cumulative effects on the South Thompson River and Lower Fraser ocean-type Chinook salmon populations. The federal review panel also determined that terminal expansion would create a large barrier to juvenile Chinook salmon wanting to migrate to eelgrass beds. In combination with adverse effects from acoustic and light disruption, these effects would be ‘high in magnitude, local in extent, permanent in duration and irreversible’.  The panel also found that the project would adversely affect food availability for Southern Resident killer whales, which will be magnified due to the nutritionally-stressed state of the whales. The panel concluded that the effects would be ‘regional in extent, permanent in duration, irreversible and continuous’. The panel ...

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Attachment Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Laura Pingle
  • Reference Number: 3356
  • Submitted: 2022-03-16 - 12:01 AM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • Please do not approve this project.  The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority has submitted this application citing the importance of increasing port capacity.  I suggest that if this new terminal is approved, The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority will proceed to sell some of the land under it's jurisdiction in Burrard Inlet.  The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority will sell the land for billions of dollars to property developers in order to increase it's bottom line.  Those property developers will in turn build expensive waterfront towers.  The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority will justify the sale of it's Burrard Inlet properties by citing increased port capacity provided by the Robert's Bank Terminal 2 Project. I suspect that many of the people on the decision making panel have never visited the area where the Robert's Bank Terminal 2 Project is proposed to be built.  As a person who grew up in Delta and who now resides near the ...

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Attachment against Port Expansion

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Phyllis Ruthven
  • Reference Number: 3355
  • Submitted: 2022-03-16 - 12:00 AM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • I am sure you have all heard the phrase " Death by a thousand cuts". Well, that is what the expansion of the Port personifies to our community, river, ocean, and all those support. The proposed expansion will be a death knell for our already endangered salmon populations and all the other species of fish in the Fraser River. The eulachon species already on the endangered list have, this spring, been seen catching and eating it:s own species ( a likely sign of a shortage of food). The Fraser River is becoming too industrialized and the river's life-sustaining ability is being endangered. The expansion of the Port by buildingT2 may very well push it over the edge. There Port continually speaks of restoration and remediation. There is NO REMEDIATION  OF A DEAD RIVER! WE all know what happened to the oyster beds that abounded in and around Tsawwassen ...they are gone forever!  The port cannot bring them back. The sandpipers feed on the ...

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Attachment Rbt2 opposition

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Administrator on behalf of Pamela Hathaway
  • Reference Number: 3514
  • Submitted: 2022-03-16
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • Hello, I am Ladner resident and Canadian citizen and I am writing to register my opposition to the port expansion. Not only have the environmental concerns not been addressed regarding sea life and migrating birds, the impact on farmland that we need in the environment, like migrating birds, is at risk with added pressure to ALR lands. The port already shows their disregard for human and animal welfare. I’m reminded of this every time I see US coal passing before me in uncovered car, spewing coal dust for us to consume in our lungs and to find literally floating in the waters while swimming with my child.   Stop port expansion to stop further irresponsible degradation of the air we breath, the land we need for our food and animal wellbeing and waters we rely upon.   ...

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Attachment Comment letter on the Fraser River Delta Port Development

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Administrator on behalf of Western Hemisphere Shorebird Group
  • Reference Number: 3526
  • Submitted: 2022-03-16
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • Please see the attached submission.
  • Attachment Included
  • Terry Hubbard March 15, 2022 Acting President and Vice President, Operations Sector Impact Assessment Agency of Canada 160 Elgin Street, 22nd Floor Ontario, Ottawa K1A 0H3 RE: Draft Potential Conditions and Appendix IR2020-4-A, Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Dear Mr. Hubbard and Minister Guilbeault, The Western Hemisphere Shorebird Group (WHSG) was formed in 2006 and includes academic and private researchers, federal and state agency staff, conservation organization staff, and shorebird enthusiasts from 22 countries. The goal of the group is to raise the public’s awareness about shorebirds in the Western Hemisphere; to promote research, monitoring, management, conservation, and education/outreach relevant to shorebirds in the Western Hemisphere; to provide a structured forum to facilitate, coordinate, and enhance the exchange of shorebird information among interested parties; and to promote the range-wide management and conservation of shorebirds in the ...
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Attachment Submission to Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project 80054

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Administrator on behalf of Cyril Almey
  • Reference Number: 3375
  • Submitted: 2022-03-16
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • To Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, re: Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project 80054 Ministerof the Environment Steven Guilbeault Yours truly, Cyril Almey <personal information removed>

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Attachment Biofilm concerns

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Administrator on behalf of Simon Valdez Juarez
  • Reference Number: 3491
  • Submitted: 2022-03-16
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • Thank you for the opportunity to provide feedback on this important issue. As an ornithologist, birder, and a father of two, I am concerned about the negative effect RBT2 will have on the ecology of the Fraser Delta. As an ornithologist, I have carefully read the proposed mitigation strategies, the studies that support such mitigation strategies, and the ECCC response to those. I side with ECCC scientists: the proposed port expansion will bring drastic and unmitigable changes to the nutritional value and to the quality of biofilm in the delta. Loss of a reliable food source at a major stop-over site would imperil the survival of the whole Western Sandpiper population.  As a birder, I am concerned as the proposed expansion imperils one of the most amazing experiences I ever had as a birder: the overwhelming cacophony created by thousands of Western Sandpipers migrating through Roberts Bank late at night, their silhouettes against the night sky. As a father, I am concerned that ...

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Attachment Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project - public comment period

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Administrator on behalf of City of Richmond
  • Reference Number: 3504
  • Submitted: 2022-03-16
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • Please see attached document
  • Attachment Included
  • 6860263 March 16, 2022 Engineering and Public Works Division Sustainability Telephone: 604-276-4000 Fax: 604-276-4132 File: 10-6125-30-004/Vol 01 Via Email: Attention: Julie Mailloux Manager, Decision Statements Impact Assessment Agency of Canada Dear Julie: Re: Robert's Bank Terminal 2 Project Information Request and drafted federal conditions - City of Richmond response This letter is in response to the Public Comment Period held by the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada from December 15, 2021 to March 15, 2022, for the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 (RBT2) Project, proposed by the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority (the Port). This letter also reaffirms the City’s project-related concerns that have not been addressed due to the exclusion of the City of Richmond in the project boundary despite the City’s request to have it extended within limits of the environmental assessment. Since 2013, Richmond Council has continued to express ...
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Attachment Submission to Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project 80054

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Administrator on behalf of Jack Thornburgh
  • Reference Number: 3522
  • Submitted: 2022-03-16
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • To Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, re: Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project 80054   The health and richness of the Salish Sea and its biodiversity will continue to degrade unless irresponsible projects like Roberts Bank Terminal 2 are taken off the table.   Yours truly, Jack Thornburgh <Personal information removed>

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Attachment Protect orcas from the shipping industry

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Administrator on behalf of Caleb Merendino
  • Reference Number: 3510
  • Submitted: 2022-03-16
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • To the Honorable Impact Assessment Agency of Canada:   I urge the federal government of Canada to reject the proposed Roberts Bank Terminal 2 project.   The Federal Review Panel Report for the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project was clear in its findings that this project will have devastating impacts on critical wildlife habitat and the Salish Sea ecosystem:   “The Panel concludes that the Project would result in numerous adverse residual and cumulative effects. The proposed offsetting plan for aquatic species, totaling 29 hectares, would be insufficient to compensate for the reduction in productivity associated with a Project-induced habitat loss of 177 hectares of Roberts Bank.”   “There would be significant adverse and cumulative effects on Dungeness crab as well as ocean-type juvenile Chinook salmon originating from the Lower Fraser and South Thompson ...

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Attachment Reject the Roberts bank terminal 2

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Quinn Mah
  • Reference Number: 3354
  • Submitted: 2022-03-15 - 11:50 PM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • Please decline the roberts bank terminal 2 project. Scientists have indicated the environmental consequences associated with the project. Specific attention needs to be given to the impacts the project would have on salmon and southern resident killer whale populations. The negative impacts clearly outweigh any potential economic profit. Our government needs look out for our societies best interest, and that starts with rejecting this project. There is also federal legislation such as the species at risk act, migratory birds act, and fisheries act which would support the protection of this area.

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Attachment Rejection of the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Alexis Cheung
  • Reference Number: 3352
  • Submitted: 2022-03-15 - 11:38 PM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • I reject the project proposal to move forward with the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project. The adverse effects this project would have on salmon habitat would be irreversible and a large contributor to the loss of already declining salmon populations. Providing habitat offsetting does nothing to alleviate the impact that this project would have on salmon. If the government of Canada is serious about protecting our fish stocks they would follow their own legislation like the Species at Risk Act and the Fisheries Act by not degrading salmon habitat. I would hope the Federal Government would listen to the fisheries scientists who have repeated these concerns time and time again and reject to notion to move forward with this project. 

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Attachment Please reject Roberts Bank terminal expansion proposal

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Pacific Orca Society/OrcaLab submitted by Paul Spong
  • Reference Number: 3351
  • Submitted: 2022-03-15 - 11:05 PM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • We oppose the expansion of the Roberts Bank terminal for numerous reasons.  It violates the conclousions of the Review Panel, which stated bluntly that itt would impact the recovery of Southern Resident Orcas, and the salmon they depend on.  Moreover, it will impact numerous species of wilfdlife, incldng birds which rely on the estuary of the Fraser for their survicval.  Finally, we point out the Vancouver Port Authority has created the ECHO programme, which is intended to address the problems associated with vessel npise.  The proosal directly contradicts this objective.  We are appalled by the dishionesty this reveals.   At this point in human history, we all need to consider the future of our planet.  Will it survive the current Climate Crisis, or will it ewndure?  This is the existential question of our time.  We beg you to provide the appropriate answer to the proposed expansion: NO.

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Attachment Please deny this proposal

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Aidan Graham
  • Reference Number: 3349
  • Submitted: 2022-03-15 - 11:03 PM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • By this time, everybody knows that salmon stocks are on the verge of being wiped out. Why would this federal government that claims to be facing climate change and loss of biodiversity head-on, entertain the idea of expanding the terminal at Robert's Bank? I urge the Minister of Environment and all members of parliament to stop this from being approved. Let the record show that you listened to scientists and acted against a project that brings us closer to the demise of our region's natural legacy. 

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Attachment Save the Resident Killer Whales

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: O Sr
  • Reference Number: 3348
  • Submitted: 2022-03-15 - 10:58 PM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  •  am urging the federal government to reject the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 expansion project.  The Impact Assessment Agency report has found that RBT2 will have significant adverse and cumulative effects on the South Thompson River and Lower Fraser ocean-type Chinook salmon populations. The federal review panel also determined that terminal expansion would create a large barrier to juvenile Chinook salmon wanting to migrate to eelgrass beds. In combination with adverse effects from acoustic and light disruption, these effects would be ‘high in magnitude, local in extent, permanent in duration and irreversible’.  The panel also found that the project would adversely affect food availability for Southern Resident killer whales, which will be magnified due to the nutritionally-stressed state of the whales. The panel concluded that the effects would be ‘regional in extent, permanent in duration, irreversible and continuous’. The panel ...

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Attachment Hwlitsum First Nation's Submissions

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Hwlitsum First Nation submitted by Jim Hornbrook
  • Reference Number: 3347
  • Submitted: 2022-03-15 - 10:48 PM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • Hwlitsum First Nation requests that the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada reject any approvals required for the RBT 2 Expansion Project as this project will have adverse residual and cumulative effects to the environment and the people of the Hwlitsum First Nation.
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  • HWLITSUM FIRST NATION PO Box 18613 Ladner, B.C. V4K 4V7 (604) 649-5335 info@hwlitsum.ca Page 1 of 4 March 15, 2022 VIA SUBMISSION UPLOAD: iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/evaluations/proj/80054 Impact Assessment Agency of Canada 160 Elgin Street, 22nd Floor Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H3 Dear Sirs/Madams RE: Robert Bank Terminal 2 Expansion Project The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority (hereinafter the “VFPA”) is proposing to expand its operations by constructing a new three-berth marine container terminal located at Roberts Bank in Delta, British Columbia known as the “RBT 2 Expansion Project”. We request that the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (the “IAAC” or the “Agency”) reject any approvals required for the RBT 2 Expansion Project as this project will have adverse residual and cumulative effects to the environment and the people of Hwlitsum First Nation. The RBT 2 Expansion Project would negatively impact the already delicate ...
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Attachment Please reject the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority's Terminal 2 expansion project.

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Alice Edwards
  • Reference Number: 3346
  • Submitted: 2022-03-15 - 10:47 PM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • I am deeply concerned regarding the environmental impact of the proposed Roberts Bank Terminal 2 ("RBT2") project.  I am urging the federal government to reject the RBT2 expansion project. The impact of this project cannot be mitigated. The Impact Assessment Agency report has found that RBT2 will have significant adverse and cumulative effects on the South Thompson River and Lower Fraser ocean-type Chinook salmon populations. The federal review panel also determined that terminal expansion would create a large barrier to juvenile Chinook salmon wanting to migrate to eelgrass beds. In combination with adverse effects from acoustic and light disruption, these effects would be ‘high in magnitude, local in extent, permanent in duration and irreversible’.  The panel also found that the project would adversely affect food availability for Southern Resident killer whales, which will be magnified due to the nutritionally-stressed state of the ...

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Attachment Terminal expansion disapproval.

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Liam Doucet
  • Reference Number: 3345
  • Submitted: 2022-03-15 - 10:46 PM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • My name is Liam Doucet and I will share my dissaproval of this expansion project. This terminal with cut right into the Fraser Estuary and will threatened the already endangered marine population including the endangered salmon runs that travel through the Fraiser River aswell as the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales who rely on them. The terminal will also result in increase carbon emissions and noise pollution from ships. At a time when we need to protect biodiversity and stop climate change to secure the future health of the Pacific Northwest ecosystem and inturn the people who live in it, this terminal must not be expanded. 

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Attachment Please reject the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority's Terminal 2 expansion project.

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Lisa Wolinsky
  • Reference Number: 3344
  • Submitted: 2022-03-15 - 10:45 PM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • I am urging the federal government to reject the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 expansion project.  The Impact Assessment Agency report has found that RBT2 will have significant adverse and cumulative effects on the South Thompson River and Lower Fraser ocean-type Chinook salmon populations. The federal review panel also determined that terminal expansion would create a large barrier to juvenile Chinook salmon wanting to migrate to eelgrass beds. In combination with adverse effects from acoustic and light disruption, these effects would be ‘high in magnitude, local in extent, permanent in duration and irreversible’.  The panel also found that the project would adversely affect food availability for Southern Resident killer whales, which will be magnified due to the nutritionally-stressed state of the whales. The panel concluded that the effects would be ‘regional in extent, permanent in duration, irreversible and continuous’. The panel ...

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Attachment Reject project

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Shannon Hughes
  • Reference Number: 3343
  • Submitted: 2022-03-15 - 10:23 PM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • I write to express that I do not support the Robert Banks Terminal 2 project.   There is substantial evidence demonstrating that significant adverse effects from Roberts Bank Terminal 2 are expected on Fraser Chinook salmon and Southern Resident killer whales, which are two important at-risk species. The Southern Resident killer whales depend on salmon for their survival, and their population is critically low that we need to do all we can to revive the salmon and killer whale populations. There is a lack of evidence demonstrating that habitat offsetting can successfully mitigate the adverse effects.  The Fraser River is the largest salmon-bearing river in Canada and it spills into the estuary, where juvenile salmon grow and adjust to saltwater life before making their way into the ocean. The estuary is also internationally recognized as an important bird and biodiversity hub as millions of birds stop to rest and replenish themselves along this ...

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Attachment Please Reject Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Expansion

  • Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
  • Author: Emily Francis
  • Reference Number: 3342
  • Submitted: 2022-03-15 - 9:44 PM
  • Project Phase: N/A
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Public Comments Invited on Additional Information and Potential Conditions
  • I am urging the federal government to reject the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 expansion project.  The Impact Assessment Agency report has found that RBT2 will have significant adverse and cumulative effects on the South Thompson River and Lower Fraser ocean-type Chinook salmon populations. The federal review panel also determined that terminal expansion would create a large barrier to juvenile Chinook salmon wanting to migrate to eelgrass beds. In combination with adverse effects from acoustic and light disruption, these effects would be ‘high in magnitude, local in extent, permanent in duration and irreversible’.  The panel also found that the project would adversely affect food availability for Southern Resident killer whales, which will be magnified due to the nutritionally-stressed state of the whales. The panel concluded that the effects would be ‘regional in extent, permanent in duration, irreversible and continuous’. The panel ...

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