Stop the Tilbury LNG project

Infrared images of LNG ships leaking methane, from T&E's Methane at Sea: Finding the Invisible Climate Killer (2022).

FortisBC wants to expand its Tilbury LNG plant along a fragile part of the Fraser River, in Delta, British Columbia. If we don’t speak out now, this project could have devastating impacts on nearby communities, critical habitat for marine life, and our climate.

Thankfully, the Tilbury LNG expansion plan is far from a done deal. Over the next few months, it's going through B.C.’s environmental assessment process for Phase 2, which means we still have a chance to stop this project in its tracks.

Once B.C. completes the impact assessment for the project, it will then be sent to the Minister of Environment and Parks to make a final decision. Until then, it’s up to us to show our elected decision-makers that this project does not have public support.

Will you send a letter now, calling on the B.C. and federal government to reject the Tilbury LNG expansion?

PAGE IMAGE: Infrared images of LNG ships leaking methane, from T&E's Methane at Sea: Finding the Invisible Climate Killer (2022).

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Premier

David

Eby

B.C. NDP

The Honourable

Tamara

Davidson

BC NDP

Minister

Terry

Duguid

Minister of Environment and Climate Change

The Honourable

Adrian

Dix

BC NDP

The Honourable

Kevin

Jardine

BC NDP

Associate Deputy Minister

Alex

MacLennan

Environmental Assessment Office

Dear Premier Eby, Ministers, and To Whom It Concerns,

I’m writing to ask you to stop FortisBC’s proposal to expand its Tilbury LNG Project, an LNG facility along a fragile part of the Fraser River in Metro Vancouver.

This LNG expansion could endanger residents with a catastrophic accident if an LNG spill were to ignite. This part of the Fraser River is a dynamic area with the potential for unexpected weather or the risk of ignition from human activity. Fortis has not sufficiently provided evidence of scenario modelling or emergency notification plans for residents in the case of a spill, counting on too many factors to go perfectly right. The risks are too great to allow this project to proceed unchecked.

Expanding British Columbia's LNG infrastructure would also hold back Canada's climate commitments, and lock-in about 1 million tonnes of GHG emissions each year for decades to come. LNG is made from fracked methane gas, a highly polluting fossil fuel that is 86 times worse than carbon dioxide for warming our planet. Methane gas leaks into the atmosphere while extracting, transporting, and using LNG. Those leaks go massively under-reported.

A significant amount of its production from Tilbury LNG would be used to fuel and expand LNG shipping, by transporting and exporting 3.5 million tonnes of fracked LNG annually. While it might sound like a cleaner option to switch ships away from conventional marine fuels and on to LNG, pollution from unburned methane that slips from LNG engines actually undermines any potential benefits of switching off dirty fuels. We need to transition to technologies that reduce the total life-cycle of GHG emissions, including energy-saving technologies, wind-assisted propulsion, zero-emission fuels, batteries, and fuel cells.

It’s time to decarbonize Canada’s economy and invest in healthy, climate-safe solutions instead.

Finally, this project could have devastating impacts on critical habitat for marine life. Increasing noisy ship traffic for LNG would stack the odds against orca whales that already struggle to find food in the busy ocean highway of the Salish Sea.

For the sake of ocean wildlife, our climate, and our communities, I urge you to reject FortisBC’s Tilbury LNG expansion project.

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