A message to the BC Cabinet and all of goodwill:
The Garden City Conservation Society has put together The Beyond RBT2 Kit. It is primarily for you, BC Cabinet Ministers. You intend to make an informed decision about whether to approve Roberts Bank Terminal 2 as a means to meet future demand for containerized shipping on our West Coast. That’s even though RBT2 would cause much more destructive ecological harm than the alternatives and is also inferior for prosperity and climate action.
Unfortunately, the RBT2 Proponent, the voice of the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority has a great deal of power. The informed citizens and dedicated citizen groups offering coherent alternate analyses have been drowned out, ignored and stamped out—forbidden to advocate better means. The RBT2 status quo is a lose-lose-lose. Still, at the eleventh hour, a win-win-win remains at hand.
The Beyond RBT2 Kit consists of seven curated analyses by informed citizens of Delta and Richmond who have devoted thousands of hours to empowering a good outcome for the Fraser Estuary. They feel sure the alternative means to meet container-business demand are vastly better than RBT2, but their aim is to support informed choice. Please draw on the coherent bodies of analysis in the kit.
The actual Beyond RBT2 kits are in binders, each organized in seven sections. Here, as virtual kits, they a single PDF. Enjoy the experience.
With best wishes,
Garden City Conservation Society, Richmond, Fraser Estuary, Salish Sea, BC
June 30, 2023
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