Editor:
Recent ads in the newspaper declaring the Port of Vancouver is going to “Protect the Habitat” when it builds Terminal 2 anger and frustrate me.
I find it highly misleading that none of its studies considered the cumulative effects Terminal 2 and all the other projects it has and proposes to build on the lower Fraser River.
The studies were done to paint a picture to show that all is well to build Terminal 2 and not adversely affect the habitat of aquatic and bird life on the Fraser River, not for the interests of the public at large.
All major environmental studies undertaken since the Roberts Bank port began have shown that causeways and terminals would adversely affect and in the end destroy the salmon runs of the Fraser River and destroy the habitat of sandpipers and other bird species
The migrating juvenile salmon would be forced still further out from the protection of the shoreline and all natural current flows into the Salish Sea would be disrupted.
The construction of Terminal 2 would create a disaster no different than Hell’s Gate or the more recent rock slide in the Fraser Canyon. The construction of Terminal 2 should be stopped.
Douglas George Massey
