B.C. First Nation challenges dredging plan to accommodate larger tankers in Vancouver
Tsleil-Waututh says dredging would increase spill risk and shoreline erosion as the port seeks to let Aframax-class tankers load more fully.
- The Tsleil-Waututh has launched a court challenge against a dredging project in Burrard Inlet, seeking to block efforts that would allow tankers to "load more fully" at the Westridge Marine Terminal.
- Trans Mountain says tankers are currently limited to about 80 per cent capacity due to inlet depth, and the proposed dredging would remove about 25,000 cubic metres of material to reach six metres below the sea floor.
- Energy Minister Adrian Dix said the project "would allow for less traffic at the port and better utilization," while Prime Minister Mark Carney previously promised to "improve access" to overseas markets.
- Citing a "sacred stewardship obligation," Chief Justin George stated the Tsleil-Waututh faces increased oil spill risks, shoreline erosion, and shipping pattern changes that infringe on their way of life.
- The project comes about two years after the TMX pipeline began operating in May 2024, as officials have faced calls to expand capacity further to diversify energy exports away from the United States.
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Tsleil-Waututh Nation seeks to overturn permits allowing dredging to accommodate larger tankers in Vancouver
The plan calls for the dredging along northern and southern edges of the navigation channel in Vancouver's Burrard Inlet underneath the Second Narrows bridge, starting in September.
First Nation files court challenge against Burrard Inlet dredging project for oil tankers
A legal challenge has emerged against the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority’s recently approved plan to perform some dredging in the Second Narrows shipping channel of Burrard Inlet, with the Tsleil-Waututh Nation seeking to overturn key federal and port approvals through the courts. The court action comes about two weeks after the port authority announced it had secured the federal government’s green light to proceed with the project, which is in…
Indigenous Group Challenges Vancouver Dredging for Tankers
Tsleil-Waututh Nation is challenging a plan by the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority in British Columbia to dredge under the Second Narrows Bridge to accommodate fuller oil tankers shipping crude off the Trans Mountain Corp. pipeline.
First Nation challenges port plan to dredge Metro Vancouver's Second Narrows for oil tankers
The Tsleil-Waututh Nation is asking a court to stop the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority from dredging the Second Narrows, a scheme to accommodate fuller oil tankers shipping crude from the Trans Mountain pipeline.
B.C. First Nation challenges dredging plan to accommodate larger tankers in Vancouver – Energeticcity.ca
An aerial view of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain marine terminal filling an oil tanker in Burnaby, B.C., is shown on Tuesday, May 29, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS Jonathan Hayward NORTH VANCOUVER — A British Columbia First Nation says it has launched a legal challenge against a plan by the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority to dredge Burrard Inlet to make room for oil tankers with larger loads to operate. In a release, the Tsleil-Waututh Nation says it…
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