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TERRACE - The Pacific NorthWest LNG project planned for Lelu Island faces another challenge now that a group of 108 scientists and academics have signed a collective letter urging the federal government to reject the $11.4 billion dollar export terminal planned for the Skeena River estuary close to Port Edward. The March 11 letter outlines a number of reasons why the signers believe that the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) draft report released last month is flawed in its conclusion that the project would not have a severe impact on fish
and that the methods it used to draw this conclusion were not based on sound science. Addressed to federal environment and climate change minister Catherine McKenna, the letter was written by six scientists and co-signed by 103 others, and concludes that “while we are not decision-makers, we can assess when decisions would be made based on false premises. This is one of those instances. We urge you to reject this draft report.” The CEAA draft report was completed after a prolonged environmental review, and concluded that the project design would not adversely affect Flora Bank adjacent to Lelu Island, which is a tidal area full of eelgrass where young fish congregate.
“A worse location is unlikely to be found for PNW LNG with regard to potential risk to fish and fisheries,” reads the letter countering the ministry’s draft report. The report is now nearing the end of a 30-day public comment stage after which it will be finalized and then sent to McKenna and other federal cabinet ministers for review. They’ll then make the ultimate decision on whether the project is rejected or accepted pending it meeting any number of conditions which may be laid out. That federal acceptance is the last of two conditions Pacific NorthWest LNG, which is majority-owned by the Malaysian-state Petronas corporation, announced must be met last June.
The first condition, already checked off, was the finalization of provincial project development agreement legislation which was passed last summer. The group’s criticism of the CEAA report contained five main points including the opinion it misrepresented the importance of the area to fish, proceeded with lack of information (for example of fish species like eulachon which were never studied), relied too heavily on the science provided by Pacific Northwest LNG-funded studies, didn’t look adequately at cumulative effects, and made unproven claims that is could offset the damage it does through enhancing other areas of the watershed. More LNG stories inside.
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