Ottawa fast-tracks $5.9-billion Roberts Bank port expansion as national-interest project
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Ottawa says the move could pull the terminal’s opening forward by up to four years and raise the port’s container capacity by about 50 percent.
The announcement came with nearly $2 billion in federal marine-protection spending, but conservationists warned that no mitigation can offset the threat the terminal poses to endangered southern resident killer whales.
The three-berth terminal is designed to add 2.4 million containers of annual capacity.
1, and Ottawa is framing it as a matter of trade sovereignty.
1 tariff doubling would be ‘catastrophic’ Carney says Canada not ready to sign U.S.
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Ottawa fast-tracks $5.9-billion Roberts Bank port expansion as national-interest project
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The Roberts Bank Terminal 2 container expansion at the Port of Vancouver, a $5.9-billion project, has been designated a project of national interest by the federal government. Ottawa says the move could pull the terminal’s opening forward by up to four years and raise the port’s container capacity by about 50 percent.…
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