3 days left! Stop FortisBC's reckless LNG expansion in Vancouver
March 1, 2025
Eoin Finn
Only 3 days left to submit your comment on Tilbury LNG!
If you only have five minutes, it can be as simple as writing "I am extremely concerned about the impacts of Tilbury LNG Phase 2 on the climate, air quality, human health, safety, the environment, and our communities. I urge you to reject the Phase 2 expansion of Tilbury LNG."
If you have specific expertise or want to dig into a chapter of the application, see the details below.
SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTWhat is happening?
FortisBC is proposing to hugely expand its Tilbury LNG facility in Delta BC, building a new LNG liquefaction facility, ground flare, and storage tank near the ecologically sensitive Fraser River.
FortisBC claims that this new LNG storage is to "increase energy resilience" for British Columbians, but the truth is that FortisBC plans to export LNG to customers in Asia, with dangerous LNG carriers transiting the Fraser River.
Even worse... FortisBC wants its customers to pay for this new business venture!
Right now, we have a critical chance to stop Tilbury LNG. The BC Environmental Assessment Office is accepting public comments until March 3rd. Decision-makers need to hear from hundreds of us demanding real climate action—not more reckless LNG expansion.
The process is ridiculously complicated, so our friends at Stand.earth have put together a helpful video to explain how to submit your comment. You don't need to be an expert, you just need to be a concerned citizen.
Please take ten minutes to submit your comment now. You can download the application summary or access all 5,517+ pages (we lost count!) of the application and appendices here.
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Need help with what to say?
Here are some key points you can include:
I am writing to ask you to stop FortisBC from expanding the Tilbury LNG facility. I am concerned that this project will:
❌ Increase methane emissions—a major driver of climate change.
❌ Threaten the Fraser River and estuary which is critical habitat for wildlife.
❌ Harm species at risk including endangered salmon and southern resident orcas.
❌ Worsen local air pollution through flaring which is harmful to human health.
❌ Endanger residents with a catastrophic accident if an LNG spill were to ignite.
❌ Make life more unaffordable as FortisBC wants to charge its customers for this expansion.
❌ Violate Indigenous rights, ignoring the concerns of affected Nations.
It’s time to decarbonize Canada’s economy and invest in healthy, climate-safe solutions instead.
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Help us set up a future legal challenge
For eleven years My Sea to Sky has filed complaints with the BC Environmental Assessment Office to highlight how broken the process is. Nothing has changed. In fact, it's worse. Expecting the public to review over 5,517+ pages in seven weeks is ridiculous.
Building new fossil fuel infrastructure that threatens our climate, our health, our safety, our environment, and our communities is morally reprehensible.
We need your help to expose this rubberstamp process. If Tilbury LNG Phase 2 is approved by the BC Government, we want to set the stage for a future legal challenge.
When you make a submission, check the box for the "Climate change and greenhouse gas emissions" chapter and copy and paste the following text:
"I am concerned that the Tilbury Phase 2 LNG Expansion will violate my and other Canadian's Charter right to "life, liberty, and security of the person" as protected under s. 7 of the Charter, through increased climate impacts in Canada from upstream, local, and downstream emissions.
I demand that downstream emissions be considered because they will, even if burned elsewhere, add carbon to the atmosphere leading to increased climate impacts here in Canada, and impacting rights protected under the Charter."
Please take ten minutes to submit a comment now.
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Climate impacts of Tilbury LNG
Guy Dauncey from West Coast Climate Action Network writes that FortisBC's application to expand Tilbury LNG rests on three false and four unproven assumptions:
- That LNG is a low carbon fuel: False
- That exported LNG will displace coal: Unproven
- That there is no need to account for Tilbury LNG’s global emissions: False
- That the project’s direct emissions will be abated by electrification of the various processes, such as liquefaction: False
- That the project’s direct emissions will be further abated by the use of renewable natural gas (RNG): Unproven
- That the project’s fugitive methane emissions can be managed by technical means: Unproven
- That the project’s immediate emissions can be offset by buying offsets from markets that are regulated by Provincial or Federal authorities: Unproven
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It is utterly absurd to think that burning MORE fossil fuels will help solve climate change. That's what FortisBC is falsely claiming. We cannot let FortisBC and the BC Government continue to greenwash fracking and LNG expansion.
Please submit a comment before midnight (Pacific Time) on Monday, March 3, 2025.
With thanks,
Eoin Finn
Chair, My Sea to Sky
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