We need your help.

Woodfibre LNG’s plans to triple in size are very real. As the world burns, our governments are doubling down on fossil fuel expansion.

Woodfibre LNG was listed as one of four priority projects in the Canada-British Columbia Cooperative Prosperity Agreement signed on July 2, 2026, which outlines Carney's intention to support BC’s LNG Exports by fast-tracking permits and using public money to line the pockets of billionaires:

“Canada and British Columbia will work with proponents, communities, and First Nations to support the permitting, financing and construction of LNG export capacity in B.C.”

My Sea to Sky has warned regulators and the public since 2015 that Woodfibre LNG planned to expand and exploit regulatory loopholes to sneak in a project up to three times bigger.

Now it looks like Carney and Eby are poised to rubber stamp the expansion on or before December 1, 2026.

Triple the tankers. Triple the pollution. Triple the health & safety impacts.

We need to act fast. We need to fight back. Here's how you can help:

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1. Become a monthly supporter

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With only two staff and ~20 volunteers we are fighting as hard as we can on a shoestring budget.

We need more capacity. Monthly donations allow us to respond quickly to hire an expert or mobilize our communities.

Our amazing monthly supporters make it possible for us to protect our coast, our communities, and our climate.

NOTE: My Sea to Sky is a registered non-profit, but to ensure our community's advocacy can be as effective as possible, we are not a charity, and donations are not eligible for a tax credit.

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2. Support our legal actions

My Sea to Sky has partnered with the Sunshine Coast Conservation Association to overturn project approvals for Woodfibre LNG and FortisBC, and hold the Federal and Provincial governments to account.

Can you chip in to help pay for legal fees, expert peer review, access to information, and dedicated staff time to support our legal actions?

Donate below to get a charitable tax receipt from Sunshine Coast Conservation Association.

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3. Join our volunteer team

We are organizing! From Squamish to the Sunshine Coast to Vancouver, and across BC and Canada, we are looking for volunteers to help.

Bring your ideas, your energy, and your expertise, and join our incredible volunteer team.

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I genuinely don't understand the bad decisions our governments are making. I am in shock at the cognitive dissonance of our politicians.

Over 100 wildfires are burning across BC. People have lost their homes. Thousands have been on evacuation alert.

I am feeling angry. I am feeling despair.

But I am not powerless and neither are you.

Please stand with me as we fight for a livable future. We'll be in touch with more ways to take action soon.

Tracey Saxby

Executive Director
My Sea to Sky

Specialized optical gas imaging (OGI) technology reveals that Tilbury LNG—operated by FortisBC—is releasing huge, invisible plumes of toxic chemicals directly into the Metro Vancouver airshed.

These pollutants are harmful to the climate and human health, and people in nearby communities are breathing them in.

"What I'm looking at is just a crazy amount of pollution here... uncontrolled venting..."

--Tim Doty, former Texas regulator, consultant with Oilfield Witness, describing pollution from Tilbury LNG in Vancouver.

WATCH THE INTERVIEW WITH TIM DOTY

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TAKE ACTION! Have your say on Tilbury LNG

Tilbury LNG is a small LNG storage facility in Vancouver, and FortisBC has applied to make Tilbury LNG ten times bigger.

LNG expansion in close proximity to urban centres is reckless. Governments in Canada are not monitoring Tilbury LNG adequately, and there are big monitoring gaps that should concern everyone.

We need to hold FortisBC accountable for this harmful air pollution and demand that our governments protect public health.

Make your voice heard! Our friends at Stand.earth have put together an Action Toolkit to help inform your comments.

Submit a comment on Tilbury LNG here.

DEADLINE: July 27, 1 PM PT

As Tim Doty said, "We need to have public outcry."

Tracey Saxby

Executive Director
My Sea to Sky

FortisBC has a dirty little secret in the middle of Vancouver called Tilbury LNG.

In May, I visited Tilbury LNG with Tim Doty to capture footage of Tilbury LNG's invisible air pollution using an optical gas imaging (OGI) camera.

This small LNG storage facility is a massive polluter, filling Vancouver's airshed with invisible plumes of toxic chemicals. These pollutants are harmful for the climate and human health.

And FortisBC has applied to make Tilbury LNG ten times bigger. WATCH THE VIDEOS

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TAKE ACTION! Have your say on Tilbury LNG

FortisBC wants to expand Tilbury LNG to produce 2.5 million tonnes of LNG every year.

LNG is a fossil fuel, specifically methane, which is 80-86 times more potent than CO2 over a 20-year period.

Why are we building new fossil fuel infrastructure when Canada is on fire?

Expanding Tilbury LNG will increase greenhouse gas emissions and harmful air pollution in Vancouver's airshed.

Make your voice heard! Our friends at Stand.earth have put together an Action Toolkit to help inform your comments.

Submit a comment on Tilbury LNG here.

DEADLINE: July 27, 1 PM PT

This is the wrong industry, in the wrong place, at the wrong time.

As Tim Doty said, "We need to have public outcry."

Eoin Finn

Board Chair
My Sea to Sky

My Sea to Sky is incredibly proud and grateful to say that we rely on the My Sea to Sky community for small donations that provide the majority of our funding. Since our launch in 2014, we have been funded through personal savings, family and friends; and powered by the passion of our volunteers. Your generous contribution will help us to run our critical campaigns to defend, protect, and restore Átl’ḵa7tsem / Howe Sound. Can you chip in?

Share how important clean air is to you. Do you or your family have health conditions that could be impacted by flaring from Woodfibre LNG?

The Minister of Energy and Climate Solutions recently emphasized—in correspondence to dozens of organizations asking governments to apply transparent and comprehensive carbon accounting in evaluating the full lifecycle emissions of LNG projects, and mandate an industry-funded independent, cumulative health impact assessment for British Columbia’s gas and LNG industry that can inform B.C. and other jurisdictions—that LNG projects in Canada are approved using industry-developed emissions modelling and assumptions. These provide predicted concentrations of potential exposures to air pollution and chemicals—all prior to operations, and seemingly without levers to address real-world emissions that surpass those modelled.

For example, LNG Canada, the country’s first export facility, has disclosed that it operates far beyond its Air Waste Discharge Authorization permit. Air pollution volumes were over 40 times those authorized between October 2025 and January 2026. Significant exceedances have continued every month through May 2026, for which the most recent data is available, when the facility’s three flares were 15, seven and four times over their permits.

At this time, Ottawa and the Province of B.C. are conducting a combined environmental assessment, led by B.C., for FortisBC’s application to increase Tilbury LNG’s liquefaction capacities by 10 times to nearly 8,000 tonnes per day (~2.8 million tonnes per year), and to build a new LNG storage tank to hold nearly 145,000 cubic metres of liquified gas. The public comment period is open until July 27, 2026.

The BC Utilities Commission has authorized FortisBC to charge ratepayers the cost of the $1-billion LNG storage tank, a component of the Tilbury LNG expansion, providing an indirect, billion-dollar subsidy to FortisBC. At the same time, households in British Columbia already experienced surges on their FortisBC residential gas bills of 18 percent in 2025 and 11 percent in 2026.

The Tilbury LNG expansion project would generate 1 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions every year over the course of the project’s planned multi-decade lifespan. Additionally, a ground-level flare and venting will release other toxic pollutants into the already polluted river valley. Most of these emissions are invisible to the naked eye, without specialized technology, and are harmful to the climate and human health.

New Westminster is the latest municipality in British Columbia to call for a cumulative, independent health impact assessment of LNG infrastructure, joining Squamish, Dawson Creek, Hazelton, and Terrace, as well as the Squamish Lillooet Regional District, the Health Officers Council of B.C., and more than 50 organizations across the country.

Tim Doty, an ITC Level III Master Thermographer and technical advisor to Texas-based nonprofit Oilfield Witness, documented pollution at the existing Tilbury LNG facility on May 8 and 9, 2026, using specialized optical gas imaging technology. He says; “I worked as a regulator in Texas for almost three decades, and this technology is the gold standard per the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Every LNG facility that I have surveyed in Texas, Louisiana—and now two in British Columbia—has been a big emitter. You won’t see much of the air pollution with the naked human eye unless you use OGI technology and that’s something industry, government, and regulators already know.”

QUOTES

City of New Westminster Mayor Patrick Johnstone
“As local communities continue to carry the burden of climate disruption with murderous heat domes, shifting flood patterns, wildfire devastation and choking summer smoke, it is unconscionable for senior governments and corporations to be throwing fuel on the fire. There is no moral case for fossil fuel expansion while our cities burn, and any alleged short-term economic gain comes only with downloading costs to local taxpayers and a continued degradation of our quality of life."

Tim Doty, technical air monitoring expert for almost 30 years at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality; ITC Level III Master Thermographer; current Technical Advisor to Texas-based nonprofit Oilfield Witness, and President of TCHD Consulting LLC
“At Tilbury LNG, I documented stacks, vent pipes, and processing units continuously spewing emissions that were actively filling the airshed with pollution, both overhead and downwind, and we’re not talking about heat, the technology confirmed that. These are largely uncombusted hydrocarbon emissions that include but are not limited to methane and volatile organic compounds that people really need to be concerned about from environmental, climate, and human health standpoints.”

Diane Milsom, concerned resident
“I live here. I also boat up and down the coast. I understand the huge implications there would be for pollution in the community, accidents on the Fraser and Salish Sea, and fracking inland. We know this kind of project brings pollution, having this camera footage just proves how severe the problem is and how important it is that the government refuses to grant the project certificate.”

Tracey Saxby, marine scientist and executive director of My Sea to Sky
“LNG expansion in close proximity to urban centres is reckless, especially when it lacks controls and effective pollution monitoring. Governments in Canada are not monitoring LNG emissions adequately, and there are big monitoring gaps that should concern everyone. Our governments need to act and use the levers they have to hold companies like FortisBC and LNG Canada accountable for this harmful air pollution and protect public health.”

Janelle Lapointe, senior adviser indigenous strategies at David Suzuki Foundation
“The public is being asked to pay for Tilbury LNG twice: first through rising utility bills, and again through the extreme weather and air pollution that this fossil fuel expansion will intensify. Indigenous and rural communities continue to experience the disproportionate impacts from climate chaos, but Tilbury LNG shows how quickly the boundaries of the sacrifice zones are expanding. The risks and impacts that may have been out of sight and out of mind are arriving at our doorstep. But none of this is inevitable: we can refuse to accept the financial, health and environmental costs of fossil fuels and instead invest in clean energy that makes our communities safer, healthier and more affordable.”

Thomas Green, senior manager climate solutions at the David Suzuki Foundation
"FortisBC's case for Tilbury LNG expansion doesn't hold up because global LNG markets are heading into a glut. Adding more supply into a softening market, when BC already has millions of tonnes of LNG capacity under construction at LNG Canada, Woodfibre LNG and Cedar LNG, is a risky bet that could prove expensive for ratepayers and taxpayers. We don't need to build a bigger LNG terminal to find out that betting on gas expansion in a glutted market is a bad deal, for our air, our climate and our wallets."

Anna Barford, Oceans Campaigner, Stand.earth
“FortisBC is applying to expand the Tilbury LNG facility beyond recognition, but they don’t have their permits yet and we have the opportunity to stop the bad idea before it is too late. Plans include an industrial flare polluting local air, enough liquefaction to fulfill their export license and over 100 tanker voyages per year, not to mention construction noise and increases to our utility bills in the short term. Orcas, Salmon, and our future selves need us to speak up now in opposition to dangerous gas expansion.”

Dr. Tim Takaro, BC-based physician-scientist in environmental medicine, public health and toxicology and representative of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
“The question isn’t whether people will share the same air as this facility. They already do. Communities in the Lower Fraser River and delta region share the same airshed, and air pollution doesn’t stop at the plant boundaries. Before approving an expansion of this scale, governments have a responsibility to ensure decisions are based on an accurate picture of what people are actually breathing, not simply what models predict. When pollution monitoring leaves significant gaps, it is harder to protect the health of nearby communities, especially children, older adults and people living with heart or lung disease.”

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MEDIA RESOURCES

High-resolution images + b-roll of OGI footage, taken by former regulator Tim Doty, at Tilbury LNG in May 2026.

BACKGROUNDER

What is Optical Gas Imaging? Optical gas imaging (OGI) technology allows us to see the invisible pollution from oil and gas facilities by using a Teledyne FLIR G620 optical gas imaging camera that is calibrated to detect hydrocarbons, methane and volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

What can the OGI camera see? The OGI camera detects gases in the 3.2 to 3.4 micrometer wavelength band of the electromagnetic spectrum. Humans see in the 0.4 to 0.7 micrometer range (visible light). The OGI camera allows us to “see” hydrocarbon, methane, and VOC pollution that would otherwise be invisible to the naked eye.

What is in the gas? This OGI footage shows uncombusted and partially combusted hydrocarbons, methane, and VOCs, including benzene, being released from the Tilbury LNG facility in Delta. The OGI camera cannot speciate the gases, but it can show the movement of the gases as they are released into the airshed.

Is this a leak? No, this is the intentional release of harmful pollutants. The OGI camera captures the movement of the gases that are being released that would otherwise be invisible to the naked eye.

Is this heat? No, the temperature span scale on the right side of the videos shows the approximate temperature of the gases as they are released into the airshed.

In early May, I spent a week in Kitimat with Tim Doty, a former Texas regulator who now contracts with Oilfield Witness, to capture footage of LNG Canada's invisible air pollution using an optical gas imaging (OGI) camera.

It was truly shocking to see the huge, invisible plumes of toxic chemicals that LNG Canada is releasing into Kitimat's airshed. These pollutants are harmful to the climate and human health, and people in nearby communities are breathing them in. WATCH THE VIDEOS

We documented a plume of pollution from the 120 foot high flare drifting towards the community of Kitimat. We also saw massive amounts of pollution pouring from six hot stacks at the liquefaction facility itself.

As we're researching, we're learning that a lot of this harmful air pollution is unmonitored and unregulated. For example, benzene—which is a potent carcinogen—is not routinely monitored at LNG Canada.

Our governments have not properly assessed the human health risk for people who are living near LNG plants in Kitimat, Squamish, or Vancouver.

LEARN MORE: WATCH THE VIDEOS | READ THE PRESS RELEASE
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TAKE ACTION! Demand clean air!

The Health Officers Council of B.C. are calling for an independent cumulative assessment of the health impacts from fracking and LNG export projects. Several frontline communities including Squamish, New Westminster, Dawson Creek, Hazelton, Terrace, and the Squamish Lillooet Regional District have joined the call.

Please take a minute to send a letter to federal and provincial ministers. We need to halt LNG expansion until health impacts are studied.

LNG is not "clean" it is a dirty fossil fuel. Our governments need to act and use the levers they have to hold the LNG industry accountable for this harmful air pollution and protect public health.

Please take action to demand clean air for our communities.

Tracey Saxby

Executive Director
My Sea to Sky

My Sea to Sky and the Sunshine Coast Conservation Association are calling for the BC Energy Regulator to pause the permit amendment and investigate the discharge point as the toxic effluent is flowing into the Átl’ḵa7tsem / Howe Sound Biosphere Region.

The toxic wastewater has exceeded Federal and Provincial water quality guidelines for copper and aluminum on an almost weekly basis since December 2024. Both copper and aluminum are known to be highly toxic to marine life.

The new permit allows FortisBC to:

• Increase discharge effluent by over four times: from 1,500 m³/day to 6,815 m³/day);
• Discharge copper at levels ~18 times higher than BC Water Quality Guidelines;

Patrick Canning, legal counsel for My Sea to Sky, says: “Section 16 of the Environmental Management Act gives power to amend permits which have already been granted, but only if the amendments are ‘for the protection of the environment.’ That’s not the case here. This is about cutting costs and enabling construction timelines to benefit a mostly foreign-owned fossil fuel project.”

“Canada’s ‘clean’ LNG industry has a pipeline of pollution that runs directly into the fragile marine ecosystems of the Átl’ḵa7tsem / Howe Sound Biosphere Region. This is a clear regulatory failure. Instead of holding FortisBC accountable to the original permit, the BC Energy Regulator has allowed FortisBC to pollute even more. Two years ago, we warned the regulator that FortisBC's water treatment system for the Eagle Mountain to Woodfibre Gas Pipeline project was inadequate and that it would fail to meet requirements. FortisBC has broken its promise to halt effluent discharge from the tunnel if water quality guidelines were not being met,” says Tracey Saxby, marine scientist and executive director of My Sea to Sky.

Suzanne Senger, executive director of the Sunshine Coast Conservation Association, says; “Átl’ḵa7tsem / Howe Sound is designated as a UNESCO Biosphere Region and recognized internationally as a cultural and ecological treasure. Increasing pollutants and weakening water-quality protections violates the principles of a UNESCO Biosphere Region and risks undermining the hard-fought ecological recovery of Howe Sound. The regulator should make FortisBC stop work on the tunnel until they control the excessive flow of wastewater and upgrade the water treatment system to meet water quality guidelines.”

Note to editors: As required by the Public Notification Regulation, FortisBC did not complete the required BCER application. In lieu, FortisBC sent in a memo from a contractor to act as an application, so the BCER should never have approved this non-compliant “application.”

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Proximity of the discharge point to Howe Sound

According to pages 13-15 of the “application,” FortisBC is discharging wastewater laden with heavy metals into a highly modified stream, a mere 170 metres upslope from Howe Sound. Less than 50 metres of the natural stream remains, the rest is an excavated channel armoured with riprap and concrete, ending in two pipes that discharge directly into Howe Sound.

FortisBC’s original permit application states that direct discharge into Howe Sound was not considered due to “anticipated concerns from First Nations and the public from discharging directly onto the marine environment; cost and schedule implications from requiring to conduct a year-long sampling program to determine background conditions of the receiving environment; and the need to develop a comprehensive mitigation and monitoring plan due to potential environmental impacts to marine ecosystems.”

Resources for Media

• Photographs and videos of FortisBC’s tunnel portal at the Woodfibre site can be accessed here.
• FortisBC’s current waste discharge permit PE-110163 can be accessed here.
• FortisBC's application to amend the permit at the Woodfibre site (and past permit applications) can be accessed here. Relevant documents are:
  • Appendix A - Project Description
  • Appendix B - Hydrometric Monitoring Plan
  • Appendix C - East Creek Hydraulics - Discharge Capacity Assessment
• FortisBC's weekly water quality testing results can be found here.

Background information

FortisBC is currently constructing the Eagle Mountain–Woodfibre Gas Pipeline to feed piped gas to the Woodfibre LNG export project in Átl’ḵa7tsem / Howe Sound. The pipeline includes a 9-km tunnel under the Skwelwil’em Squamish Estuary and Wildlife Management Area (WMA). FortisBC is tunneling through 5.2 km of granite bedrock and has encountered potentially acid-generating rock, which is what made Britannia Mine the most polluted site in North America for nearly a century.

History of acid rock drainage from the Britannia Mine

For much of the 20th century, acid rock drainage from the Britannia Mine poured massive amounts of toxic, metal-laden water into Átl’ḵa7tsem / Howe Sound. The pollution created a "dead zone" in nearby ecosystems, devastating marine life for decades. After the mine closed in 1974, it took decades of advocacy, regulatory reform, remediation, and sustained stewardship by First Nations, scientists, volunteers, and local government to clean up the mess at public expense.

About My Sea To Sky

My Sea To Sky is a people-powered environmental organization that was founded in 2014 to defend, protect, and restore Átl’ḵa7tsem / Howe Sound, www.myseatosky.org

About Sunshine Coast Conservation Association

The SCCA is a charitable non-profit society dedicated to conserving and restoring biodiversity in Howe Sound and the Sunshine Coast. We develop and lead transformative conservation campaigns to protect watersheds, ecosystems, and species through research, education, alliance-building, and advocacy in the territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, shíshálh, Tla'amin, Klahoose, and Homalco First Nations, www.thescca.ca

OGI technology, a tool widely used by U.S. regulators, makes visible the uncombusted and partially combusted hydrocarbons, methane, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as benzene. OGI data collection at the LNG Canada facility in May 2026 documents the extent of these flaring and venting emissions. It was led by Tim Doty, a technical air monitoring expert, who is an ITC Level III Master Thermographer, Technical Advisor to Texas-based nonprofit Oilfield Witness, and recently retired from nearly 30 years’ service at the state of Texas’ environmental agency.

The invisible hydrocarbon pollutants documented at LNG Canada are above-and-beyond the excessive flaring that has been taking place at the facility. New documents from the BC Energy Regulator, obtained last week through Freedom of Information requests, show that LNG Canada continues to surpass its permitted levels of flaring and continues to rely on the spare flare because an ongoing problem rendered the warm/wet flare unusable earlier this year.

These documents show the spare flare had a monthly average rate of 141.3 m3/minute against a 7.8 m3/minute permit level in April, 18 times higher than the permit. At this rate, a single day of flaring from the spare flare at LNG Canada burns enough gas to heat roughly 13,500 to 20,000 homes for one day in the winter. The facility’s other flares were also in exceedance of their permits in April:

• at 16.79m3/minute against the permit limit of 9.6 m3/minute for the cold/dry flare, and;
• at 32.92 m3/minute against the permit limit of 6.0 m3/minute for the loading and storage flare.

Flaring refers to the combustion of gas in a flare stack or an incinerator. It is an intentional and controlled burning of hydrocarbons with a visible flame. Venting is an intentional and controlled release of uncombusted gases into the atmosphere during operations. Both processes release uncombusted methane, benzene, other VOCs and oxides of nitrogen and sulphur. Many are known to harm human health even over short exposure periods.

Benzene, for example, is such a potent carcinogen that no safe exposure level has been found. Benzene is not routinely measured or reported at LNG facilities in British Columbia. However, monitoring elsewhere reveals that significant levels of benzene can be released from such facilities. For instance, more than 660 kilograms (1473 pounds) of benzene was released by Freeport LNG in Texas in 2024—an enormous quantity for a chemical often measured in milligrams. In Australia, an independent review of Inpex Ichthys LNG found that benzene was ‘systematically underestimated’ for years.

LNG Canada says that gas processed at the facility “has the same composition as the natural gas used in homes for heating and cooking.” Yet peer-reviewed research shows gas stoves in Vancouver and Calgary have the highest levels of benzene among 17 North American cities.

In British Columbia, five communities that share an airshed with LNG infrastructure—Squamish, New Westminster, Dawson Creek, Hazelton, and Terrace—as well as the Squamish Lillooet Regional District, the Health Officers Council of B.C., and more than 50 organizations across the country have called on Ottawa and B.C. to immediately mandate a cumulative, independent health impact assessment of British Columbia’s gas and LNG industry.

To date, the Prime Minister’s Office has deferred the request for a cumulative and independent health impact assessment of British Columbia’s gas and LNG industry to other ministries. The BC Premier’s Office has passed it to the Minister of Energy and Climate Change. British Columbia’s Ministry of Health has noted the province’s Environmental Assessment Office acknowledges concerns from medical professionals that project-by-project assessments may not fully address cumulative impacts.

B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Act allows for regional and strategic assessments that could be used to study the cumulative effects of the province’s gas and LNG industry, but to date, none have been conducted.

QUOTES

Tim Doty, technical air monitoring expert for almost 30 years at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality; ITC Level III Master Thermographer; current Technical Advisor to Texas-based nonprofit Oilfield Witness, and President of TCHD Consulting LLC
“I have conducted thousands of environmental assessments using optical gas imaging (OGI) cameras since 2005, including surveying all currently operational LNG facilities in Texas and Louisiana, with one exception. I can clearly say that LNG Canada is a huge polluter whose site emissions appeared to be equivalent to or exceed that of anything that I have witnessed to date in the U.S. Field observations over a four-day period resulted in the documentation of extremely significant uncombusted/partially combusted emissions being released from flares, stacks, and processing trains. These emissions, which were not visible to the naked eye, filled the airshed with pollution both overhead and downwind of the facility causing great potential to negatively impact downwind receptors.”

Thomas Green, ecological economist and senior manager, climate solutions at David Suzuki Foundation
“We keep hearing that Canadian LNG has 60 per cent lower emissions than the global average. That's untrue, and it misses the mark. LNG is a fossil fuel, and burning it abroad adds to global heating and extreme weather. Ottawa and B.C. are leaning on an optimistic estimate from the LNG Canada project's 2015 environmental assessment filing. That number ignores how LNG plants, even the newest ones, vent and emit under real-world conditions. It also assumes the plant's power-hungry liquefaction would run on electricity, not the gas turbines it actually uses, with no plans to change. We can't see the full extent of the toxic pollution pouring off LNG export facilities, but imaging technology proves it's there, in massive amounts.”

Ankur Patel, Kitimat-based Registered Nurse and representative of the Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment

“When we see some of the largest private investments in Canadian history, we expect to see a monitoring structure and regulatory oversight that protects people living nearby. Community discussions and forums are revealing again and again that many residents living in Kitimat are reporting health impacts, ranging from acute symptom exacerbation to unexpected personal and family diagnoses. We are watching the investment in LNG Canada come with integrity issues, broken permits, and an unexpected picture for those across the Northwest. The picture has shifted from what we were promised by the Province, and a comprehensive health assessment should follow in kind.”

Tracey Saxby, executive director, My Sea to Sky

“LNG is not clean, it is a dirty fossil fuel, and a lot of this harmful air pollution is unmonitored and unregulated. For example, benzene—which is a potent carcinogen—is not routinely monitored at LNG Canada. Our governments have not properly assessed the human health risk for people who are living near LNG plants in Kitimat, Squamish, or Vancouver. Why aren’t they doing a cumulative health impacts assessment of the LNG industry, from the fracking fields to the final consumer? Why isn’t there better air monitoring to keep these massive polluters accountable? If there’s not a problem, there should be nothing to hide.”

Dr. Tim Takaro, BC-based physician-scientist in environmental medicine, public health and toxicology and representative of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment

“People are genuinely concerned about the rapid growth of the industry, especially when cumulative health impacts are not being considered as new multi-billion dollar LNG projects are proposed and approved. We’re seeing these projects built before their final air quality permit is granted, leaving governments in an impossible position if the facility should not be operating because air quality is worse than expected.”

Note to editors:

• LNG Canada has been exceeding its permitted levels of flaring since at least September of last year. The facility entered regular operations when the first shipments of LNG left Train 1 (June 2025) and Train 2 (December 2025).
• LNG Canada is the country’s first LNG export facility. Another 11 are earmarked across the country, according to the 2026 federal budget (page 33).
• The governments of Canada and British Columbia are set to provide $4 billion in public funding to the private LNG sector by 2030.
• Year-to-date royalties for natural gas in British Columbia (for the first nine months of 2025/26) are $530 million, without deducting any subsidies provided to the sector or LNG facilities. In comparison, the B.C. government spent $1.1 billion dollars in 2023 fighting wildfires, which are exacerbated by climate change that is largely driven by producing and burning fossil fuels.
• Flaring does not fully combust all gas, so it releases hydrocarbons and VOCs, including potent carcinogens, into the environment.
• Methane is 80 times more potent at warming the climate over a twenty-year time period than carbon dioxide.

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Resources available to the media

• OGI visual package, with side-by-side comparisons, video, photos and b-roll | Photo credit in file names.
• B-roll of start-up flaring at LNG Canada in Kitimat | Photo credit: supplied video
• High-resolution images of one of LNG Canada’s flarestacks | Photo credit: supplied image

For more information:
Allison Murray, Principal
Murray Communications Inc.

Despite the largest source of flaring—by volume—occurring at the emergency Spare Flare, the facility’s cold/dry, and storage/loading flares also continued to greatly exceed their permitted volumes in March:

• The cold/dry flare calculated a monthly average rate of 29.7 m3/min against the permit limit of 9.6 m3/min.
• The Storage/Loading Flare (FLP) calculated a monthly average rate of 40.3 m3/min against the permit limit of 6.0 m3/min.

It was exposed on April 9 that the facility flared an average of 40 times more gas than its permits allow for the warm/wet and cold/dry flares during the last three months of 2025 and the first month of 2026, according to documents obtained from the BC Energy Regulator.

QUOTES

Tracey Saxby, Executive Director of My Sea To Sky

“This industry is operating unsafely in Canada and governments are allowing that to happen at the expense of human health. This is an emerging public health crisis. Ottawa needs to step in and issue a stop‑work order to LNG Canada, which has been spewing unregulated toxic chemicals into residential areas and exceeding its flaring permits by up to 40 times. These issues have been ongoing for close to a year. If this is the precedent oil and gas majors are setting for LNG in Canada, imagine what will happen with smaller, less experienced companies like Western LNG’s Ksi Lisims project or Woodfibre LNG.”

Tim Doty, former technical air expert at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), current Technical Advisor to Texas-based nonprofit Oilfield Witness and President of TCHD Consulting

“I just spent three days in Kitimat B.C. conducting optical gas imaging (OGI) field assessments of LNG Canada, using the same techniques and procedures that I helped to establish at the TCEQ’s Office of Compliance and Enforcement. During this monitoring project, I documented significant and sometimes massive uncombusted and partially combusted emissions being released from multiple exhaust stacks and a damaged and malfunctioning flare that was not being operated as designed and represented. The emissions filled the airshed with pollution over and beyond the company’s property line and would be expected to negatively impact the adjacent community and downwind receptors, pending meteorological conditions. I have personally performed OGI assessments at most of the operational LNG plants in both Texas and Louisiana over the last several years, and I can honestly say that I was shocked by what I documented at LNG Canada.”

Note to editors:

• LNG Canada disclosed to the BC Energy Regulator in 2025 that a flare stack at the facility had an “integrity issue.” This information was not made public until 2026. To manage this backburn problem and prevent an explosion, LNG Canada had been routing large volumes of gas to the problematic flare stack and burning it off into the airshed—until February 2026 when the flare tip cracked twice, likely due to increased and prolonged heat from excess flaring.
• LNG Canada says that gas processed at the facility “has the same composition as the natural gas used in homes for heating and cooking.” Samples from gas stoves in Vancouver and Calgary were found to have the highest benzene concentrations among samples from other North American cities, according to a peer-reviewed scientific study published in 2024.
• Benzene is such a potent carcinogen that no safe exposure level has been found. Benzene is not routinely measured or reported at LNG facilities in British Columbia.

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Media Resources
B-roll and images of flaring, including the emergency spare flare, at LNG Canada in Kitimat | Files are from April 26, 2026 during a planned flaring event unless otherwise noted | Photo credit: Supplied unless otherwise noted.

Ecojustice lawyers, on behalf of the British Columbia-based citizens group My Sea to Sky, urge Ottawa to carefully consider whether the laws, policies and actions it implements to enable and financially bail out fossil fuel projects with public money can be reconciled with Canadians’ Charter rights, in particular the right to life. Fossil fuels worsen the climate crisis and its impacts cause deaths, human rights violations, and aggravate the affordability crisis that Canadians are enduring.

“Judicial decisions increasingly link climate impacts with governments’ laws and actions, and the human rights obligations our governments owe to people under the Charter and international law. The Supreme Court of Canada has recognized that climate change poses an existential threat to human life in Canada and the International Court of Justice has called out fossil fuel subsidies explicitly as a potential ‘wrongful act’ under international law,” says Charlie Hatt, lawyer and climate program director at Ecojustice, citing rulings that point to serious and disproportionate effects on Indigenous communities and young people.

“It’s bad enough that Canada has continually failed to meet emissions reductions targets, but to use taxpayer money to fund climate harms is simply unconscionable, and we believe Canadian courts are ready to address this,” says Patrick Canning, lawyer originally retained by My Sea to Sky with lawyer Charlotte Chamberlain.

Fossil fuels are the main driver of the global climate crisis. Natural gas’ chemical name is methane, which is 80 times more potent at warming the climate than carbon dioxide. Federal definitions of low-carbon LNG rely on a narrow accounting of emissions that excludes the majority of the fossil fuel’s emissions, including upstream extraction, methane leakage, pipeline transport, and end-use combustion.

“Even if the wholly American-owned Ksi Lisims LNG project were to electrify its liquefaction, which impacts less than five percent, on average, of LNG’s total life-cycle emissions, it will still produce as much as half of British Columbia’s current yearly emissions,” says executive director of My Sea To Sky Tracey Saxby, noting that Ksi Lisims LNG is one of twelve LNG projects Ottawa identified in last month’s federal budget.

“These emissions figures assume that all goes according to plan. That hasn’t been the case at LNG Canada as we now know. That facility has been exceeding its air pollution discharge permits by up to 40 times for many consecutive months because of an ongoing operational defect,” adds Saxby.

Seven of the country’s LNG projects are located in British Columbia, including Ksi Lisims LNG, LNG Canada Phase 1 and 2, Cedar LNG, and Kitimat LNG, all in northern B.C.; Woodfibre LNG in Squamish; and Tilbury LNG in Metro Vancouver, a project that would affect the airsheds of residential neighbourhoods in New Westminster, South Vancouver, Richmond, Delta and Surrey.

While current fossil energy markets are highly volatile, there is a serious risk that by the time Canadian LNG comes online global markets may be in a period of structural oversupply. The Iran war is causing potential import markets to accelerate their transition to renewables as clean energy is less expensive, faster to deploy, and offers lower ongoing costs and energy security reassurance, which global fossil fuel markets simply cannot.

Notes to editors:

• Public financiers must respect Canadians’ Charter rights, including the right to life, liberty, and security of the person (s. 7), the right to equal protection under the law (s. 15), and non-Charter rights like the rights of Indigenous Peoples.
• The 100 percent American-owned Ksi Lisims LNG project faces federal lawsuits by the Lax Kw'alaams Band and the Metlakatla First Nation, and the project lacks consent from nearly half the Indigenous Nations consulted by the Province of B.C.
• The Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline—required to supply gas to the proposed Ksi Lisims project—faces two provincial legal challenges in B.C.
• The FortisBC Eagle Mountain-to-Woodfibre pipeline, which is being built to supply gas to the Woodfibre LNG project, is facing a provincial lawsuit by a member of Squamish Nation.
• Battery storage is the fastest-growing power technology today, with 40 percent more deployed worldwide in 2025, compared to 2024, and 80 percent of the new capacity was utility-scale, according to the IEA.

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About Ecojustice
Ecojustice uses the power of the law to defend nature, combat climate change and fight for a healthy environment. Its strategic, public interest lawsuits and advocacy lead to precedent-setting court decisions, law and policy that deliver lasting solutions to Canada’s most urgent environmental problems. As Canada’s largest environmental law charity, Ecojustice operates offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa and Halifax.

About My Sea to Sky

My Sea to Sky is a people-powered environmental organization that was founded in 2014 to defend, protect, and restore Átl’ḵa7tsem / Howe Sound through science-based research, education, advocacy, litigation, and facilitating public engagement with governments. It is based in Squamish, British Columbia, 7 km northeast of Woodfibre LNG. www.myseatosky.org.

It's been an epic couple of weeks.

Last Monday May 4, My Sea to Sky, represented by Ecojustice lawyers, sent a letter to Prime Minister Carney, warning that granting new fossil fuel subsidies for LNG projects may violate Canadians' Charter rights.

Last Tuesday May 5, we made the front page of the Vancouver Sun, exposing the year-long water permit violations from FortisBC's toxic tunnel.

And last week, I visited Kitimat with Tim Doty, a former Texas regulator who now contracts with Oilfield Witness, to capture footage of the invisible pollution pouring from LNG Canada (both the flare and five polluting stacks at the facility itself) using an optical gas imaging camera. I felt like Erin Brockovich, tramping through the woods with Tim.

This week, we broke a story, nationwide, that LNG Canada's flare tip is cracked due to excess flaring and that the acid-gas incinerator has been offline for a month, which means the gas is dirtier and polluting nearby communities. LEARN MORE: CBC | Energetic City

Then on Tuesday May 12, My Sea to Sky volunteers held FortisBC and the BC Energy Regulator accountable as they gave an update to the District of Squamish.

I'm feeling like a total badass, and I wanted to take a moment to celebrate our success with all of you. We could not do this without the incredible support of the My Sea to Sky community.

Thank you for making our work possible!

Boom, boom, boom.

Tracey Saxby

Executive Director
My Sea to Sky

P.S. If you'd like to support our badass legal actions to stop Woodfibre LNG and FortisBC, chip in now and get a charitable tax receipt from our partner, Sunshine Coast Conservation Association.

My Sea to Sky is incredibly proud and grateful to say that we rely on the My Sea to Sky community for small donations that provide the majority of our funding. Since our launch in 2014, we have been funded through personal savings, family and friends; and powered by the passion of our volunteers. Your generous contribution will help us to run our critical campaigns to defend, protect, and restore Átl’ḵa7tsem / Howe Sound. Can you chip in?

Unceded Sḵwx̱wú7mesh territory (SQUAMISH, BC) — Woodfibre LNG and FortisBC appeared as a delegation before the District of Squamish on Tuesday to provide project updates.

The delegation was met by approximately 25 citizens, chanting "No Fracking Way!" in a snap action led by Melyssa Hudson, one of the co-founders of My Sea to Sky.

"As a mom with two young children, I am genuinely frightened for their future. We are already experiencing the devastating impacts of climate change. Last year, hundreds of people died in the Heat Dome, and tens of thousands of people were evacuated due to wildfires or floods. We cannot build new fossil fuel infrastructure like Woodfibre LNG that will increase fracking and lock in climate pollution for decades."

Eoin Finn, co-founder and Research Director of My Sea to Sky, hand-delivered a petition to Woodfibre LNG staff signed by more than 20,400 people calling to stop Woodfibre LNG and the associated Eagle Mountain to Woodfibre high-pressure gas pipeline proposed by FortisBC.

"We've been fighting to stop Woodfibre LNG and the FortisBC pipeline for over eight years. We have successfully delayed these projects since 2015, and we're not giving up. We will stop Woodfibre LNG. We will stop FortisBC. We are fighting for the future of our grandchildren."

My Sea to Sky is a people-powered environmental organization that was founded by Átl’ḵa7tsem / Howe Sound citizens concerned about the local and regional impacts of Woodfibre LNG, which will increase fracking, lock in climate pollution, and puts residents that live along the proposed pipeline route in Squamish and Coquitlam, or near the LNG carrier route in Howe Sound or English Bay at risk.

While oil and gas companies including Woodfibre LNG are opportunistically pointing to the Russia-Ukraine War as an excuse to increase fracking and LNG exports, this crisis instead highlights the extreme price volatility of oil and gas, as well as the vulnerability of fossil fuel infrastructure to targeted attacks. In response, the European Commission plans to rapidly scale up renewables and energy efficiency measures, divesting from gas to ensure future energy security.

"Fracked gas is risky, it's expensive, and it will always remain volatile depending on global markets. Building new gas infrastructure like Woodfibre LNG or FortisBC's pipeline will only entrench global dependence on fossil fuels at a time when we need to invest in renewable energy," said Finn. "Woodfibre LNG will not be operational until at least 2027 or later. Will there still be a market for BC's LNG in five years? Unlikely."

A recent report urged all nations to begin a rapid phaseout of fossil fuel production, calling on Canada as a wealthy, high-emitting nation to end all oil and gas production by 2034 to ensure that warming does not exceed 1.5°C.

My Sea to Sky is one of more than 350+ diverse organizations and businesses that have signed an open letter calling on the BC government to confront the climate emergency and undertake ten urgent climate actions. We reiterate our support for these actions, and call on the BC government to immediately stop all new fossil fuel infrastructure like Woodfibre LNG and FortisBC's Eagle Mountain to Woodfibre gas pipeline.

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For media inquiries, please contact:

Tracey Saxby, Executive Director, My Sea to Sky
Phone: (604) 892-7501
Email: tracey@myseatosky.org

Eoin Finn, Research Director, My Sea to Sky
Phone: (604) 715-7991
Email: eoin@myseatosky.org

Background information

• Woodfibre LNG is a proposed LNG export facility located southwest of Squamish in Átl’ḵa7tsem / Howe Sound. While the project has received an environmental assessment certificate, and was granted a five-year extension in 2020, it still needs several outstanding permits to proceed, including an amendment to its environmental assessment certificate to build a floating workcamp to house 500-600 construction workers.

• The project is owned by the notorious Indonesian businessman, Sukanto Tanoto, whose companies have a history of tax evasion and profit shifting, human rights violations, and animal rights violations.

• Woodfibre LNG intended to begin construction in 2015, however the project has been delayed for over seven years due to significant local opposition coordinated by My Sea to Sky and partnering organizations. The project has also been plagued by ongoing corruption and high staff turnover.

• Woodfibre LNG made a fake Final Investment Decision (FID) in November 2016, two days prior to the BC Liberal convention, and two weeks after Sukanto Tanoto and Rich Coleman signed secret documents that the government still refuses to release. This brings into question the reliability of Woodfibre LNG’s public statements, and whether future FID announcements are to be considered reliable or genuine.

• FortisBC proposes to build a 24-inch high pressure pipeline from Coquitlam to the Woodfibre site. This includes digging a 14-foot wide, 9 km long tunnel underneath the Squamish estuary that will result in permanent acid rock drainage and treatment, similar to Britannia Mine, which was one of the worst environmental disasters in Canada’s history.

• FortisBC plans to expand Tilbury LNG on the Fraser River in Vancouver, which is currently undergoing an environmental assessment. This makes FortisBC one of Woodfibre LNG's competitors in a global market that is rapidly evaporating.

• A recent report from The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) forecast that Woodfibre LNG and other proposed LNG projects would be unlikely to proceed as LNG Canada is not economically viable. "Due to markets shifts, rising costs and policy changes, Phase I of the LNG Canada export terminal could be the last liquefied natural gas project built in British Columbia under current market dynamics..."

On behalf of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE BC), the Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment (CANE), Lax'yip Firekeepers, and My Sea to Sky, we would like to invite you to attend a community forum in Hazelton, Kitimat, or Terrace to learn about the human health impacts of liquefied natural gas (LNG) development in BC.

Doctors and nurses will share the latest research on the threats that LNG development poses for public health and BC’s healthcare system, especially in rural and Indigenous communities. Residents will share their firsthand experience in Kitimat where excess flaring by LNG Canada is affecting the health and wellbeing of community members.

At a time when many British Columbians are looking for credible, accessible information about the health implications of fossil fuel expansion, we believe it is important to create opportunities for dialogue grounded in public health expertise and frontline community experience.

Key speakers:

• Dr Tim Takaro, Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
• Ankur Patel, Kitimat Acute Care Nurse, Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment
• Drew Harris and Grace Vickers, Lax'yip Firekeepers

Hazelton

Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Time: 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. (doors open at 6:30pm)
Location: Hagwilget Hall, Hwy 62, New Hazelton BC

Kitimat

Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Time: 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. (doors open at 6:30pm)
Location: Mount Elizabeth Theatre, Kitimat BC

Terrace

Date: Thursday, May 28, 2026
Time: 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. (doors open at 6:30pm)
Location: Sherwood Mountain Brewhouse, Terrace BC

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Whatever your feelings about LNG Canada—we all deserve clean and healthy air.

We hope to see you there.

Kate McInnes

Director of Health and Economic Campaigns
My Sea to Sky

Did you know Woodfibre LNG plans to triple in size? What does that mean for Bowen Islanders?

Please attend this public meeting hosted by Concerned Citizens Bowen, tomorrow on Bowen Island. Tracey Saxby from My Sea to Sky will present an update on Woodfibre LNG and the associated FortisBC pipeline and tunnel project, including:

• Health harms from flaring;
• Excessive water pollution from FortisBC's toxic tunnel;
• Woodfibre LNG’s ambition to triple its production.

WHEN: 7pm to 8:30pm, Wednesday, May 13, 2026
(Doors open at 6:45pm)

WHERE: Collins Hall, 1120 Miller Road, Bowen Island BC

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Spread the word, bring friends! Together we can make change and protect Átl’ḵa7tsem / Howe Sound.

I hope to see you there.

Anton van Walraven

Concerned Citizens Bowen
in partnership with My Sea to Sky

BC is already burning. Ask your MLA to commit to climate solutions now.

On behalf of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE BC), the Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment (CANE), Lax'yip Firekeepers, and My Sea to Sky, we would like to invite you to attend a community forum to learn about the human health impacts of liquefied natural gas (LNG) development in BC.

Doctors and nurses will share the latest research on the threats that LNG development poses for public health and BC’s healthcare system, especially in rural and Indigenous communities. Residents will share their firsthand experience in Kitimat where excess flaring by LNG Canada is affecting the health and wellbeing of community members.

At a time when many British Columbians are looking for credible, accessible information about the health implications of fossil fuel expansion, we believe it is important to create opportunities for dialogue grounded in public health expertise and frontline community experience.

Key speakers:

• Dr Tim Takaro, Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
• Dr Melissa Lem, Family Doctor and Past President of Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
• Ankur Patel, Kitimat Acute Care Nurse, Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment
• Gina Mowatt, Lax'yip Firekeepers
• Shay Lynn Sampson, Lax'yip Firekeepers

Vancouver

Date: Thursday, April 30, 2026
Time: 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:30pm)
Location: SFU Harbour Centre - Fletcher Challenge Theatre

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This will be a powerful event with incredible speakers.

I hope to see you there.

Eoin Finn

Board Chair
My Sea to Sky

This week I took a road trip to Tilbury LNG in Delta.

I could smell the gas. I could see the air pollution.

FortisBC has plans to expand this small, LNG storage facility to a 2.5 megatonne export facility, bigger than Woodfibre LNG.

It made me wonder, how will air pollution from Tilbury LNG affect Vancouver’s air quality?

Free community forum this Thursday at SFU

On behalf of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE BC), the Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment (CANE), Lax'yip Firekeepers, and My Sea to Sky, we would like to invite you to attend a community forum to learn about the human health impacts of liquefied natural gas (LNG) development in BC.

Doctors and nurses will share the latest research on the threats that LNG development poses for public health and BC’s healthcare system, especially in rural and Indigenous communities. Residents will share their firsthand experience in Kitimat where excess flaring by LNG Canada is affecting the health and wellbeing of community members.

At a time when many British Columbians are looking for credible, accessible information about the health implications of fossil fuel expansion, we believe it is important to create opportunities for dialogue grounded in public health expertise and frontline community experience.

Key speakers:

• Dr Tim Takaro, Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
• Dr Melissa Lem, Family Doctor and Past President of Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
• Ankur Patel, Kitimat Acute Care Nurse, Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment
• Lax'yip Firekeepers

Vancouver

Date: Thursday, April 30, 2026
Time: 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:30pm)
Location: SFU Harbour Centre - Fletcher Challenge Theatre

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It's not too late to stop Tilbury LNG's expansion.

I hope to see you there.

Tracey Saxby

Executive Director
My Sea to Sky

My Sea to Sky is incredibly proud and grateful to say that we rely on the My Sea to Sky community for small donations that provide the majority of our funding. Since our launch in 2014, we have been funded through personal savings, family and friends; and powered by the passion of our volunteers. Your generous contribution will help us to run our critical campaigns to defend, protect, and restore Átl’ḵa7tsem / Howe Sound. Can you chip in?

Minister of Energy and (cough) "Climate Solutions," Adrian Dix, says BC will produce "the world's lowest-emission LNG." Premier David Eby, says BC's gas is the “lowest-carbon LNG in the world.”

But "clean LNG" is a dirty lie. Want proof?

LNG Canada flared more gas in 2025 than any other LNG export terminal in the world in 2024, flaring almost one million cubic metres of gas a day on average. The extreme flaring from LNG Canada is raising questions about the ongoing human health impacts for Kitimat residents.

How will air pollution from Woodfibre LNG's flarestack impact communities in Howe Sound? What does it mean if Woodfibre LNG triples its capacity? How is air pollution from Tilbury LNG affecting Vancouver residents?

Attend a community forum near you to find out...

On behalf of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE BC), the Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment (CANE), Lax'yip Firekeepers, and My Sea to Sky, we would like to invite you to attend a community forum to learn about the human health impacts of liquefied natural gas (LNG) development in BC.

Doctors and nurses will share the latest research on the threats that LNG development poses for public health and BC’s healthcare system, especially in rural and Indigenous communities. Residents will share their firsthand experience in Kitimat where excess flaring by LNG Canada is affecting the health and wellbeing of community members.

At a time when many British Columbians are looking for credible, accessible information about the health implications of fossil fuel expansion, we believe it is important to create opportunities for dialogue grounded in public health expertise and frontline community experience.

Key speakers:

• Dr Tim Takaro, Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
• Dr Melissa Lem, Family Doctor and Past President of Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (Vancouver only)
• Ankur Patel, Kitimat Acute Care Nurse, Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment
• Lax'yip Firekeepers

Squamish

Date: Monday, April 27, 2026
Time: 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:30pm)
Location: Brackendale Art Gallery

Vancouver

Date: Thursday, April 30, 2026
Time: 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:30pm)
Location: SFU Harbour Centre - Fletcher Challenge Theatre

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These events are free, and tickets are moving fast. Please make sure you RSVP now.

Our communities deserve clean air.

Linda Smart

Volunteer
My Sea to Sky

Earlier this year, I spent a few days in Kitimat BC, where LNG Canada has been flaring up to 15 times more gas than expected due to an equipment failure that will take three years to fix.

Every flaring event releases a toxic mix of air pollutants, including particulate matter, black carbon, nitrogen and sulphur oxides, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) including benzene. Even brief exposures to these air pollutants can harm human health.

Last month, the Health Officers Council of B.C. called for an independent assessment of the health impacts from fracking and LNG export projects, which has since been supported by councils in Dawson Creek and Squamish.

How will air pollution from Woodfibre LNG's flarestack impact communities in Howe Sound? What does it mean if Woodfibre LNG triples its capacity? How is air pollution from Tilbury LNG affecting Vancouver residents?

Attend a community forum near you to find out...

On behalf of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE BC), the Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment (CANE), Lax'yip Firekeepers, and My Sea to Sky, we would like to invite you to attend a community forum to learn about the human health impacts of liquefied natural gas (LNG) development in BC.

Doctors and nurses will share the latest research on the threats that LNG development poses for public health and BC’s healthcare system, especially in rural and Indigenous communities. Residents will share their firsthand experience in Kitimat where excess flaring by LNG Canada is affecting the health and wellbeing of community members.

At a time when many British Columbians are looking for credible, accessible information about the health implications of fossil fuel expansion, we believe it is important to create opportunities for dialogue grounded in public health expertise and frontline community experience.

Key speakers:

• Dr Tim Takaro, Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
• Dr Melissa Lem, Family Doctor and Past President of Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (Vancouver only)
• Ankur Patel, Kitimat Acute Care Nurse, Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment
• Lax'yip Firekeepers

Squamish

Date: Monday, April 27, 2026
Time: 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:30pm)
Location: Brackendale Art Gallery

Vancouver

Date: Thursday, April 30, 2026
Time: 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:30pm)
Location: SFU Harbour Centre - Fletcher Challenge Theatre

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We can't take clean air for granted.

Kate McInnes

Director of Health and Economic Campaigns
My Sea to Sky