Halt LNG expansion until health impacts are studied

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Dear Ministers, Recent studies have found that LNG export terminals flare three times more gas during commissioning than regular operations. These emissions aren't modelled in environmental assessments, even though commissioning is the most polluting phase and lasts for two years on average. This means the impacts of these hidden emissions on climate, air quality, and human health have not been adequately assessed by regulators. Flaring releases benzene, fine particulates, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, and carcinogenic volatile organic compounds—all known to harm human health, even over short exposure periods. I call on Provincial and Federal regulators to halt LNG expansion until these health impacts are studied, and to immediately require full modelling and accounting of flaring emissions for Woodfibre LNG in the LNG commissioning phase. I endorse the call by doctors, nurses, and First Nations leaders for an independent, cumulative, comprehensive human health impacts assessment of the gas industry in British Columbia—from fracking to transport, liquefaction and export. Every individual in Canada has the right to a healthy environment, and to be protected from harmful substances, pollutants, and waste. Our communities deserve clean air, not toxic air pollution from Woodfibre LNG's flarestack.
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