Tankers on the Fraser River? LNG export licence in Delta gets the OK

Up to 120 LNG tankers a year could ply the south arm of the Fraser River after a U.S. company secured a licence to export LNG from a facility on Tilbury Island in Delta.

The National Energy Board of Canada approved the plan on May 7.

“It’s the first I’ve heard of this,” said MP Fin Donnelly (New Westminster-Coquitlam-Port Moody), the NDP critic for West Coast fisheries and oceans.

“You’re dealing with one of the world’s greatest salmon rivers. I’m certainly concerned about the explosive radius of any of these large ships. You would want to have a proper review in place.”

The plan is the first LNG proposal to emerge for the Metro Vancouver area, although numerous projects have been proposed elsewhere in the province.