Public notice

Temporary barge mooring piles - Seaspan – Public comments invited

June 26, 2026 – As part of its Project and Environmental Review process, the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority must determine whether the proposed Temporary barge mooring piles - Seaspan, located at 10 Pemberton, North Vancouver, is likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects. 

To help inform this determination and a decision on whether or not to approve the proposed project, the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is inviting comments from the public respecting that determination. All comments received will be considered public and may be posted online.  For more information, individuals should consult the Privacy Notice on the Registry website. In addition, your contact information may be shared with third parties, e.g., the tenant, other relevant agencies, to help respond to your questions and inform possible mitigations.

Written comments must be submitted by July 25, 2026 to:

Vancouver Fraser Port Authority
Project and Environmental Review
100 The Pointe, 999 Canada Place
Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6C 3T4
per@portvancouver.com

The proposed project

As part of Canada's National Shipbuilding Strategy, Seaspan's Vancouver Shipyards (VSY) hasbeen commissioned to construct and launch a variety of vessels within the Vancouver Shipyards site inNorth Vancouver, BC, located on the Northshore of Burrard Inlet's Inner Harbour.

Given the space constraints within the VSY basin and in the shipyard, VSY proposes to install approximately 10 monopiles with diameters in the range of 914 mm to 1219 mm (the "Project") to enable the temporary mooring of "store" barges near the final outfitting stages of vessel construction and the shipyard. Six (6) piles will be located along the west side of the pier and four (4) piles along the east side of the pier.