Issues Identification - Global Container Terminals (GCT) - Deltaport Expansion - Berth Four (DP4) - Project 81010

Dear GCT IAAC Project 81010 Assessment Officer and BC EAO (and Lower Mainland MLAs, MPs and ENGOS)

Attached is the Fraser Voices letter/submission on the above subject matter. You will note that we feel this IAAC request for issues identification is a close duplication of the many EAs we have been involved in in this particular part of the Fraser River estuary.

The bigger issue in this process is the role that should be taken up by the responsible politicians in the Federal and BC Governments - the EA process does not serve justice to any ecosystem approach to protecting our environment and EAs like the one for YVR jet fuel or RBT2 will ensure the continued degradation of the Fraser River Estuary and its living organisms and our quality of life. IAAC cannot and will not address the issues that the Ministers, MPs and MLAs must pursue. Accordingly this is more like a brief to the Ministers as well as an issues identification paper for IAAC. On this project we again ask for clarification on how the BC EAO and IAAC substitution process is to work. Details of our concerns are in our paper. We would appreciate an explanation of the various EA issues we have raised.

In addition to our subject brief, I have also attached the VAPOR and FV briefs to the RBT2 Panel  hearings and our comments to the Minister on the RBT2 Panel Report. All the key issues should be found in  those papers and that submitted by the Boundary Bay Conservation Society.

We do approve of this material being made available for public viewing.

Sincerely yours

<Original signed by>

Otto E. Langer Fisheries Biologist Richmond BC

Chair of Fraser Voices Society