The Gateway Project is a plan to expand Canada's currently un-sustainable trade with the Asia Pacific region. The project may well be the most harmful transportation infrastructure plan in the history of our province, if not our country.

The estimated $10 billion proposal includes new and expanded port infrastructure, highways, bridges, rail yards and container terminals; all to facilitate the import of more disposable goods from the Asia Pacific and export of more B.C.’s non-renewable resources. There is still an opportunity to stop this project.

The Gateway Project would drastically increase the Lower Mainland’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and pollution levels. Emission Levels would increase due to the tripling of shipping vessels and heavy truck traffic off Deltaport that will feed new traffic onto proposed roadways such as the South Fraser Perimeter Road (SFPR), the twinned Port Mann Bridge, the widened Highway 1, and then into the heart of the Lower Mainland.

Climate change is already having a profound impact on our environment, our economy, and our society, and the impact is growing. It’s time to end our dependence on fossil fuels and build a climate-friendly world. Together, we can grow the movement that makes better transportation, food supply and energy solutions a reality.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change made it clear the science is conclusive: our activities have lead to global warming which is dangerously destabilizing our interconnected global climate in dangerous and unpredictable ways.