Roberts Bank Terminal 2 | Proposed

[Jebby]

Originally Posted by Klazu

And for the well-being of shareholders I have no care what so ever.

You do know the majority of shareholders in large companies are just regular middle class people? Take ExxonMobile, for example. The company is owned by millions of shareholders who are invested either directly, in their pension funds or through their investments in mutual funds. In reality, relatively few shares are owned by the executives of ExxonMobil.

[djmk]

Originally Posted by Klazu

And for the well-being of shareholders I have no care what so ever.

Lol. If you did not care this probably means you do not have a job. Because if you had a job you would be spending up to $2300 in cpp each year (double that if your self employed) and you would want to know where this money is going!

And if you hate globalization, you should have at least one conversation with one of the billion people in Asia, India or Africa that have been pulled out of poverty because of it!

Hilarity!

[Echowinds]

Well, I guess people being less materialist as a whole is better for everyone and the planet in the long run.

Fat chance that will happen though.

[officedweller]

Feds pony up $20 million for Deltaport causeway

By Staff Writer - South Delta Leader
Published: January 24, 2013 12:00 PM
Updated: January 24, 2013 12:05 PM

The federal government will contribute $19.9 million, through its Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative (APGCI), to a $45-million overpass on the Deltaport Causeway, part of Port Metro Vancouver’s Deltaport Terminal, Road and Rail Improvement Project.

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The two-lane overpass is expected to improve the efficiency, safety and fluidity of traffic to and from the terminal, by eliminating conflicts between rail and truck traffic. It will contribute up to 200,000 twenty-foot equivalent units of additional capacity annually at Deltaport.

Robin Silvester, President and CEO of PMV, said the Road and Rail Improvement Project aims to increase industrial density and container capacity at Roberts Bank, while easing the impacts the port on nearby communities.

http://www.southdeltaleader.com/news/188250221.html

[gary92]

a video showing how terminal 2 will look like. the video didn't mention anything about automation

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[vanman]

Thanks for posting!

I believe T2 is supposed to be fully automated but who knows. Maybe the technology isn't quite there yet. If not that means 100s of very high paying jobs for Metro Vancouver.

[whatnext]

I hadn't realized this thread was so old but the Terminal still isn't built? I saw this on CBC and checked out the thread.

Western sandpipers stop at this B.C. mudflat to fuel up during their 10,000-km migration
CBC Docs · Posted: Apr 03, 2025 8:55 AM PDT | Last Updated: April 3

Western sandpipers are tiny shorebirds that weigh about as much as a slice of bread. Every spring, they migrate from their wintering grounds as far south as Peru to breeding sites in Alaska and Siberia. They stop to refuel at a few key places on the journey (which can be more than 10,000 kilometres long), including the intertidal mudflats of Roberts Bank near Vancouver.

Roberts Bank provides one of the last meals for the birds on their journey north — the next major stopover is the Stikine River estuary, more than 850 kilometres away.

The documentary Sandpipers' Last Supper, written and directed by Isabelle Groc, captures tens of thousands of western sandpipers as they blanket Roberts Bank. It explores why this place — a mudflat next to GCT Deltaport, a large shipping-container terminal — is vitally important to their survival. ..

... It turns out the birds were stopping at Roberts Bank to slurp up a special snack: an intertidal biofilm that coats the surface of the mudflat every spring, just as thousands of shorebirds arrive at the stopover site. The biofilm is packed with omega-3 fatty acids produced by the diatoms....

...Roberts Bank is the last remaining large intertidal mudflat in the Fraser River estuary that provides this biofilm.

However, the site is targeted for a major port expansion, which could compromise the biofilm essential to millions of migrating shorebirds...

https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the-nat...494901?cmp=DM_Display_PopularNow_CBCDocs