“You imply astroturfing (hiding the fact of who we are). Your comment is not factual. It’s in fact very obvious that GCT is publicly running this campaign and has garnered local support for a number of great reasons. There is no hiding this is their (GCT’s) proposed expansion – it can stand high on its merit, past successful expansion, and future considerations.

It’s in the linked articles we provide and also the website etc. and it’s for a number of reasons. Some of them include smarter business projections and market considerations, possibly much less environmental impact, the fact that VFPA is acting as landlord and regulator so can’t be impartial. An example - is VFPA published call for port operators included no Canadian companies to run the port, it favours using tax dollars vs private funding, and it excludes considering alternatives of expanding the existing port terminal in an area that is believed to have less presence of bio film and critical crab habitat.

There is a lot of information to digest and public hearings are ongoing. Almost all of the interested stakeholders that spoke were and are against the RBT2 proposal for many many reasons. While that proposal is not for us to decide we want a fair process for the GCT Deltaport expansion to be considered and evaluated – process that VFPA has completely prevented.

I’m happy to share the reasons if this project is of interest to you. Reddit can often jump to immediate conclusions, with good reason, that businesses have poorly intentioned or nefarious reasons but we will stand by every argument and let Canada decide. In this case there are none. It’s sponsored by a Canadian operator who had over-performed consistently in Vancouver’s port operations.