Source: Straight.com

"Balancing the port's mandate to facilitate Canada's trade and taking into consideration technical and environmental information, as well as municipal, community and First Nations input, Port Metro Vancouver has made an informed decision to approve both Neptune project permits." Port Metro Vancouver stated regarding its decision.

Leading climate scientists and researchers have signed a letter asking the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority to delay making any decisions on two proposals to sharply increase coal exports. The founder of 350.org, Bill Mc-Kibben; UBC professor emeritus Bill Rees; NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies head James Hansen; and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change researchers Andrew Weaver and Mark Jaccard are among dozens of signatories requesting "explicit consideration of global climate change impacts" be a part of any decision-making process.

"The public consultation process is seriously flawed and the port is failing to meet its mandate to 'operate with broad public support in the best interests of Canadians,'" said Voters Taking Action on Climate Change spokesperson Kevin Washbrook. "There does not seem to be any consideration given to the end use impacts [like] climate change of the proposed exports."