One of our key critiques was the lack of engagement with frontline communities; although the dairy industry was heavily consulted throughout the permit design process
“I can’t drink the water at my house.”
A ‘revenue neutral’ a setback for Climate Justice
Clean drinking water is a human right.
The would-be oil terminal’s fence-line community is Fruit Valley, where many of Vancouver’s Latino residents live. Nearly half of neighborhood residents live below the poverty level, compared to 18.7% of Vancouver residents in general. This community faces economic and linguistic barriers to health care and other resources that would be necessary to protect themselves from chronic negative impacts to air quality or to respond in the event of an oil spill or explosion. The state council that reviews applications like this recently released a review of the proposed terminal, called the Draft Environmental Impact Statement, and found that residents of this neighborhood would be among the first and hardest hit if an accident occurred at the terminal.
Communities of color, Indigenous peoples, and people with lower incomes are on the frontlines of climate and environmental change.
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