Opposition to Woodfibre LNG heats up in Squamish – Vancouver Sun
Detractors worry industry will harm Howe Sound’s tourism and outdoor recreation potential
Opposition to the proposed Woodfibre LNG plant is escalating in Squamish and Howe Sound, where a protest — not the first — involving hundreds of opponents marched through downtown Squamish Sunday venting their rage at the plan.
Although the plant’s supporters value the project’s potential tax base and promised jobs, critics believe the future of Squamish — recently cited as one of just two Canadian destinations in the New York Times’s list of 52 best places in the world to visit in 2015 — is largely in tourism and outdoor recreation, and that Woodfibre LNG’s alleged negative environmental impacts don’t square with that.
The issue has the potential to divide the Skwomesh First Nation, after individual members helped organize Sunday’s protest march despite the band not yet taking an official position.
