Richmond News
Transporting containers from Roberts Bank Terminal to Ashcroft via rail for sorting could ease truck traffic in Metro Vancouver and help mitigate the desire to develop the region’s limited farmland for industrial purposes…
Richmond considers merits of inland port
Richmond Review
Shipping more containers to an inland port in B.C. could ease development pressure on Richmond farmland, city council heard Monday…
‘No middle ground’ on farmland, says Richmond’s mayor
Richmond Review
An East Richmond farm is standing in the way of Richmond finding middle ground with Port Metro Vancouver and its contentious land use plan, the city’s mayor said Monday…
Port Metro Vancouver’s need for more land worries mayors
Vancouver Sun
Port Metro Vancouver’s latest land-use plan calls for another 930 hectares of port-related space within 20 years, more than 10 times what the port now has in reserve…
Port Metro Vancouver ‘a pending threat’ to farmland, says City of Richmond
Richmond Review
Elected officials at Richmond City Hall lobbed more criticism at Port Metro Vancouver this week as the prospect of preserving farmland grows increasingly bleak…
Metro criticizes port land-use plan on farmland, coal exports
Richmond Review
“We know it’s just a matter of when they want to incorporate it as industrial land,” Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie told Metro’s transportation…