Dredging of Vancouvers Burrard Approved to Make Room for Big Oil Tankers

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An aerial shows an oil tanker anchored in Burrard Inlet just a short distance from Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain marine terminal, top left, in Burnaby, B.C., is shown on May 29, 2018. The Canadian Press/Jonathan HaywardThe Vancouver Fraser Port Authority says it has received all federal permits to allow for the dredging of Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet, making room for larger oil tankers loading up from the Trans Mountain pipeline.The agency says the dredging along northern and southern edges of the navigation channel underneath Vancouver’s Second Narrows bridge will start in September, but it could not say how long the work will take.

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