Regarding proposed changes to condition 3.8 related to the impacts of underwater noise on marine mammals:

It’s so disheartening to read that Woodfibre LNG wants to reduce the “monitoring area for seals and sea lions during pile driving be reduced from 7,322 metres to just 125 metres”.  Why not 2 meters, or 5 cm, the message is the same: these animals don’t matter.

It’s 2023, could we please give wild species some help and habitat, to survive? Howe Sound has, so miraculously, resuscitated from decades of harm; it's a joy to see marine mammals that we never saw when my children were growing up.

Presumably the original guideline, 7322 metres, was set for a reason. But now this corporation wants to push and wriggle because, well, its dollars matter above all.  How can we put a value, or a number, on the well-being of marine mammals? Who need space and quiet to eat and rest and mate and raise young-- but there’s no way to measure that, except to push them to the point they actually die.  Then, maybe, we can count a number.  And say “uh-oh.”

Tiny violins are playing the ‘not economically feasible’ tune… Yes, dollars count, for all of us; but so do other values and other living beings.  I really hope that the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada protects our beautiful natural environment – including Howe Sound’s marine mammals.