Site work has begun on a controversial jet fuel pipeline project in Richmond that will result in airport-bound fuel trucks eliminated from Delta roads.
The Vancouver Airport Fuel Facilities Corporation received a permit from Port Metro Vancouver this spring for the construction and operation of the fuel project. Owned by a consortium of airlines that use YVR, the corporation plans to ship jet fuel by barge up the Fraser River to fuel receiving facility, where it will then be piped to a tank farm on port-owned land on the south arm of the river. An underground pipeline will then send the fuel from the tanks to the airport.
Project director Adrian Pollard told the Optimist the tank farm site is “heavily disturbed land” that has unstable soil to build such structures right now, so a lot of effort is being put into replacing it with more suitable fill, including sand and gravel.
Sandor Gyarmati – Delta Optimist – September 28, 2016.
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