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s the Woodfibre LNG floatel was manoeuvring into position offshore of Squamish in Howe Sound on Friday afternoon, Mayor Armand Hurford reiterated to The Squamish Chief that the municipality stands by its interpretation of the provincial Environmental Assessment Office order that precipitated the floating worker accommodation arriving June 21. “What has happened to date is that a proponent [Woodfibre LNG] has been issued a compliance order. The proponent—and by the sounds of it, perhaps the [provincial] ministry— have interpreted what that order means. The municipality has a different interpretation of that,” he said, a few hours before the deadline the EAO set for Woodfibre LNG to move its workforce onto the floatel.
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The vessel that is serving as worker accomodations, Isabelle X, is now docked at the Woodfibre LNG site.
“The proponent, on that interpretation, withdrew their [temporary use permit] application to what was a path to potential compliance [with the District],” said Hurford. “As it stands right now, those are the things we know have happened.” The order, from the EAO compliance and
enforcement office, issued June 17, stipulated that all workers that Woodfibre LNG had housed in Port Mellon and Squamish associated with the project must be moved to the floatel in Howe Sound by 5 p.m. Friday, June 21. This prompted the company to bail on an ongoing temporary use permit (TUP)
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application to the District of Squamish. It then began moving the floatel from Nanaimo, where it was moored, to Squamish, just as the local council had been preparing to discuss it for a fourth time in three months at a June 18 council FLOATEL: Continued on 5
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