Our valued member West Coast Reduction Ltd. (WCRL) supports hundreds of food producers throughout Western Canada, and supports the country’s clean fuels mandate by creating feedstock for renewable fuels that help fight climate change. The testimonials below reinforce the critical role played by the company’s long-time, strategic location on the South Shore of the Port of Vancouver in supporting a broad range of agricultural, food service and renewable fuels stakeholders.

Advanced Biofuels Canada

“WCRL’s Port of Vancouver operations are an essential enabler of clean fuel sector growth in the decades ahead. Conversely, the loss of this facility would set Canada, and BC, back decades in the development of a competitive clean fuels sector.”

Animal Nutrition Association of Canada

“We believe the loss of West Coast Reduction would severely impact the viability and sustainability of the agri-food production sector in British Columbia.”

BC Bioenergy Network

“The broader implications of shutting down WCRL’s operations in the Burrard Inlet include a detrimental impact on the development of low carbon fuels in BC and a lost opportunity for Canada’s agriculture and agri-food sectors.”

Canadian Renderers Association

“Loss of this tank farm terminal and infrastructure would destabilize Canada’s agriculture and our food supply.”

Parkland Corporation

“There is a strong synergy between local bio-feed supply and bio-feed processing in BC and the local demand for renewable feedstocks to meet CleanBC’s low carbon objectives. WCRL’s operations and location are critical to provide the service and the long-term certainty that is required by Parkland to meet our low carbon fuel targets now and into the future.”

Skretting

“The Port of Vancouver governs itself according to sustainability principles and aims to be the “world’s most sustainable port”. This can only be achieved by balancing the Port’s requirements with those of the surrounding community.”

Seafood Producers Association of BC

“We ask that the Port of Vancouver work with WCRL to secure certainty over their operating tenure and, by extension, provide certainty to the many families and businesses in our industry that rely on WCRL – from Indigenous and non- Indigenous commercial fish harvesters in coastal communities to seafood processing companies in the Greater Vancouver Regional District.”

Sunrise Farms

“Any disruption in our ability to sustainably dispose of our by-products will cause serious disruption to our business, our employees, the local farmers, ancillary suppliers and to the consumers of British Columbia.”