LNG plant could wipe out salmon in northern B.C., Russian researchers warn
The pink salmon runs in Aniva Bay, once among the largest largest in the world, collapsed after Shell built its LNG facility on the Russian island of Sakhalin in the late '90s.
There's no conclusive evidence that the plant is linked to the the collapse of the salmon fishery and the LNG plant was 30 kilometres away from the closest, important spawning river, but Dimitry Lisitsyn — a Russian scientist visiting British Columbia — said the plant had a “significant and sometimes catastrophic impact on the very many species.”
Lisitsyn said that the proposed Pacific Northwest LNG plant for Lelu Island in B.C. is liable to have a much larger impact on the salmon as it sits right on top of the most critical salmon habitat in the Skeena estuary.