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Originally Posted by EnvisionSaintJohn
Does anyone have any information about why the proposed deepwater port for Lorneville back in the early 70's that never ended up happening?
Didn't realize this idea has been proposed and discussed that far back... was it going to be an oil exporting facility? Or were containers part of the plans too? It sounded like oil was the main idea for it back then, as I saw many comments about oil spills. Which is pretty ridiculous considering how much oil comes into Saint John on ships without any major incidents.
Will be very interesting to see if this idea of a deepwater port at Lorneville is reimagined as part of this Lorneville expansion. |
This is anecdotal from people I have talked to over the years and some reports I have read, but my understanding was that there were discussions about moving all of the port facilities to the Outer Harbour [Mispec, Red Head, Lorneville, etc.] in part because the dredging costs for the Inner Harbour have always been so high due to being a river estuary (at times ~1/3 of the operating budget), to accommodate larger ships, and to move industrial development away from the core. The current Canaport facilities did end up being built, but some of the other concepts such as moving the container terminal, oil export terminal, etc. never happened for economic reasons.
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