This petition calls for an immediate and permanent end to the persistent low-frequency rumbling and vibrations reported by residents throughout British Columbia’s Lower Mainland for years. The disturbance occurs day and night, often peaking around 3:00 a.m., disrupting sleep and negatively affecting residents’ health, wellbeing, and livelihoods. Described as an idling engine that can be heard and felt, it reverberates through buildings, cannot be masked, and is unrelated to any normal urban activity. Some residents report having temporarily left the region and others observe that it stops only during power outages.

Authorities must independently investigate, stop the disturbance, and be held accountable. Failure to act will leave affected residents with all available legal remedies, including collective civil action.

If you’ve experienced this issue, currently or in the past, take action:

1) Sign, comment on, and share this petition!

2) Complete the anonymous questionnaire to help gather information from people affected by the issue:
https://forms.gle/9LBMJo1zYHD9TgTY6
Note: No sign-up required.

3) Join the anonymous online forum to connect with others who have experienced what you have:
https://xoyondo.com/mb/9zs5zo206ce70ga
Note: Again, no sign-up required.

4) Report details (what, where, when, effects) to:
BC Minister of Health: HLTH.Minister@gov.bc.ca
BC Minister of Energy & Climate Solutions: ECS.Minister@gov.bc.ca

5) Review the residents reports map (best viewed on desktop):
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1_qqMqnjRgo9EXrMsAJrs1L5UMyVQSsE
Note: Many reports cluster near substations, high-voltage lines, conductive railways, and high-draw industrial sites.

6) Email the petition owner for further resources at:
getshareinfo@prontonmail.com

Finally, here are some quotes from real people affected by this issue, gathered from online discussions, that show a consistent pattern:

The issue is continuous:
“It is constant and there is no respite!”  “It’s day and night with no perceptible breaks.”  “Just a persistent low frequency hum. It’s just there all the time. Inescapable.”  “It's such intense relief whenever it stops. It never stops for long though.”  “It’s constant so it must be something that is running non-stop. There are a few hours between about 5:00/6:00 pm and 10:00/11:00 pm where it eases off a little. Gets nice and intolerable just in time for bed.” “I have been hearing these rumbling bass-like sounds since just before Christmas [2025], everyday almost all day.”

The issue is worst at night:
“Feeling constant vibrations every night.”  “It definitely peaks overnight.”  “I hear it every night and it wakes me up at 3:00–4:00 am!”  “This hum is really starting to affect my sleep (as I write this at 4:00 am).”  “It's constant but definitely most noticeable at night.”  “I will feel/hear this when in bed.”  “One time it was loud enough to wake us up at 3:00 am; even heard a baby on the next floor crying. Almost sounded like a helicopter was hovering right outside, but you go outside and hear nothing.”  “I’m feeling the vibrations every night and it makes the whole neighborhood shake.”  “I hear a loud low grade humming noise at around 4:00 am.”  “I’m hearing it too. I am in central Coquitlam. Last night, about 2:00 am I noticed it, but when I opened my window to figure out where it’s coming from I could only hear other background noises.”  “I too hear a low humming sound like an engine running. I hear it all the time but it is especially loud at night when I go to bed.”  “I’ve woken up on countless nights around 4:00 am to pressure and noise in my ears.”  “I have been complaining about this low vibration for two years.  The vibration is really bad late at night throughout the night.  It is preventing me from sleeping.  The vibration is non-stop except when the electrical power goes out in the neighbourhood.”  “I have been waking up to a low rumble and feeling vibrations, intermittently, most nights, usually around 1:00 am and/or 3:00 am.”  “This has unfortunately been persisting every day for nearly a year, lasting all night and leading to sleep deprivation.”  “What is the rumbling noise I hear more during the night time in North Vancouver? Sounding like a generator.”  “My partner’s sleep disturbances seem to correspond with the timing mentioned. Starting around bed-time and then he often notices he’s up around 3:00 or 4:00 am.” 

The issue cannot be masked:
“Noise cancelling headphones and earbuds do nothing.”  “I hear it every night, from 10:00 pm to 7:00 am and it drives me insane. I sleep with a white noise machine, soft music playing, and loop ear plugs, but it still wakes me up between 2:00–4:00 am.”

The issue is so low-frequency that it shakes bodies and homes:
“The last few days it was so intense I could feel it in my body.”  “Feeling non-stop vibration in Cedar Cottage. Intensifies to the point of me checking to see if there's an earthquake.  I hate it and it’s amplified anxiety and dizziness.”  “It feels like my whole house is shaking and can’t sleep from it.”  “I can feel the entire house vibrate. The vibration varies in intensity throughout the day. Sounds like diesel engine idling nearby. At night bed vibrates and can't sleep. At times makes me dizzy and nauseous.”  “Yes, I get this in Richmond. It shows up distinctly on the spectrum analyzer app Spectroid. Studies show that constant infrasound causes unhealthy stress impacting health, even if it's too low to be noticed consciously.”  “Dude I've been going insane thinking it was just me—been feeling this weird rumbling in my chest at night and thought I was losing it.”  “I’ve been noticing a low vibration/rumbling. I’m in uptown New West.”  “I’ve been hearing something for the last year and a half. Even my local Facebook groups have mentioned it. It’s a low rumble. A vibration. Like a low tone that pounds in your head, that you can feel.”    

The source of the issue can’t be pinpointed, as though it’s everywhere:
“It's like my whole apartment is vibrating at 3:00 am and I can't figure out where it's coming from. Definitely worse at night; feels like a massive truck idling somewhere but there's nothing outside.”  “In my apartment it seems to reverberate and bounce off the walls and it’s all I can hear. It’s very oppressive.”  “I don’t hear it when I listen outside. It seems to be almost underground. I cannot pinpoint it but it is definitely a deep or low rumble.”  “I’m lying in bed listening to this rumble but there’s no planes overhead.”  “This noise has been driving me nuts. It feels constant. I can hear it now. I’ve been able to hear it for months. I thought it was a truck but if it is, it’s not moving.”

Reports of the issue span the entire Lower Mainland and beyond, but a disproportionate number are from Burnaby, especially north Burnaby:
“It’s constant low frequency hum in North Burnaby.”  “I live at the base of Burnaby Mountain and feel it. So many have been complaining.”  “Yes, we hear it and we are on Burnaby Mountain. Sometimes our sliding door rattles.”  “I'm hearing it all the way in north Burnaby Hastings area.”  “Can anyone hear a weird sound in north Burnaby near Warwick Avenue?”  “I live in north Burnaby (Hastings and Gilmore) and I have been wondering what that rumbling sound is… and always at the times at night you say.”  “I am hearing it too. I live in Burnaby close to Lougheed SkyTrain station.”  “Once you hear it you can't unhear it, this low frequency vibration. Always hear it when I go to sleep. Living in Edmonds area."

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