A10 • Wednesday, May 1, 2013 • Burnaby NOW
Excalibur candidate on ballot for Bby-Edmonds Stefania Seccia staff reporter
Although there is no B.C. Conservative Party member running in the BurnabyEdmonds riding this election, there’s still a fourth candidate, thanks to the B.C. Excalibur Party. Nicholas Edward D’Amico is the candidate running for the newly founded the B.C. Excalibur Party in Burnaby-Edmonds. “What I have to offer is life experience and ambition,” D’Amico said in an email interview. “I feel I am fit to run … because I am an everyday person who works like everyone else.” D’Amico works as a forklift operator at North American Pipe and Steel and has experience in construction and trades work. “I am passionate most about the education system, but that doesn’t mean I forget and ignore other issues,” he said. “The environment, economy and society as a whole is being jeopardized by the people in power today, and all we are
guaranteed by them for the future is more broken promises.” The party was founded this year, and its platform promises include cutting the PST by two per cent over the next four years; creating rail transit between Abbotsford, Mission, Chilliwack and Hope; removing incineration as a means to deal with waste; and putting banning fish farming, among others. The party leader is Michael Halliday, who has owned various small businesses – including a medieval restaurant and a 3,000 square foot historically themed store, according to his online profile. He is running in the Chilliwack riding. There are six candidates running for the party in Abbotsford-Mission, Abbotsford-West, AbbotsfordSouth, Richmond-East, Chilliwack and Burnaby-Edmonds. Halliday could not immediately be reached by the Burnaby NOW for comment. For more information, visit www.bce xcaliburparty.com.
FOR THE RECORD
Chevron spokesman: Seep is not migrating offsite
In an April 24 article on the ongoing Chevron refinery seep, the NOW reported that Chevron spokesperson Ray Lord “said it was not a leak but a seepage from ‘historic accumulation of subsurface contamination’ at the refinery, which is now migrating offsite.” Lord did not state that the material is now migrating offsite. According to Chevron, evidence indicates
the seep is no longer migrating offsite – it’s being contained by a hydraulic barrier along the refinery’s perimeter. “The organo-clay system at the foreshore is absorbing any material that had already migrated off of our site prior to the hydraulic barrier along the perimeter being installed,” Lord said. The NOW regrets the error.
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