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www.burnabynewsleader.com There will be lots of knowledge on wine and baking to be had at the service auction at the Grandma’s Attic fundraiser for Grandmothers for Grandmothers. See Page A4
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Demonstrators march towards the Kinder Morgan Westridge Terminal in Burnaby in August 2011, to protest the company’s plans to expand its Alberta-B.C. pipeline.
Will B.C. be Alberta’s oil superport? Crude politics and pressures behind the pipelines Jeff Nagel Black Press
Hundreds more oil tankers may soon ply B.C. waters to carry crude oil from Alberta’s oil sands to Asia via one of two very different routes. Most public focus so far has been on Enbridge’s controversial Northern Gateway project, which would run a new pipeline across northern B.C. to Kitimat. But several industry watchers rate
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that project — beset by opposition from environmental groups, northern communities and First Nations – as a long shot. Much more likely to proceed, they say, is Kinder Morgan’s potential expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline, which could mean a more than six-fold increase in the amount of oil now being exported by tankers out through Burrard Inlet. The politicking will be intense to persuade B.C. to accept at least Kinder Morgan’s proposal, if not both projects, to satisfy national strategic
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interests, according to SFU public policy professor Doug McArthur. “The federal government is increasingly committing itself to a high level of expansion of the oil sands and making it almost the main economic issue in the country,” he said. “I think B.C. will be under tremendous pressure from the federal government.” The Enbridge pipeline faces huge hurdles. It is a new route across sensitive ecosystems, mountainous terrain and salmon-bearing rivers, all in the traditional territory of aboriginal bands that are staunchly against the project. Please see B.C. SAYING ‘NO’, A3
Kinder Morgan Canada will seek to twin its Trans Mountain Pipeline between northern Alberta and Burnaby. The twinning would mean a huge increase in the amount of crude that transits the pipeline, and in the number of oil tankers passing through local waters each year. This third instalment of a three-part Black Press series looks at the politics of the pipeline, and possible alternatives.
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New Westminster’s bid to become a Canadian cultural capital in 2014 has been derailed by the federal government canceling the program. Heritage Canada announced it was discontinuing the program at the end of the 2012-13 Àscal year. Last month, New Westminster appealed to the public to help get the designation for 2014, which would have meant up to $750,000 for a major arts and cultural celebration, which the city had already committed, in principle, $250,000 toward. “I can’t begin to tell you how devastated I’m feeling at the moment,” said city arts and culture manager Greg Magirescu in an email to arts supporters. “This is a tremendous blow to so many of us who have been diligently working to accomplish something great for our city with such high hopes for success. “Even though this door has closed, let’s look for the windows that might have opened.”