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WEDNESDAY
AUGUST 28 2013 www.burnabynewsleader.com
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Tower for SFU in the works Latest UniverCity project seeks rezoning Wanda Chow
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When Mike Norden isn’t fielding complaints and enquiries from Telus customers, he’s a top children’s magician in the Pacific Rim, after recently being named the best Children’s Entertainer by the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians. See story Page A5
Pipeline rupture by quake a worry No known active faults but Kinder Morgan to fund more study Jeff Nagel Black Press
Kinder Morgan is expected to carry out more research on the potential seismic risk of a quake rupturing its Trans Mountain pipeline and spilling oil into Burrard Inlet. Belcarra Mayor Ralph Drew says a just-completed review of area geologic faults funded by
Kinder Morgan is a good start but more work is needed to answer outstanding questions about the danger. Some geologists in the past have suggested a fault triggered the historic slump of the north face of Burnaby Mountain an estimated 15,000 years ago. Drew’s nightmare scenario is for some similarly violent seismic event to strike today near the pipeline Kinder Morgan intends to twin and close to the Westridge Marine Terminal, where large amounts of
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oil is stored in tanks on a hill above the inlet. “It doesn’t take much land movement to result in a fracture to a hard object like a metal pipe,” Drew said. Geotechnical consulting firm BGC Engineering reviewed older research and concluded there are no known active faults in the Lower Mainland. But BGC’s report stresses that doesn’t mean they don’t exist – active faults might merely be undiscovered.
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The U.S. has done more to search for seismic trouble spots and surveys there in recent years have revealed active faults within five kilometres of the border. “It is possible that given comparable research, active faults could be found north of the border,” the report says. Studies in the 1970s and 1980s flagged several possible faults across Burnaby Mountain as well as around downtown Vancouver and Coal Harbour.
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The latest development in the UniverCity community next to Simon Fraser University could include a 17-storey apartment tower, according to a Burnaby city planning report. The developer, Liberty Homes (Parcel 25) Ltd., is seeking a rezoning to allow the tower, as well as a sixstorey commercialresidential building and townhouses. The project would be located at 9055 University High St., across Tower Road from University Highlands Elementary School, which is currently the site of a parking lot and temporary sales centre for the area’s residential developments. The SFU Community Plan designates the site as a mixed-use commercial centre that would serve both the university and residential communities, the staff report said. Please see PROPOSAL, A10