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WILD TALE:
Indigenous storyteller Dallas Yellowfly brings the dramatic tale of Qwalena: The Wild Woman Who Steals Children to life for Burnaby North students during the school’s third annual Day of Truth and Reconciliation Monday. Born disfigured and later ostracized, Qwalena flees to the forest where she steals children who dare to chase her. During a discussion after the story, Yellowfly drew parallels to Indian agents who took children, like his father, from First Nations families and sent them to residential schools. See more in the Class Act column on page 16. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR
PROVINCE GIVES APPROVAL
Pipeline expansion gets green light Tereza Verenca
tverenca@burnabynow.com
The B.C. government has given the green light to Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain expansion project. Premier Christy Clark
announced on Wednesday that the province’s five conditions have been met, an hour-and-a-half after issuing the company its environmental assessment certificate.The certificate has 37 new conditions attached to it, in addition to the 157
conditions set out by the National Energy Board. “We always said the five conditions were a path to yes and if the project met the five conditions, we would say yes, and that’s where we are today,” she said during a press confer-
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ence in Victoria. B.C.’s conditions included successful environmental reviews, world-leading marine oil spill response and prevention plans, First Nations participation and British Columbians getting a “fair share” of the project’s
economic benefits. In November, Clark told reporters that almost all conditions were satisfied, and that she was still in talks with Ottawa about its Oceans Protection plan and Kinder Morgan about a fair deal.
On Wednesday, she said the province had reached an “unprecedented” agreement with Kinder Morgan, and that the company will pay the province between $25 and $50 million annually for 20 years as Continued on page 5
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