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Year of the Horse: Sandra Rauda holds Kimmy Pratt while making way for the colourful lion poking its head into an unsuspecting business on Hastings Street during the Chinese New Year Lion Dance on Feb. 1 in The Heights.
It all started with a motion last December. At the last 2013 council meeting, Coun. Sav Dhaliwal brought up how two chief medical officers from Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health Authority, Dr. Patricia Daly and Dr. Paul Van Buynder, slammed the environmental impact assessment by SNC-Lavalin and wrote letters to inform Port Metro Vancouver of that. The issue came up again on Jan. 13, just two days after the CP train derailed on CN’s tracks and dumped three car loads of 40 tonnes of metallurgical coal into Silver Creek. The spill was fresh on council’s mind, and when the motion came forward to oppose the environmental impact assessment by SNC-Lavalin over a coal expansion at Fraser Surrey Docks, Corrigan Page 4
Alternative pipeline route now ‘preferred’ Jennifer Moreau staff reporter
With eight days left to apply as an intervenor in Kinder Morgan’s pipeline hearing, the company has quietly shifted its preference to the secondary Burnaby routing option announced last summer. The NOW has learned Kinder Morgan would rather run the proposed pipeline down the CN railway tracks, instead of
Lougheed Highway, contrary to information currently on the company’s website and in its National Energy Board application. Meanwhile, the deadline to apply for intervenor status in the hearings is next Wednesday, Feb. 12 at midnight. Burnaby residents with concerns about either route should apply if they want their voices heard, but they’ll have to look beyond the company’s website and delve into the mas-
sive facilities application to find a map of the second route. As previously reported in the NOW, Kinder Morgan has been looking at two study corridors for the pipeline’s route, but the preferred option, or “selected” study corridor, was down Lougheed Highway from North Road at the border with Coquitlam, and the railway corridor to the south was considered an alternative. On Dec. 16, the company filed its appli-
cation with the National Energy Board and indicated the Lougheed route was the selected corridor, but a recent document obtained by the Burnaby NOW indicates that the company now prefers the alternative. “Since Trans Mountain filed their application, they have determined that the secondary alternative route in this area would be their preference, therefore we have shifted Pipeline Page 3
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