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Raccoons feast on her grubby lawn Cayley Dobie staff reporter
City dwellers know all too well how pesky raccoons can be, and a fed-up Burnaby resident wants the city to do something about the little bandits that are destroying her lawn. Linda Cappelletti lives in a cul-de-sac near Halifax Street. For more than a year she’s been attempting to regrow her lawn while the neighbourhood raccoons have been tearing it up looking for food. “You wake up in the morning and you’ll be amazed at what you find,” Cappelletti said. “I was almost in tears, I could not believe what they did to my grass.” Cappelletti put down new sod in her backyard this summer and almost immediately the raccoons were digging it up. In fact, it was so fresh the animals were able to roll the sod up off the ground and get right into the dirt. To discourage the raccoons from digging into her lawn looking for food, she’s put down Raccoons Page 10
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Pesky problem: Linda Cappelletti is upset that raccoons are tearing up her lawn, and she wants the city to do something about the problem. The raccoons are going after chafer beetles in the ground.
B.C.’s AG steers clear of pipeline fight Jennifer Moreau staff reporter
B.C.’s attorney general has chosen not to get involved in the legal dispute between Kinder Morgan and the City of Burnaby, even though the National Energy Board’s Oct. 9 hearing on the matter is precedent-setting and could have wide-ranging implications for other municipalities. Kinder Morgan filed a “constitutional challenge” with the board, hoping to override Burnaby’s bylaw against cutting trees in a city park, so the company can
survey Burnaby Mountain for a new pipeline route. The fundamental question is: Can the federal government, through the National Energy Board, override the City of Burnaby’s bylaw? On constitutional questions, Canada’s attorneys general are invited to participate. But on Friday, the NOW learned B.C. Attorney General Suzanne Anton would not become involved in the case. That means the NEB will decide if it can overrule municipalities, without any provincial government input, even though the provincial government grants the munici-
palities the power to enact bylaws. The upcoming hearing could have implications for other cities facing pipelines in their communities. The NOW requested an interview with Anton, but she was not available and no reasons were given for her decision. Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan found the news surprising, especially because the provincial government’s authority is at stake. “That is surprising that the provincial government wouldn’t protect their interest at this hearing, because this is in essence
an attack on the provincial government and their power,” Corrigan told the NOW. “It’s not a matter of them taking sides, it’s about defending their ability to make legislative authority.” Corrigan said the provincial government was “failing to defend municipalities.” “They are allowing a very bad precedent being set,” he said. “This is a confrontation that’s building into something much bigger than the Kinder Morgan pipeline, … it’s a confrontation that’s going to the NEB Page 9
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