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‘The community does not give its consent’ Impassioned antipipeline speakers say they will take action, if necessary, to stop pipeline By Jennifer Moreau
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Burnaby pipeline opponents threw down the gauntlet at the final panel session for the Kinder Morgan expansion last Thursday evening. One by one, dozens of local residents stood at the microphone to voice their opposition, while the federal government’s three-person ministerial panel listened and took notes. Some speakers broke into tears, while others said they were ready for action if the pipeline goes ahead. Local resident John Clarke raised concerns about diluted bitumen and potential disasters at Kinder Morgan’s tank farm, now slated for expansion, close to his home on Burnaby Mountain. “Can you imagine that tank farm if it caught fire,” Clarke asked, holding up a large image of a Puerto Rican tank farm in flames. “There is no social licence in this proud City of Burnaby.The community does not give its consent,” he concluded to resounding applause. Many speakers had been participants – either intervenors or letter writers – in the National Energy Board hearings on the project, and many raised concerns and criticism of the board’s review process. At least two speakers shed tears at the microphone: one woman choked up while describing climate change impacts on people in the Third World; another cited earthquake concerns and the fate of her loved ones. “My family, friends and the environment mean everything to
OPPOSED Elan Gibson, a member of Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder
Morgan Expansion, speaks against the Kinder Morgan pipeline last Thursday, on the final day of consultations with the federal government’s ministerial panel. At right, SFU professor Stephen Collis reads a poem inspired by the protests on Burnaby Mountain. PHOTOS JENNIFER MOREAU
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pipeline.” A group of youth, aged 12 to 23, from a faith-based environmental camp also came to the panel to express opposition to the pipeline expansion. The sessions took place at the Hilton Vancouver Metrotown in Burnaby. Burnaby MP Terry Beech listened from a table in the corner, but he declined to comment, as he’s saving his remarks for his own presentation at the panel’s North Vancouver session on Aug. 19. In the meantime, Beech has Continued on page 4
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