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COVERAGE WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 16, 2016
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LATE BLOOMERS
Longtime North Burnaby resident Anna Crema has been putting on a show for her Cambridge Street neighbours this month with an impressive display of late-blooming “angel’s trumpet” or Brugmansia. Originally from Northern Italy, Crema has spent a few hours in her garden every day since her house was built in 1968. “This is my hobby. My hobby is the garden,” she said. Crema got her first Brugmansia shoot from a cousin who lives down the street. The plants, now small trees, usually lose their flowers a lot earlier, but the unseasonably warm weather has seen many of her plants bloom early. “It’s too warm,” Crema said. “The plants, they don’t know; they confused.” PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR
ON POTENTIAL PIPELINE PROTESTS
Police take ‘wait-and-see approach’
By Tereza Verenca
tverenca@burnabynow.com
With a decision on the proposed Trans Mountain expansion looming, Burnaby Mounties say it’s too early to know if there will be protests in the city despite some groups already planning them. Burnaby RCMP Staff Sgt. Maj. John Buis told the NOW police are taking a “wait-and-see ap-
proach.” “We prepare for all sorts of contingencies.We have plans in place for just about everything, from earthquakes, you name it, natural disasters. But then we also have to take a look at where these (events) are taking place and what kind of threat there is to anyone or any property,” he said. “It’s too early (to say) because we haven’t even received notification that it’s been
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approved, and there’s all sorts of things that would happen in the meantime.” The federal government, which recently announced a $1.5-billion Oceans Protection Plan, is expected to make a decision on the Kinder Morgan project by Dec. 19. Buis said he’s unsure if there will be unrest in Burnaby if the pipeline gets the green light.
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“How long do you think it’ll take, even if it was approved tomorrow, for the pipeline to be actually constructed in Burnaby? Probably five to 10 years, given the court processes and all the rest of it. … I’m probably going to be retired by the time that happens, in five years’ time,” he said. “I don’t know, and I can’t look into a crystal ball to see exactly what’s going to take place in the next few years,
but we need to wait to see if it’s actually approved.” The Mountie doesn’t anticipate future protests to be a strain on resources. If need be, Buis said Burnaby RCMP can call in reinforcements from other municipalities, like they did during the November 2014 Burnaby Mountain protests. Continued on page 9
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