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Forest Grove residents Jane Wong and Virginia Banh jog past a section of the Burnaby Mountain Urban Trail between Underhill and Arden avenues, where FortisBC has levelled a swath of trees to prepare for a natural gas pipeline expansion from Coquitlam to Vancouver. Fortis officials say the company consulted extensively with the community before proceeding with the work, but residents in the Forest Grove neighbourhood say they were surprised when the trees were cut down. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR
‘Vegetation removal’ or ‘tree massacre’ By Cornelia Naylor
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There’s a big difference between how Burnaby residents and FortisBC officials are describing the removal of trees to prepare for a natural gas pipeline expansion along the Burnaby Mountain Urban Trail in the Forest Grove neighbourhood. One resident calls it a “tree massacre;” Fortis calls it “vegetation removal.”
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“We drive by there every day, and we’ve lived in the area for years and years,” longtime resident Fred Lowther said of a stretch of Broadway between Underhill and Arden avenues where a swath of trees has been felled. “All of a sudden you see activity there and, at first, you think they’re just doing some tree trimming. You don’t think they’re going to do a clear cut.” Resident Zeljka Corak was dismayed at
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the loss of the trees. “It’s a walkway; people ride their bikes, walk their kids,” she said. “In the summertime – you know how hot it was last summer – those trees provided beautiful shade.” The tree cutting has lit up the neighbourhood’s Facebook page with comments from concerned Forest Grove residents, according to Lowther. “People in the neighbourhood are com-
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municating with each other about this, expressing alarm and sadness,” he said. “People have walked through there and jogged through there for decades and, all of a sudden, all gone.” Lowther, Corak and other neighbours are also concerned about surviving trees that have been tagged with red markers. Continued on page 5
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