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Citizen group forms to oppose pipeline plan
Kinder Morgan plan to twin pipeline through Burnaby is a growing concern for residents Jennifer Moreau staff reporter
There’s a new group of Burnaby residents coalescing to oppose the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion. The group has roughly 18 members,
and they are calling themselves BROKE – Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion. Some are residents whose homes were affected by the 2007 pipeline rupture, while others have concerns about the environment. The group has had a couple of meeting so far, and the next is scheduled for tonight. “We come from lots of different backgrounds, and we barely know each other. The only thing that unites us is we don’t want a second pipeline. Most people are
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concerned about climate change,” said Karl Perrin, group member and UniverCity resident. “Our objective is to continue with things as they are in terms of the foreshore in Burnaby, and we have a relatively clean ocean out there. We don’t want more tankers; we don’t want a tanker every day going in the inlet. … People in Vancouver don’t want it either. There are tons of people that don’t want it. … Of course Kinder Morgan has lots of money to make it happen. It’s not an easy fight.”
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Kinder Morgan is the third largest energy company in North America and is valued at roughly $100 billion. The company operates the Trans Mountain pipeline, which has been running oil from Alberta to Burnaby since the ‘50s. Kinder Morgan would like to twin the line, more than doubling capacity from 300,000 barrels a day to 750,000 to meet rising demand for Canadian crude in Asia. The exact route of the proposed twin line hasn’t been announced, as the Pipeline Page 8
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