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Pipeline forum on Thursday Jennifer Moreau staff reporter
Burnaby’s Stoney Creek Environment Committee is holding a series of public forums on Kinder Morgan’s pipeline expansion plan. The first meeting is Thursday, June 28, at 7 p.m. at the Jennifer Atchison Environmental Centre, at 2730 Beaverbrook Cres. Michael Hale of Pipe Up Network, a group opposed to the pipeline expansion, will be speaking at the forum. “We are trying to get some facts about other perspectives on the pipeline with a view of making this whole thing as transparent as a possible,” said Alan James, secretary of the Stoney Creek Environment Committee. “The pipeline currently crosses Stoney Creek, so we have a very vested interest that our creek is not damaged by this process.” James said the forums will be videotaped and posted online at www. scec.ca. “The main purpose is transparency. We don’t want Kinder Morgan to do something the public isn’t aware of,” he said. Kinder Morgan is planning to increase pipeline capacity from 300,000 barrels a day to 750,000 by twinning the existing Trans Mountain pipeline, which runs oil from Alberta to Burnaby. The move would bring more tanker traffic to the Burrard Inlet, and Kinder Morgan would have to double capacity at the existing tank farm on Burnaby Mountain. The company has yet to apply to the National Energy Board for project approval. For more information on the pipeline forums, email stoneycreek@hand shake.ca.
Fowl dilemma: Ethan Bartolozzi, above, watches an injured Canada goose at
Deer Lake. He helped free the Canadian icon entangled in fishing line on Sunday. With the help of park goers, Bartolozzi wrestled the goose to the ground and then managed to remove the line and a barbed hook and set the bird free. Photos by Larry Wright/ burnaby now
A man helped free a Canadian icon entangled in fishing line and a barbed hook this week. Ethan Bartolozzi was at Deer Lake on Sunday, June 24, when he came across a Canada goose just lying on the ground. When he looked closer, he found a fishing line with a barbed hook stuck in the goose. With the help of bystanders, Bartolozzi removed the hook and cut the line, freeing the bird, which limped away. “I guess they were quite lucky,” said Yolanda Brooks, from the Burnaby-based Wildlife Rescue Association of B.C. The association generally advises people to wrap animals up, put them in a box and bring them to the centre, where they can rehabilitate the creatures. Sometimes when animals are frightened, they can attack people, Brooks said. “If the goose could walk away on its legs, it was not a serious injury, and it will probably heal itself,” she said. “They got the fishing wire off and did a good job helping the animal.” Brooks said the association gets several cases a year of water birds entangled in fishing line, and sometimes it’s quite serious. “It sort of kills them slowly,” she said. “We always say to people who are out fishing to discard of the line properly. Don’t leave it lying around. It will kill wildlife.” – By Jennifer Moreau, staff reporter
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