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Pay up for pipeline, says mayor City has demanded $151k but hasn’t received the money Diane StranDberg dstrandberg@tricitynews.com
Douglas College instructor Teresa Howell stands amidst some of the 24 red dresses hung in trees on the college’s Coquitlam campus by students in her third-year psychology class to help raise awareness around the issue of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls. See story on page 21. mario bartel/the tri-CitY NeWS
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Coquitlam will be pushing for compensation for costs associated with construction of the newly approved Trans Mountain Pipeline through the city’s industrial corridor, says Mayor Richard Stewart. Stewart’s concern is that the city may have to shell out $59 million over 50 years — an average of almost $1.2 million a year — to deal with issues related to the fact that the pipeline will be under city streets. “My job is to make certain the impact of such decisions — whether its natural gas or bitumen or whatever — are managed on behalf of the taxpayers of Coquitlam,” he said. “Right now, we’re pushing harder than any other municipality related to costs associated with hosting a pipeline.” While it’s not known when
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construction will begin on the Coquitlam segment of the pipeline, early approvals had the route in the city from east of the Port Mann Bridge, where it comes in under the Fraser River, and travelling along Rogers and Hartley avenues up to and along United Boulevard before connecting with the existing pipeline corridor to Burnaby. In 2018, Coquitlam opposed the route under city streets, preferring the pipeline to run under parking lots to avoid extra maintenance costs, but was turned down by the National Energy Board. Subsequently, the city demanded $151,000 in payment because of maintenance issues from delayed roadwork along the pipeline route but it has yet be compensated. Stewart told The Tri-City News he’s hoping the city’s concerns will be dealt with now that the pipeline to carry bitumen from Edmonton to Burnaby is going ahead with federal government approval. see
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