Burnaby Now June 13 2014

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Cat burglar loves gloves Jennifer Moreau staff reporter

Burnaby’s Dawn Palmer has a mystery on her hands. A few months back, she started noticing workmen’s gloves showing up on the floor of her home. Nylon ones, fabric ones, never in a matched pair, just singles – and they were found in the dining room, the back balcony and around the front door of her South Slope home. Assuming they belonged to her son, Palmer simply left them in his room and thought little of it. “Then I thought, ‘Wait a minute, there’s too many of them,’” Palmer told the NOW. Her son decided to count the gloves, and dumped a bag of them on the living room floor – that’s when the family realized there was something strange happening. There were just too many gloves. “I kept thinking this doesn’t make sense,” Palmer said, suspecting their family dog was up to something. It wasn’t until a day or two later that the Palmers finally figured out who was leaving the gloves. Sienna, the family cat, had a history of bringing home “presents” for her owners and would announce their delivery with attentiondemanding meows. “Sienna does her ‘mew, mew, I’m here, and I have a gift for you,’ and she’s standing right in front of the glove, and I’m like, ‘I can’t believe this, you are the glove bandit!’” Palmer says.

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Sienna and her stash. This Burnaby cat has stolen more than 50 gloves, but her owners don’t know where they

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The Palmers have had Sienna for years, and when the feline was younger, she would bring home gifts: birds, rats, mice and moles, for instance. “I was in India, and my daughter sent me an email (photo) of a rat floating in our toilet,” Palmer said chuck-

ling. “I was laughing hysterically because obviously she just dropped it in there. She loves to give us gifts, that’s what they do.” But Sienna is aging and has put on a few pounds, so Cat burglar Page 8

Pipeline: Kinder Morgan brings in SFU experts Jennifer Moreau staff reporter

Can Kinder Morgan run a pipeline through Burnaby Mountain? That’s the multi-million dollar question the company is trying to answer by bringing in two experts from SFU, and their project will provide information on earthquake fault lines for the entire Lower Mainland. Kinder Morgan is working with SFU’s John Clague and Doug Stead to help determine the feasibility of the latest routing

option, which involves boring or tunneling through Burnaby Mountain to connect the storage tanks to the Westridge Marine Terminal. “(Clague and Stead) are going to be assessing all of the surficial geology and some of these geological features, such as the landslide on the north side of Burnaby Mountain,” said Greg Toth, senior project director for the pipeline expansion. “There are questions: Is there active faulting in the Lower Mainland area, or is there not?” Clague and Stead are both research

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chairs and professors in SFU’s school of earth sciences. Clague is a geologist who specializes in natural hazards, while Stead is an engineering geologist with a focus on slope instability. One important piece of missing information for Kinder Morgan is whether Burnaby Mountain has fault lines of breaks in the earth due to landslides – a question geologists have not managed to answer, according to a company-commissioned review of geological reports and studies dating back roughly 100 years.

Pipeline controversy aside, Clague said he’s very excited about the project, especially because they will use Lidar imagery to search for faults in the Lower Mainland, not just on Burnaby Mountain. Lidar is a relatively new technology that uses lasers to scan surfaces to create detailed 3D images. The images Clague will be working with were shot from aircraft. Surface vegetation can be removed from the images electronically, so scientists like Clague are left with topographical maps

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