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LOCAL NEWS – LOCAL MATTERS
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BOILER EXPLOSION
BCIT instructor and emergency response team member Bruce Thompson leads a volunteer “victim” to medical aid during a disaster simulation exercise at BCIT Wednesday. More than 200 specially trained BCIT staff and faculty were at the technical institute to test their emergency preparedness in response to a massive boiler explosion scenario. For more photos see page 3. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR
‘500 PAGES OF FLUFF’
City’s lawyer slams NEB pipeline report ‘They (NEB) didn’t give what you’d expect a report to do ... instead they simply deferred those questions ...’ By Tereza Verenca
editorial@burnabynow.com
Burnaby’s lawyer is calling the National Energy Board’s report on Kinder Morgan’s proposal to twin the Trans Mountain pipeline “500 pages of fluff.” Greg McDade’s comment comes after he and a
handful of other lawyers, all of whom represented intervenors in the NEB process, reviewed the document to examine whether the report met basic legal standards. Their conclusion? It did not. “From Burnaby’s perspective, there were all sorts of issues that we put for-
ward as evidence around fire risk, safety risk and oil spill risk,” McDade told the NOW. “What we found in the report, is that they didn’t deal with those issues at all.They talked about them, but they didn’t get into the science questions. They didn’t give what you’d expect a report to do, which
is an analysis of the evidence. Instead, they simply deferred those questions to later plans.” On May 19, the NEB recommended the federal government approve the company’s plan to twin the Trans Mountain pipeline as long as 157 conditions were met.The decision came af-
ter more than two years of hearings and a host of participants weighing in. The national regulator OK’d the project because it’s believes it will increase access for Canadian oil, create hundreds of long term jobs, develop Indigenous communities and generate considerable government
revenue. But it’s the Liberal cabinet that will give the final green light. A decision is expected by the end of this year. Of the 157 conditions set out by the NEB, McDade argued practically all Continued on page 4
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