Burnaby Now January 26 2018

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STORMY WEATHER:

Mother Nature certainly got her January on over the weekend, spreading high winds around the Lower Mainland. But these hardy walkers were undeterred by the threatening skies, using a brief break in the dark clouds to hit the trails at Deer Lake, behind the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. There’s good news-bad news for outdoors lovers in the city this weekend. The good news? Temperatures are expected to remain mild, with highs hitting about 7 C on Sunday. The bad news? A lot of wet stuff, possibly even mixed with some snow in some areas on Saturday. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

THE PIPELINE HEARINGS

Maps for route taken from city website ‘We were unable to have constructive conversations with the City of Burnaby to help refine the information we found online’

By Tereza Verenca

tverenca@burnabynow.com

Kinder Morgan Canada relied on maps from the city’s website when creating its pipeline route through the municipality, the National Energy Board learned this week. “The information that

we’ve used in our mapping, I can provide the reference to the City of Burnaby’s website where our information was taken from,” said Michael Davies, the company’s vicepresident of operations on Tuesday. The NEB is holding oral hearings into Kinder

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ly around the Brunette River Conservation Area (BRCA), where the pipeline is proposed to go through. Greg McDade, part of Burnaby’s legal counsel, asked Davies whether the company had known the route would run through the BRCA when it submit-

ted its application to the NEB. “Burnaby’s intent to include that land in a conservation area was not clear to us in the routing process. We’ve dealt with the landowner, which is BNSF Railways. We’ve relied on mapping from the City of Burnaby and

we’ve attempted to engage with Burnaby on routing-type issues throughout the course of the project. And I think, as the record shows ... that process, engaging with Burnaby, has not always been very effective,” said Davies. Continued on page 9

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Morgan’s proposed route for its $7.4-billion Trans Mountain expansion project until Jan. 31. It allows the board to hear from affected landowners (like the City of Burnaby) who have issues with the route. Mapping came up many times during the meetings this week, especial-


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