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LOCAL NEWS – LOCAL MATTERS
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LET’S GO FLY A KITE: .
When it’s this windy, you can either batten down the hatches and ride out the storm – or you can get out your kites and embrace the gusts. That’s exactly what the Maskall family, led by five-year-old Destiny, decided to do on a recent gusty Sunday outside Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. For more photos of their kite-flying fun, check out www. burnabynow. com. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER
THE PIPELINE
Alberta’s Notley draws line in the oil battle
Mayor Corrigan says:‘She’s absolutely disinterested in any of the impacts it might have on our community’ By Tereza Verenca
tverenca@burnabynow.com
British Columbia will face consequences for its ban on increased shipments of diluted bitumen, according to Alberta’s premier. Rachel Notley called an emergency cabinet meeting on Wednes-
day, one day after the B.C. government announced new regulations to curb oil spills. The measures, which include placing limits on “dilbit” transports until further studies are done, could potentially hinder Kinder Morgan’s $7.4-billion Trans Mountain expansion proj-
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ect.The Edmonton-to-Burnaby pipeline is expected to carry up to 890,000 barrels of oil per day once complete. “The B.C. government took this action with no provocation and almost no warning.To call this a violation of the rules governing our Confederation is an understate-
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“The economies of the two provinces are closely linked. Billions of dollars of goods cross our borders every year. Hundreds of thousands of jobs depend on good trading relationships,” she said. “We owe it to Albertans to do Continued on page 9
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