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COVERAGE WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2017
LOCAL NEWS – LOCAL MATTERS
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LIFE IS A BASKET OF CHERRIES:
There was plenty of fresh produce at the Burnaby Artisan Farmers Market on Saturday in the city hall parking lot. Offerings included blueberries, cherries and strawberries. The farmers market runs every Saturday until Oct. 28 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at city hall, 4949 Canada Way. For details on the different vendors and scheduled entertainment, go to tinyurl.com/ BurnabyMarket. PHOTO ROB KRUYT
THE PIPELINE
Company has met 27 of 49 conditions NEB says Trans Mountain can’t start construction on new pipeline until it meets all conditions Tereza Verenca
tverenca@burnabynow.com
Trans Mountain has yet to meet all of the conditions set by the National Energy Board (NEB) to start construction next month on the Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby. The company has satisfied 27 of the 49 conditions for that portion of the expansion project, according to a letter the NEB sent
to Jim Carr, Canada’s minister of natural resources, to update him on how things are progressing. “Additional compliance requirements must be met for the company to begin construction on any portion of the project,” the letter reads. The Trans Mountain expansion project will have crews twin the Edmonton-toBurnaby pipeline, which will increase capacity from 300,000 barrels of oil per day to
890,000. Part of the project includes expanding the Westridge Marine Terminal. A new dock complex with three berths and a utility dock is in the works. Actual construction, however, isn’t scheduled to start until 2018.Trans Mountain intends to spend the remainder of this year and part of next year preparing the site. Trans Mountain spokesperson Ali Hounsell said the company is “confident” it will
satisfy the NEB’s conditions to start construction in September. “The Trans Mountain expansion project is in an ongoing process to meet the conditions required by the NEB to begin construction.This process will continue in-step with our activities into the future, keeping in mind that the construction of the project is phased and condition compliance will be ongoing as construction is underway,” she Continued on page 4
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