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Will there be ‘chaos’ over pipeline?
Corrigan predicts opposition will escalate if the courts allow Kinder Morgan to go ahead with expansion Lauren Boothby
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Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan says the city will continue to use all legal avenues available to continue opposing the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion before he joins the protests himself, following Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s meeting with premiers John Horgan and Rachel Notley on Sunday. The mayor and Burnaby South MP Kennedy Stewart were among representatives of Lower Mainland governments and Indigenous leaders who met Monday afternoon to affirm their opposition to the $7.4-billion expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline, which runs from Edmonton to Burnaby. Corrigan said he continues to believe in the legal process and that the courts will provide checks and balances on the federal government’s power, but he predicted opposition will escalate if the courts allow pipeline construction to go ahead. “If we reach the end of this and there is no alternative, then I think what Continued on page 3
STANDING STRONG: Cynthia Myran burns sage during protests at the Trans Mountain terminal in Burnaby on Saturday. Mayor Derek Corrigan is
predicting ‘massive civil disobedience’ if the courts allow construction on the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion to go ahead. But the mayor also says there’s a great deal of fighting left to do in the courts before he makes the decision to stand in front of a bulldozer, as he has previously said he’ll do. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER
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Suspicious runoff prompts investigation Lauren Boothby
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The B.C. Ministry of Environment and the City of Burnaby are investigating a complaint about excavation at Trans Mountain’s terminal in Burnaby that may have led to a sediment spill at a Silver Creek tributary Friday, something a local streamkeep-
er worries could kill young salmon downstream. Mud and sediment from work at the north end of the property fell into the tributary, which runs from Burnaby Mountain, through Kinder Morgan’s property and down into Silver Creek, according to Burnaby streamkeeper John Preissl. A worker was on site with an excavator attempting to
remediate the area, which saw increased water flow due to heavy rain. “They should never be doing this in this weather. It’s pouring rain; it’s supposed to be raining all night,” Preissl told the NOW. “They’ve had a little bit of a breach from so much water coming down the hill.” Preissl thinks Kinder Morgan should hire a new environmental monitoring company
following the spill. “They have failed their first test with a minor rainstorm, and they are not ready for any real rainstorm in the following months,” he said. The streamkeeper told the NOW in January about the potential risks of rerouting Silver Creek and Eagle Creek Continued on page 4
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