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VAPOR: We don’t do deadlines Residents group launches bid to halt fuel delivery project BY ALAN CAMPBELL
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Village gears up for Royal wedding BY ALAN CAMPBELL
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In case you didn’t know it, there will be a bit of a bash going on in the U.K. on Friday. And at about 1 a.m. Pacific time, there will likely to be quite a few TV sets and PVRs clicking on in Steveston — regarded as Richmond’s Little Britain — in time to watch the Royal wedding between a prince called William and a “commoner” called Kate. Indeed, one business that might not be open too early Friday morning is, not sur$
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Carol Day, centre, launches VAPOR (Vancouver Airport Pipeline Opposition for Richmond) from her backyard in suburban Richmond, flanked by her fellow co-founders. The group is unconcerned about Tuesday’s deadline for submissions to the provincial environment office about the proposed pipeline.
prisingly, Mary’s British Home Store on Chatham Street. The store’s stock of Royal wedding memorabilia — from plates to cups and saucers and food to giant flags — sold out days ago. Mary herself is getting up/staying up to watch the historic event live. However, one of her staff, Anne Graham, needs her sleep and has just bought an HD PVR box to record the entire six-hour show, which is being broadcast live on TV from 1 a.m. “I bought the hi-def box especially for this,” Graham said. “Mary says she’s getting up to watch it. But I just can’t get up at 3 a.m.”
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Rule Britannia ... Camie Walker stands guard over the last piece of Royal wedding memorabilia left at Mary’s British Home Store in Steveston.
VAPOR — a newly formed residents protest group — doesn’t do deadlines. The organization’s co-founders — huddled together in a cozy suburban Richmond back patio as the Easter Monday rain battered off the roofs of two tents protecting the media horde — care not a jot about the April 26 date for public submissions with regard to the proposal to run a jet fuel pipeline through their neighbourhood. VAPOR (Vancouver Airport Pipeline Opposition for Richmond) is more concerned with making as much noise as possible in the ears of Richmond’s MLAs and the province’s environment minister, the latter of whom will ultimately decide on the plan come the fall. And this week, its first call to action was to Richmondites, urging them to “join the fight” against an airline consortium’s proposal to barge aviation fuel up the south arm of
the Fraser River to an off-loading facility and then pump it up a 15-kilometre pipe through the city to YVR. “We’re asking you, the community, to join the fight to stop this hazardous plan and put pressure on the province,” said VAPOR’s chair, Carol Day. “We’re asking the EAO (B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office) to deny the application. The actual route of the pipeline has yet to be decided. That’s not fair to the residents or the EAO. We’re going to make a request to our MLAs for a moratorium on this.” The consortium — Vancouver Airport Facilities Corporation (VAFFC) — originally considered 15 options for a new fuel delivery system, saying that the current supply via tanker truck from Washington state and pipeline from a Burnaby refinery was unreliable and inadequate to meet future demand. Day said that VAPOR wants those previsee Langer page 4