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Crash leaves four injured, traffic chaos JESSICA KERR
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First responders tend to the injured in a collision that closed Ladner Trunk Road to traffic Wednesday afternoon.
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TFN says no to LNG
Members narrowly reject planned storage and export facility SANDOR GYARMATI
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Despite big dollars that would have come to each of them, members of the Tsawwassen First Nation have rejected a proposed liquefied natural gas storage and export facility. The members’ vote held on Wednesday saw 53 per cent of the 139 who voted oppose the proposal.
Voter turnout was about 48 per cent of eligible TFN members, including those on and off TFN lands. Roughly half of the First Nation’s members don’t live on the Tsawwassen lands, but the TFN did not provide a breakdown of the vote. At a media briefing yesterday, Chief Bryce Williams, joined by CEO Tom McCarthy and TFN Economic Development
Corporation CEO Chris Hartman, said he was impressed with the level of engagement and that it was clear the community educated itself and made a well-informed decision. “I think the main concerns were probably environmental concerns, the project being based in our industrial lands and also the extraction of natural gas,” he said. PLANT: see Page 4
One person is still in critical condition after a crash in Ladner Wednesday afternoon that caused massive traffic back-ups. It was around noon when a black pick-up truck traveling south on Highway 17A attempted to make the right turn onto Ladner Trunk Road. The truck crossed over both westbound lanes and T-boned another truck waiting to turn left onto Highway 17A. “Clearly the guy failed to negotiate the off-ramp and the turn onto Ladner Trunk Road,” said Delta police A/Sgt. Sarah Swallow. She said investigators don’t know yet what caused the collision. Officers are still analyzing the evidence and waiting to speak to witnesses and the drivers. The two drivers were taken to hospital in critical condition, while two passengers with less serious injuries were checked out and released. Swallow said one driver remained in critical condition Thursday morning while the other had been upgraded to serious condition. The collision and resulting road closures meant drivers trying to get into or out of Ladner faced lengthy delays. All lanes of Ladner Trunk Road were closed immediately after the crash. One eastbound lane was opened around 2:30 p.m. but the other lanes remained closed for the rest of the afternoon.
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