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North Van eyed for co-housing project Organizing group seeks like-minded neighbours
JUSTIN BEDDALL jbeddall@nsnews.com
Mackenzie Stonehocker and her family are searching for some likedminded neighbours.
Rueben George, spokesman for the TsleilWaututh’s Sacred Trust Initiative, said the province’s concern about inadequate spill response is shared by the First Nation, which has long opposed the Kinder Morgan pipeline plan. “We knew all along it wasn’t a good idea,” said George.
She’s currently renting a home in East Vancouver but she’s started a co-housing group that’s seeking to build a sustainable project in North Vancouver for up to 30 households. Her group, Driftwood Village Cohousing, began informally in December 2014, after Stonehocker and her husband got together some friends and acquaintances to discuss the alternative housing idea after learning about a similar project in East Vancouver that was already full. “The concept of co-housing, of having that connection with your neighbours, really resonated with us,” she said. The group has chosen North Vancouver for their cohousing community. “Just to be closer to nature and at the edge of all these people,” she said. Already 15 households have signed up. It’s a diverse multi-generational group that ranges from young families like the Stonehockers, who have two small children, to retirees and everything in between. So what’s co-housing? It began in the 1970s in Denmark and is essentially when a group of people get together to buy a piece of land and
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Quayside Village residents Marta Carlucci and Natsuko Osafune, along with Osafune’s daughters Mia, 1, and Aina, 7, meet with Mackenzie Stonehocker, who is currently hoping to add another co-housing community in North Vancouver. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN
KINDER MORGAN: ANTI-PIPELINE GROUPS REACT TO GOV’T REJECTION OF EXPANSION PLAN
Province’s pipeline position lauded JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
Members of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation and other opponents of a Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion are applauding the province’s rejection of the plan. On Monday, the B.C. government formally
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opposed the pipeline project in written submissions to the National Energy Board, arguing Trans Mountain has so far not provided enough evidence that it is capable of preventing or cleaning up a major oil spill. A world-class oil spill response plan is one of five conditions the province said it would require to support Kinder Morgan’s pipeline expansion plan.
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