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About 80 protesters attended a presentation by Port Metro Vancouver president and CEO Robin Silvester before Surrey city council Monday to oppose PMV’s proposed coal facility at Fraser Surrey Docks. (Photo: JACOB ZINN)
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Surrey council publicly opposed the coal terminal expansion last October, following a plea from residents and an 11,000signature petition. Councils in White Rock and Delta have also voiced their opposition. Coun. Judy Villeneuve questioned Silvester on PMV’s response to council’s
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previous motion for a full health impact study and public hearing on the project, to which Silvester noted a public hearing was not in the cards. “With regard to a public hearing, there’s no trigger for a public hearing through this process,” he told council. “There has been a large amount of public consultation. We also appreciate the input from council and other municipalities.” see COUNCIL › page 3
SURREY — Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts and White Rock Mayor Wayne Baldwin will both run for re-election in this fall’s municipal election. Watts says her team is gearing up for the election. “I’m planning on running,” Watts said Wednesday. “Those are some of the things that we plan on getting involved in over the next several weeks, so being that this is an election year, there’s a number of things that we need to be doing.” With Marvin Hunt winning his bid as Surrey-Panorama MLA, there will be at least one spot on the slate to fill. When asked if anyone else on the Surrey First team planned to leave, Watts said, “not that I’m aware of.” “We’ll start the process fairly shortly in terms of getting things ready. As far as I know, as it stands today, everybody plans on running,” she said. In White Rock, Baldwin said there are still several large initiatives started during his term that he’d like to see finished up, including the rail safety and relocation issue, the purchase of the water utility from EPCOR and numerous capital projects. “We just haven’t finished all the stuff that we wanted to get done so I feel like if I leave now things would be half done and that would be a shame,” he said. Delta Mayor Lois Jackson couldn’t be reached by press time. The 2014 municipal election will take place on Nov. 15.
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SURREY — Port Metro Vancouver has yet to convince Surrey city council to support its proposed coal transfer facility at Fraser Surrey Docks (FSD). PMV president and CEO Robin Silvester gave a 20-minute presentation at city hall on Monday night, with a 15-minute question-and-answer period with council, detailing the corporation’s ongoing plans and addressing issues raised by citizens. He noted that the corporation has not set a date to announce its decision on whether or not the facility is built. “We’re working through now assessing both the environmental impact assessment and all the feedback we’ve received,” said Silvester. “Once we’ve completed that to our satisfaction, then we’ll be issuing a decision.” About 80 residents attended the presentation to protest the facility.
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