First published on Ecorport
Although not sure how the company tries to influence or not, BC's election results will not make Kinder Morgan happy.
Vancouver and Burnaby have long been identified as the opposition's clay rods, in which the expansion of Trans Mountain pipeline is proposed as a central election issue.
The pipeline is 1,150 km long (714 miles) of Alberta's Tar Sands to Westridge station, in Burnaby.
There was a Viking spillway in 2007 after a Backhoe operator accidentally broke the system. About 1,572 barrels of “Mixed crude oil Pouring into residential areas, Lach Kask and the coast of Burrard Inlet.
About 95% (210m3) of the oil has been recovered, Mount Trans Mountain statements on their site.
Related to Proposal to expandMayor Derek Corrigan wrote, the economic value of any Kinder Morgan will pay will not compensate for the negative economic impacts for other businesses and the significant permanent limitations that the pipeline must be placed in. Make land use opportunities. Burnaby has a long-term plan that is developed with our citizens-Town Center, transportation, population and entertainment development. All will be seriously affected by pipes, tank farms and ports.
The pipe company has not yet answered many documents in writing Burnaby or Vancouver City When asked, about the expansion of the proposal, through the evaluation of the National Energy Committee (NEB).
Last September, Kinder Morgan was eliminated from a Burnaby park, where it would conduct a feasible study.
We have prepared to allow them to access this conservation land for non-invasive work that can be repaired over time, but absolutely do not do what they come this morning-to cut the trees to create the The gasket and websites on the helicopter to drill the gap in this protected land, Mr. Corrigan explained in a press release.
The National Energy Commission intervened, telling Burnaby to stand aside.
Therefore, residents of Burnaby and Vancouver stood Vigil on Burnaby MountainWaiting for the team to work.
When the Transfer of Trans Mountain came on October 29, they arrived Equipped with a camera. Five of the protesters were dragged to court. On November 14, the BC Supreme Court gave Kinder Morgan a ban to prevent protesters from preventing the company's survey.
The pipeline company has submitted a separate action to find millions of dollars of damage from protesters, because it takes time.
Meanwhile, there are questions about the legality of the NEB decision that allowed Trans Mountain to reach Burnaby Mountain. Neb has never overwritten on the rules of the city before and, according to the Greg McDade city lawyer, nothing in the NEB Act allows it to have the authority to do so.
According to TyeeKinder Kinder Morgan's President Ian Anderson said part of the reason why the advertising company advertised was to fight against Corriga's anti -expansion campaign.
They did not stop more than 69% of Burnaby's voters from the re -election of mayor of Derek Corrigan.
These results were almost identical to a poll, from June last year, of which 70% of the respondents said they supported the mayor in his resistance against Kinder Morgan.
Mayor Vancouver Gregor Robertson described the pipe as a defined issue in his campaign.
He is not alone. When Northern leadership Explores 28 of the Council and candidates of the mayor on the other side of Burrard Inlet, all except for a person who expressed his opposition. The exception is a Northouver candidate who refused to answer.
The proposed pipeline expansion can lead to an increase in the flow of oil -carrying vessels seven times through the entrance to the Burrard. There were 80 ships passing through Vancouver and the beautiful Stanley Park. This figure can be up to 400, with each oil -carrying ship that brings 580,000 diluted bitumen barrels.
I heard every day from Vancouverites about their concerns with more oil ships here-which is the biggest issue and the No. 1 threat to the city's happiness, mayor Robertson.
His main opponent, NPA leaders Kirk Lapointe, did not take on the public position.
Robertson and six Vancouver Vancouver Council members have been give back.
Adrianne Carr of the Green Party, who ranked first in the polls.
The members of the Vancouver Kerry Jang, Raymond Louie, Heather Deal, Andrea Reimer, Tim Stevensen, Geoff Meggs have been re -elected.
This is never a less vision council member than before the election.
NPA picked up another seat. Both George Affleck and Elizabeth Ball are re -elected and Melissa de Genova is joining them.
In a Press release That was issued shortly after the middle of the night, the Dogwood initiative reported that the mayor Lisa helped in Victoria and the mayor Barb Desjardins in Esquimalt were also elected on the opposing platforms with Kinder Morgan.
According to that press release:
The coastal communities in particular are worried about the risks of the diluted bitumen spill, but this is beyond the attitude of 'not in my backyard'. Local authorities across the province feel stopped working. They certainly lost faith in the integrity of the National Energy Commission.
(Ecorport radio program interviewed three people intervening on this topic: The lawyer of Burnaby Greg McDade, Green Mla Andrew Weaver And Former CEO of BC Hydro Marc Elieson)
At the BC City Union Conference in September, an urgent resolution launched by Victoria City was approved with overwhelming support – calling for the province to withdraw from the NEB process and set up a poisonous assessment. Lap, reliable.
A resolution from the Sunshine Coast area has also been approved, calling for comprehensive environmental assessments and health of transporting coal by rail and barges.
These election results only strengthen the loss of connection between what the locals want and what the federal government is forcing our community, he said, the director of the campaign of coal Laura Benson. With elections on the street, local representatives currently have four years to repel.
The percentage of voters increased overall in six important cities where Dogwood volunteers knocked on the door and called for supporters.
- The percentage of voters in Vancouver increased from 34.6 % to 42.6 %
- The percentage of voters in Esquimalt increased from 18.0 % to 30.1 %
- The percentage of voters in Victoria increased from 26.3 % to 35.4 %
- The percentage of voters in Burnaby increased from 23.3 % in 2011 to 28.9 %
- The rate of voters in New Westminster increased from 24.2 % to 28.5 %
- The percentage of voters in Courtenay increased from 28.4 % to 31.0 %
- The percentage of voters in Soook is stable at 41.5 % of the glasses
Dogwood initiative was registered as a third party campaign; Kinder Morgan denied it as a campaign.
We will never know how much the pipeline company has spent because BC election said they didn't need to register.
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