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Greater Vancouver

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_ More than 200 Burnaby citizens packed a
_ Meeting Sept. 14 to call for a reversal of the
National Energy Board’s decision allowing
Trans Mountain Pipeline to expand its
facilities — with no regulations in place —
In the middle of a residential area.
Residents demanded a reversal of the
decision in the face of environmental risk
4nd potential disaster resulting from

~ icreased holding capacity and tanker traf-

fic on the Burrard Inlet.

Critics of the decision pointed out that
the NEB ignored calls for a full environ-
mental impact study and a risk assessment

When granting the Edmonton-to-Burnaby -

Pipeline permission to add three tanks to its
10-tank farm on the south slope of Burnaby
Mountain, and new facilities to its West-
tidge Terminal that would increase barge
4nd tanker traffic by an estimated 400 per
Cent.
__ And representatives of civic, provincial
and federal governments blasted the board
for its failure to ensure citizens had ade-

- quate time to intervene in hearings Which

they charged were held with little notice.
“The original application and the way it
_ Was handled really displayed contempt for
_ the people of Burnaby,” Burnaby MP
Svend Robinson charged.
“Nowhere has NEB or TMPL been able
toaddress the cumulative effects of all of the

Individual environmental and social con- -
rns,” said Burnaby alderman Joan

Sawicki. She said Burnaby mayor Bill

Copeland has been instructed to write

ttawa expressing council’s “dismay” that

_ the board chose to ignore the call for a full
€nvironmental impact study.

The Burnaby Citizens for Environmental
Protection was formed early this year after
Tesidents, many from the Forest Hills
Neighbourhood, became aware of Trans

Ountain’s application to expand facilities
that already are the cause of noxious‘odours
and pollution in the municipality.

Instead of expanding, the pipeline’s tanks
and transshipment facilities should be
Phased out of the rapidly growing residen-
ual community, the organization asserts.

The citizens group charged last February
that NEB hearings into the application were
Madequately advertised and noted they
Were ‘held outside the community, at the
Hotel Vancouver. The board later gave in
to demands by some 500 citizens who
Signed a petition that hearings be re-opened
in Burnaby.

But those hearings lasted only four days,
and the group was given only two weeks to
Prepare its brief. Trans Mountain Pipeline’s
Position, which was to be made available to
the Sroup one week before, did not arrive
Until four days prior to the hearings, citi-
Zens’ spokesman Dave Fairey pointed out.

The group walked out after the board
tefused to adjourn the hearings pending an

ull environmental impact study. That posi-
ton was later adopted by Burnaby council,
airey noted.

FAIREY ROBINSON

Evil-smelling vapours are emitted when
the movable roofs on the holding tanks
descend as the petroleum — Trans Moun-
tain handles eight different types — is emp-
tied. But of even greater concern is the
danger of explosion or collision of tanker
ships from the increased traffic, Fairey said.

Last month the NEB approved Trans
Mountain’s expansion, including three new
tanks, a domed roof on an old tank, and
increased exports.

Trans Mountain had also applied for

- second stage expansion including three

more tanks to hold MTBE, an octane
enhancer, and doubling their pipeline
capacity. The board rejected this, but
invited the company to apply again, Fairey
reported.

“We think that the community should
not accept this, (should not) just roll over
with the decisions,” he said.

Tank farm opponents vow continued fight

Trans Mountain‘s tank farm in Burnaby.

“If we don’t stand up now, we’re going to
have even more pollution, we’re going to
have more risk of a major environmental
catastrophe. People must say no, enough is
enough,” Robinson said to applause.

Burnaby council, which calls for inde-
pendent, third party monitoring of the facil-
ities with Trans Mountain paying the costs,
has filed an appeal of the NEB decision,
Sawicki noted.

Participants at the meeting signed letters

to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, NEB
secretary J.S. Klenavic, and several federal
and provincial ministers and officials.

The letters noted the Trans Mountain
facilities are apparently not regulated by
either federal or provincial environmental
protection laws. They called for a morato-
rium on expansion until such regulations
are in place, a full environmental study is
completed, and a long-range plan to
remove the facilities from Burnaby is set.

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