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   From: ConsR@minority.gov   
      
   Even moreso than their HST, their coverups of criminals who worked for their   
   ministers, and   
   their endless lies and misspendings of our tax dollars. . . . .   
      
   It's going to be the proposed  Alberta to westcoast of BC oil pipeline.  Once   
   the BC 'Liberals'   
   are gone, so is the spectre of the pipeline.  Election in less than a year . .   
   . .  looking   
   forward to getting rid of Christy Clark (whose campaign is being financed with   
   Alberta oil   
   money) and looking forward to a government responsive to the AVERAGE working   
   and tax-paying   
   person in BC.   
      
   C'mon, 2013 !   
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   Posted: Apr 25, 2012   
      
   Pipeline plan triggers scramble for Vancouver bylaw   
      
   City council and Park Board gird for battle over Kinder Morgan twinning project   
      
   The City of Vancouver is ramping up efforts to oppose the Kinder Morgan   
   pipeline expansion from   
   Alberta to the Burnaby end of Vancouver Harbour.   
   The company plans to twin its current crude oil pipeline in a $5-billion   
   project that could see   
   tanker traffic in the harbour increase fivefold, and that has some local   
   politicians concerned   
   about the increased possibility of environmental disaster.   
      
   The Vancouver Park Board will be voting on a motion next week to formally   
   oppose the project.   
      
   "If there were to be an oil spill, we would have severe damage to all these   
   spaces,” said Park   
   Board Commissioner Niki Sharma. “Who knows how many decades it could take to   
   clean something   
   like that up.”   
      
   Over the weekend, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson attended Earth Day   
   celebrations, where he   
   repeated his opposition to the pipeline expansion.   
      
   Coun. Andrea Reimer, also part of the Vision Vancouver slate, said a separate   
   motion to   
   formally oppose the pipeline expansion plan will be voted on next Tuesday.   
      
   "We bear a ton of risk as a city, not just environmental risk, but also   
   economic risk,” said   
   Reimer. “Our economy depends on a beautiful shoreline — and also our   
   international reputation."   
      
   City staff will be asked to come up with a bylaw that would hold pipeline   
   operators and oil   
   tanker owners legally and financially responsible to the city and local   
   industries in case of   
   an oil spill.   
      
   "We would make sure that money either was available through an insurer or in   
   the bank so when   
   that worst-case scenario oil spill happens we can make sure Vancouver isn't   
   financially   
   devastated," Reimer said.   
      
   Last week, Kinder Morgan said selling the benefits of the project in B.C.   
   could require some   
   work.   
      
   "Part of that heavy lifting is going to be meeting with all parties that are   
   interested,   
   including the residents and the politicians in Vancouver and Burnaby,” Kinder   
   Morgan Canada   
   president Ian Anderson said in an interview with CBC’s B.C. Almanac.   
      
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   public office.   
      
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