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   Globe & Mail - May 15, 2015   
      
   Oil tanker spill off Vancouver would reach shorelines within hours   
   Study commissioned by Vancouver, Burnaby and Tsleil-Waututh First Nation   
   details worst-case spill scenarios for Kinder Morgan pipeline tankers   
      
   If a large tanker spilled a fifth of its oil into Burrard Inlet, up to 90 per   
   cent of the toxic substance would reach the surrounding shorelines within   
   hours, causing significant harm to the local economy, population and   
   environment, says a newly    
   released report.   
      
   The Tsleil-Waututh First Nation and the cities of Vancouver and Burnaby funded   
   a study1 that modelled four worst-case scenarios involving oil going to and   
   from Kinder Morgan's terminal in north Burnaby.   
      
   The study, which was ordered after Kinder Morgan kept its emergency management   
   plans secret for its proposed expansion to its Trans Mountain pipeline, was   
   released Friday and will be submitted to the National Energy Board.   
      
   "In the event of a large spill, such as the one modeled at First Narrows, the   
   City [of Vancouver] has concerns that the Emergency Response plans may not be   
   adequate," a joint news release from the First Nation and the two cities, all   
   of which oppose the    
   proposed expansion.   
      
   In four modelling scenarios done by Genwest Systems Inc., between half and 90   
   per cent of the oil would hit communities from West Vancouver to Port Moody   
   within three days. The model was based on a 16-million-litre spill, which is   
   about 20 per cent of    
   what a tanker leaving Kinder Morgan's Westridge terminal can hold, according   
   to the release.   
      
   Kinder Morgan has applied to the National Energy Board to triple the capacity   
   of its Trans Mountain pipeline, which the City of Vancouver says would   
   increase the average number of full tankers plying Burrard Inlet each month   
   from five to 34.   
      
   The First Nation and the cities say they plan to file the report and other   
   written evidence to the National Energy Board on May 27.   
      
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