News from Burnaby
Contractor who hit pipeline also included in statement of claim for damages
Brooke Larsen, Burnaby Now
Published: Saturday, January 05, 2008
Kinder Morgan Canada and Trans Mountain Pipeline have launched legal action claiming the City of Burnaby and a city-hired contractor failed to locate the company's underground pipeline before digging up Inlet Drive, causing a massive oil spill in July.
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Cleanup finished, but oil remains
Brooke Larsen
Burnaby Now
Saturday, December 08, 2007
On the beach: Strollers enjoy an afternoon at Barnet Marine Park on Thursday. A local biologist wants to see a more thorough cleanup of the shoreline.
CREDIT: Larry Wright/BURNABY NOW
On the beach: Strollers enjoy an afternoon at Barnet Marine Park on Thursday. A local biologist wants to see a more thorough cleanup of the shoreline.
A local biologist wants to know why cleanup of Burnaby's shoreline has stopped when rocks on the beach are still stained by oil from July's pipeline break.
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Pipeline rupture coats Vancouver suburb in black slick, prompting evacuations
BURNABY, B.C. (CP) - Thick, black oil dripped from lampposts, splattered across suburban lawns and crept into the Burrard Inlet after a geyser of crude spewed from a burst pipeline Tuesday.
Work crews accidentally ripped into the TransMountain pipeline, causing the oil to "explode" from the ground, as one witness put it, and burble up from manholes, pouring down streets toward the ocean.
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INVESTIGATION OF PIPELINE RUPTURE PROCEEDS
VICTORIA – The Conservation Officer Service is leading a joint investigation with the Environmental Enforcement Division and the Wildlife Enforcement Division of Environment Canada into the July 24 crude oil release from the Kinder Morgan pipeline in Burnaby. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada continues to conduct a parallel investigation into the cause of this incident and how to prevent such incidents from occurring in the future.
The joint investigation team will conduct its investigation under the legislative authorities of the British Columbia Environmental Management Act, the Federal Fisheries Act and the Federal Migratory Bird Convention Act. The investigation will focus on determining how the incident occurred and whether due diligence was exercised to prevent the incident from occurring by the party or parties involved.
Contraventions of the Environmental Management Act, the Fisheries Act or Migratory Bird Convention Act could result in prosecution and be subject to the prescribed penalties outlined in the respective legislation.
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Refusal to mark gas lines irks municipalities
Burnaby accident hikes pressure on Terasen
Carolyn Heiman, Times Colonist; — With files from CanWest News Service
Published: Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Municipalities on Vancouver Island are worried a disaster like last week’s Burnaby oil spill could happen here, after Terasen Gas announced that it will no longer mark its lines before crews dig near them.
