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WEDNESDAY
JUNE 27 2012
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Burnaby’s Joey Laleggia was drafted in the Àfth round of the NHL draft, and is now off to Edmonton. See Page A11
Pipeline plan goes to public this fall General route mapped out by late 2013: Kinder Morgan Wanda Chow wchow@burnabynewsleader.com
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Barry MacLeod, a former bombardier in the 15th Field Regiment, checks out a 25-pound artillery gun on display at a special memorial service honouring veterans of the Korean War, Saturday at Burnaby’s Central Park. See Photos on Page A3
Bloy disappointed Burnaby won’t participate Mayor says city is already working with ministry, Fraser Health Wanda Chow wchow@burnabynewsleader.com
Liberal MLA Harry Bloy (BurnabyLougheed) says Burnaby city hall will be missing out on a chance to share its opinions on the future of Burnaby Hospital with the public. Bloy was responding to comments by Mayor Derek Corrigan at a recent council meeting that he and city staff were participating in the “of¿cial”
planning process for the hospital’s redevelopment with the Ministry of Health, Fraser Health Authority and Burnaby Hospital Foundation. As for the 12-member Burnaby Hospital Community Consultation Committee, struck by Bloy and fellow Liberal MLA Richard Lee (BurnabyNorth), Corrigan called it a “political organization.” Bloy took umbrage with the description and expressed disappointment at Burnaby’s stance. “It’s saddening for the people of Burnaby that council and staff won’t
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be participating in our citizens’ forum,” he said. “The committee was announced by the Minister of Health. I don’t know how much more of¿cial you can get.” While the consultation committee is not the only process going on simultaneously, it’s “an important part of the process.” When asked why a representative from the City of Burnaby and nurses currently working at the hospital were not included on the committee, Bloy said “nobody was slighted ... you couldn’t put everyone on the
committee.” He noted that there is also no representation from the City of Vancouver despite the hospital serving much of east Vancouver. “This is about citizens sitting down and willing to spend their own time without being compensated at all with no special interests looking at what’s best for Burnaby Hospital,” he said. “We picked what we thought was a fair representation of the citizens of Burnaby and the needs for the hospital.” Please see ‘JUST A POLITICAL EFFORT’, A3
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The long awaited public consultation process on the proposed expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline is set to start in September, said a Kinder Morgan Canada spokesperson. The company plans to twin the pipeline, which runs from Edmonton to Burnaby, increasing capacity from the current 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 750,000 bpd to allow for increased exports overseas of bitumen crude oil from the Alberta oil sands. Lexa Hobenshield, the company’s external relations manager, said if the expansion proceeds, 510,000 bpd of that capacity would serve the ¿xed 20-year contracts customers recently committed to, while the rest would serve monthto-month customers. Those would include Chevron’s Burnaby re¿nery and others that have struggled in the last couple years with the limitations of a pipeline that has been “oversubscribed.” see TOO EARLY, A4