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robin Burgess, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2012, is gearing up for her first MS Walk. See page A13
April 24 2013 www.burnabynewsleader.com
NDP’s Dix opposes major pipeline expansion Tom Fletcher Black press
ron LaQuaglia works the formica counter at the glenburn soda Fountain, which he opened in Burnaby Heights a month ago. See story on page A3
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Cameron Station dead over $1.5M? Wanda Chow
wchow@burnabynewsleader.com
It appears there is little hope a Cameron Street station will ever be built as part of the Evergreen SkyTrain Line. At issue is $1.5 million, or the price of a fixer-upper in many parts of Metro Vancouver. Last October, Burnaby city hall sent out a press release calling the province’s refusal to fund design changes and preparatory work on the rapid transit line’s guideway “perilously short-sighted.” Higher-density development
expected in the area around Lougheed Town Centre and Cameron Street will create great demand for the SkyTrain line and Burnaby council believes there should be an additional station built eventually. And while the money is not available now, such a station would be prohibitively expensive to build later unless preparatory work is done now. Preliminary estimates of the work—building taller columns to create a flat-enough section of guideway for the station, an additional set of track switches,
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and a contingency for possible environmental mitigation measures—was set at $6 million. Burnaby council offered to split the cost with the province 50-50, with the city contributing up to $3 million in gaming funds to help make it happen. The province responded that it would be willing to cover the costs exceeding $3 million. Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan said back in October that the city was trying to clarify where the province stood on the issue. He noted at the time that, according to a city staff report,
a significant component of the preliminary cost estimates was for uncertainty over possible environmental mitigation work. They (the ministry) “know it shouldn’t be above [$3 million] and if it is, it should be in a minor way,” Corrigan said at the time. Then in his State of the City address last week, Corrigan said, “The provincial government refused our offer to pay 50 per cent of any additional costs, making the addition of another station in the future highly unlikely.” please see prOviNCE, A3
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NDP leader Adrian Dix has indicated he won’t support the proposed expansion of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline from Alberta to Burnaby. Announcing his environment policy in Kamloops Monday, Dix stuck with his long-standing position that Kinder Morgan Canada must formally apply to twin its 60-year-old pipeline before he offers an opinion on it. But he added that he would not support a “five- or six-fold” increase in oil tanker traffic from the company’s Westridge Marine Terminal shipping facility in North Burnaby. Vancouver should not become a “major export oil port,” Dix said. Kinder Morgan is in the preliminary stages of applying for permits to nearly triple the capacity of its pipeline to about 850,000 barrels a day of crude oil. A company spokesman said last year that would mean more than 300 tankers a year traveling Burrard Inlet. That would be a steep increase over the current traffic. please see pipEliNE, A3