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Pitch perfect: The Earl Marriott Mariners got off to a flying start at senior boys rugby provincials on Vancouver Island Saturday. › see page 21
Surrey business group to consider endorsing of Kinder Morgan pipeline
Board of trade backs new coal terminal Jeff Nagel Black Press
The Surrey Board of Trade has come out in support of a controversial new coal export terminal proposed on the city’s riverfront, saying concerns raised about environmental impacts are not serious enough to trump economic development. And CEO Anita Huberman indicates the business organization may well take the same stance on the proposed twinning of Kinder Morgan’s oil pipeline. She said the board of trade is satisfied with
assurances from Fraser Surrey Docks that and that’s what I think is happening somevarious strategies will minimize the escape of times in South Surrey,” she said. “Yes the envicoal dust from trains and from the proposed ronment is important… The economic arguterminal that would load four ment for us is the winner.” ❝We have to stop saying million tonnes of coal per She’s pressing other stake‘no’ to everything, and that’s holders and business groups year onto barges. Huberman called the what I think is happening to do the same, and said she $15-million project good for sometimes in South Surrey.❞ “absolutely” wants Surrey Surrey. It would create 50 council, which has so far Anita Huberman jobs, half at the Surrey terstayed on the fence, to take minal and the rest running the barges or at a a firm stand in favour of the terminal. transhipment point on Texada Island. The South Surrey/White Rock Chamber of “We have to stop saying ‘no’ to everything, Commerce has not yet taken a position – its
board is to consider the issue this week – and Huberman said she hoped the two groups could have adopted a united position by now. Although some civic leaders are making their opinions known, cities and even the regional district have no jurisdiction over the terminal, apart from an air-emissions permit Metro would be expected to issue. White Rock council has been critical of both the process and the plan, calling for limitations on train traffic and assurances that coal dust will not impact health. › see page 4
Hunt asks for leave
Byelection back on the table Kevin Diakiw Black Press
It looks like Surrey may be heading for a civic byelection after all to fill the seat of Coun. Marvin Hunt, Surrey-Panorama’s top votegetter in this month’s provincial election. The BC Liberal MLAelect had planned to remain on Surrey council until Jan. 1, 2014 to avoid a byelection – which could cost between Marvin Hunt $600,000 and MLA-elect $800,000, according to city staff – and said he would donate his council pay to charity. However, last week B.C. Premier Christy Clark urged all council members elected as MLAs to take unpaid leaves of absence from their civic posts, and Hunt subsequently told Black Press he had dismissed the notion of doing both jobs and would be pursuing the leave. › see page 2
Boaz Joseph photos
Party in the park Grammy-winning British folk-rockers Mumford & Sons play to a crowd of 25,000 fans in Holland Park last Friday – the largest ticketed show in the City of Surrey since Lollapalooza in 1994. From left, band members Ben Lovett, Marcus Mumford, Winston Marshall and Ted Dwane perform, choosing Surrey as the group’s only B.C. stop on its North American tour.
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