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Canada Day Classic Car Show
Hundreds of people poured into downtown Memorial Park for Canada Day festivities on Monday. The annual Classic Car Show featured about 140 entries this year, offering a wide variety for car enthusiasts. There was also Canada Day cake, Hope Mountain Market vendors, kids crafts and live music. For more on the event, see pages 4-5.
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Leak near Hope shuts down pipeline
Annual summer literacy program celebrates its 10th anniversary
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For the second time in a month, Kinder Morgan shut down its Trans Mountain oil pipeline after the discovery of a leak, this time near Hope. An estimated 20 to 25 barrels seeped from a small defect in the pipeline 40 kilometres east of Hope near Highway 5 last week. “There was no risk to human health or safety and there was no product that was identified in waterways and no wildlife has been affected,” Kinder Morgan Canada spokesman Andrew Galarnyk said. Kinder Morgan detected what it called “a small amount of petroleum product in the soil around the pipe”
after performing a routine investigative dig on a section of the pipeline that had been flagged for an integrity check. The pipeline was shut down last Wednesday after the leak was discovered and Kinder Morgan notified the National Energy Board. The pipeline carries various petroleum products – including regular crude oil, heavy diluted bitumen from the oil sands and refined gasoline – but Galarnyk wasn’t yet able to say for sure what material leaked or for how long. The latest incident comes just two weeks after the company halted the flow of oil in the pipeline on June 12 to repair a leaking section near Merritt. About six barrels of oil is said to
have gradually seeped out there but did not enter any water courses. Both leaks were discovered through the use of monitoring devices that move through the pipeline in search of anomalies. “That’s the whole idea behind integrity programs,” Galarnyk said. “We are running these tools and when they do identify things that we need to look at further, we make sure we get those into priority sequence to address them.” Black Press asked exactly when instruments detected the anomalies at each of the two leak sites – in other words how much time elapsed between a potential problem first being red-flagged and crews arriving to investigate and take action.
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Galarnyk said he did not have that information at hand and would have to “see what we can provide.” Kinder Morgan is conducting an open house today in Burnaby to unveil the probable route of its proposed pipeline expansion through that community. The company is proposing to twin the line that diagonals southwest from northern Alberta to the Lower Mainland. The $5.4-billion project would triple Trans Mountain’s capacity to 890,000 barrels per day and result in a huge increase to about 400 oil tankers per year transiting Burrard Inlet. Continued on 2
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