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No tanker crude: Chevron Burnaby refinery mulls its options Wanda Chow
wchow@burnabynewsleader.com
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george clulow scans the woods near burnaby city hall where a colony of herons has doubled in size in the past year. the city has erected signs along deer lake avenue asking drivers to be vigilant of young herons as they leave the nests.
Herons find new home in Burnaby Deer Lake now a major nesting site for protected species Wanda Chow
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There have been at least two injuries so far due to avian sibling rivalry and city officials are hoping there won’t be any man-made ones as the Great Blue Heron’s nesting season at Deer Lake comes to an end in the next several weeks. The cottonwood trees around Deer Lake have become a major nesting site for the protected species, with about 126 nests this year, up significantly from about 66 last year, said Burnaby birdwatcher George Clulow. The increase is believed at least partly due
to a heron colony abandoning a longstanding nesting site by the Mary Hill Bypass in Port Coquitlam in response to construction nearby for the new Port Mann Bridge, Clulow said, adding word apparently spreads quickly in the heron community about good sites. They’re a species at risk in the Georgia Basin, whose numbers are declining due to loss of habitat to development. “It’s a fantastic thing for Burnaby to have this colony that’s grown in about six years to the size it is now,” he said. “It started off with just two nests in the park and moved to its current location and it’s grown since then.” Dozens of nests can be seen high up in the cottonwoods around Deer Lake Avenue and
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Price Street, he said, although the adult herons themselves aren’t always around. They’ll fly far afield, to the Fraser River, Burrard Inlet, Still Creek and elsewhere, in search of food for their young who wait patiently back in the nests. The racket they cause when the parents return with their meal is one indication of how competitive the siblings can be, said Christine Ensing, fisheries habitat officer for the City of Burnaby. Another sign is the fact that those whose eggs hatch first often throw their weight around in the nest, sometimes even pushing their weaker siblings out. And once they’re out, there’s no way for them to get back in. Please see hERONS, A3
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The National Energy Board (NEB) may think Chevron Canada’s Burnaby refinery should consider receiving crude oil by tanker ships, but that’s not really an option, says the refinery’s spokesperson. When the NEB turned down Chevron’s application for priority destination designation (PDD) access to Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline, it said in its reasons, “the Board believes that no option should be completely ruled out by Chevron in mitigating its supply risk for the future, including a potential waterborne option, the Secondary Market, Westridge Dock bids, and any other option that Chevron can develop to avoid PDD.” “That is not being actively considered,” said Ray Lord, spokesperson for Chevron’s Burnaby refinery, of receiving crude by tanker ships. “We’ve never really been configured to receive crude by marine.” Please see REvIEW, A4