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Howard Trottier, an SFU physics professor and astronomy buff, is excited the campus will be getting its own observatory. See Page 3
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An investigator checks out two of the three rail cars that tipped over on the CN tracks just west of Cariboo Road on Saturday, spilling their load of metallurgical coal into nearby Silver Creek. A total of seven cars were involved in the derailment, which may have been caused by erosion of the rail bed by heavy rain Friday night and Saturday morning.
Derailment re-ignites toxic concerns Mario Bartel
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Rail traffic is moving again on the Canadian National (CN) railway line through the Lougheed corridor after the derailment of seven coal cars just west of Cariboo Road on Saturday. The cars on the westbound 152car Canadian Pacific train jumped the tracks at around 11 a.m. Three of the cars tipped over, spilling their loads of coal from the Kootenays onto the south side of the rail bed, some of it into Silver Creek that feeds into nearby
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Burnaby Lake. Hamer said that work is ongoing. CN spokesperson Emily Hamer “The cleanup is underway,” said the derailment was caused by said Hamer, who couldn’t give an the heavy rain that pelted estimate how much coal Metro Vancouver Friday spilled. night and Saturday morning. “There’s no timeline for the The rain washed out a nearby cleanup.” beaver dam and eroded the An official from B.C.’s bed beneath the tracks. Ministry of Environment Officials from the said the cleanup would HAMER Environment Ministry and continue “for the next few Burnaby’s Environmental weeks to remove material Health department, as well as CN’s from isolated pockets.” own environmental crews, came Alan Dutton of the Stoney out to assess the damage to the Creek Streamkeepers said Saturday protected stream and fish habitat. he could see black water on the
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The National Energy Board (NEB) is trying to shut people out of the process reviewing the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion proposal, says Burnaby-Douglas MP Kennedy Stewart. “There’s more notice and opportunities to participate when we’re discussing speedbumps on Cambridge Street [in North Burnaby],” said the New Democrat. For weeks his office has contacted the NEB trying to find out when people could apply for intervenor status to have their voices heard on Kinder Morgan Canada’s expansion application filed Dec. 16. If approved, it would almost triple capacity on its pipeline from Edmonton to Burnaby to allow for increased exports of oil sands crude overseas. Then on Wednesday, his staff stumbled on a Dec. 31 letter from the NEB to the pipeline company, buried on the regulatory body’s website, stating applications would be taken between Jan. 15 and Feb. 12. Please see NEB, A8