Burnaby’s main anti-pipeline group wants local residents to talk to their neighbours about Kinder Morgan and prepare questions for an upcoming meeting.
BROKE, Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion, is hosting a town hall meeting on safety, health and environmental concerns related to the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion.
“Taxpayers have always borne the costs associated with emergency response, including evacuations and medical care resulting from oil pipeline failure, oil spills and noxious gases from tank farms and substations,” said Elsie Dean, a founding member of BROKE. “The companies that are found responsible for spills and oil pipeline ruptures should pay not only for cleanup, but for all emergency and medical care as well, not the people who live here.”
The meeting is Wednesday, May 20, at Forest Grove Elementary, from 7 to 9 p.m.
The speakers list includes representatives from the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, Mayor Derek Corrigan, Dipak Dattani from the city’s engineering department, local resident John Clark, SFU professor Angela Brooks, and deputy fire chief Chris Bowcock, an outspoken critic of the company tank farm fire safety plans.
