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Throwback Thursday: Residents protest tank farm in 1988

Non-confidence with the National Energy Board? Residents walking out on the NEB? Concerns about fire hazards at the Burnaby Mountain tank farm? These things may sound like our latest articles on the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, but they're actua

Non-confidence with the National Energy Board? Residents walking out on the NEB? Concerns about fire hazards at the Burnaby Mountain tank farm?

These things may sound like our latest articles on the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, but they're actually old issues local residents faced decades ago.

Deep in the Burnaby NOW archives, we've found a story about residents upset with the NEB, when Trans Mountain (before it was owned be Kinder Morgan) was adding more tanks to the oil storage facility on Burnaby Mountain.

Click here to read a scanned version of the story.
Happy Throwback Thursday! And thanks to my colleague Cornelia Naylor, who found this one while digging in the archives.