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Fire, smoke, and toxins: Kinder Morgan and emergency preparedness at SFU

Peak Web July 30, 2018

By: Cecile Favron, Peak Associate  After Angela Brooks-Wilson became a professor at Simon Fraser University, her family relocated to a neighbourhood just minutes from campus at the base of Burnaby Mountain. It was supposed to be the house that she and her husband would live in for the rest of their careers and into retirement. “It seemed really perfect until we got a notice from Kinder Morgan,” recounted Brooks-Wilson, a professor in biomedical physiology and kinesiology. “The notice said that they had applied to expand the tank farm.” That was when the family began to seriously research the safety of…

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What’d I Miss?: The Kinder Morgan Pipeline

Peak Web June 28, 2018

By: Simran Randhawa and Gabrielle McLaren 1951 On December 13, after three days of deliberation, the Board of Transportation Commissioners approved the application for a pipeline to be built, connecting Burnaby to Edmonton. It was established because of the discovery…

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ChangeSFU protests against government bailout of Kinder Morgan pipeline

Peak Web May 25, 2018

By: Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor   On May 8, SFU’s student-run environmental activism group, ChangeSFU, organized a casserole rally at the constituency office of Terry Beech — the MP for Burnaby North-Seymour — to demonstrate opposition to a Kinder…

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