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Study challenges Kinder Morgan economic calculations
EIC November 21, 2014While the legal battle concerning the anti-pipeline protests on Burnaby Mountain rages on, Doug McArthur, director of the SFU School of Public Policy, has co-authored a study examining the public policy aspects of the pipeline expansion. The study, entitled Economic Costs and Benefits of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMX) for BC and Metro Vancouver, found that Kinder Morgan has exaggerated the number of jobs that would be created by the project, both in its construction phase and operations phase, by about three times. In McArthur’s opinion, this “changes the job profile of the project quite considerably in terms of…
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Community awaits verdict after Kinder Morgan pipeline hearings conclude
EIC November 8, 2014Hearings for the trial between Kinder Morgan and Burnaby Mountain protesters concluded Friday night after three days of discussion concerning the presence of said protesters at the proposed pipeline project sites. Five individuals, including three SFU professors, were named in…
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