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Permanent firehall on SFU Burnaby Campus to open in 2024
September 21, 2023By: Saije Rusimovici, Staff Writer As climate change fuels the wildfires that are spreading rapidly across the Lower Mainland, residents have been increasingly calling for proper preparedness and to address these risks in our communities. Burnaby Fire Department chief, Chris Bowcock, warns that heat waves could potentially cause grass fires near the Trans Mountain tank farm on Lhuḵw'lhuḵw'áyten (Burnaby Mountain). In response, he feels there should be a firehall within close proximity to the tank farms. He also stated the federal government should be the primary funder of the firehall’s construction, as the Trans Mountain pipeline is federally owned. “We’re…
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Board Shorts
November 27, 2018Written by: Amneet Mann, News Editor Board approves motion to extend subleases with CJSF and SFPIRG on a month-to-month basis The original expiry date on the subleases allocating the Simon Fraser Campus Radio Society (CJSF) and the Simon Fraser…
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Fire, smoke, and toxins: Kinder Morgan and emergency preparedness at SFU
July 30, 2018By: 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…
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Forum raises concern tank farm poses “catastrophic” risk
July 9, 2018Written by: Cecile Favron, Peak Associate Dozens of concerned citizens gathered to discuss links between the potential for a devastating fire on Burnaby Mountain and the Kinder Morgan tank farm expansion at Simon Fraser University on June 28. “The…
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Local residents stage anti-Kinder Morgan protest at public safety office
October 24, 2017By: Aliocha Perriard-Abdoh Local residents rallied against the expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain tank farm yesterday at the base of Burnaby Mountain in front of a local branch of the federal public safety office. The protest called a…
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Tanks farms, pipelines, and the safety of the SFU community
November 29, 2016Hidden in plain sight Upon starting your post-secondary studies at Simon Fraser University’s Burnaby campus, you might not notice at first that it is located above a tank farm. It is tucked away just below the Gaglardi Way and Hastings…
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