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Kinder Morgan’s Spawning Deterrent Assault on BC Salmon

7/2/2019

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Snow Fencing in BC creeks Kinder Morgan
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Lynn Perrin, PIPE UP Network Abbotsford - In September 2017 while reading the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain online newsletter, I discovered an article describing in-stream installation of snow fencing to deter salmon spawning in five BC watercourses.

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Bradner Residents Concerned

8/21/2015

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By Heather Lemieux, Editor

Bradner BC - Summary of the August 18th, 2015 Meeting with representatives of the Abbotsford Police Force, and Corrections BC

About 25 neighbours who live near the home where Conway resides attended this meeting. 

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The Collaborative Group of Landowners Affected by Pipelines Holds AGM

6/7/2015

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By Brian Kingman, CGLAP Secretary 

CGLAP holds AGM in Abbotsford, BC

The Collaborative Group of Landowners Affected by Pipelines met on May 26th in Abbotsford to review this past years’ involvement and preparations for the Kinder Morgan – Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. CGLAP is a pro pipeline group and the largest advocacy group for the Directly Affected land owners who will be involved in the Trans Mountain Pipe line expansion.

CGLAP is a registered non-profit association and has Intervenor Status with the NEB. Members are primarily homeowners and farmers located from Rosedale in Chilliwack through to Walnut Grove in Langley. This is a significant stretch of over 60 kilometers of pipeline through the heart of the Fraser Valley and arguably the finest soils in Canada.  
Because each landowner is directly affected by the pipeline expansion, concern runs high among the members. 83 people or 87% of the members attended the meeting, reflecting the apprehension of the membership. “We would like to see an amicable resolution to all our concerns about the pipeline’s impact on our homes and farms.” said Brian Kingman, secretary of the group, “We have invested a lot of time and money outlining our concerns and proposing solutions to Trans Mountain” said CGLAP President Peter Reus. He also reported progress in meetings with Trans Mountain and is hopeful that all of CGLAP’s issues will be met very soon. A partnership agreement with Trans Mountain seems to be the major hurdle at this time.

There is also a real concern of the aspect of new farming regulations that have now commenced due to the new “Safety Zone” of 60 meters, 30 m (100 feet) on either side of the pipeline right of way, itself, 18 m (60 feet) wide. CGLAP has won through the NEB Intervenor Process, establishing the new pipe of 944 cm (36”) depth of 1.2 meters through the Fraser Valley and is trying hard to convince Trans Mountain to lower the 1953 pipe to the same depth as it currently sits at .8 meters (30 inches) or less, far too shallow to effectively handle todays farm machinery and cultivation techniques.
CGLAP is also involved with a UFV assisted pipeline temperature affect study to determine the heat generated from the oil passing through the pipe and if there is any detrimental effect on crops grown in the proximity of the pipeline, especially in regard to premature crop ripening. 

CGLAP director Dave Van Belle of Matsqui Prairie, related the incident of being approached by Trans Mountain when an employee was hand digging a water ditch on and near the right of way to handle a small amount of Big-O drain pipe.
CGLAP reaffirmed the current Board of Directors, Garnet Etsell, Gordon Taylor, Dave Van Belle, Philip Graham, Joe Woldanski, Courtenay McDonald, Donna Kingman and welcomed newly elected; Ms. Margaret (Peggy) Livingston of Philps Farms of Mount Lehman. 

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Update: Directly Affected

3/17/2015

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By Brian Kingman

Some fifty people, a mix of older and younger folks attended the viewing of the University of the Fraser Valley produced film, “Directly Affected”. The film presented a slick overview on the possible dangers of shipping crude oil via a pipeline to the Pacific Coast for export to many global destinations. The film was quite professional, but the event organization was not as smooth due to the absence of a microphone, some special guests and a somewhat lengthy ceremonial procedure. There were many questions from the audience that were unable to be answered due to a Q&A panel who seemed unprepared and in my opinion, ill informed in regard to several questions that were asked about the actual workings of the current existing Trans Mountain pipeline.


There were several people in the audience that could have contributed meaningful answers, but this venue was by nature, against the construction of the second line and surely the facts surrounding the answers to questions such as separating the chemical ingredients in the Diluted Bitumen; or more commonly known as Dilbit; a bitumen diluted with one or more lighter petroleum products, typically natural-gas condensates such as naptha gas. Diluting bitumen Tar Sands crude makes it much easier to transport in pipelines. Other questions posed and unanswered included basic ones such as the depth in the ground of the existing pipe. 

Some panel members reported a doom-and-gloom on the horizon for not only B.C. but also for Canada and the world too. One panel member discussed the risk of a pipeline oil spill that could pollute the Fraser River and would wipe out the world’s largest Salmon runs. Disasters do happen but there was no discussion of the tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil traveling through the lower mainland daily by tanker cars on a train carriers that pose much greater chance of a disastrous oil spill than what a pipeline presents. 

In my opinion, that was a focus point that the environmental expert panel could have made some compelling arguments to gain political will that is needed to have the cooperative environmentalists gathered last night and gain the needed credibility for each of their specific organizations. 

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Directly Affected

3/1/2015

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By Brian Kingman

On March 11th, the Abbotsford based activist group known as Pipe-up will host a twenty minute video event called 'Directly Affected'. There are actually some 800 landowners in the Fraser Valley that will be truly Directly Affected when Kinder-Morgan/Trans Mountain commences construction of the new larger pipeline in 2016. The National Energy Board (NEB) regulatory body is well underway and actually closer to winding down as it began in December 2013.

I am the Secretary Treasurer of a 90 member landowner association using the acronym CGLAP; short for the Collaborative Group of Landowners Affected by Pipelines. We are a recognized society who consists of Directly Affected landowners, many with property in Mount Lehman and the Bradner - Jubilee region of Abbotsford who, by the terms of the NEB are the recognized Directly Affected landowners. I understand that Pipe-up (pro-information pro-environment united people) are using the title of the video as a protest to the NEB who only allowed 400 applicants to be Intervenors as they laid out a qualification regulation to apply for Intervenor status that made it very difficult for residents not on or near the expansion project to achieve the official voice to be heard by the NEB in the Intervenor role.

Even though CGLAP is not against the pipeline, it is, in my opinion, very important that residents of the Fraser Valley attend this function at UFV on March 11th to show concern to Trans Mountain that residents, no matter where they live in the Fraser Valley have the right to be concerned and if needbe, voice their opinions on the expansion project. Apathy will be the message Trans Mountain receives if there is a poor turnout to this event. 

The event will include an expert panel including Chief Dalton Silver of the Sumas First Nation, film director Zack Embree, UFV agriculture expert Lisa Powell, Lynn Perrin of PIPE-UP and Raincoast biologist Misty MacDuffee.

March 11th, 2015 - 7:00 - 9:00 pm - Admission by donation. 
University of the Fraser Valley (UFV), 33844 King Road, Abbotsford BC

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