The Vancouver Park Board has approved a motion opposing expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline.
Commissioner Niki Sharma put the motion forward. She was asked how much of an impact she thinks the motion will have on potentially stopping the project, “We have to do what we can do, we must do when it comes to this proposed expansion. So, what I think we need to be focused on now is how big of an impact we can have to make sure that the risks are minimized; that we can hold our heads up as Commissioners and know that we did our job to ensure that those spaces are protected for Vancouver.”
Tuesday, a similar motion will be introduced at City Council that calls on city staff to draft a bylaw that would require tankers and pipeline operators to indemnify the city at levels equivalent to a worst-case spill.
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