The potential for human disaster is great. The average capacity of the 26 Burnaby Mountain tanks required by the Trans Mountain expansion project will be 34,400 m3 (216,000 barrels) each for a total capacity of 894,000 m3 (5,620,000 barrels) -more than one hundred times greater than the Lac-Mégantic train. Dilbit is sour crude containing 20-30% natural gas condensate or refinery naphtha, and hydrogen sulphide gas, H2S, lethal at only 700 parts per million (p.p.m.), or 0.07%, in air. The existing Trans Mountain pipeline system batches products so an expanded tank farm on the side of Burnaby Mountain will contain highly-flammable, volatile, and toxic gasoline, diesel, iso-octane, syncrude, light crudes, and dilbit. gal.) of highly volatile, light oil from the Bakken shale of North Dakota. The 72 rail cars of the train that exploded, incinerating 47 people, at Lac-Mégantic carried, in total, 8,100 m3 (51,000 bbl, or 2.1 million U.S. However, the public safety and security risks of the Trans Mountain expansion were not adequately addressed. The NEB judged the risks of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project to be “acceptable” in giving the project its conditional approval. The expansion requires the number of crude oil and refined product tanks at the existing Burnaby Mountain tank farm to be doubled to 26.īurnaby Mountain Existing Tank Farm Adjacent to Simon Fraser University (SFU) and Residential Areas in Burnaby The expansion of the taxpayer-owned Trans Mountain pipeline is proceeding apace. The ECCC confirms those claims as enforcement officers had told the crown corporation that day to “immediately cease any activity, work, or undertaking” on the work site referred to as Construction Work Package 98 or CWP-98 located along an approximately 1,100 meter stretch of land.“ You don’t spit into the wind, you don’t tug on Superman’s cape, you don’t pull the mask off the old lone ranger, and you don’t mess around with…” massive tank farms on the side of steep mountains next to residential areas, elementary schools and a university campus! Members of the Community Nest Finding Network reported the chainsaws had fallen silent ever since the inspection on Monday, April 12. The disturbance or destruction of a nest of a migratory bird is a contravention of the Migratory Birds Regulations.” “Cutting vegetation and trees or carrying out other disruptive activities such as bulldozing or using chainsaws and heavy machinery in the vicinity of active nests will likely result in disturbance or destruction of those nests. “Given that it is nesting season, migratory birds are particularly vulnerable at this time,” the email reads. According to an email from ECCC, the officers identified nests of Anna's hummingbirds and sighted other migratory bird species in the area, including Song Sparrows, Pine Siskins, American Robins and Black-capped Chickadees. #StopTMX /IdAGB36lCrĮCCC enforcement officers visited the TMX work site at the Brunette River Conservation Area following a tip from a local activist group called the Community Nest Finding Network (CNFN). Nowhere else on earth would this be allowed so close to houses, schools or a university campus (see tennis courts for scale). #TransMountain is using taxpayer money to build 14 new oil storage tanks above the city of Burnaby, for a total capacity of 5.6 million barrels. Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has confirmed that following federal inspections the tree cutting has been ordered halted. Work on cutting those trees has temporarily stopped. The City of Burnaby opposed it, but forces above all of our pay grades said “screw it, cut ‘em down” as though trees were some nuisance. Along with this blight comes an assortment of risks to the forest and the surrounding residents from the material inside the tanks.Īnd now, Trans Mountain is doing more damage by cutting down more than 1,300 trees along the Brunette River in Burnaby west of North Road. Today, the site is a disgusting canker sore on our beautiful Burnaby landscape. In previous days, when you drove around the city you could see the tanks in the distance but they didn’t really register that much.
Just look at the video below posted on Twitter by Dogwood BC and see how the mountain has been torn apart in so many different areas as the tank farm has expanded. What isn’t so vital is this project, which has raped the mountain beyond recognition with the addition of new tanks at the tank farm. So perhaps it’s hypocritical to criticize the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project for the damage it has done to the mountain while also living in a housing development that isn’t exactly a high watermark for the environment.īut I didn’t approve this housing development – I just live here and housing is vital. For those who don’t know it, I live on Burnaby Mountain.
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