Delta mayor supporting alternative route for Kinder Morgan pipeline

DELTA (NEWS 1130) There are few supporters of Kinder Morgan’s planned twinning of the Trans Mountain pipeline through Burnaby Mountain, but there’s maybe one supporter of an alternate route mentioned by Alberta’s premier. Delta’s mayor isn’t shutting the idea down outright.

It was at a conference in New York yesterday where Rachel Notley suggested Kinder Morgan could find more support for a route that ends at Deltaport, instead of Burrard Inlet.

Delta’s Mayor Lois Jackson has not been approached about the idea. “It’s an international question as opposed to a local question, but you certainly have to talk with people and understand what the questions are before you can even begin to discuss anything further than that.”

But she says it wouldn’t be a firm “no” from her without learning more about any plans. “Pipeline, across this country, has been here for a long, long time and in many other places and it’s by in large good, clean fuel for people. It’s a lot better than coal.”

For its part, Kinder Morgan claims it isn’t exploring this at all, saying going ahead with the twinning at Burrard Inlet is the easiest, safest way.

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