Transport committee  Obviously, we have general emergency preparedness plans that would deal with any kind of emergency or disaster in our community, but this is outside the scope of anything we could anticipate. First of all, the reality of the tank farm, which is situated on Burnaby Mountain above

Transport committee  No. In fact, we don't even have the money to deal with the issues surrounding the tank farm, in a potential conflagration at the tank farm. The expectation of the Kinder Morgan corporation is that somehow our firefighters will look after their tank farm, even if there is a major

Transport committee  It has been a subject of great concern in our city because little is known about dilbit and the ultimate impact of dilbit if there is a spill. Certainly the condensate is said to be a proprietary secret as to exactly what chemicals are in the condensate that allows them to have t

Transport committee  Yes, it is all about money.

Transport committee  One of the realities of the pipelines in Burnaby is that they were originally part of a co-operative that served refineries along our coastline in Burrard Inlet. Five or six refineries have now been reduced to a single refinery. Over the course of many years though it became incr

Transport committee  I'd say that in metro Vancouver, we have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in secondary treatment to ensure that our outfalls are of the highest environmental standards. It's one of the primary responsibilities. In fact, right across our region, in the case of the north s

Transport committee  Yes. I say that if this is upheld by the Federal Court of Appeal, it will certainly destroy people's faith in our system. Again, I applaud the government for the measures in this bill. We shouldn't have to choose between a healthy environment and a healthy economy. We know that

Transport committee  Thank you very much for the invitation to appear before the committee. It is a real privilege. I've been a member of Burnaby's city council for 30 years, and I'm now in my 16th year as mayor. I'm very pleased to represent the City of Burnaby at this committee meeting, and I am m

Transport committee  I would. I was the former chairman of British Columbia Transit operating all of our systems across British Columbia, and I can tell you that the revenues that are available even with extremely aggressive advertising programs are relatively minute compared to the budgets that are

Transport committee  From the perspective of the City of Burnaby, we're happy to be involved in pilot projects that allow us to test new technologies or emerging technologies, and oftentimes cities will do that. We will work cooperatively to attempt to integrate something like, for instance, LED ligh

Transport committee  I think that sometimes it's ironic that we talk about transit paying for itself when we don't do the same thing with roads and bridges. We expect that the benefit of huge subsidization and investment in roads and bridges ends up being an economic investment because we have more m

Transport committee  It's not a better system. I would prefer to have direct federal government funding for public infrastructure projects.

Transport committee  I would say that exactly. The lengthy process it takes to go through a P3, even on a simpler project, works against us. We can accomplish exactly the same thing using a design-build, which is a very efficient construction method that offers up the opportunity to have a compacted

Transport committee  You're absolutely correct. The fund, by agreement, is all going to TransLink to fund capital for TransLink. That was by agreement of the mayors around the region in the first 10 years. It was an agreement that was made, and then it has been again, the same agreement.

Transport committee  It's the same situation in Surrey and in Vancouver.