In our recent Final submission of written evidence to the National Energy Board re Kinder Morgans TMX pipeline proposal, our Chapter 3 dealt with the severe threat to Cetaceans from the cumulative increase of vessel traffic from the project. Since writing that report, more references on this subject have come to light from another Intervenor
The National Energy Board indexes all communications from Intervenors, KM/TMX , NEB and commentators at this website: A054 – National Energy Board – Exhibit List for Hearing Order OH-001-2014 (A61576) A54-1 – A – National Energy Board – A3Y9H1 Open Download 603 KB 07/08/2014 A54-2 – B – Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC – A3Y9H2 Open Download 3
Table 5: Significant Species and Conservation Status in 19 Marine Ecological Reserves ER# Name Species Scientific Name Species Common Name BC List Status COSEWIC Status SARA Status CF Prov. Priority 28 Ambrose Lake Oncorhynchus clarkii Coastal Cutthroat Trout, ssp. lewisi, S3S4 (2004) Blue Special concern 2 Gasterosteus aculeatus Threespine Stickleback Yellow Special concern 6 24
ER #76, Fraser River Islands – April 10, 2015 Ecological Reserve Warden’s Report by Bill and Bev Ramey Sunny, clouding over in afternoon with strong winds; 10 – 12oC Launch kayaks at 9:30am, return 4:00pm Water level at Mission: 1.8 metres to 2.3 metres Water level at Hope: 5.6 metres (Very high water level for
VANCOUVER — Special to The Globe and Mail by Stanley Tromp Published Tuesday, Apr. 28 2015, 7:00 AM EDT “Newly released U.S. documents show American authorities are nervously eyeing Canadian proposals to triple the number of oil tanker voyages through the shared waters off B.C.’s coast, saying among themselves that Canadian standards to clean up a major
Lester Pearson College has employed the Ecoguardians at Race Rocks Ecological Reserve since 1997. One of the benefits of this is in having observers on site 24 hours on this archipelago in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. A great amount of citizen science is achieved as the Ecoguardians record in their logs the events
Ecological reserve warden Marilyn Lambert submitted this photo showing within a short distance of Oak Bay Islands Ecological Reserve, this 61342 ton, 250 metre oil tanker passing through under tethered tug escort. ( Why the tug is tethered behind the ship is a good question??) This is only one tanker out of 34 per month,
See this revised exhibit list (as of April 10, 2015) for documents relating to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Expansion Project: Following are the submissions and responses specific to The Board of Friends of Ecological reserves C33-5 – Board of Friends of Ecological Reserves – Motion for adequacy IR2 (A66957) 2 Items 02/26/2015 C33-4 –
We just received our feedback to our motion to compel Kinder Morgan /TMX to answer our Round 2 Intervenor Questions more adequately. Their response to 28 out of 31 questions was the same quote: “In accordance with Board Ruling No. 33 (Filing IDA63066), Trans Mountain’s response provided sufficient information and detail for the Board in
Delivered via online Filing
This filing can be viewed at:
http://docs.neb-one.gc.ca/
Or See the PDF version here: Motion to compel KM to supply adequate responses to FER IR 2 Feb 26
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To: National Energy Board “NEB” 444 Seventh Avenue SW
Calgary Alberta. T2P OX8
From: Board of Friends of Ecological Reserves
C/O Mike Fenger, President, Friends of Ecological Reserves
511 Foul Bay Road
Victoria BC V8S 4G9
Attention: Sheri Young
Re: Hearing order OH-001-2014
Trans Mountain Pipelines ULC (“ (“Trans Mountain”)
Application for Trans Mountain Expansion Project
Notion of Motion to Compel Full and Adequate Responses to Information Requests (IRs)
Please find enclosed the notice of motion to compel full and adequate responses to IRs, filed on behalf of the Board of Friends of Ecological Reserves (FER). The filing is in the form of a Table with colour coding as follows:
FER would like to take this opportunity to state that we reviewed all responses. For the inadequate responses we have provided clarification to support that claim. We have also retained all IRs and responses as we have learned from the adequately answered responses too, and these need to remain part of the record.
We have provided links to documents wherever possible through footnotes. We have used endnotes to display maps or portions of references provided by TMX when needed to support understanding of IRs.
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Adequate Responses |
Inadequate responses |
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4, 5, 10, 11, 14, 16, 18,21, 23, 25, 26 |
1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 15, 17, 19, 20, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32. |
Mike Fenger
President of Friends of Ecological Reserves
Garry Fletcher
Board member of Ecological Reserves
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In late January , we found out that we had been granted some funding for our work as Intervenors in the National Energy Board, Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project. We had applied in May of 2014. This link shows the location of the Board of Friends of Ecological Reserves Documents. https://docs.neb-one.gc.ca/ll-eng/llisapi.dll/Open/2450919 KM/TMX Responses
Context: Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC (Trans Mountain) is proposing an expansion of its current 1,150 km pipeline system between Strathcona County, AB and Burnaby, BC (the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, hereafter ‘the Project’). On December 16, 2013, Trans Mountain filed a Facilities Application for the Project with the National Energy Board (NEB), pursuant to the
Alton Valler from Cranbrook, BC has sent a set of pictures taken of the pools at Ram Creek . He indicates ” You may not be aware but this pool was washed out about 2-3 years ago and I have not been back there to see, but I hear its being rebuilt by local volunteers.
On January 15, 2014, The Board of Friends of Ecological Reserves submitted the round 2 set of Information Requests to Kinder Morgan /TMX project. It is posted here: C33-4-1_-_Information_Request_No._2_-_A4G5Q9 Other posts on our concerns about the risk of oil spills in Marine Ecological reserves may be found here: https://ecoreserves.bc.ca/category/issues/oil-spill-threat/ 50 other intervenors in the NEB
From the: THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER AUTUMN/WINTER 2014 Update on NEB-Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Project By Mike Fenger and Garry Fletcher In the 2014 Spring/Summer LOG, our editor Louise Beinhauer provided an excellent summary of the Information Requests that Friends of Ecological Reserves provided to Kinder Morgan (KM). This summary is
The vessel traffic lane in the Strait of Juan de Fuca is very narrow and it lies within 3 to 5 nautical miles of the boundary of Race Rocks Ecological Reserve. The ecoguardians at the Race Rocks Ecological reserve have contributed photos of the local fauna, with marine vessels, including tankers in the background and
RE: Notice of Motion by the Province of British Columbia submitted December 5, 2014 OH -01- 2014 Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC (“Trans Mountain”) Trans Mountain Expansion Project (the “Project”) File Number OF-Fac-Oil-T260-2013-03 02 As an Intervenor in the above mentioned application, the Board of Friends of Ecological Reserve’s (Board of FER )provides the following comments