Stand up for Salmon: Stop KM Rally and Bold Action
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What: Stand Up for Salmon: Stop KM Rally and Bold Action
Date: Saturday, June 30
Time: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Where: Burnaby 200 Soccer field, 8505 Forest Grove Dr, Burnaby, BC
Map link: https://goo.gl/maps/giA81xg8Tww
Kinder Morgan Construction Threatens Salmon Spawning Downstream:
Washout reveals systematic failure by this company to protect salmon and the environment
(June 15, 2018/Burnaby) - Kinder Morgan and the City of Burnaby are testing water samples from salmon-bearing Eagle Creek after a citizen watchdog warned of a thick plume of sediment coming from the Kinder Morgan tank farm, weeks after thousands of salmon fry were released into the creek in an effort bolster falling salmon numbers. This comes just days after it was revealed that the pipeline company had been hit with multiple Department of Fisheries and Oceans infractions for work at their nearby Westridge Marine Terminal.
The washout was so extensive that New Westminster Streamkeepers discovered it in the Brunette River, almost 5 kms away and alerted Burnaby Streamkeeper John Preissl who contacted Kinder Morgan, the City of Burnaby, the Province of British Columbia and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
“I have repeatedly warned Kinder Morgan, the Federal government and the National Energy Board that these sediment washouts will happen if they continue to do such poor work especially during the rainy season. This is the worst shape I have seen this site in 10 years. It’s actually shocking that they are doing in-stream work in a salmon creek at this time,” said John Preissl, First Nations Streamkeeper, who has monitored the creeks and streams in the region for 15 years.
After years of community efforts, there are now juvenile Chum and Coho Salmon in the Eagle Creek as well as the year round Cutthroat Trout. Salmon have only been returning to the entire Burnaby Lake and Brunette River watershed for the past 11 years, after a 75 year absence due to human development and pollution. The Brunette River is the only remaining salmon-bearing river in the Lower Mainland and feeds into the Fraser River, as stocks have declined precipitously in the last years.
“In light of the other Department of Fisheries violations by Kinder Morgan revealed in secret documents earlier this week and earlier this year with the fish mats, this devastation of salmon bearing creeks due to bad construction reveals systematic failure by this company to protect salmon and the environment,” said Sven Biggs, Climate and Energy Campaigner for Stand.earth.
An injection of excess sediment radically reduces dissolved oxygen available to the spawning salmon in the water smothering the adults and burying the young. Eagle Creek Streamkeepers and Fisheries and Oceans Canada invited community children to release 50,000 Chum Salmon fry into the stream less than a month ago in a long-standing community tradition, the “Annual Send Off.”
Preissl is calling for a full joint inspection of Kinder Morgan’s Westridge and Shellmont facilities and for the Department of Fisheries to investigate and prosecute Kinder Morgan for dozens of violations of the Fisheries Act he has documented since construction began.
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What: Stand Up for Salmon: Stop KM Rally and Bold Action
Date: Saturday, June 30
Time: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Where: Burnaby 200 Soccer field, 8505 Forest Grove Dr, Burnaby, BC
Map link: https://goo.gl/maps/giA81xg8Tww
Kinder Morgan Construction Threatens Salmon Spawning Downstream:
Washout reveals systematic failure by this company to protect salmon and the environment
(June 15, 2018/Burnaby) - Kinder Morgan and the City of Burnaby are testing water samples from salmon-bearing Eagle Creek after a citizen watchdog warned of a thick plume of sediment coming from the Kinder Morgan tank farm, weeks after thousands of salmon fry were released into the creek in an effort bolster falling salmon numbers. This comes just days after it was revealed that the pipeline company had been hit with multiple Department of Fisheries and Oceans infractions for work at their nearby Westridge Marine Terminal.
The washout was so extensive that New Westminster Streamkeepers discovered it in the Brunette River, almost 5 kms away and alerted Burnaby Streamkeeper John Preissl who contacted Kinder Morgan, the City of Burnaby, the Province of British Columbia and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
“I have repeatedly warned Kinder Morgan, the Federal government and the National Energy Board that these sediment washouts will happen if they continue to do such poor work especially during the rainy season. This is the worst shape I have seen this site in 10 years. It’s actually shocking that they are doing in-stream work in a salmon creek at this time,” said John Preissl, First Nations Streamkeeper, who has monitored the creeks and streams in the region for 15 years.
After years of community efforts, there are now juvenile Chum and Coho Salmon in the Eagle Creek as well as the year round Cutthroat Trout. Salmon have only been returning to the entire Burnaby Lake and Brunette River watershed for the past 11 years, after a 75 year absence due to human development and pollution. The Brunette River is the only remaining salmon-bearing river in the Lower Mainland and feeds into the Fraser River, as stocks have declined precipitously in the last years.
“In light of the other Department of Fisheries violations by Kinder Morgan revealed in secret documents earlier this week and earlier this year with the fish mats, this devastation of salmon bearing creeks due to bad construction reveals systematic failure by this company to protect salmon and the environment,” said Sven Biggs, Climate and Energy Campaigner for Stand.earth.
An injection of excess sediment radically reduces dissolved oxygen available to the spawning salmon in the water smothering the adults and burying the young. Eagle Creek Streamkeepers and Fisheries and Oceans Canada invited community children to release 50,000 Chum Salmon fry into the stream less than a month ago in a long-standing community tradition, the “Annual Send Off.”
Preissl is calling for a full joint inspection of Kinder Morgan’s Westridge and Shellmont facilities and for the Department of Fisheries to investigate and prosecute Kinder Morgan for dozens of violations of the Fisheries Act he has documented since construction began.
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Date:
Saturday, June 30, 2018 - 10:00
