* B.C. pipeline battle bleeds into proposed marine terminal

The battle for Kinder Morgan Inc.’s Trans Mountain pipeline is bleeding into lobbying over another major infrastructure project in British Columbia – a proposal for a new shipping terminal near Vancouver’s Fraser River Estuary.

Advocacy groups campaigning against the proposed marine terminal, called Roberts Bank Terminal 2, have said they are concerned it could serve as a contingency port for the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline, even as the port authority and Kinder Morgan say using the expanded port for shipping oil is not in the cards.

“That would add a whole other level of concern to the existing concerns we already have,” said Anne Murray, a volunteer organizer with BC Nature, a group of naturalists lobbying against the new shipping terminal. “I’d be extremely concerned about that.”