Burrard Inlet spill exaggerated ‘100 times’

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Kinder Morgan is calling out Metro Vancouver for a report they commissioned saying it overestimated the air quality impact of a Burrard Inlet oil spill by 100 times. The information comes from Kinder Morgan’s final submission Thursday to the National Energy Board regarding its Trans Mountain Expansion Project.

The Metro Vancouver report created a spill model evaluating how benzene, which is added to crude oil for shipping, would affect air quality in the Burrard Inlet in the event of a worst-case spill…

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Patrick Colvin – Vancouver 24 hrs – August 20, 2015.

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