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The National Energy Board (NEB) is expected to release its recommendation regard-ing the proposed expansion of Kinder Morgan Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline later this week.

The NEB has previously heard arguments from a va-riety of interveners, includ-ing the City of Abbotsford, the Fraser Valley Regional District, and a group repre-senting rural property own-ers. Its recommendation will be forwarded to the federal government, with cabinet ex-pected to make a final deci-sion by December.

The Trans Mountain Pipeline runs for around 30 ki-lometres through Abbotsford, the longest stretch through any single municipality. From Chilliwack, the pipeline crosses Sumas Prairie and runs over Sumas Mountain, where Kinder Morgan oper-ates a pump station and tank farm. Another tank would be added if the project goes for-ward as proposed.

From its facility on the mountain, the pipeline runs below rural properties, the Sandy Hill neighbourhood and Ledgeview Golf Course, before returning to the valley floor in the Matsqui Prairie.

Further east, the pipeline later crosses land owned by the Matsqui First Nation.

Should it recommend ap-proval of the project, the NEB will also suggest what con-ditions Kinder Morgan must meet in order to proceed with the proposed twinning of the pipeline, which would nearly triple its capacity.

Various local stakeholders have voiced concerns with the project.

The city has suggested that it will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to build and maintain infrastructure near the pipe-line.

Over 50 years, the city proj-

ects it would spend $17 mil-lion.

It said the company’s emer-gency preparedness plans must be improved and has called for the government to require the company to com-plete full-scale exercises at its Abbotsford facility.

Kinder Morgan says such ex-ercises would be onerous and unnecessary. The company has previously been criticized for how it handled spills in Abbotsford in 2005 and 2012.

The Fraser Valley Regional District, meanwhile, voiced concerns about air pollution that could result from the proj-ect and increased tanker traf-fic in Burrard Inlet. In partic-

ular, the FVRD has asked that the NEB include ground-level ozone monitoring among the conditions it requires for the expansion to proceed.

The Collaborative Group of Landowners Affected by Pipelines (CGLAP), a group of dozens of local farmers whose properties the pipeline crosses, has asked for Kinder Morgan to pay them royalties.

The city, FVRD and CGLAP have not come out against the project itself. The Matsqui First Nation, meanwhile, dropped its concerns regarding the pipeline after signing an agree-ment with Kinder Morgan.

One local group has come out opposed, however. The PIPE-UP Network, a group of activists and other concerned residents, has expressed wor-ries about the environmen-tal impacts of the project. Its members have voiced con-cerns about the risk both of an oil spill in B.C., and about the carbon emissions associated both with the production of the oil flowing through the pipeline, and with the burning of the fuel at its end source.

The NEB must make its recommendation by Friday. Watch abbynews.com for re-action once the decision is made public.

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Abbotsford among communities most affectedTyler OLSENAbbotsford News

Nursery owner Dave Van Belle speaks to Matsqui-Mission-Fraser Valley MP Jati Sidhu about the effect of pipeline construction on his Clayburn Village operation.

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The Abbotsford Cardinals are heating up in May, after pick-ing up a pair of wins over the Parksville Royals at DeLair Park on Saturday.

The Cards have now won three straight, and won game one

of the two-game set against the Royals off the bat of third base-man Konnor Piotto.

With the teams tied at three in the bottom of the seventh, Piotto blasted a hit to right field with two men on to clinch the win for Abbotsford.

The Royals got on the board in the sec-ond inning, only to have the Cardinals score three runs in the fourth and fifth. Dylan Ohlsen drove in two runs, with Colton Harold driving in the other.

Chase Stewart start-ed on the mound for Abbotsford, allowing just two hits and one earned run over four innings. Cardinals pitcher Jason Cross earned the win.

Game two saw Abbotsford explode

for its biggest offen-sive output of the sea-son, after disposing of the Royals 11-2.

The Cardinals opened up a 9-0 lead after the first three innings to cruise to the win. Brett Bass had a team-high three runs batted in, with Carter Loewen and Cade Smith both driving in two apiece. Other players with RBI’s included: Ryan Hamilton, Piotto and Ohlsen.

Pitcher Ethan Kano-McGregor earned the win, allowing one hit, zero runs and striking out five over three in-nings.

The wins improve the Cardinals’ record in BC Premier Baseball League action to seven wins and 12 losses. Abbotsford sits in ninth place in the 12-team BCPBL.

Abbotsford hits the road on Saturday, as they play the North Shore Twins in a dou-bleheader in North Vancouver.

They return home to host the White Rock Tritons on Sunday. Game one opens at noon, with game two set for 2:30 p.m.

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