One of B.C.’s smallest birds is responsible for a four-month stop-work order on one of the federal government’s largest projects, the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline.
Anna’s hummingbirds are protected by Canada’s Migratory Bird Act, which says any work that could negatively affect the population has to be halted until nesting season is over. The order, issued by Environment and Climate Change Canada, was put forward after conservation officers saw the company felling a tree with an active hummingbird nest in it earlier this month.
The pipeline, originally built in the 1950s, was taken over by Texas’ Kinder Morgan in 2015, which then made plans to triple the exports of the existing operation, upping production to up to 890,000 barrels each day flowing from Alberta to the coast of B.C. The federal government purchased the pipeline in 2018 for $4.5 billion. The Trans Mountain expansion (TMX) is projected to cost $12.6 billion.
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VANCOUVER Environment and Climate Change Canada has ordered a halt to construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline through a forest in Burnaby, B.C., until the end of bird nesting season. The department said the order was issued following an enforcement officer s visit to the site prompted by complaints that nests of the Anna s hummingbird and other migratory birds were being damaged. “Given that it is nesting season, migratory birds are particularly vulnerable at this time,” it said in an emailed statement. “Cutting vegetation and trees or carrying out other disruptive activities such as bulldozing or using chainsaws and heavy machinery in the vicinity of active nests will likely result in disturbance or destruction of those nests.”
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Trans Mountain pipeline construction ordered paused in B.C. bird nesting area
Environment and Climate Change Canada has ordered a temporary halt to the construction of a segment of the pipeline through a forest in Burnaby, B.C.
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Posted: Apr 26, 2021 12:52 PM PT | Last Updated: April 26
A baby hummingbird waits for its mother to return. A segment of the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project through a Burnaby, B.C., forest has been delayed until the end of nesting season. (John Antczak/AP)
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Trans Mountain ordered to delay pipeline construction in B.C. bird nesting area
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Last Updated Apr 26, 2021 at 1:44 pm EDT
VANCOUVER Environment and Climate Change Canada has ordered a halt to construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline through a forest in Burnaby, B.C., until the end of bird nesting season.
The department says the order was issued following an enforcement officer’s visit to the site prompted by complaints that nests of the Anna’s hummingbird and other migratory birds were being damaged.
It says cutting trees, using bulldozers, chainsaws or other heavy machinery in the area, will likely result in the disturbance or destruction of nests and it must stop until Aug. 20.
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