Trans Mountain tanks not built to withstand ‘sloshing’ oil during earthquake: engineer

By Kelvin Gawley / Burnaby Now
Company says it has excellent emergency preparation procedures

Trans Mountain is defending its emergency preparedness after a politician, engineer, activist and geologist stood outside its Burnaby Mountain tank farm to accuse the pipeline company of potentially endangering thousands of lives in the event of a major earthquake. Burnaby North-Seymour federal NDP candidate Svend Robinson held a press conference Tuesday alongside Simon Fraser University geology professor John Clague, structural engineer Gordon Dunnet and anti-pipeline activist Karl Perrin.…

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