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Originally Posted by jasonturbo
Side note - Chevron plant in Burnaby was commissioned in 1935, long before there were any residential neighbourhoods nearby. Every person that lives in the refinery area and bitches about the refinery had the choice to move there knowing full well the refinery existed.
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I'm always amazed at the number of people who act shocked when I tell them this facility exists. I frequent Cates park, and every time I tell someone about what that tank farm is, they get all worried about the waterfront, and the environment. Then when you explain how long that facility has been there they seem to understand that their fear was irrational.
I remember a few years ago, I had some friends at SFU who lived nearby the site, and there was letters being dropped in their mailbox regarding protesting against the refinery regarding sulfur particles being deposited in the area. Chevron had to release a press release explaining to people how pollination works, and the pollen deposited on people's vehicles was not sulfur, and it had nothing to do with the refinery.
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Originally Posted by underscore
The people living near those lines knew they were there when they bought their house, their house might be worth less but they also would have paid less for it.
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This^. Those people have those responsibilities because the land they bought already had a legal Right of Way established on it, long before many of them were even born. Next I am going to hear about people complaining about how they have to call BCOneCall before they dig on their property... "Yeah fuck the government, how dare they run necessary civil services under my property!"