Share this Story: NP View: On Trans Mountain, Highway 413 Canada proves again that it can't get things doneNP View: On Trans Mountain, Highway 413 Canada proves again that it can't get things done Photo by Frank Gunn/The Canadian PressArticle content If a history is ever written on the saga of Canada’s efforts to build the Trans Mountain pipeline, there will have to be a chapter labelled “H for Hummingbirds.” Construction of the pipeline has been ordered delayed for four months after members of the Community Nest Finding Network in Burnaby B.C. Try refreshing your browser, or NP View: On Trans Mountain, Highway 413 Canada proves again that it can't get things done Back to video Under the Migratory Birds Act any situation in which migratory birds might be killed, captured or their nests threatened is an offence. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Opponents to Highway 413 include activists, environmentalists, People with Placards, journalists who live elsewhere and people who already own homes in the region and don’t want a new highway nearby. All these developments gobble up land at a rate that has somehow failed to prompt the outpouring of angst that has greeted Highway 413.

Source: National Post April 30, 2021 15:56 UTC