NBA BRITISH COLUMBIA
Chapter News
Get Involved with NBA British Columbia
The National Brownfield Associations is always looking for individuals and organizations that are interested in advancing the brownfield market and encouraging green building on brownfield sites to be part of the British Columbia Chapter. Joining the NBA will connect you to a diverse network of members, including brownfield, green build and real estate industry professionals from the public and private sectors. You will gain access to information as well as training and events that bring stakeholders together to get deals done and make redevelopment projects happen in your state. Shape policy legislation and technical standards, when you get involved.
There are several opportunities to get involved:
- An individual, representative of government or businesses can become a member. Sign up online
- Be nominated to serve on the Chapter Executive Committee
- As a member, you can choose to serve on a subcommittee – Communications, Events, Membership, Policy & Legislative, Technical or Transactions.
- Businesses and organizations can become chapter or event sponsors.
Who Should Join?
Developers • Investors • Property owners • Financiers and Insurance Professionals • Elected officials and representatives federal, state, county and local government • Real estate professionals • Attorneys, architects, engineers, building designers and land planners • Economic development experts
Interested in joining NBA British Columbia? Do you know a colleague who would be interested?
Please email jillb@brownfieldassociation.org
If your company has an office in British Columbia, tell them about our Corporate Membership.
Brownfield Resources
The B.C. Ministry of Environment Land Remediation Section has compiled a list of brownfield resources in Canada, the United States and Europe. View these resources here.
Branch Name Change: MAL Crown Land Restoration Branch
The Crown Contaminated Sites Branch of the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands has changed its name to the Crown Land Restoration Branch to reflect a re-profiling of responsibilities. In addition to continuing as the lead for the management of the provincial Crown Contaminated Sites Program, the branch has recently expanded its responsibilities to lead development of the B.C. Brownfield Renewal Strategy.
This name change was effective as of April 1, 2008. The branch Web site (http://www.al.gov.bc.ca/clad/ccs/index.html#) has been updated to reflect this change and provides information about this expanded set of responsibilities.
All contact details for the branch remain unchanged.
B.C. Brownfield Highlight: Bamberton
The Bamberton property located in Mill Bay on Vancouver Island is a former cement plant site that ceased operations in the early 1980s. Since that time, it has remained in a derelict and unstable condition with three large landfills of waste cement product and cement kiln dust located on site. Three Point Properties purchased the site in March 2005, and began an ambitious deconstruction and remediation project. All of the buildings were deconstructed, with Three Point salvaging 2,800 tonnes of steel and 40 tonnes of asbestos-containing pipe insulation from buried Bunker C fuel lines on site. Read the full article here.
Case Comment: Canadian National Railway Company v. Imperial Oil Limited
By Robin Bajer and Tony Crossman, Vancouver
In 1914, CN leased land near the Prince Rupert harbour to Imperial Oil, which used it as a bulk storage and distribution centre. Imperial Oil terminated the lease and found that the land was contaminated with hydrocarbons and metals. At trial, CN was partially successful in recovering some of the estimated remediation costs, pursuant to the lease. Although the lease did not specifically deal with contamination, the court implied at term that the lands were to be returned uncontaminated. Read the full article here.