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New refinery plan on the sceneCameron Orr

A competing company aiming to build an oil refinery on Dubose Flats — the exact same place David Black has been eyeing for his Kitimat Clean refin-ery plan — has submitted their project description with regulatory agencies.

Pacific Future Energy, whose board of directors includes former Internation-al Trade Minister Stockwell Day, is plan-ning a refinery which would produce up to 160,000 barrels a day of diesel, 40,000 barrels a day of gasoline, 13,000 a day of kerosene, and 10,000 a day of liquefied petroleum gas or propane.

Butane would also be produced, they said.

The company says it would need 3,500 people for construction and 1,000 for operations.

Pacific Future says the construction could potentially begin in 2018 with a 2021 production start date. It’s valued at approximately $15 billion.

The company’s executive chairman Samer Salameh said the business model for the refinery makes sense even with a depressed cost of oil, which has dipped to around $30 a barrel.

“The beautiful thing about the refin-ery is that if the price of oil goes down we make more money. If it goes up we make a lot of money, it doesn’t matter,” he said.

That’s because the oil is purchased by the refinery at a lower cost, however the price of refined fuels doesn’t experi-ence that same drastic change, meaning profit margins could actually be better.

Salameh said he spent much of 2015 in China working on purchase agree-ments and says getting customers will be the easy part of developing the refinery, saying demand in Asia is growing.

This project’s proposed site at Du-bose does potentially put it in conflict with David Black’s Kitimat Clean pro-posal for a refinery.

Salameh says he hasn’t spoken with Black for a couple of years but the choice of site comes down to the availability of flat land to construct the refinery.

“We’ve looked at sites in the Prince Rupert area, we’ve looked in Kitimat, we’ve looked in Terrace,” he said. “The site we’re proposing today is our prima-ry site, which doesn’t mean we wouldn’t end up somewhere else if need be.”

He said he’s not aware of the spe-cific plans by Black for that area.

The use of biomass for power gener-ation is also being touted by the compa-ny as a way to kickstart the area forestry industry too, using material from area sawmills to produce up to 50 megawatts of the approximately 250 megawatts needed to run the refinery, he said.

At just three per cent of the CO2 emissions of other refineries running to-day, Salameh says he would expect all future refineries to be built to the stan-dard they’re following. He says that would have a huge impact.

“I think this will have more impact on the environment than almost any oth-er initiative around the world happening right now,” he said.

The bitumen for this refinery is an-ticipated to be delivered by rail. Since it won’t have to be diluted for transport in a pipeline the cooled bitumen in a rail car is near solid, approximately the con-sistency of peanut butter, and is stable and classified for rail transport as non-dangerous.

The company has dubbed the prod-uct “neatbit.”

Home badly damaged in Hallman fireFirefighters responded to call of boat on fireCameron Orr

The Kitimat Fire Department says inspec-tors are looking in to what caused a house fire on Hallman Street January 12.

The blaze seemed to have begun with a boat stored in the home’s carport.

The flames quickly spread into the house itself.

Deputy Chief Pete Bizarro says homeown-ers were not home at the time although two pets were.

The call was reported at 10:39 a.m. as a boat fire.

“The house sustained major damage,” said Bizarro.

While what actually caused this fire to start is not yet established, Bizarro said in general people should be mindful of fuel being stored around a person’s home.

Fuel in the boat in this incident did add to the size of the fire, he notes.

“It certainly just adds to the volatility of the situation,” Bizarro said referring to any general fire where fuel may be present.

“[Fuel] certainly

just adds to the volatility

of the situation.”

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Tax plan is a 3% rate increaseCameron Orr

Under the Council-approved five year financial plan, this year’s tax rate increase is set for three per cent.

Councillors got their first kick at the cat for the budget at their meeting Janu-ary 11, followed up by community group presentations the next day, which is a club or organization’s chance to ask for money. In many cases it’s a continuation of funding, such as the annual request for the operating grant from the Kitimat Public Library.

One notable factor of the 2016 bud-get is the potential for a significantly lower tax rate increase than in the plan, at least that was pitched as an idea by Mario Feldhoff. That’s because due to last year’s 100-plus day municipal strike there were operational savings.

That surplus could potentially mean the council can decide to bring their tax rate down, but it’s not a certain deal.

District Treasurer Steve Christiansen says he suspects there will be a surplus this year for the budget (many financial documents aren’t submitted to the town until even next month), but surpluses are not irregular for Kitimat.

“The surplus from 2015 automati-cally gets rolled into 2016 as a source of revenue. We do that each year. So, if it were a constant amount each year it would not affect how much in taxes we need,” he explained.

While he points out that there were labour savings due to the strike, the town also received lower revenues through things such as fees which reduced the ‘savings’ the town would experience.

“Due to the more expensive labour contract, combined with an increase in recent workload due to town develop-ment, we forecast to experience about a 4.2 per cent increase in operations cost,” he said.

The town, he noted during a budget information session, is also planning for any effects of an assessment appeal by a large industrial property in Kitimat. The property wasn’t identified but if the ap-peal is successful it could mean the Dis-trict would have to pay back the differ-ence of multiple years of tax collection which for Kitimat adds up to approxi-mately $8.7 million, he told councillors.

“If successful, the District will be re-quired to apply the respective year’s tax rate to each lower assessment and pay the property owner back, with interest.”


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The B.C. gov-ernment’s 14-year legal battle with the B.C. Teachers’ Fed-eration over staff-ing levels will go one last round at the Supreme Court of Canada.

The top court announced Thurs-day it will hear the union’s appeal of last year’s decision by the B.C. Court of Appeal that the province didn’t violate bargaining rights with its 2002 legislation setting class size and spe-cial needs support.

Education Min-ister Mike Bernier said the long-run-ning dispute won’t disrupt efforts to continue coopera-tion with teachers, and the latest five-year negotiated settlement shows “government’s re-lationship with the BCTF has never been better.”

The agreement came in 2014, af-ter a long, bitter strike that saw the government send out $40-a-day child care payments to 230,000 families for 13 school days lost due to strike action in the fall.

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“A month from now, the B.C. Lib-eral government will deliver its 2016 budget,” Iker said. “Enrolment is start-ing to increase after years of decline and we know that there are more students with special needs, refugee students and others with unique needs entering the system.”

Bernier de-clined to comment on the details of the case, with another court action on the horizon.

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Northern Gateway gets setback with court rulingCameron Orr

Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipelines project has been dealt a blow by a Supreme Court of Can-ada decision that says the province of BC failed to adequately consult with affected First Nations.

Specifically the ruling refers to the case brought forward by the Coastal First Nations and the Gita’gat.

The court found that the BC government breached their statuto-ry duties by signing an “Equivalen-cy Agreement” that gave the fed-eral National Energy Board the full power to conduct an environmental review on the pipeline project.

The two First Nations celebrat-ed the ruling with a media release calling the decision a huge victory.

“This is a huge victory that af-

firms the provincial government’s duty to consult with and accommo-date First Nations and to exercise its decision-making power on ma-jor pipeline projects,” said Arnold Clifton, Chief Councillor of the Gitga’at First Nation.

The provincial government now has to make their own deci-sion on the Northern Gateway proj-ect and consult with First Nations groups on rights and title issues.

The province recently opposed the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline because it didn’t reach the province’s specified five conditions for an oil pipeline project, the same conditions it has previously applied to Northern Gateway.

“This ruling is an important victory for our communities and presents another hurdle to the En-

bridge Northern Gateway pipeline,” said Chief Marilyn Slett, President of the Coastal First Nations. “It means the province must now sit down with First Nation commu-nities across BC and find ways to address the severe and irreversible impacts of this project.”

Art Sterrit, a member of the Gitga’at First Nation, says the Northern Gateway project “is dead.”

Ivan Giesbrecht, spokesperson for Enbridge Northern Gateway, provided a statement through e-mail to the Sentinel when asked for comment on this ruling.

“Northern Gateway received federal government approval in 2014, fol-lowing the federal Joint Review Panel’s

careful examination of the Project. This was one of the most exhaustive reviews of its kind in Canadian his-tory. Approval of the Project falls within federal jurisdiction and this decision from the British Columbia Supreme Court does not change that approval or the project’s envi-ronmental assessment,” he wrote.

He continued that proponents of the project, including Aboriginal Equity Partners, “remain commit-ted to this essential Canadian infra-structure.”

“We are working towards meet-ing the conditions set by the Joint Review Panel and conditions which the BC government may impose.”

Assessments on the declineCameron Orr

S i n g l e - f a m i l y homes in Kitimat will see a 12 per cent drop in assessed value, ac-cording to BC Assess-ment.

Across the north assessments are in gen-eral going up approxi-mately 11 per cent, but there is a mix between highs and lows, some communities dropping by 30 per cent, or see-ing their assessment rising by 16 per cent.

The City of Ter-race will see a two per cent drop for the same style home.

Overall BC As-sessment says North-ern BC’s assessment is rising from $57.3 billion to $59.5 billion this year.

“The majority of residential home own-ers within the region can expect a slight increase, compared to last year’s assess-ment,” said Deputy As-sessor David Keough in a news release.

“Most home own-ers in the Northern BC region will see changes in the 0-to-10 range. However, there

are some home own-ers that will see an in-crease higher then 10 per cent while others will see a decrease, such as in the commu-nities of Fraser Lake, Granisle and Tumbler Ridge.”

It’s said that $1.4 billion of the total as-sessed raise for the region is due to new construction, subdivi-sions and rezoning of properties.

Prince Rupert is the nearest community that will see a direct rise in values, going up 13 per cent. Further down the highway in Smithers they’ll be go-ing up three per cent.

The exact increase or decrease doesn’t directly relate to how property taxes are for-mulated for Kitimat homeowners, but it plays a part.

“Although our 2016 budget is prelim-inary, we plan on rais-ing taxes three per cent on residential. I set one tax rate for the average residential increase,” explained District of Kitimat Treasurer Steve Christiansen. “If

your assessment value drops 12 per cent, then you will realize a three per cent tax increase.”

If your home’s assessed value fell more than 12 per cent then your tax increase would be smaller than the three per cent.

On the other end if your value rises above that 12 per cent your tax increase would therefore rise as well.

It’s worth not-ing that Kitimat’s flat tax system means ev-ery property in town pays a portion with a single flat rate, which helps protect against wild tax fluctuations for home owners, and

is based on the theory that every home uses the same basic level of service regardless of home value.

The 2016 munici-pal budget has not yet been set but each year the council does estab-lish a five-year budget plan which outlines a possible year-to-year tax increase.

From now to 2018 the tax increases are planned to be three per cent, then in 2019 the increase will be small-er at 2.5 per cent.

The actual in-creases are of course set with each year’s financial plan being adopted by council.

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I have to say, I’m not a � nancial or economics expert.

At least not along the line of a Kevin O’Leary, the bombastic and publicity-aware � nancier, who caused considerable media fuss last week.

O’Leary is best known to Cana-dian television audiences of CBC’s popular and long-running “Dragon’s Den,” for his usually aggressive “I only love money” approach to aspiring en-trepreneurs.

In case you were in Mexico on vacation with your 70 cent Canadian dollar last week, O’Leary created his storm in a coffee mug by offering to invest a million dollars in Alberta’s oil and gas industry provided recently-elected Alberta NDP Premier Rachel Notley would voluntarily step down.

His main reason of course was that he says Notley is bankrupt of ideas or strategy to tackle solving Alberta’s ma-jor economic problems and especially the abrupt oil and gas sector collapse and its accompanying 60-thousand plus job losses, which O’Leary sees

as cataclysmic to Canadian economic interests. O’Leary as a colourful en-trepreneur enjoys controversy but his highly-publicized effort to manipulate the resignation of a Canadian premier drew plenty of mixed, but mostly nega-tive, reaction, much of it in common-sense defence of Premier Notley, who is certainly not the sole cause of Cana-da’s dramatic economic downturn, but merely inherited it, as Albertans turned on its Conservative government bum-bling.

Notley as a long-term politician was not in the least fazed by O’Leary’s proposal. She dismissed it promptly, saying “the last time ‘wealthy busi-nessmen’ tried to in� uence Alberta voters, I ended up becoming premier.

If now we’ve got a Toronto wealthy businessman who wants to tell Alberta voters how to vote, I say bring it on,” Notley, shrugging.

However, over the next couple of days O’Leary’s spirited defence of of his objective in taking his stance drew a lot of serious attention to the economic problems Canada is facing. O’Leary said he is glad he started the whole imbroglio.

“I expected to get a lot of � ak from this,” he said. “But if it’s creating a na-tional dialogue, which it seems to be doing, that was what I wanted to do.”

Most people are aware anyway that a one million dollar investment in Alberta would be a drop in the bucket. It would be too for billionaire O’Leary.

All personalities aside, the plum-meting Canadian dollar has become the most critical debate subject in this country’s � nancial world creating much concern that any light at the end of the tunnel may be an onrushing de-pression train.

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That O’Leary-Notley exchange

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Refined ideasDavid Black may have hit the nail on the head

when he said that with the likely failures of compa-nies to build diluted bitumen pipelines in B.C. — Northern Gateway and Trans Mountain down south are, shall we say, in challenging times — that compa-nies may be looking at the more politically friendly value-added products.

David Black’s been pushing to get an oil re� nery built in the Kitimat Valley for four years now. He had been looking mainly at the Dubose Flats for much of that time, although he has opened himself up to a second place.

But just days after the B.C. government said they couldn’t support Trans Mountain as it was, Paci� c Future Energy surfaces with a � ling for regulatory review of their own oil re� nery.

Interestingly at Dubose Flats, too.The strategies of the two companies, Paci� c Fu-

ture and Black’s Kitimat Clean, are slightly different but it will be interesting to see how the plans play out.

Paci� c Future namely seems like a larger com-pany, has a board of directors, staff, and now the for-mal project description.

David Black’s organization for the re� nery is hardly anyone more than himself.

But where Paci� c Future says with this � ling they will begin working with First Nations, David Black has done it the other way around. He’s put in a lot of work already with First Nations, and told the Sentinel in past weeks he wanted First Nation groups to see his project description before the government even got their hands on it.

Doing so is at a cost though, now coming second in a technical sense, even though he’s been working on this longer.

Either way, the political will to construct a re-� nery is already far friendlier than pipelines. Not to say there won’t be opponents to the proposal but my sense is that the success of a re� nery will really hinge on the commodity market, rather than any trouble at home.

At this point the only question is is there room for the two of them?

Both re� neries are boasting to be the cleanest in the world, will employ thousands in operations and construction, but if Black hopes he can start build-ing in two years, and Paci� c Futures thinks they can as well (they’re looking at 2018 for their start) then we’ll be faced with a situation where one of them likely will have to give.

Of course there’s perhaps a minor chance that both of them will go ahead with construction.

Although the idea of two massive re� neries be-ing built, around the same time that, � ngers crossed, an LNG plant is being built here too, well, so help us God. It’s going to be crazy.

Cameron Orr

Dear Sir,On December 23,

2015 the Environmen-tal Appeal Board qui-etly released its deci-sion in relation to the appeal of Rio Tinto's pollution permit for a near doubling of S0

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emissions into the Kit-imat/Terrace air shed. The Board dismissed the appeal and found in favour of Rio Tinto which had gone to great lengths to build a case touting taller smoke stacks, air dis-persion modeling, and a lack of hard proof that expected ambient levels of S0

2 would do

much more than cause a few extra cases of asthma.

I, along with ev-eryone else living in this air corridor have a stake in this. I un-derstand the epide-miology of the health effects of S0

2, and I

have an insider's in-sight into a process that is weighted heav-ily in favour of would be polluters,especially those with deep cor-porate pockets. What a disappointing, if not surprising, decision by the EAB.

Reading through the Board's reasoning

it becomes clear that they speak and under-stand the same lan-guage as the Corpora-tion. They too believe that the onus should be on people to prove harm rather than on the company to prove safety.

They too are happy with an approval pro-cess managed hand in hand by the regulator and the polluter. They choose to believe that this is the way of the world, and that it is just fine.

I noted with in-terest that they cited Northern Health as be-ing supportive of the permit based on a letter in which we acknowl-edged the usefulness of the STAR report as a background docu-ment, but they chose to ignore the fact that we urged the Ministry of Environment to re-quire the installation of scrubbers; a best prac-tice technology ideally suited to the Kitimat setting and the logical way to protect health in the face of uncer-tainty about the sci-ence related to ambient S0

2 and human health. Given the time of

year, I was reminded

of that iconic miser, Ebenezer Scrooge. Except Scrooge was a person with a heart and soul who could be star-tled out of his pinched worldview by Spirits reminding him that hu-man values are more important than profit. RTA like almost all large corporate entities is a profit generating machine with that and only that in its DNA. No ghosts will ever visit it and catalyse a change of heart.

The appellants in the case, and their legal team from the UVIC Environmental law centre did an outstand-ing job of trying to make the argument for clean air. We owe them a debt of thanks for the effort they put into challenging a flawed and cynical process.

But I am under no more illusions that the existing environmental assessment processes or "health studies" as window dressing in an "adaptive manage-ment" approach to pollution are adequate to protect the public's health. I am at a loss as to what if any more can be done within the system as it is.

We are being hoodwinked. Perhaps just being clear about that is an important first step toward tip-ping the balance back toward human values and human health. As long as we accept that we are here to serve an Economy dominated

by profit taking,rather than being served by an economy that works for us, and as long as we view the environ-ment as a corporate asset rather than as our common human space, we will continue to be peasants living at the largesse of corporate

lords.Please sir could

I have a job in your factory even as you reduce the workforce? Could you spare us just a little clean air at Christmas time?

In the words of Tiny Tim on behalf of the ordinary people in

London who had no choice but to live un-der the terms and con-ditions dictated by Eb-enezer Scrooge; "God bless us every one".

Dr. David BoweringFormer Northern Health Authority

Chief Medical Health Officer


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Last time we took a look at what had or had not happened during 2015 in terms of the proposed northwest LNG industry.

This time we're dusting off the crystal ball to see what the next 12 months might have in store.

Any analysis of LNG's prospects in our backyard has to start with oil since LNG prices have traditionally been linked to those of the black gold.

On March 13, 2012 the price of Brent (North Sea) oil, the international bench mark, shot up to US$126.16 per barrel.

It was of course a blip but on either side of that spike the price stayed steady at around $110: on June 17, 2014 the price was $113.30.

Then the roof caved in and as I write this the Brent price has free fallen by more than two-thirds to only $33.50 per barrel.

So what happened to cause this and what are the prospects of a turnaround?

The answer to the first question is as simple as it is complicated - the available supply of oil has soared as a result of the technological breakthrough (fracking) that has unlocked huge amounts of shale oil in the United States and resulted in an over supply.

In years past when the price of oil slipped, Saudi Arabia and its OPEC part-ners would simply reduce production in order to force it back up.

Not this time.The Saudis declared their priority is to

maintain global market share so they kept pumping out the oil regardless of the ever diminishing revenue they were getting for the product, a half a loaf is better than none strategy.

Of course there was another strategy at work: drive the price of oil so low that higher cost US producers would be los-ing money on every barrel they produced at such a rate that they would be forced to either cut back on production or risk going under.

Make no mistake, this strategy is cost-ing Saudi Arabia a pretty penny. Faced with record budget deficits as a result of those

declining revenues and its very generous "social contract" commitments to the popu-lace, it has dipped into its foreign currency reserves to the tune of more than $100 bil-lion to keep the financial ship of state on an even keel.

True it still has more than $600 bil-lion in those reserves, but the Saudis have clearly recognized they can't keep draining them at this pace.

Hence the recent decision to jack up domestic gasoline prices by 50 per cent and talk that they could go so far as to introduce new taxes and even borrow money via the international bond market.

But as painful as these consequences of cheap oil may be for Saudi Arabia, the impact on US oil producers is shaping up to be agonizing especially since the Saudis have indicated they will not change course before the next OPEC meeting in June.

The Houston Chronicle reported that 70,000 jobs in the US oil industry have already disappeared, unemployment in Houston has risen to 4.9 per cent and drill-ing in the shale oil plays of Texas and North Dakota have fallen to levels not seen for 16 years.

David Zimmerman of Taltra Capital

Management, a company that specializes in "restructuring", estimates that this year at least one in five small-to-medium US oil companies are going to go through sig-nificant downsizing at best, bankruptcy at worst.

In other words the Saudi strategy has started bearing fruit.

So what is the outlook for LNG in these turbulent times? That will have to wait for next time.

FOOT NOTE: The oil world was sup-posed to look very different today from the one we are actually experiencing.

In 1956 Dr. M. King Hubbert, an oil ge-ologist working for Shell, made attendees at an American Petroleum Institute meeting sit up and take notice with his forecast for the future of US oil.

He warned that production in Texas and the Lower 48 states would peak some-time between 1965 and 1971 and that world production would start declining by 2006.

Based on what was known at the time, that wasn't necessarily a crazy forecast. But events since have shown it is dangerous to predict too far into the future given tech-nological advances can change the rules dramatically.

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global impact.O’Leary precipitated a fo-

cus on Alberta’s inability to get what is now the world’s cheapest oil to world markets, something that should also be a major concern to the Trudeau Liberal government, no matter what its position on pipelines and super-tankers in B.C. wa-ters.

Canada, in my mind, has been the meat in the sandwich as Saudi Arabia and OPEC tries to wipe out the challenge of the rise in shale oil volume in the US, aided and abetted by many Canadians who seem unwill-ing to risk the environment of western Canada to the “caring hands” of the current leaders of the energy industry in Canada.

We can call it NIMBY, or BANANA organizations, or whatever. We can blame re-calcitrant Western Canadian First Nations, American envi-ronmentalists or supposedly

protectionist foundations but it boils down, in my opinion, to the failure of the energy in-dustries to get “buy-in” from people in Canada.

As I said at the top of this column, I am not an economist.

Neither, really is Kevin O’Leary.

He’s a savvy investor-banker-financier guy who sees disaster ahead if Canada aban-dons its principal cash cow the energy industry which he identifies as the “founder of the feast” in the past 100 years of Canadian energy develop-ment’s vital contribution to economic stability and growth in this country.

I don’t disagree with that. It would be like throwing away an ace.

Can a new Liberal govern-ment change the world’s view of Canadian economic stabil-ity? Who knows?

We’ll have a better insight with the tone of Finance Minis-ter Bill Morneau’s first budget

focussing as it apparently will more on infrastructure invest-ment, climate change, immi-gration and deficits and less on solving Canada’s current en-ergy issues.

That will likely be left to world markets. What O’Leary fears.

Another train of thought. Would this be as important to northwestern B.C. if Kitimat and Prince Rupert had not seen multi-billion dollar oil and LNG pipeline projects as keys to our future over the past de-cade?

I don’t know but I certainly guess so and the prospect of Kitimat returning to the sta-tus of a one-industry town if the total economic turndown continues, as some economists suggest for the immediate and longer term future, absolutely puts the wind up in me.

That won’t particularly concern Kevin O’Leary either but I’m sure he’ll be better equipped to move on.

O’Leary

The hard knock lifeWith a cast of 50 students, Mount Elizabeth’s Musical Theatre production of Annie is the school’s first to use students from grades 7 to 12, middle school to the secondary level. The show opened last Friday, and will continue this weekend with a Saturday night show and a Sunday matinee.

Northern Health paring down bus spending

Kitimat’s contribution to the Skeena connector, the public transit bus that runs between Kitamaat Village, Kitimat and Terrace on weekdays, will go up due to lower contributions from Northern Health.

Northern Health, still a significant contributor to the bus route, pitches in to the service as it’s a stop-gap measure to get patients to Terrace for ap-pointments in the absence of the Northern Health Connector bus which runs along Highway 16.

Instead of $140,000 as they have in the past, this year that number is going to $80,000.

Northern Health communications spokesperson Jonathon Dyck says Northern Health was looking to distribute transportation funding across their region more equitably. Notice was given to participant communities in the transportation plan in 2013 that this change was happening to give places a chance to adjust.

He said while the bus operators do track ridership Northern Health didn’t have a specific number of riders who use the service for health purposes.

This topic came up as Kitimat’s Chief Administrative Officer Warren Waycheshen gave councillors an overview of aspects of the 2016 municipal budget.

Kitimat’s contribution to the Skeena route is going from $25,000 to $42,000, a 10 per cent increase.

The total cost of the Skeena bus service is $420,000, he said.The subject did have Larry Walker wondering if there’s a way to begin

offering airport stops for the bus service.Airport bus service has come up before under the previous council. One

of the main holdups to adding airport service to the existing Skeena bus route is that it might disrupt the bus service which runs in to Thornhill. As a paying member of the Skeena route partnership, it’s not easy to potentially change their service.

Waycheshen said BC Transit buses also aren’t properly equipped to store people’s luggage and adjustments to the bus layout would be needed to allow for that.

But bottom line such an addition to the service really does come down to cost and what the partners want to contribute to such a service, he said.

Kitimat’s total B.C. Transit cost for town is also rising, from approxi-mately $534,000 to $588,000.

That’s due to changes in B.C. Transit’s own funding set up. In the past the organization would charge Kitimat for the actual usage of the bus, but now they want to charge a full rate, but take any unused expense and put it into reserve funds to prepare for any major maintenance fees in future years.

While Kitimat’s system has so far been safe from any drastic problems with its transit vehicles the silver lining to this change in funding is that it can stabilize the price year to year. (As in, no unexpectedly high bills due to the reserves.)

Police investigating arson casePolice say they are investigating a case of al-

leged arson which occurred in the week of Janu-ary 3 to 9.

Corporal Chris Manseau emphasizes that this file is entirely separate from the incident of the house fire on Hallman Street.

As for the arson file, he said there was no ma-jor damage to the home. He did not specify which street this incident occurred on.

“A homeowner came home late one evening to find an incendiary device in his carport alight,” said Manseau. “There was a moderate amount of smoke-heat damage to some inner carport siding, but the structure was never ablaze.”

The Kitimat RCMP are working closely with Terrace’s Forensic Identification section to gather evidence.

The file remains under investigation.


Lots of laughs for Peter and Chris showThe Kitimat Concert Association is present-

ing Peter and Chris: The Mystery of the Hungry Heart Motel on Friday at 8:00 p.m. in the Mount Elizabeth Theatre.

Peter (Carlone) and Chris (Wilson) are a three-time Canadian Comedy Award winning troupe from Vancouver. With the aid of their par-ticularly creative physical comedy, the duo will draw you into their strange, almost cinematic world and leave you laughing with delight.

The Mystery of the Hungry Heart Hotel, is, well, a mystery replete with a car accident, a stay at a spooky hotel, and a homicidal hotel manager – by the bye, the manager did it, but that is hardly the point as you will discover.

Of course, in the telling of their story, Peter and Chris manage to make a mockery out of most every mystery plot ever conceived with an inven-tiveness that is testament to their talent.

The Mystery of the Hungry Heart Hotel, is the third long sketch created by this talented duo.

It premiered at the Victoria Fringe Festival and has been performed well over 200 times.

This comedy duo frequently appears at Cana-dian Fringe Festivals where they frequently win Best of the Fest awards.

They have built a strong following across Canada and the US where they are lauded for their fast-paced, physical style that pushes come-dic theatre to its limits.

Last but not leastSometimes it’s good to come last. Little Kaine Wesley Jr. is seen here doing what newborns do, getting fussy with mom Brianna Bolton and dad Kaine Wesley. Junior is the last baby born in Kitimat for 2015, weighing 8lbs, 11oz, born December 30. As is tradition the Kitimat Hospital Auxiliary rewarded the family with a $50 gift certi� cate to the gift shop, and the Kitimat Quilters Guild presented them with a quilt. At left is Armelle Kennedy from the auxiliary and Aileen Ponter with the Guild.

Continued from page 1The use of biomass for power generation is

also being touted by the company as a way to kickstart the area forestry industry too, using material from area sawmills to produce up to 50 megawatts of the approximately 250 megawatts needed to run the re� nery, he said.

At just three per cent of the CO2 emissions

of other re� neries running today, Salameh says he would expect all future re� neries to be built to the standard their following. He says that would

have a huge impact.“I think this will have more impact on the en-

vironment than almost any other initiative around the world happening right now,” he said.

The bitumen for this re� nery is anticipated to be delivered by rail. Since it won’t have to be diluted for transport in a pipeline the bitumen in a rail car is near solid, approximately the consis-tency of peanut butter, and is stable and classi� ed for rail transport as non-dangerous. The company has dubbed the product “neatbit”.

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Community to get chance to name developmentCameron Orr

The company behind a planned hotel and work camp property will put it to council to suggest a new name to replace the older “Crossroads” title.

Horizon North CEO Rod Graham said council will get the chance to name the property — which will include a 89-room hotel and a phase one 240 bed camp.

Under previous ownership the property was called Cross-roads but the company is indi-

cating they want to modernize it.

Mayor Phil Germuth told the Sentinel council has no plan as yet for the name and sug-gested it may be a question they pose to the wider community.

Horizon North presented a technical overview of the planned property at the January 11 council meeting.

There were few new major updates about the project com-pared to a Sentinel interview published December 16 last

year, but Graham did say the Horizon North camp is planned to be a ‘dry’ camp, as in no alco-hol served on premises.

Development will begin � rst at the far back part of the site and will develop towards the highway, but the hotel, and eventual future commercial de-velopments, will remain what will be seen along the highway frontage.

Landscaping will also be done to increase the aesthetic of the site from the road.

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DISTRICT OF KITIMAT

WHAT:A public hearing will be held on Monday, January 25, 2016 at 7:30pm at Council Chambers, 606 Mountainview Square to consider ‘Riverbrook Estates, Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 1878, 2015’.

WHAT IS IT?The proposed bylaw changes the Kitimat Municipal Code and Zoning Map.

WHAT CHANGES?Riverbrook Estates Ltd. has submitted an application for Council to rezone a portion of Block 210; Plan 8918 (current civic address 167 Konigus St.) to allow the development of a 5,272m2 70-unit manufactured home park. The site is currently zoned G5 - Forestry. The applicant is seeking that the site be rezoned to R6-A Residential Zone - Mobile Home on Individual Lot. The applicant is also seeking that a no build covenant be replaced with the same restrictions imposed elsewhere in Kildala neighbourhood: minimum floor level 0.6m above the crown of the adjacent municipal road. Council is considering ‘Riverbrook Estates, Zoning Amendment BylawNo. 1878, 2015’, and is seeking your input.

WHEN CAN I SPEAK?Anyone wishing to comment on this issue may provide written comment to Mayor and Council c/o 270 City Centre, V8C 2H7; fax 250-632-4995; or email [email protected]. Comments regarding the proposed rezoning must be received before 8:30am on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 to be included in the report to Mayor and Council. Submissions received by email after this deadline but before 4:30pm on Monday, January 25, 2016 will be read before Council at the Public Hearing. You may also speak in person, or deliver written comment, at the Public Hearing: Monday, January 25, 2016 at 7:30pm at Council Chambers, 606 Mountainview Square.

NEED MORE INFO?The bylaw, Council resolution(s), staff report, completed application and other background information is available for review at the District of Kitimat reception desk, 270 City Centre, 8:30am to noon and 1:00-4:30pm, Monday to Friday excluding holidays. Further inquiries should be directed to Community Planning and Development at250-632-8910 or [email protected].

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AMENDMENT BYLAW NO. 1878, 2015

Black keeps options open on two sitesCameron Orr

David Black has until now had just one site in mind for his proposed oil refinery.

Today he’s keeping his mind open to a sec-ond site, also within the Kitimat Valley, but also a little closer to the water.

The two sites now are the Dubose site (origi-nal) and a new site between the Wedeene and Little Wedeene River. He said he’s keeping his options open because he wasn’t sure as yet the position of the Kitselas First Nation and the option of the second site will mean seeking ar-rangements with the Haisla, who he’ll be work-ing with anyway to develop the port facility at the Douglas Channel.

The Wedeene site is slightly closer to the Channel, and exists along the forest service road and the route of BC Hydro’s planned replace-ment line between Terrace and Kitimat. The new site is a bit further from the highway but with forest road access the highway isn’t a problem.

“It’s a little further away from the highway but that’s not the most important thing for us,” he said, saying the road access will allow them to move in the modules of the refinery which will be manufactured overseas and shipped to Kitimat.

Black says he’s still on the verge of submit-ting his project description with the provincial government, which will be the first phase of what will become an all our environmental as-sessment process.

He had hoped to have it submitted in De-cember but it’s taken slightly longer to work out the final engineering designs with Hatch.

He also plans to submit the descriptions first to the area First Nations for their input before formally submitting the documents.

Today he’s saying that filing will take place this month, or at least no later than February.

“I have it pretty much finished. I’m just waiting to talk to First Nations one more time,” he said. The outstanding aspects of the descrip-tion is mainly mapping issues.

On the list of things he wants to come in to place is boisterous support from the

B.C. Liberals.“They’re there quietly but I need them to

become more champions so the federal govern-ment also becomes a champion,” he said.

He had past support from the Prime Min-ister’s Office but with the new Liberal govern-ment he hasn’t been able to yet discuss the issue under Trudeau but Black said consultants are telling him it likely won’t be a problem even if he has to restart that process.

Once First Nations, the province and the federal government come on board he says he can move to the oil producers for their support.

The provincial government’s recent opposition to the Kinder Morgan TransMountain pipeline will work to his favour though, he says.

“That will have quite an impact as well be-cause the oil industry has been holding back in terms of throwing in with the refinery in the hopes they could get a pipeline through and just put it in tankers and not have to worry about anything,” he said.

“But I’m sure they’re starting to lose hope now on their pipelines and that means they’ll be much more interested in talking to the refinery.”

The Liberal promise to enact a tanker ban on the north coast is also good, since that would limit the export of unrefined product.

The depressed price of oil is also not caus-ing Black to lose sleep due to the economics of how his refinery works.

“[Low oil prices] doesn’t change it too much. I think they’re [producers] probably more mo-tivated with low oil prices because what I want to do is charge a toll to the oil producers as op-posed to the refinery buying the bitumen on the one hand and selling refined fuel on the other.”

The toll system means the oil producers would keep an approximate $6 per barrel.

Producers keeping ownership of the liquids means they handle the sales and the shipping too, leaving the refining process simply to the Kitimat Clean facility.

He said going that route has been the recom-mendation of his existing financiers.

“That means [producers] make an extra $6 a barrel. The refinery doesn’t but the refinery still, because of the toll, will make enough to pay off its debts.”

Tom FletcherThe B.C. govern-

ment is close to releas-ing its plan to provide "world-leading" pre-vention and response to land-based oil spills, but that progress isn't enough to change its opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline ex-pansion.

Environment Min-ister Mary Polak an-nounced recently the province's final sub-mission to the federal review of the project confirms it still has not met B.C.'s five condi-tions for approval of heavy oil pipelines.

Polak said she is preparing to present legislation this spring to establish new stan-dards for land protec-tion, after discussions with Trans Mountain

operator Kinder Mor-gan Canada and other companies. B.C.s final submission to the Na-tional Energy Board continues to recom-mend the pipeline twin-ning not be approved, but Polak said that is not the final word.

"We have been en-couraged by the num-ber of government and industry leaders who have also taken up the challenge and accepted the need to proceed along our five condi-tions, but we have not at this time seen evi-dence in the NEB hear-ing process that those conditions can yet be met," Polak said.

B.C.'s five con-ditions, presented in 2012, include NEB approval, "world-lead-ing" land and marine

spill prevention and response, meeting le-gal obligations to ab-original communities and an unspecified "fair share" of provin-cial benefits from any new heavy oil pipeline project.

Kinder Morgan is-sued a statement Mon-day saying it continues to work with B.C., but requirements for ab-original consultation, spill prevention and revenue sharing can't be met by the company alone.

The project al-ready faces 150 draft conditions from the NEB, in what Kinder Morgan Canada presi-dent Ian Anderson has called "the most highly scrutinized pipeline project by the NEB in history."

The NEB is ex-pected to hear interve-nor arguments starting Jan. 19 in Burnaby, including affected mu-nicipalities. Vancouver is also opposed, argu-ing that a seven-fold increase in crude oil

tanker traffic on Bur-rard Inlet represents an unacceptable risk.

The Trans Moun-tain pipeline has been operating one line for 60 years, running from northern Alberta through the B.C. In-

terior at Kamloops to its marine terminal in Burnaby. A branch line runs south to supply oil refineries on the coast of Washington state, and the pipeline has al-ready been twinned on the Alberta side.

Kinder Morgan is hoping for an NEB de-cision to recommend proceeding by May. Final approval is up to the federal cabinet.

Province can’t support the Trans Mountain pipeline

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Conservatives seek new leaderTom Fletcher

Dan Brooks has announced his resignation as B.C. Conser-vative leader, with no successor in sight.

Brooks issued a statement saying he is refocusing on his family and business after serving as “volunteer leader” of the troubled party since April 2014. The party holds its annual gen-eral meeting in Richmond Feb. 20, where Brooks will officially step down.

Brooks toured B.C. in November, speaking confidently about candidate recruitment for the 2017 B.C. election and the need for an alternative to the B.C. Liberals and the NDP.

Brooks, who runs a guide outfitting business near Vander-hoof, was one of the party directors who expelled or censured 15 party members after they tried to oust former leader John Cummins in 2012. Brooks took over from Cummins after the 2013 election that saw the B.C. Liberals re-elected under Pre-

mier Christy Clark despite the harmonized sales tax debacle she had inherited.

The B.C. Conservatives were briefly represented in the B.C. legislature in 2012 after Cummins, a long-time Reform and Conservative MP, assisted in the defection of Abbotsford South MLA John van Dongen from the B.C. Liberal Party. But van Dongen would soon resign from that party as well, sitting as an independent until he was ousted in 2013 by B.C. Liberal Darryl Plecas.

Clark is preparing to call two by-elections for seats left vacant after the October federal vote, Vancouver-Mount Pleas-ant and Coquitlam-Burke Mountain. Former NDP MLA Jenny Kwan was elected MP in the party’s Vancouver East strong-hold, and former B.C. Liberal Douglas Horne lost to Liberal Ron McKinnon in the federal riding of Coquitlam-Port Co-quitlam.

Self-image the goal in breast-themed art showCameron Orr

Nancy Pratt says you may be awfully surprised to learn how many people have breast implants.

But their risk to human health is what she wants to talk about, and is the driv-ing force behind a new exhibit at the Kitimat Museum & Archives, called Celebrate Your Breasts, which opened last Friday.

Fundamen ta l ly Pratt wants woman to develop a healthy self-image to drive people away from the desire to receive implants.

“The project start-ed to create awareness, education and dia-logue around the issue of breast implants and to promote self-accep-tance and self-esteem in all stages of life,” she said.

Her own experi-ence with breast im-plants was a hard one.

She was encour-aged at a younger age

to get them but had immediate misgivings.

She says now if she had better self-esteem at the time she would never had done it in the first place.

After the surgery the doctor told her, at a six week follow-up appointment, that it would be dangerous to have them removed when she asked to have the whole thing reversed. She opted to live with them, not wanting to do anything that could impact her life while her daughter was so young.

Her particular brand of implants were later recalled but that information was not ever commu-nicated to her, and for 16 of the 22 years she had them she had an undiagnosed rupture in the implants which were making her sick, she said.

She’s found so many stories from peo-ple around the world

since then who have had their own troubles with implants.

“Not necessar-ily [for] 16 years, or having recalled de-vices, but experiences where breast implants had cost them their health,” she said.

The prevalence of breast implants is also higher than Pratt would have expected. The number of women she discovered who had implants among her daughter’s post-secondary graduating class was unexpect-edly high, she said.

With her experi-ences she felt a re-sponsibility to share her message.

“Knowing what I knew at that point, being silent wasn’t an option,” she said. “I had to think long and hard about becom-ing the poster child of breast implants gone wrong, but I felt really compelled to try to help others.”

She sees the com-mon denominator of why women get im-plants — for herself and others — is self-esteem.”

“I really felt that it was important to fo-cus on that issue,” she said, saying the bigger part of the project “be-came about encourag-ing people to celebrate who they are in every stage of life.”

The exhibit was prepared by having the volunteer models, in some cases multi-generations of a fam-ily, have their bodies painted and photo-graphed.

The painting events were the high-light of the entire pro-cess, says Pratt.

“People were re-ally transformed,” she said. “It just is a life changing experience.”

It of course took some convincing at the start. Many people were hesistant when they heard it was a

Photographers Angie Healey and Dwight Magee stand to either side of exhibit sponsor Nancy Pratt. The exhibit focuses on breasts and promotes better self-image and is a warning against the use of implants. Submitted

Transport minister talks tanker ban on North CoastShannon Lough

The new Minis-ter of Transport Marc Garneau held consul-tations on the North Coast of British Co-lumbia last Thursday as part of his mandate to formalize a mora-torium on crude-oil tankers in the area.

Garneau made a stop in Prince Rupert as part of his nation wide tour and met with a variety of stake-holders on the issue.

“I’m here con-

sulting because this will affect the lives of people living on the North Coast of British Columbia and it’s im-portant that their voic-es be heard. Yes, I’ve been mandated to put into place — formally — a moratorium on the shipment of crude-oil here on the North Coast. In order to do that I need to talk to people who represent different stakeholder groups. Some of them are from the shipping

industry, some of them are environmental-ists and of course first

and foremost our First Nations who are the coastal people of this part of the country,” he said.

A moratorium on crude-oil tankers has been debated before. In 2010, Liberal MP Joyce Murray intro-duced a private mem-ber’s bill to legislate a tanker ban on the coast. Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen also advocates for a tanker ban.

He put forward a

private member’s bill, the Act to Defend the Pacific Northwest, to prohibit oil tank-ers in the Dixon En-trance, Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound.

The bill was de-feated in April 2015.

A ban, however, might deny U.S. oil tankers access to the Alaskan Panhandle. In response to con-cerns about how the moratorium might affect foreign rela-

tions with the U.S. government Garneau said, “Well it depends on how we proceed with it. When we talk about the North Coast of British Columbia it also includes the Dixon Entrance, and as you know for a very long time, that area is an area where our two

countries the United States and Canada, have not resolved who owns what. Obviously if one has a moratori-um one has to consult and that’s why Min-ister Stéphane Dion, who is responsible for Global Affairs or For-eign Affairs, will also have to be consulted.”

Marc Garneau

show about breasts, she said.

“Initially people weren’t really sure what it was about.”

Once word got out after the first painting event though the hesi-tation faded away.

“I have a waiting list of models who want to be painted,”

she said.And it’s not just

women but men have offered their support to the project too.

The project pho-tographers are Angie Healey and Dwight Magee.

Information on breast implants and their risks will be at the

exhibit, and Pratt adds that despite any claims they’re safe, and the fact that they’re rela-tively common, she says getting them is taking a chance there will be problems.

“It’s not a mat-ter of if, it’s a matter of when,” she said on failure of implants.

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August 26, 1932 – December 19, 2015With great sadness, we announce the peaceful passing of Mary Bosiak at the Simon Fraser Lodge in Prince George, B.C. Mary grew up in Dauphin, Manitoba then joined other pioneers when settling in Kitimat in 1956. She raised her family before moving in 1997. Mary will be remembered for her deep kindness to all, her beautiful smile, commitment to family, passion for gardening, and love of walking and nature. Mary was predeceased by her parents Peter & Anastasia (Nellie) Trach, sister Francis (Fran) Pettit, brothers Edward (Ed) & Paul Trach. Mary will be cherished forever by her loving family: husband Merdo, children Janet Fedorchuk (Wayne), Gordon Bosiak (Anna) & Karen Ward (Chris), & grandchildren Ryan, Lisa, Madeline, Samantha, David & Nicholas. Also surviving Mary is sister Verna Cody, brother Leonard Trach, & numerous nieces, nephews & extended family. We want to express a heartfelt thank you to family and friends for their love and support during this diffi cult time.A private family Celebration of Life will be held at a later date.Those wishing to honor Mary’s memory may do so by making a donation to a charity of one’s choice.

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January 21The next Unifor Local 2301 Retired Work-ers Chapter Social is at 1:00 p.m. at the Unifor Union Hall 235 Enterprise Ave. Kitimat. All Uni-for Retired Workers are welcome to attend. We’ll discuss some issues related to present and future retirees.February 5The Kitimat Public Library invites children ages 4 and older to an archeology day. Let’s go back in time to dig for fossils, make pyramids, ex-periment with hieroglyphics and mummify body parts. The fun happens from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Space is limited so please register by com-ing in or calling. 250-632-8985February 8Celebrate Family Day at the Kitimat Public Li-brary. The library will be open from 10:00–2:00 p.m. and will host two children’s programs. Mother Goose StoryTime will take place from 10:30 – 11:15 a.m. targeted at preschooler aged children. Leggo’ My Lego is for all ages and runs from 11:30 – 12:30 p.m. Bring your own Lego or borrow ours. Lego participants and their parents/caregivers/friends are invited to a pizza party afterwards. To register for these programs come in or call 250-632-8985.February 29Christ the King Parish Bereavement Ministry Committee is sponsoring “Connecting Each Oth-er with Hope,” a six-week grief support group for adults grieving the death of a loved one. The sessions begin February 29, from 7 to 9 p.m., in the Catholic Church hall. Sessions open to every-one, no matter religious affiliation. To register or learn more call Lidia at 250-632-6292, or Susana at the parish office at 250-632-2215.OngoingROYAL CANADIAN Legion Branch 250 in Kit-imat holds membership meetings the third Tues-day of each month.. Meat draws every Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m. Members and bona fide guests are welcome.KITIMAT SENIOR CITIZEN Association, Branch 129, membership meetings are the third Thursday of the month at 1 p.m. at their facility at 658 Columbia Avenue. (Next to Riverlodge.) No meetings in July and August.PRAYER CANADA. We meet each week on Tuesdays 12 noon to 1 p.m. For location and fur-ther information please call 250-632-4554. Or e-mail [email protected] you or someone you know have bladder can-cer? You’re not alone. It’s the 5th most common cancer in Canada. Bladder Cancer Canada is here to help... or just to talk. In Kitimat, call Glen Se-vigny at 250-632-3486. Or [email protected].

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Tom FletcherWhen people retire to B.C.

from Alberta and other prov-inces, they bring the majority of their health care needs with them, but some of the federal health care money stays behind.

That's the message B.C. Health Minister Terry Lake is taking to the first meeting be-tween provincial ministers and the new Liberal government in Vancouver this week.

Lake said B.C.'s objection to the health care funding formula adopted by the former Conser-vative government in 2011 was

that it was based on population, with no age component.

"As you age your health care costs become higher and higher," Lake said. "So to have a pure per-capita transfer ac-tually was a disadvantage for populations that were older, such as British Columbia, and much more of an advantage to populations like Alberta that are younger."

Lake and Premier Christy Clark noted that B.C. is on track to double the number of hospice beds for terminally ill patients, to help keep up with the ag-

ing baby boom population and those who are moving west to retire.

"We talk about palliative care, we talk about care for people with dementia, we talk about hospice care," Clark said. "That's expensive, and that's why the old funding formula needs to be restored."

The previous formula was introduced by former Liberal prime minister Paul Martin, who in 2004 agreed to six per cent annual increases to provin-cial health transfers in what he called "a fix for a generation."

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Demons play hard ahead of final season gameKitimat Ice Demon Josh Slanina glides the puck away from the Prince Rupert Rampage’s Cole Atchison in a match held at the Tamitik Arena January 8. The Rampage would eventually take the game 8-2. The Demons were back on the ice the following day for a shot at a win against the Smithers Steelheads, the top rated team in the West division of the CIHL. That match-up got heated into the third period with a number of penalties for Kitimat from roughing to slashing. That balanced from a penalty filled first period for the Steelheads, giving the two teams an exact tie of 42 minutes of penalties on 13 infractions. The Demons ended with two goals to the Steelhead’s seven. The Demons played their last regular season game on Saturday, January 16.

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Kitimat skier off to national championshipJackie Lieuwen

Two skiers from the Shames Mountain Ski and Snowboard Club will carve down the steep open slopes of Red Mountain in a national championship this week in Rossland.

Terrace’s Tom Yas-inchuk, 13, and Kiti-mat’s Jared Thornton, 16, are contending with junior athletes from across the coun-try in the Canadian Ju-nior Freeskiing Cham-pionships Thursday, Jan. 21, to Saturday, Jan. 23 - an event put on by the International Freeskiing Snowboard Association (IFSA).

“I’m really looking forward to it. It’s going to be really fun,” said Yasinchuk, adding that he hopes to adopt tech-niques he sees used by the other skiers.

“Maybe if there are better people there, I can look at them and maybe learn from them,” he said.

Having never skied slopes larger

than Smithers’ Hudson Bay, Yasinchuk said that is what he is look-ing forward to most: “Just to ski the moun-tain feel it and see what the mountain is like,” he said.

“It’s pretty steep and it’s a lot of pow-der, a lot of jumps… I’m really excited to hit those.”

Tricks can be part of freestyle skiing, but Shames Mountain coach Chance Healey said the key is control.

“It’s learning how to read terrain… There is no runs, there is no markers, it’s just the side of the mountain, and they have to ne-gotiate the safest way, or the way they want to go down, with the best control. That’s the point: the person who skis it with the most control, the most speed, the most aggres-sion, usually wins the event,” Healey said.

“You can do tricks if you want - some people do, some peo-

ple don’t - but when you are skiing down a hill with 40 to 50 de-gree slope angles and the kids are skiing anywhere from 40 to 80 kilometres per hour down that, with the rocks and trees, most of the time they are just trying to stay balanced and square.”

Healey said that big mountain, freestyle skiing is the focus of the Shames Mountain club, as it uses and builds competitions around existing terrain, rather than requiring special grooming like alpine racing.

Events at Shames are usually freestyle, such as the Hit & Run competition last week-end, which was a good mock run for Yasin-chuk and Thornton to practice on before na-tionals.

At age 13, Yasin-chuk has competed on Shames and on Smith-ers Hudson’s Bay Mountain, and first hit the slopes at age three

with his dad.Since he joined the

club three years ago, he has been learning form from coach Healey and from fellow senior skier Thornton who is now a friend and men-tor to Yasinchuk.

“He teaches me a lot of things… a lot of basic things to learn to build up for bigger tricks,” said Yasinchuk of Thornton.

Yasinchuk also

learns from watching Thornton.

“Most of the time I just watch him do it first, and then go,” he said.

Coach Healey said the two skiers train on the mountain every weekend.

Thornton has been skiing with the club six years, competed many times, and placed in the top 12 at an IFSA competition at Kicking

Horse Mountain last year.

“He (Thornton) has been very focused since a young age to pretty much live and breathe skiing,” said Healey. “He goes down to Whistler sum-mer camps every year to do as much training

as he can.”Healey said Thorn-

ton is a good mentor to Yasinchuk as he pur-sues the sport. The two skiers hit the road with coach Healey and Shel-don Yasinchuk, Tom’s dad, on Tuesday, driv-ing to Rossland for the competition.

Kitimat’s Jared Thornton will be attending a national championship in Rossland.Submitted

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