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Celebrating 2016’s first baby in Kitimat.
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How Portugal built Kitimat.
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PowA collision on the ice sent these players from the Terrace River Kings and the Kitimat Ice Demons in to the air. This was the Ice Demons’ final regular season game, played at Tamitik Arena. For more results seepage 12. Cameron Orr
Refinery need pipes
Two pipelines, both of which would have to traverse the Skeena River west of Terrace in some fashion, surface in a multi-billion petroleum refin-ery proposal released last week.
The pipelines, one for gasoline and the other for diesel, would extend 120 kilometres from the proposed Pacific Future Energy Corporation re-finery location on the Dubose Flats between Ter-race and Kitimat north to an undefined marine ex-port terminal location on the Portland Inlet on the coast north of Prince Rupert.
“Early third-party studies suggest a marine terminal could be situated along the Portland In-let, in the event such a development were to se-cure the support of a...First Nation,” indicates a project description submitted to federal and pro-vincial regulators.
“If such a marine terminal were to be devel-oped, we anticipate that two (one for gasoline and one for diesel) short (120 km) pipelines, devel-oped in partnership with First Nations along the route, could be built to support the marine termi-nal’s operations,” the project description reads.
Pacific Future official Don MacLachlan, speaking last week, was confident a river crossing could be accomplished.
“New techniques for putting a pipeline under rivers and lakes are proven,” said MacLachlan in emailed comments.
Should Pacific Future be successful in its $15 billion refinery plan and should those pipelines be constructed, the company anticipates Panamax-size ships being used to transport gasoline and diesel to overseas markets.
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Horizon North gets rezoningCameron Orr
The planned worker camp at the Horizon North property near the Kiti-mat Chamber of Commerce can be a bit higher after a rezoning proposal went through, but the notion of increasing density on the land worried at least one property owner of rental units in Kiti-mat.
Horizon North structures can now be as high as 12 metres, a boost to ac-commodate more storeys and a peaked roof design to deal with snow load.
The proposal did draw a letter of concern from John Rigoni, who owns apartment units in town and was one of the proponents of a high-density hous-ing proposal in the Strawberry Mead-ows subdivision which drew opposition from concerned neighbours.
Rigoni wrote to council saying that allowing higher density developments,
especially at a time when vacancy is much higher than it was a year ago, may devalue existing properties.
“It is this scarcity that gives it [land] value to owners who have invested into purchasing, speculating, developing and managing these properties,” he writes. “Whenever land is rezoned it af-fects the scarcity and value of land that falls into each side of the change of the affected zoning.”
He said increasing density is not necessarily bad for a community, but “it should not come at the expense of exist-ing investors during a period of surplus supply.”
Rigoni also weighed in on the topic of renovictions, saying that while he never did it in his apartments he would have if he were the owner of some of the older, derlict buildings in town.
Renovictions were an issue at
the peak of Kitimat’s housing crunch where people were evicted in order for an owner to do renovations to a suite. When housing was scarce it often meant residents would have no choice but to pay significantly higher rents to live somewhere else.
“The renovictions that took place were long overdue,” Rigoni writes. “It is unfortunate that it did adversely af-fect the individuals who were displaced. For them it was not a welcome change. A small consolation is that hopefully they can look back on the extremely low rents that they had paid as one of the benefits that they got to experience.”
Rigoni goes on to say that his pro-posal to council is that they lift the pressure on industries to not give their employees Living Out Allowances. (LOA).
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quiet week between January 10 and 16.In all, the police investigated 56
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Neighbours in Rupert eye propane exportKevin Campbell
The West Coast of Canada’s first-ever pro-pane export facility could be located at Ridley Terminals outside Prince Rupert.
On Wednesday, Jan. 20, AltaGas Ltd. an-nounced that it has signed into an agreement, in-cluding a sublease with Ridley Terminals, to de-velop, build, own and operate a terminal, called the Ridley Island Export Terminal, as an initial step in the regulatory approval and civic engage-ment processes to come in the future.
A final investment decision by AltaGas is ex-pected to come later in 2016, with propane export operations commencing in 2018.
The proposal includes exporting 1.2 million tonnes of propane per year, which is expected to come from B.C. and Alberta natural gas producers.
The CN rail network is expected to be the mode of trans-portation to deliver the propane to the facility on Ridley Is-land.
“We are very excited about the opportunities presented by the Ridley Island Propane Export Terminal,” said David Cornhill, Chairman and CEO of AltaGas in a press release sent out Wednesday.
“We anticipate this facility will be the first to export propane from British Columbia’s west coast, opening up new international markets for natural gas producers in Western Canada. We look forward to working closely with First Na-tions, governments, the community and other stakeholders to bring this project into operation,” he continued.
Ridley Terminals Chief Operating Officer and President David Kirsop added that the diver-sification away from coal, Ridley’s main export, is a good sign for the economic well-being of the
company.“Ridley Terminals is encouraged by this concrete step to
diversify products shipped from our facilities while sustain-ing and creating new jobs in the community,” he said.
Construction costs for the facility are expected to be within the range of $400 million to $500 million and AltaGas presently “owns or has an interest in” six natural gas pro-cessing facilities in B.C. and Alberta that produce propane and AltaGas also operates a similar propane export facility in Ferndale, Washington.
AltaGas is also the company proposing to build a floating LNG facility in Kitimat called Douglas Channel LNG.
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Cameron OrrThe community regulation on
fireworks is perhaps in need of an overhaul.
That’s the feeling after a pre-sentation by community members to town council who feel that some adults in the community are using fireworks irresponsibly, and that the current rules on their use mean too wide a window to set them off.
As it is fireworks can be set off three times a year, for about a week each time.
For New Years, fireworks can be set off from Christmas Eve until
January 2.On Canada Day they can be set
off from June 22 to July 2.For Halloween they can be set
off October 24 to November 1.Those are also the same win-
dows where fireworks can be sold in the community.
Phyllis Greg, along with her friend Elizabeth Stumpf, asked council for action following inci-dents where people were using fire-works near houses, and placing them on cars and front yards.
“It’s becoming a big, big prob-lem especially when they’re throw-
ing them under cars,” said Gregg.She also has particular issue for
her pets who are, naturally, scared quite a bit at the sound of fireworks being set off.
“I’ve always felt this community was a safe place. With this going on it’s not very safe at all.”
Councillors have asked for the District of Kitimat staff to come to them with a report on their options as far as regulating fireworks in the community.
Chief Administrative Officer Warren Waycheshen said they’ll bring the issue to a future committee
of the whole meeting. The B.C. Mu-nicipal Code allows towns to place whatever restrictions they want on fireworks, even prohibiting them entirely, although that is not so far a suggestion from anyone.
Mario Feldhoff offered up his own ideas as well.
“I think the biggest issue can be addressed by reducing the permis-sible time which discharge of fire-works is allowed,” he said. “It would not be restrictive to reduce it to just the one night.”
That, he said, would give better certainty to pet owners.
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BC Hydro’s wireless grid sys-tem was officially complete at the end of 2015, with a total cost the Crown util-ity now projects to be $777 million.
That’s $153 million below the original budget, said Greg Reimer, execu-tive vice president, transmission, distri-bution and custom-er service for BC Hydro. It includes all the elements re-quired by the B.C. government when it ordered the installa-tion of the smart me-ter system as part of its Clean Energy Act in 2010.
Reimer said in an interview the sys-tem has also exceed-ed the $70 million in savings projected for the first three years of operation.
“We’ve realized about $100 million in benefits during that time, particular-ly from operational savings,” Reimer said. “Customers are getting more ac-curate bills. We’ve reduced our manual meter reading reads and our bill esti-mates. Meter read-ing and billing is au-tomated through the system.”
Reimer said the ability to test an entire power line after one break is repaired means the crew doesn’t have to drive the rest of the line, and can move to the next confirmed prob-lem when repairing storm damage.
Reimer said the business case pro-jected a 75 per cent reduction in power theft, and the reduc-tion for this fiscal year is projected at 80 per cent, as the smart grid detects actual power con-sumption.
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GasLink adds more Aboriginal agreementsCameron Orr
Coastal GasLink is celebrating the addition of two more Northern B.C. First Nations to their project agreement.
Coastal GasLink is the TransCanada-owned natural gas pipeline which when built would ser-vice the LNG Canada facility in Kitimat.
Long-term agreements have been made with the Nadleh Whut’en First Nation and the West Moberly First Nation.
That brings the total project agreements up to 11 for the project.
The agreements, the company says, outline the benefits and committments provided to the communities for as long as the pipeline is in ser-vice.
“Our early and consistent engagement with First Nations has helped establish trust and lay the groundwork for these project agreements,” said GasLink President Rick Gateman. “The deep familiarity and knowledge that First Nations have with their land is a tremendous benefit that TransCanada draws upon throughout its project planning process. These agreements represent only the beginning of the continued discussion
and feedback that we will continue to incorporate throughout the construction and operation of this project.”
To date, Coastal GasLink has had approxi-mately 15,000 interactions and engagements with Aboriginal communities along the proposed pipe-line route, and a quarter of the over 333,000 hours of fieldwork on the project has been conducted by Aboriginal people, the company says. An estimat-ed 32 per cent of the $4.8 billion plus project will be spent locally in B.C., the company adds, with over 2,000 jobs during construction and in excess of $20 million in annual property tax payments. The project has already spent over $41 million in Northern B.C. plus over $1.9 million in commu-nity investments along the route.
Coastal GasLink has had difficulties in some portions of their project.
Roadblocks on a portion of the proposed route by some members of the Unis’tot’en have led the company to rethink its route and diverted it slightly north in the Houston area before curving back to Kitimat.
The company president told the Sentinel in August 2015 that the company’s new route takes
them down river of the Morice about 40 kilome-tres, avoiding springs that feed the Morice.
The Coastal GasLink project would be 670 ki-lometres from Dawson Creek to Kitimat.
Josh MasseyKitsumkalum chief coun-
cillor Don Roberts says he's un-happy with the way the Pacific Energy Future Corporation has gone about introducing a plan to ship oil by railcar to a planned oil refinery between Terrace and Kitimat and then pump gas and diesel in two pipelines north across the Skeena River to an export terminal at Portland Inlet on the north coast.
He says the company went public with the plan before he had a chance to respond to the project.
“We are annoyed at hav-ing our name as a consultation band,” said Roberts. “Kitsum-kalum is not in support of raw bitumen moving by pipeline or train, or something of that na-ture.”
He added that he received the project description not long ago and feels it was “a short pe-riod” in which to respond.
Pacific Future Energy of-ficially released its project de-
scription last week at the same as it was submitted to provin-cial and federal authorities.
“I don't want to go there,” said Roberts about the prospect of pipelines crossing the Skee-na River in some fashion west of Terrace which is within Kit-sumkalum traditional territory.
He said he feels the Kit-sumkalum are “stuck in the middle”, finding the typical way project proponents deal with First Nations – speaking to them individually and offer-ing money to one but perhaps not another – in what he calls a “divide and conquer” strategy.
“My views here is it in-volves everyone in the Tsim-shian Nation,” said Roberts.
Kitselas First Nation chief
councillor Joe Bevan said last week Pacific Future Energy also contacted the Kitselas about its project, adding it would take at least another year for the First Nation to evaluate the proposal.
Pacific Future Energy's proposed refinery, which would cost an estimated $11 billion, is within Kitselas traditional terri-tory.
SkeenaWild Conservation Trust executive director Greg Knox said the idea of one or more pipelines crossing the Skeena River, as well as the at-mospheric disturbances in the Kitimat Valley caused by a large oil refinery, are a worry, but he doubts coastal refinery projects makes sense economically.
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For me, the most interesting piece of news I read in the past week wasn’t about the Canadian dollar, the celebrity status of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or the price of a litre of gas.
It was the announced decision by the faraway Greater Toronto Hockey League, which manages the largest minor hockey program in the world, to pass new rules to restrict the num-ber of foreign players taking advantage of Canadian taxpayers and manipulat-ing playing spots for their own kids in the rep categories of Toronto minor leagues.
The “dramatic rule change,” ex-pected to be passed in February, will make it far more dif� cult for young players from Russia, the United States and other countries to play the GTHL. I was pleased to see the event given ap-propriate coverage and publicized by TSN on its website.
OK, wait, you say, you’ve been on about this before, it’s not a problem here in northern B.C. In fact, we could use some extra players to raise the level of competition.
And that too is true. However I
lived in Toronto in the 1960s and 1970s and it was frequently a hotly debated is-sue even then.
And I can assure you it has a huge impact on a large number of B.C. kids who may want to play junior hockey at a higher level, but � nd many opportu-nities blocked due to well-scouted for-eign players.
It always amazed me that there was so much tacit acceptance in the centre of the world for Toronto kids getting bumped off rep teams and down to low-er development levels because foreign players were given precedence.
Toronto and most larger Canadi-an cities with lots of rinks and minor teams have been plagued by this issue. You rarely hear much about it until a year like this year when Canada’s ju-nior team in the world championships
under performed and thudded out of the competition.
This was especially galling after winning gold in 2015.
After the disappointed fans have had a critical go at the coaching and Hockey Canada, they eventually come back to the real reason. We are not de-veloping the number of top-of-the line Canadian players that we used to.
We ought to be. A little bit of Dr. Google tells me Canada has almost 550,000 registered hockey players of all ages, with a majority in minor hock-ey.
That’s 1.64 per cent of the popula-tion, the highest in the world.
By comparison the much larger United States only has 435,000 reg-istered players - only 0.15 per cent of population.
Finland is the next to Canada with 120 of each 10,000 people registered in hockey.
Surprisingly of six leading hockey countries Russia has a minimal per-centage registered, only � ve of every 10,000 are hockey players.
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Toronto rule change good for Canada
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centred we can never resist making something about ourselves, so I’m going to talk about myself for a few minutes.
As of last Friday, I’m no longer the editor of this paper.
No, I wasn’t � red. I’m heading off to new op-portunities.
I am, however, not leaving Kitimat. Which I say as happy news, even though I’ve never been shy to say the chapter of my life in Kitimat was never in-tended to be permanent.
When I moved up here with my then future-wife I planned to gain whatever work experience I could then quickly bolt it to Vancouver for what I could only presume would be fame and fortune.
Ah, to be that young again.To think of all that I’ve done and learned since
my � rst day here is simply overwhelming. I knew so little back in 2007. Now in 2016 I still know so little but at least I hide it better.
Working in a single-person newsroom is tough work but I’m eternally grateful to everyone who made my life easier.
I must mention the Sentinel’s Publisher Loui-sa Genzale whose years of experience in ‘the biz’ means she’s an invaluable source of knowledge and a stalwart leader for the paper.
The Sentinel’s prior editor, Malcolm Baxter, has been crucial to my success too. He certainly used up a lot of red ink editing my earlier pieces which gave me the guidance and direction I really needed com-ing from a campus newspaper. He was also a lifeline in my earliest days being a new editor.
Of course my ‘ace reporters’ out in the � eld, that is the readers who submit content to the newspaper from photos, to articles, to sports reports have my undying gratitude. The greatest tragedy of this job is I can’t be everywhere all the time, so submissions of club goings on are always greatly appreciated here.
In fact, please continue to let the paper know about events, send in photos, and write Letters to the Editor. I know writing letters to the paper may seem old fashioned these days but they add crucial dia-logue to the community and they are de� nitely read by local policy makers too. They get noticed, is what I’m saying.
Ultimately, working for a newspaper is unique. Every typo I’ve ever made will live forever. I’ve re-ceived praise for my work but also criticism for not doing this or for writing that. The paper has won ma-jor awards during my time here as well.
I’m just one person in the Sentinel’s more than 60 year history. I’ll continue to use it for my source of news because I’ve seen the hard work everyone (see below right) puts into making it worth your $1.30 every single week. It’s been a great ride.
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Dear friends,Last Tuesday was one of the darkest
days of our lives. Both Brian and I were at work when we received phone calls that no one wants to receive – the house that we have lived in and raised our fam-ily in for the past 30 years was on fire. We are thankful no one was home at the time except for our two beloved dogs and sadly we lost one of them, our precious little Marlee, in the fire. In the past five years we have had other dark days, in-cluding the death of our youngest son, and we are hoping that our journey will include some bright days ahead after we are able to sort through our past in amidst the burnt rubble in the coming weeks.
A special thank you to the Kitimat Fire Department for their response and support during and after the fire. Allow-ing us to get into the house afterwards to retrieve Marlee along with an opportu-nity to recover what remains of our life-time of memories will go a long way to help us to rebuild our lives.
We would also like to share with you cautionary lessons we have painfully learned. The fire started in our boat next to the house when an electric heater we placed in the boat for the winter some-how caught fire. Many people use these heaters, even in their homes and blindly put their faith in a product that is known
to start many fires. We would urge you to learn from our tragedy and take nothing for granted with these plug in heaters. Far too many homes and sadly even lives have been lost to them so we urge you to not take these heaters for granted and be very careful how you use them.
While we do have insurance in place to help us with our material possessions and the home itself, it does not cover the things that matter most to us, a lifetime of memories, photographs and personal belongings of a sentimental value that can never be replaced. No one plans on having a fire but as we have personally learned, it can happen to you.
Finally, words can’t express our grat-itude at the outpouring of sympathy and support we have received since then. One of the great things about our town Kitimat is that it is truly a community that cares. Our employers, Rio Tinto and LNGCanada, local businesses, friends, neighbours, and people we don’t even know have come forward to support us in our time of need. Many of you went looking for Marlee when we hoped that she had somehow escaped from the house, and for that we are very thankful. We have had a large string of un-
fortunate events in our lives in the past five years that will affect us forever but through it all the one thing that remains constant is that we are so lucky to have such good friends and we are so proud to be a part of our community that looks out for those in need. Personal disasters can happen anytime and luckily we are so far in a good place. We ask that if you would like to help by making a contribution that you can direct food and financial sup-port to the Kitimat Food Bank Society at 250-632-6611 or the Kitimat Humane Society at 778-631-2371 who have been there for so many of us and our pets in our small community.
Thank you again,Janet & Brian
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Genesis 3:1: “Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord had made.”
We humans under-stand the need for law, but our pride causes us to resent it just the same.
The problem is that our pride rebels against authority, all authority. We don’t like someone telling us what to do even if it is for our own good.
The account of the fall of Man in the Garden of Eden is an account of such a rebellion and
its consequences. Now, there weren’t
many rules in the gar-den; God gave Adam and Eve only one com-mand. They were sup-posed to love God by trusting in His good-ness and living within the boundaries He set for them. They could have anything
they wanted except one thing; the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
You may wonder why God put that tree there in the first place but consider this: there had to be something that demonstrated faith and trust. It wasn’t much, just one tree in
the midst of millions. It shouldn’t have been that hard to avoid. The key question now becomes, “Will these humans be content with what God has pro-vided, or will they put Him to the test?”
The truth is bound-aries establish free-dom; they define the parameters and create order. God is a God of order and as creator, He is the only one who has the sovereign authority to set those boundaries.
Just look where the blurring of the bound-aries have gotten us in our society today.
And so I'm sure you know what hap-pened in the garden. They ate the fruit that they weren't supposed to and as a result suf-fering and death en-tered the world.
Not fair you say? Well, you and I have participated in the same rebellion against God and so has every generation that has ever lived. But rather than wash His hands of us, God showed rather that He is a God of love and mercy.
Because sin en-tered the world through a man and a tree, sal-
vation would now also come through a man and a tree.
On the cross Je-sus paid the penalty of death that was put on mankind in the garden, and in the end, He ren-dered His own verdict as, ‘paid in full.”
The relationship that was severed out of rebellion is now restored through re-pentant faith in Jesus Christ.
“This is why I for-give you,” God tells us. “This is why you never need to run and hide from me like your 1st parents did.”
So, let me ask you a question; which tree are you focused on today? The one that feeds your pride and obscures your vision of God’s blessings, or the one that gives His blessing?
One tree leads to eternal destruction the other to eternal life.
It is only when you look to the cross of Christ and see what was done there for you that you begin to clearly see the forest of God’s blessings to you in Christ both now and forever.
Amen.
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while it's true that re-fined products such as gas and diesel evapo-rate rather than sink like raw bitumen in the case of a leak, spilled gas would mix in the turbulence of the water column and be lethal to young salmon.
“Because the tur-bulence in the water is mixed, some of the materials will evapo-rate relatively quickly but have an immediate impact,” said Knox.
Still, Knox said concentrating on Pa-cific Energy Future is a priority for Skee-naWild given the world-wide glut of pe-troleum products.
“All of the eco-nomic analysts are predicting thelow oil price is here to stay for a long time, and we just saw sanc-tions being lifted with Iran, and therefore it makes it easier for Iran to add to world production now,” said Knox.
“There are so many energy, natu-ral gas and oil pro-posals out there that we try to figure out which ones are most likely to proceed andwhich ones bring the biggest threats and put our energy there,” he added.
Knox said one focus right now is or-ganizing the Salmon Nation conference in Prince Rupert this weekend which is to draw attention to the threat that the Pacific NorthwestLNG project could pose to Skeena salm-on stocks.
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TorontoContinued from page 4
It’s understandable that hockey in Canada can be very desirable for overseas players, especially those with an eye to pro hockey like many Cana-dian youngsters.
TSN reports the GTH league will have its new rule in place by this fall that will require the parents of all GTHL players who attend private sports high schools to prove they live in Toronto.
A number of families from Russia with sons playing in the GTHL are reported to be paying $30,000 or more to enroll their children in private schools such as Hill and Everest Academies in the Toronto area, to secure spots on one of the GTHL rep teams.
It was good to read too that Hockey Cana-da president Tom Renney supports the Toronto move to curb the number of international players.
Renney believes, as I do, we really should support Canadian kids’ opportunities to play hockey.
I am glad to hear it. I want Canadian kids to get the most benefit from taxpayer-built hockey arenas. I’m sorry there are not enough arenas in the USA, Russia or Europe.
But Canadian children must get precedence. There are plenty of opportunities for all pro-qual-ity players later.
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Continued from page 1Living Out Allow-
ances contributed to Kitimat’s super-low vacancy, as companies would provide funding to employees who’d rather live in town than in a camp.
“These recom-mendations were drafted during the peak of the shortage of [vacancies] available,” Rigoni wrote.
“This is an oppor-tunity for the mayor and council to undo the harm that has been done to all the Kitimat residents and property owners who wanted to rent out accommodations.”
Rigoni suggests council push to al-low a certain num-ber of LOAs based on surveys of avail-able accommodations
in town.The only other
public comment on this bylaw was from another apartment owner in Kitimat Scott Nelson who says he had no objections to the increase in height
for Horizon North.CAO Warren
Waycheshen noted the bylaw under discus-sion is only to do with height so the topic of LOAs don’t weigh in on the discussion at hand.
Since the topic was brought up how-ever Director of Plan-ning and Community Development Gwen Sewell noted that earlier versions of a housing report by Kit-imat’s housing com-mittee did outright discourage LOAs but was later revised to only allow them when vacancy rates are on the rise.
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the harm.”
The next step toward a small liq-uefied natural gas (LNG) project being planned near Kitimat should be known within days.
That's because Pacific Northern Gas (PNG), which would supply the natural gas to the Douglas Channel LNG proj-ect, has to tell the B.C. Utilities Com-mission whether it wants to build a 10-inch line just for the project or a larger 30-inch line sufficient for that project and for other potential ones in the same area.
The company will file to the utilities commission by Jan. 29, building off of approval given last November for PNG to build either line.
The approval for either line, both of which would be approximately 9km
in length from the current end of PNG's natural gas line in Kitimat, is part of a se-ries of complex moves involving PNG's parent company, AltaGas of Calgary.
AltaGas is a partner with Japanese energy giant Idemitsu Kosan and with international energy trader EDF Trading and Belgium-based energy shipper and provider EXMAR in Douglas Channel LNG.
In turn, AltaGas and Idemitsu Can-ada are partners in a second potential LNG project known as Triton and go-ing ahead of this one would require the larger 30-inch line.
That line would also be sufficient to supply a third potential LNG project, Cedar, which is backed by the Haisla Nation.
All three LNG projects would have gas-cooling plants housed on floating barges and the Haisla would benefit from both Douglas Channel and Triton in addition to Cedar.
If PNG tells the utilities commission it wants to build the larger 30-inch line it would need to build what would be a companion natural gas line to its existing 10-inch line stretching west of Prince George which now serves customers in the northwest to supply the LNG proj-ects.
It's commonly known as the “loop-ing project” and PNG has already filed a project description with provincial en-vironmental regulators in preparation for eventual construction approval.
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Kitimat has from the beginning been a multi-ethnic town with sizeable First Nations, British, Portuguese, Italian, German and, in more recent times, East Indian communities.
But the dominant culture has been the Portuguese.
Canadian govern-ment advertisements promising a better life were appealing to many Europeans, espe-cially those in the Por-tuguese Azores who eked out an agricultur-al living on the rocky isles of that mystical Atlantic archipelago of nine islands well west of the mainland.
In 1957 a contin-gent of Canadian im-migration personnel helped to process more than 1,000 Azoreans with their health and immigration papers from their centre in San Miguel in the Azores. Of those 1,000 plus, more than 700 ended up in Kitimat.
(Ultimately the Portuguese commu-nity would hit 4,000 or some 30 per cent of Kitimat's total popula-tion.)
Most of the Por-tuguese men arrived on their own, but once they had established themselves in good jobs they went back to Portugal and returned with their young wives.
For the women Kitimat was a shock and many adjustments had to be made. But as they said, the ad-vantages of their new home outweighed the
disadvantages. Things like good running wa-ter, washing machines, electric stoves and fur-naces were amazing and so appreciated.
Another was the quality of medical ser-vices they could count on in Kitimat. Alcina Couto recalls that child birth wasn’t nearly the ordeal it had been in the Azores.
Kitimat’s early years sometimes gen-erated medical emer-gencies which turned into real adventures. One example was when Sebastian Ribeiro suf-fered a complicated arm fracture at Alcan. Doctors decided to ship him out to Van-couver which meant a flight by sea plane from the Alcan Beach ramp.
It was winter and the poor visibility meant the pilot had to fly low down the chan-nels all the way to Bella Bella where they stayed the night.
The next day fog delayed their departure and even then they only got as far as Ocean Falls before they had to again overnight. Fi-nally, on day three, he made it to Vancouver. Such was life in Kiti-mat in those days.
As a group the Portuguese were good workers, following the
rules and raising fine families which were moulded into Canadian life.
But they also kept up their traditions of wine making, baking up a storm, growing large, beautiful gardens and even getting in a little fishing.
Being islanders, Azoreans had always been connected to the sea - Sebastian and Margarida Ribeiro on the island of Terceira were just 200 metres from the Atlantic.
The reasons for immigrating were var-ied so it wasn’t just the prospect of greater prosperity that lured them here.
Sebastian says that while the Canadian promotions helped, another incentive was that at the time the Ca-nadian dollar was trad-ing at $1.06 above the American. They also were leaving behind the problems of the adjacent US Airforce base at Lajes Field which was leaching out sewage and chemicals onto their island.
And in the case of his younger brother it was the certainty of es-caping the Portuguese army draft.
In Kitimat the Por-tuguese kept a rela-tively low profile. They
did their jobs, raised their families and had a good time together with great extended family celebrations at Christmas and on spe-cial anniversaries.
Many Portuguese were frugal, saving much of their pay cheques and in many cases even taking on boarders in their homes. This wasn’t always popular with the whole family as Herondina Franco re-vealed in a taped inter-view with the Kitimat Museum and Archives. She felt she had less space and freedom when others shared the house - money wasn’t everything.
A number of Por-tuguese also revealed a strong entrepreneurial spirit. One ambitious immigrant was Fran-cisco Trigo. He landed in Halifax and trav-elled by train to Win-nipeg where his first job was working in a restaurant.
From there he went to Bissett, Manitoba to work at the gold mine but didn't like life un-
derground so when he heard Alcan was building an aluminum smelter in Kitimat, he moved here where he got a job at the District of Kitimat in the public works department.
As soon as he could afford it he bought a house on Mallard Street where he turned the ground floor into a shoe store which made and re-paired shoes and work boots.
After seven years constructing water lines, sidewalks and roads in the summer and clearing snow in the winter he decided to build a new and big-ger shoe store in the Nechako Centre, on the lot where the den-
tists building is now.The District told
him that if he needed a bigger store, he could rent space in the new City Centre Mall.
He followed its ad-vice but with a twist: he decided to estab-lish his store by rent-ing space in Terrace to which he and his fam-ily relocated.
He did eventually establish a store in Kit-imat when in the 1980s he bought the former Hudson Bay building and turn it into Trigos, a remodelled shopping plaza.
Other Portuguese entrepreneurs included
Ed Goncalves who for fifteen years ran the friendly and thriving Ed’s Bake Shop; Vital-ino Couto (Couto Elec-tric); and Joe Pereira who for 44 years ran Pereira’s Home Cen-tre.
Still other Portu-guese Canadian busi-nesses included Toman Construction, Jose Santos Trucking and Pedro's Grill.
Arriving at the time they did, the Por-tuguese were certainly pioneers of the new Aluminum City.
But those stories will have to wait for next time.
Continued from page 1This term refers to the size limit for cargo ships passing
through the Panama Canal with a maximum length of 950 feet, a width of 106 feet and 189 feet in height, according to online specs.
The potential Portland Inlet export terminal location stands in contrast to other planned petroleum product ones which in-stead feature Kitimat as the location for loading tankers.
In particular, Enbridge’s Northern Gateway plan to export crude oil from a Kitimat terminal has been criticized by those who are not convinced tanker traffic would be viable coming up and then leaving that area via the Douglas Channel.
“I do know we have absolutely no thought or intention of shipping down Douglas Channel,” said MacLachlan.
No other potential marine export terminals are mentioned in the Pacific Future proposal.
First Nations with traditional territory leading north from
the Dubose Flats would include the Kitselas First Nation (the Dubose area itself is within its traditional territory) and the Kit-sumkalum First Nation.
Portland Inlet is just under 60 kilometres north of Prince Rupert and it drains the Portland Canal (Stewart is at its head) and the Nass River area which is within Nisga’a treaty lands and lands over which the Nisga’a have an influence.
Pacific Future’s suggestion of Portland Inlet as a marine export terminal location would not be the first for that area.
In 2014 the Nisga’a Lisims Government began promoting four locations in that area as ones suitable for either fixed or floating liquefied natural gas facilities along with tanker load-ing components.
Those would be fed by branching off of a proposed natural gas pipeline coming in to the Nass Valley from the east and ultimately destined for a proposed liquefied natural gas project near Prince Rupert.
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Continued from page 9Neither PNG nor parent AltaGas have signalled their in-
tentions leading up to the Jan. 29 filing deadline date and the utilities commission has said it has yet to hear from PNG.
“There's still really nothing to say,” said AltaGas official Sandra Semple last week.
At a planned export volume of up to 550,000 tonnes of LNG annually, Douglas Channel LNG would be the small-est of the nearly 20 LNG projects under consideration along B.C.'s coast.
Its beginnings go back to the last decade when companies no longer involved began promoting the idea of a small LNG plant.
The project slid into financial troubles, resulting in Alta-Gas and its partners stepping in two years ago during bank-ruptcy proceedings.
That, combined with the AltaGas purchase of PNG in 2011, gave the Calgary company the means and opportunity to move the project forward.
At the time AltaGas officials said they had what no other prospective LNG developer has in the northwest – an already-constructed natural gas pipeline.
Aside from the economic impact of the project to the re-gion, northwestern residential and other natural gas users stand to gain another benefit from Douglas Channel LNG.
For more than a decade PNG's northwestern natural gas
customers have been paying among the highest rates in the province for the commodity.
That's because as large-scale users of natural gas such as pulp mills began to close, remaining customers began to shoul-der more of the cost burden of maintaining PNG's existing 10-inch line.
With Douglas Channel LNG taking up the majority of the capacity of the line, its payments to PNG would then result in a reduction of transport costs to its existing customers.
The development of the renewed Douglas Channel LNG partnership, however, has not been without difficulties.
Last year federal customs officials said they'd impose a customs duty on the project's floating LNG barge which would be built in Asia and towed to the Douglas Channel area.
That duty charge amounting to $100 million stems from federal regulations designed to encourage domestic shipbuild-ing instead of importing vessels.
AltaGas officials have argued that the floating facility is not a ship and have appealed the duty decision which would add to the planned $600 million cost of the project.
AltaGas is still waiting to hear the result of its appeal which was originally expected to be released late last year.
“We've heard nothing yet,” said Semple.Another federal body, the National Energy Board, did
have good news for the project last week by granting it a 25-year export licence.
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February 5The Kitimat Public Library invites chil-dren ages 4 and older to an archeology day. Let’s go back in time to dig for fos-sils, make pyramids, experiment 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 coming in or calling. 250-632-8985February 8Celebrate Family Day at the Kitimat Public Library. 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 after-wards. To register for these programs come in or call 250-632-8985.February 29Christ the King Parish Bereavement Min-istry Committee is sponsoring “Connect-ing Each Other 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 everyone, no matter religious affilia-tion. 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 Kitimat holds membership meet-
ings the third Tuesday of each month.. Meat draws every Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m. Members and bona fide guests are welcome.KITIMAT SENIOR CITIZEN Associa-tion, Branch 129, membership meetings are the third Thursday of the month at 1 p.m. at their facility at 658 Columbia Av-enue. (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 further information please call 250-632-4554. Or e-mail [email protected] you or someone you know have blad-der cancer? 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 Sevigny at 250-632-3486. Or [email protected] 250 OF THE KITIMAT LA-DIES AUXILIARY hold regular meet-ings every second Thursday of the month. More information by calling Nancy at 250-632-4051, or Lyn at 250-632-2351.Consider joining the Friends of the Pub-lic Library. To do so contact Luce Gauth-ier at [email protected] or Virginia Charron @ [email protected] or call 250-632-8985.KITIMAT QUILTERS GUILD: If you are interested in joining the Kitimat Quil-ters Guild please contact Aileen Ponter at 250-632-6225 or Janet Malnis at 250-632-7387 for further information.EVERY THURSDAY, the Kitimat Pot-
tery Guild meets in the Riverlodge arts wing, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Interested in playing with clay? All experience lev-els welcome. For more information call Anne at 250-632-3318.THE KITIMAT PUBLIC LIBRARY of-fers the highly engaging Mother Goose StoryTime for pre-schoolers Monday mornings from 10:30 -11:15 .am. Please register for this free program.HEALTHY BABIES drop in is held ev-ery Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Kitimat Child Development Cen-ter. They welcome families throughout pregnancy and up to one year (older sib-lings welcome). Come meet other par-ents and infants over light refreshments with support from the CDC staff and a Public Health Nurse. For more informa-tion call 250-632-3144.CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTRE FunSpot drop-in for children aged birth to 5 years with caregivers. Monday, Wednes-days and Fridays 10 am- 12 pm. Fridays are now a combined drop-in/multicultural playgroup. All are welcome to attend. Contact 250-632-3144 for more informa-tion.KITIMAT FIBRE ARTS GUILD: Inter-ested in knitting, spinning, weaving, or any other fibre? For more information phone Maureen 250-632-5444.KITIMAT MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS - I have M.S. but M.S. does not have me. You are not alone and the Kitimat M.S. group would like to be here for you. To-tal confidentiality. For more information contact Mary at 250-639-6016.
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Cameron OrrIt may be strange
to say this in Kitimat, but thankfully we ac-tually have snow this year.
At least the or-ganizers behind the Kitimat Rail Jam are certainly pleased the white stuff is on the ground.
Last year the Rail Jam had to be can-celled due to lack of snow but orga-nizers are pushingahead to run the event this year, on January 29.
There will be music, a food vendor and if enough snow is available a toboggan hill as well.
There just may not be enough snow for another feature, such as a snow maze that was built in year’s past.
“Still not been enough snow to do that,” said organizer Marcy Rice.
Set up for the rail jam starts tomorrow.
Kitimat Search and Rescue will have an informational stand as well at the event.
Registration takes place between 4 and 6
p.m. for the event and it’s always a big draw for the region.
“People come from anywhere from Prince Rupert, Smith-ers. Some from Hous-ton before,” she said,
saying on average about 60 people usu-ally attend.
“It’d be nice if people just came out and rooted on our Kitimat people,” she added.
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Season finish for DemonsThe Kitimat Ice Demons ended their season on home ice but with a loss to Terrace River King rivals who took the game 5-1. Kitimat goalie Brandon Heighton played a really strong game, but the River Kings won significantly outshooting their opponents. The final standings in the west were first Smithers Steelheads, second Terrace River Kings, third Prince Rupert Rampage, and finally the Kitimat Ice Demons. In the east, Williams Lake Stampeders finished first, Quesnel Kangaroos second and Lac La Hache Tomahawks third. Cameron Orr
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