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KUTE employees Adrien Gof� net, Josh O’Neill, and John Davidson demonstrate just how backed up the depot is - in this instance on of� ce paper - but the same goes for cardboard, electronics, and other materials.
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A $30K boost will keep KUTE runningKitimat Understanding the Environment (KUTE) is still
struggling against a touch recycling economy and competition for employees from other industries.
KUTE President Barb Hall and Director Ken Maitland presented their � nancial needs to councillors at the June 24 Committee of the Whole meeting, where they wanted another increase in their funding for the year in order to recruit a strong depot manager.
Hall said that the depot is having trouble retaining long term managers due to so much activity in Kitimat as of late.
“Not having a mature, long-term and experienced manager creates the situation we � nd ourselves in,” she said.
Mismanagement has lead to a huge backlog of recyclables at their depot, which is taking away precious space and creating workplace safety issues, she said.
“The back log of unsorted paper has been the result of many poor decisions when materials arrive in large quantities. This is limiting � ow of materials and forcing the workers to handle these materials many times,” she said.
She wants to be able to hire a manager at a rate of $18 an hour.
Having a long-term, quali� ed manager will mean they can begin making progress on their intense back log. She said in a letter written to Council that in June they hired a new manager for the fourth time in seven months.
KUTE has been participating in a program called Odyssey,
which gives people who need work experience the chance to do jobs to put on their resumes, but the work, while making progress, won’t get them to where they need to be by the time the program ends.
At the committee of the whole meeting, it was moved that KUTE be given an extension to their $2,500 a month boost, � rst given in March. Now they’ll receive that extra, emergency funding to the end of the year, plus will receive an additional $850 per month to hire a new manager, and council also agreed to provide a $10,000 one-time booster for tasks relating to clearing their material backlog, including forklift training and other expenses.
In total the extra funding to KUTE from the District of Kitimat adds up to $30,100.
Councillors were unanimous in passing the motion.The mover, Mario Feldhoff, felt it was a worthwhile invest-
ment.“This money, in my mind, won’t cripple us,” he said, not-
ing that they’ll look again at the funding the society needs once the 2014 budget process begins.
In late March of this year, Hall explained the situation in the recyclables market. At the time they were facing a card-board price of $50 a tonne, which has now dropped at least another $10 in value. Meanwhile of� ce paper tumbled from $125 to $60 a tonne in March.
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Walking tall on historyCameron Orr
Should the town be considering extending the walkway system to go through Coghlin Park at the viewpoint?
The Kitimat Heritage Group posed that ques-tion when they joined councillors for a tour of some of the town’s walkways last week during a Committee of the Whole meeting.
The full council, some staff and the commit-tee members embarked on an unusual outdoors meeting for part of the evening on June 24 to see walkways which may need work, some which have almost completely disappeared underneath growth.
But before anyone took off on the tour, the two sides gathered to � nd out their concerns.
Among those was from Heritage Committee member Walter Thorne, who emphasized the im-portance of the system to the community.
“We would like, as a group, to suggest that that walkway would be very much in keeping with the original plan and the original intent of how things were seen,” he said.
Those plans, he hopes, would be to see a Coghlin Park extension on the walkway.
“The crowing of our sidewalk system would be to connect the existing Haisla Hill one some-how, to one that would go by Coghlin Park...pref-erably on the water side,” he said.
Director of Engineering Tim Gleig said that a Coghlin Park system hasn’t been of� cially dis-cussed in some years, but a report was made once on the prospect by the Leisure Services depart-ment, which pegged it at a $750,000 price tag.
Speaking after the walking tour, Heritage Group member Peter Ponter said the purpose of the walk was to give councillors a better under-standing of the walkway system.
“When I � rst came to Kitimat it was one of the things that I was impressed with, the walk-way system,” he said. “It’s unusual that there are places that might be quicker to walk to than drive.
The heritage component is also crucially im-portant.
“[Kitimat] was built as a garden city, and there are other examples of places like this, but most of them are just part of a town, or part of a city, not the whole town.”
He added, “It seems like we have a ready-made opportunity to help people exercise. You could call our walkways an investment in health care.”
Mayor Joanne Monaghan says maintaining the town’s walkways are a priority for her as the demographics keep shifting to an older commu-nity.
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WalkingContinued from page 1
“As we have an aging population and many of the seniors now have the ability to be in these electric scooters, it would be nice to have all of our walk-ways intact as they were when the town was built,” said Monaghan. “It makes re-ally good arteries to get around in town.”
Speaking on council’s walk itself, she said some people on the tour may not have seen the particular walkways on display before.
“I think it’s always good to get first hand information on items that you probably will be voting on,” she said. “Otherwise you’re blind voting.”
She’s not sure the next time that council will be debating or voting on specific walkway issues.
But there are details that council does not yet have.
“Right now we have no budget for saying ‘this walkway is going to cost this much’.”
The tour went to Gander Street, Os-prey, Kechika and Coghlin Park.
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Seeking public comment
What iS it?Kitimat Council intends to issue a License of Occupation to allow installation by Mr. Mikes Restaurant of a refuse area enclosure on public space and a canopy covering the public sidewalk around the building at 525 Mountainview Square.
License term will be five years, at $500 per year, commencing July 15,2013; with possibility of renewal for a second term.
What changeS?Proposed front entrance on the east side of the building, facing Overwaitea, will extend onto the public sidewalk. Mr. Mikes Restaurant will also build a refuse enclosure on public space.
hoW can i provide comment?Council welcomes public comment before a final decision is made on July 15, 2013.
Advance comment to Council - before 8:30am Thursday, July 11, 2013 - may be:
1. Mailed or hand-delivered to 270 City Centre, Kitimat BC V8C 2H7;
2. Faxed to 250-632-4995; or3. Emailed to [email protected]
Comment may also be personally delivered at 7:30pm, July 15, 2013, in the Council Chambers at Northwest Community College,606 Mountainview Square. Please sign up in advance, call 250-632-8900 for more information.
A handbook which provides more information is available to view at the District of Kitimat Reception Desk, 270 City Centre, until July 16. Office hours are Monday to Friday, 8:30am to Noon and 1:00 to 4:30pm. Office will be closed for July 1.
You may also see images at http://www.kitimat.ca/EN/main/municipal.public-notices.html. Please call Community Planning & Development at 250-632-8910 if you have questions.
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The provincial cabinet minister in charge of BC Hydro says he’s going to find out why the Northwest Trans-mission Line project cost has ballooned to $736 million.
“I will be meet-ing often, quickly, with B.C. Hydro to determine how this happens. Our gov-ernment does not support this way of managing capital projects, and we will get to the bottom of it,” energy minister Bill Bennett told the legislature yester-day when pressed in Question Period for an explanation.
Just last year the project to run a power line 344km north of the Skeena Substation near Ter-race to Bob Quinn on Hwy37 North was pegged at $561 million.
That cost was revised to a range of between $561 mil-lion and $617 mil-lion this spring and then revised again to $736 million in budget documents released last week.
A 74-year-old woman is dead and a 78-year-old man is in hospital following a fa-tal car accident that hap-pened on the Nisga’a Hwy last Thursday.
“An elderly cou-ple traveling north on Highway 113 in a 2000 Ford pickup, lost con-trol leaving the road and landing upside down in the northbound ditch,” reads the RCMP release.
A member of Ter-race RCMP came across the single ve-hicle collision, approxi-mately 11km north of Terrace, around 7:30 p.m., June 27.
Alcohol is not be-lieved to be a factor. West Pacific Region Traffic Services along with the Integrated Col-lision Analyst and Re-construction Services continue to investigate the cause of the colli-sion.
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MLA gets LNG postCameron Orr
Recently re-elected MLA for the Skeena, Robin Austin, is excited to start work in his newest title as critic for natural gas devel-opment.
His new portfo-lio in the natural gas area, away from his last post as education critic, fits well for him as the represen-tative for the area, he said.
“Obviously be-cause I represent Kitimat that’s a very appropriate portfolio for me,” he said, add-ing that he asked NDP Leader Adrian Dix for the post.
“It’s a big change and I’m look-ing forward to it.”
Austin speaks to his long expe-rience dealing with liquefied natural gas (LNG) players in the area.
He said his very first meeting as an MLA was with the then-president of Kitimat LNG, the proposed proj-ect which is now jointly-headed by Apache Canada and Chevron Canada.
He explained that from his par-ty’s perspective, LNG is not some-thing they want to oppose.
“In spite of what Christy Clark tried to make out during the election, both political parties have been in fa-vour of LNG,” he said. “I’ve been on this file, meeting with people, long before [Clark] had even heard of what LNG even is. We’ve still got some ways to go but I’m excited about
what’s happening.”What he doesn’t agree with on
LNG is the idea that it will be a magic fix to the province’s debt, referring
to Clark’s prom-ised Prosperity Fund which has been said could, one day, take away all provincial debt.
“I think that the notion that we can get rid of our $57 billion in debt with money that accrues from [LNG]...I don’t think that’s realistic in any-way,” he stated.
But he knows LNG has the backing
from the majority of people in the area.
“I think that people in the North-west are, for the most part, supportive of LNG. What they want out of it is obviously to see that investment come to the Northwest after the economic decline we’ve seen in the last 10 to 15 years,” he said.
While he knows many of the jobs are short term for construction, even that he says is positive.
We get an enormous short term boost with construction jobs and that’s a good thing.”
Austin plans to tour the Peace re-gion with other opposition MLAs, to see first hand natural gas production in the province.
He said that should take place once the House rests at the end of this month.
Robin Austin
Continued from page 1“In some regards we probably accelerated cer-
tain elements of the physical construction,” he said, partly through the lack of snow.
Right now there are about 1,200 workers on the project, with 1,000 of those living in the camp. He said 300 people working on the project but not in the camp come from the Kitimat and Terrace area.
“This is by far a Canadian worker-driven proj-ect,” he said, saying many other workers are from Canada, mostly from B.C.
He didn’t specifically say how many were tem-porary foreign workers from the United States.
As for the ongoing issue of increased sulphur dioxide (SO2) levels at the new plant, he said that the company did receive their amended environ-mental permit, but an appeal process has been initi-ated.
He repeated earlier statements from others in
the company that while SO2 is increasing about 56
per cent overall, the per tonne emissions are re-maining the same from the old smelter, and the in-crease of 27 tonnes a day to 42 is a factor of higher production.
With last year’s signing of a new labour agree-ment with the CAW 2301 union, he said they’ll be set in that regard to 2017. He said that the rest of 2013, on the operations side, will be finding work-ers their new roles in the new smelter, and then in 2015 will be pushing hard on new training.
“That’s tight,” he said of the timeline. “It’s a challenge because you can’t go too early because we still have the old plant to run...can’t go too early because those people would be trained but not have the new plant to use the new skills on.”
The smelter rebuild is budgeted at an estimated $3.3 billion dollars, not including the second tunnel at the Kemano powerhouse.
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A file photo of the Kitimat Modernization Project site. Paul Henning says that they are over 50 per cent complete with the project. The work camp is holding around 1,000 people right now, and is still growing.
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Parliament is on its summer break - a long one, again, it seems - and this week at least I have de-cided to take a break along with our elected representatives. I guess I’m tired of ranting about the in-equities, per� dies, hypocrisies and just plain pompous arrogance of so many of those elected to “serve” us. It doesn’t mean I won’t be watching and reading, so I may not be able to keep this up.
But as of now, writing ahead for the � rst Wednesday in July, I’m look-ing forward to a long Canada Day weekend, to be spent as it will be by so many Canadians from coast to coast - camping, with my grandkids. It’s been two years since I rolled the camper out of the driveway, other than for a main-tenance run and even at my age, the anticipation remains as intoxicating as the associated chores remain daunting.
However, once again I wonder why, in 2013, popular provincial camp-sites like Lakelse Lake fail to step over the line into the 21st Century. They’ve upgraded the facility enormously since my � rst visits there in the early 1980s.
There are extensive open areas for kids to play, top notch, if not excellent shower and toilet facilities - so why not a spring and fall offensive to update to install power plugs on at least a num-ber of the sites. Yes, it would be costly -- but would the investment would be
repaid time over time with increased traf� c? And paid for by the occupants using the powered sites.
This weekend will be one of the busiest of the year. I have no doubt it is sold out completely and there will be disappointment for many when they re-alize the computerized reservation sys-tem has worked ef� ciently and well.
The Canada Day weekend, for me, as an immigrant and now a citizen, holds more of the status of a Thanks-giving Day and I’m more than happy to take part in the patriotic Maple Leaf � ag waving. I’ll miss Monday’s parade in Kitimat (for the � rst time in a long time, with the Ice Demons group) and the camaraderie of the big community get together at Riverlodge. The last time was again when I chose camping over staying in town.
I am relying on my computer’s � ve day forecast that suggests we’ll see a beautiful sunny weekend at Lakelse Lake but I am aware the weather pre-dictions have run the gamut from three
days of rain to the promise of a scorching Sunday, so, as a Kitma-tian, I’ll pack my rain gear, as a precaution.
I said Canada Day is more like thanksgiving to me and that earns local emphasis when I compare my proposed Canada Day week-end to that on the many thousands of Albertans facing economic di-
saster, possible the loss of their homes, following the sudden and di-sastrous � oods in the southern part of that province last week. Full recovery could take 10 years according to Pre-mier Alison Redford and it’s prudent to recognize that Calgary’s “� ood of the century” occurred only in 2005.
So for us in Kitimat it’s a reminder that it can happen anywhere, so be pre-pared and be mindful that so many oth-ers will be up to their knees in mud, cleaning, while we have our knees bare in the warm lapping waves at the beach on another long weekend. And even if it does rain, it’ll not be a deluge to wash away our homes and livelihoods.
In retrospect, despite my inner rage at the way the NHL played the Stanley Cup playoffs this season, I have to say watching Jonathan Toewes joy at hoist-ing Lord Stanley’s many-tiered Cana-dian mug in the Chicago “madhouse on Madison” was a thrilling hockey moment.
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A switch to more uplifting subjects
Making the plan on Kitimat’s Walkways
The viewpoint truly is the most iconic scene in all of Kitimat. The � rst place you see in and out of town. (Well, yeah, unless you take the turn at Kitamaat Village Road or Nalabila.)
So from a social perspective it does make a bit of sense the Kitimat Heritage Group’s desire to have a walkway built through Coghlin Park, or at least across the road from it.
It would make the viewpoint more accessi-ble, and would tie the walkway on Haisla Hill to an extended system that would complement the whole outdoor experience.
But, and the Heritage Group may string a photo of me on a dartboard for saying this*, I don’t think installing that extension is that impor-tant for the time being.
(*I know in reality they are all kind people who would never do that!)
But that said, a good, serious, strong look at Kitimat’s walkways should be in order in the near future.
Many walkways are being overgrown or dis-appearing entirely. Drainage issues are a main reason some walkways have been decommis-sioned entirely, according to the engineering di-rector at a recent Committee of the Whole.
But I’m sure there’s not many people at all who want to see any further removal of Kitimat’s pedestrian backbone.
I’m not, however, blind that maintaining the system we have is expensive. That’s why a Cogh-lin Park walkway is a nice idea but something to stick on a wish list for maybe 10 years from now.
Our Of� cial Community Plan as of 2008 does emphasize within its pages that maintaining the walkway system is one of the plan’s overall goals for the community.
With that in mind perhaps it’s time to create an Of� cial Community Walkway Plan.
Not with an eye on removal, but to put down plainly how much will have to be spent to main-tain the systems and which new walkways the town wants to install, if any.
Maybe we’ll � nd that the $300,000 that went to the walkway management plan this year should be bumped up.
As the mayor said in the article this week, they don’t have a plan that outlines how much each walkway will cost the town in maintenance.
Truly the walkways in Kitimat are unique and an important part of the local infrastructure.
To that end, it should be spelled out clearly, with community input, what plan the town has or wants for the walkways.
Cameron Orr
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Taking up where we left off last week, what are the Americans doing that could upset British Columbia’s LNG cart?
Let’s first make clear that at this point the fly in the ointment is just one US proj-ect, Cheniere’s Sabine Pass LNG export complex in Louisiana .
It will be producing 9 million tonnes of LNG a year by 2016 - that’s not pie in the sky, you can take that the bank - and plans to ultimately boost production to 27 million tonnes.
And it already has 20-year contracts with five major customers to take up two-thirds of the eventual capacity.
That’s in stark contrast to Kitimat LNG which is still trying to sign just one con-tract.
Cheniere calculates that based on a price of US$4 per million British Thermal Units at Henry Hub, the US benchmark for natural gas, it can deliver LNG to Asia at around $10.50 per mBTUs.
And it has been signing deals based on Henry Hub.
Janine McArdle, senior vice president of gas monetisation for Apache, has al-ready made it clear that Kitimat LNG is a non-starter with prices based on the US benchmark.
So how is it that Cheniere can live with prices that Apache/Chevron cannot entertain?
They are very different animals.Sabine Pass is what’s called a brown
field project. It was originally built as an LNG import facility back in the days when imported natural gas was competitive with domestic US supply.
So, at the risk of oversimplification, all it has had to do is convert to export.
Unlike every green field project be-ing talked about here in the Northwest, it doesn’t have to build a pipeline, a tank farm, a plant or a terminal.
It even already has two tugs to guide the LNG tankers in and out.
In other words its capital costs are a fraction of those of proposals such as Kiti-mat LNG.
Ipso facto, it can make the finances work at Henry Hub pricing.
But despite all of the above, there is no need for us to throw up our hands and give up on Northwest LNG.
While the projected Sabine Pass pro-duction of 27 million tonnes a year is a lot - it’s more than the projected production of
the Kitimat LNG and Shell group plants put together - you need to stack that up against the total of Japanese LNG imports last year of more than 80 million tonnes.
Add in South Korea, India, Pakistan, Europe et al and demand for the foresee-able future will be way more than the likes of Sabine Pass can fill.
So I think it unlikely that oil-linked LNG contracts are going to vanish any time soon and therefore there should still be ample room for a couple of Northwest projects to proceed.
However, the US fly in the ointment has introduced an unwelcome wrinkle that has obviously delayed sales agreements as buyers understandably jockey for the best price they can get.
Now, to return to what I said last week about not envying Rich Coleman his job as BC’s Minister of Natural Gas Develop-ment.
As I mentioned then, premier Christy Clark said his task was “ensure British Co-lumbia seizes the economic opportunity of a lifetime, liquefied natural gas (etc, etc).”
The word “ensure” is silly in that it continues the pretence that the province has any influence over whether these proj-ects go ahead.
As I have outlined in these two col-umns, there are many factors - and trust me, there are more than I have had space
to cover - that are completely beyond the control of the province.
With the Canadian Football League season about to start, allow me the fol-lowing: the province will be the pom-pom waving cheerleader on the sidelines but only the global economics quarterback can throw the touchdown pass.
And I remain hopeful he will.
Dear sir, “There can be no liberty unless there
is economic liberty.” - Margaret ThatcherDid you ever stop to think when you
moved to B.C. that this province is a “port” province?
The other ports are in Eastern Can-ada.
A port is somewhere ships come from all over the world bringing things and picking up articles to be taken to other places in the world. Ports are busy places, have things we want and probably some things we don’t.
If we are really against ports then we should move to provinces that don’t have any, like the prairies or maybe Elliot Lake come to mind.
This province seems to have more than it’s fair share of people who are against everything.
They don’t want logging, coal through their area, oil, gas, gas, fracking, fishing in rivers and oceans, no planes over their area, no industry and absolute-ly no camps for workers to live in. But they want hospitals, schools, shopping, theaters, nothing but parks, homes worth a fortune, jobs and education.
How do we expect to have everything if there is no economic development? And I realize EcDev is not always great, but much needed if we want to survive.
Something I am against, but no one would agree with me, is taking the land away from animals, who were here first.
Clear the land, build your houses then complain that the wild animals are invading your space, instead of learning
to live with them!You put your smelly household gar-
bage out in plastic bags, feed the birds in the summer and wonder why wild ani-mals come.
Give your head a shake.See, we all have an axe to grind but
some make sense and some don’t. In this community alone there are many things that should be improved but are any of you CAVES (citizens against virtually everything) stand up for them?
What about unsightly houses, build-ings, garbage in parks and on streets, run down apartments, etc?
Don’t see any protests about that, only protests about something that might improve the community.
Everyone is afraid they might offend someone so nothing happens. Clean this place up!
If you don’t want planes over your house, don’t move to Richmond. If you don’t want to live at a port, don’t move to B.C.
If you want to be against everything, carry on, you’re doing a good job.
When you read this you’ll think this “old broad” is all over the map but just give some thought to some of my ram-blings.
Hopefully the editor won’t think I’ve “lost it”, but these are some of my thoughts and only my thoughts, so don’t call me and complain if you don’t want an earful.
Keep smiling, I’m watching and lis-tening,
Roma Burnett
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Liberals are looking for an LNG touchdown
Dear sir,An open letter to the community:
As many people are aware, Council has re-cently considered a number of changes to the Of-ficial Community Plan and the Zoning section of the Kitimat Municipal Code. When changes are contemplated to these areas a public hearing is required. There have been some questions regarding Council’s ability to discuss these items after public hearings are closed.
The purpose of a public hear-ing is for Council to listen to the public and receive your input to as-sist us in making a decision.
Prior to any hearing, people may review all documents provided to Council by staff and the public, and at the hearing people may listen to others and provide comments in response.
It has been confirmed by staff that once the public hearing concludes, individual Council members take all the input received and con-sider it when making a decision on the proposed
change to the Official Community Plan or zoning regulation. Council members cannot receive new information after the hearing. The public must have access to the same information as Council and will not have the opportunity to comment on information which comes forward after a hearing unless another public hearing is held. Council re-
mains open to speak to you about other items, but we can’t discuss public hearing items after the hearing is closed. Staff may pro-vide Council with clarifying re-ports on information received at the public hearing. Also, please
visit the District’s web page at www.kitimat.ca for additional information on public hearings. I truly appreciate community interest in the Dis-trict’s activities and invite the public to attend Council meetings at our new chambers in the Northwest Community College building at 606 Mountainview Square.
Joanne Monaghan,Mayor
by Malcolm Baxter
BaxyardBanter
Continued from page 4Toewes, since his three
innovative and brilliant shootout goals against the USA to get Canada into the finals and win a second straight World Junior Cham-pionship gold in 2007, has been one of the young play-ers I’ve most admired since the turn of the century.
He hoisted the Stanley Cup for the second time in three years last week, re-em-phasizing his stature as one of Canada’s best young play-ers, albeit he toils in Chicago.
It was a terrific series and for me, watching the Bruins “execute” the Toronto Maple Leafs in just a few seconds of play, as they were already booking hotels against their next opponent.
What happened in the last 75 seconds of game six of the final proved once again “what goes around, comes around.”
Astonishing!As most Canadians were
getting another beer for the overtime, Chicago combined for the winning goal just 17
seconds after Toewes set up Bickell to tie it with just 16 seconds left in the second last minute.
Towes was on the bench when Dave Bolland surprised Tuuka Rask with the winner to totally silence the raucous Boston fans who had it won in their own minds.
Boston rallied in the final seconds but could not get a good shot on Corey Craw-ford.
Memorable!
Uplifting
Mayor responds to concerns
Pipeline gets extensionPacific Trails Pipelines, the pipe
set to serve the proposed Kitimat LNG terminal in Kitimat, has received an ex-tension on its environmental assessment permit, allowing to June 26, 2018 to get the project “substantially started.”
Originally to have started by June this year, Paul Wyke, a spokesperson for Apache Canada, said that since Apache’s purchase of PTP from Pacific Northern Gas in February 2011, “it was always our intention to apply for an ex-tension to the original [certificate].”
He said the plan is for the pipeline construction to “dovetail” with the con-struction of the Kitimat LNG facility.
Site work is continuing as Apache and Chevron Canada work to mile-stones include finalizing long-term gas sales and completing their engineering studies, said Wyke.
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Economic development is necessary to survive
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Minister speaks to Kitimat’s prospectsEditor’s note: The Sentinel
sought an interview with Min-ister Rich Coleman about his minister of Natural Gas Devel-opment position. Due to time limitations at the ministry’s end, we agreed to accept a pre-writ-ten piece from Rich Coleman:
British Columbia has an unprecedented opportunity to create economic growth from our province’s most promising resource – natural gas.
The Government of British Columbia’s aspirations for the natural gas sector came to the forefront with the release of the BC Jobs Plan in 2011, where we pledged to develop a lique� ed natural gas – or LNG - indus-try on our northwest coast. The response from global industry players and prospective trade partners was immediate, and continues to strengthen.
Milestones reached in the last year alone include several new project announcements and signi� cant investments in B.C.’s natural gas sector.
In Kitimat, we have seen major progress. LNG Canada, a project proposed by Shell Cana-da and their co-venture partners – KOGAS, Mitsubishi, and Pet-roChina - received an export li-cense from the National Energy Board in February. A project de-scription has been � led to initi-ate the provincial environmental assessment process. The facility could begin exporting LNG in 2019 provided all timelines are met.
The Kitimat LNG proposal is also moving forward, lead by Apache Corp. and Chevron Canada. Achievements include an approval to export natural gas following a successful applica-
tion with Canada’s National En-ergy Board.
This past February, the Province signed an Economic Partnership Agreement with 15 First Nations along the pipeline route for the Kitimat LNG proj-ect.
The Paci� c Trails Pipeline
route extends from Kitimat to Summit Lake, north of Prince George. This agreement, worth $32 million, is an example of our government’s collaborative work with First Nations to en-sure Aboriginal communities bene� t from LNG and industrial planning.
The Haisla Nation, one of the signatories of the Economic Partnership Agreement men-tioned, are also partners in the Douglas Channel Energy proj-ect.
The Haisla Nation wel-comed the participation of two new international investors for the project. This project could become the � rst facility to ex-port LNG from B.C.’s north coast.
Up and down the coastline we have seen interest from ma-jor industry players, with the momentum leading us to over ten LNG proposals in various stages of planning.
The milestones are far from over. This month I was appoint-ed the Minister responsible for the new Ministry of Natural Gas Development by Premier Christy Clark. The creation of this ministry, as well as a dedi-cated Cabinet Working Group on Lique� ed Natural Gas, dem-onstrates how sincere our com-mitment is, and how real the op-portunity has become.
A key priority this year will be the work to establish a B.C. Prosperity Fund, which will se-cure wealth from tomorrow’s LNG development and protect it for future generations. In fact, revenues could be in excess of
$100 billion over the next 30 years. As part of our plan for a debt-free B.C., the Prosperity
Fund will reduce cost burdens for families, and strengthen the economy with services people rely on – in Kitimat and all areas of the province.
The safety and security of British Columbians and the en-vironment remains our top pri-ority.
We will remain a leader in responsible development and pipeline oversight as the LNG industry continues to grow.
Working with industry, First Nations, and local communities, we will continue to advance the opportunity we have created for Kitimat, our province, and the rest of Canada. In the very near future, B.C. will be renowned as a global supplier of the world’s cleanest burning fossil fuel.
Rich Coleman
The Kinsmen Club of Kitimat recently donated $750 to the Kitimat General Hospital Foundation, proceeds from their 50/50 draw held during Bull-O-Rama this year. Pictured (l-to-r) are Christine Dielschneider of the Kinsmen Club, Barb Campbell, accepting the cheque on behalf of the Kitimat General Hospital Foundation, and Kinsmen members Dan Stenson, Marie Striker, Sharole Bell, Rachel Stelmacker, Sarah Crampton, Lesley Nunes and Stephen Ong. Submitted
HST goes out,ICE comes in
Rod LinkBritish Columbians may have
thought they got rid of the Harmo-nized Sales Tax (HST) this spring but the provincial government has now quietly tacked a new levy onto natural gas heating bills.
Called the Innovation Clean En-ergy (ICE) Fund, the tax amounts to .4 per cent of natural gas consumed.
It appeared on natural gas bills as of April 1, the same date the HST disappeared, and also applies to fuel oil and some propane consumption.
The tax is intended to subsi-dize companies and governments of various kinds developing so-called “green energy” technologies such as ones using solar, wind, wood waste or geothermal power.
It’s actually the second time a tax of this type has appeared – it was also called the ICE Fund when it � rst surfaced in 2007 as an add-on to heating bills. Payments to compa-nies began the following year.
The tax disappeared in 2010, the same year the HST was introduced, but not before handing out approxi-mately $60 million of the $68 mil-lion collected over its lifetime.
The remainder of the money was disbursed to various projects af-ter the ICE tax ended.
This time around provincial of-� cials expect the tax to bring in ap-proximately $7 million a year for subsidies to green technology com-panies and projects.
Authority for the ICE levy is contained within the provincial So-cial Services Tax Act which is why it was stopped when the provincial sales tax was replaced with the HST in 2010.
So when the HST was stopped,
the provincial sales tax reappeared and with it, the ICE tax.
The original ICE monies went to companies such as Earth Renu Ener-gy Corp of Delta which received $1 million to turn urban organic waste into natural gas.
The T’Sou-ke First Nation at Sooke also received $1 million for a green heating and cooling system for use in an industrial greenhouse.
But not all of the announced projects in the � rst ICE go around actually did receive money.
That list includes Pytrade, a company which had its eyes � xed on Kitimat, and which, according to a July 2011 provincial government press release, was to receive $1 mil-lion.
Pytrade’s plan was to use a fast-heating process to convert wood waste and other bio mass into oil to create electricity and to create bio-coal and biogas.
Kitimat’s municipal council em-braced the project but nothing has taken place since early announce-ments.
“Pytrade did not enter into a contribution agreement with the province and no portion of the $1 million was administered,” said the provincial government in response to questions.
“In March 2012 funding was rescinded as the project did not suf-� ciently meet the program’s guide-lines.”
In all 17 initially approved proj-ects either withdrew from the pro-gram or were rescinded, a value of $18.5 million, the province added.
That money was then reallocat-ed to other projects within the ICE program.
July 2 - August 16The Library’s An-nual Summer Reading Club starts on July 2 and ends with its � nal wrap up party on Au-gust 16. Children aged 6-12 are invited to join in the summer fun held Mon., Tues. and Wed. from 1 – 2.30 p.m. Pre-schoolers meet Fri. mornings from 10:30 – 11:10 a.m. on Fri. Pro-gram is free. Consider the Library for outdoor game fun, circle sto-ries, postcard diaries and building cool crafts at this year’s UP, UP, AND AWAY themed club. You may register for one, two or three days.July 8 - 12The Redeemer Luther-
an Church is holding their Vacation Bible School, 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. each day. For ages � ve to 12. No registra-tion fee. For more info call 250-632-6962.PICKLE BALL has started in Kitimat. If you are 50-plus you are welcome to join. This is a racquet sport which combines tennis, bad-minton, and table ten-nis. Tues. and Thurs. at 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., at the Riverlodge gym. No cost. For more info call 250-632-3475.HEALTHY BABIES drop in is held every Thursday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Kitimat Child Development Center. They welcome families throughout
pregnancy and up to one year (older siblings welcome). Come meet other parents and in-fants over light refresh-ments with support from the CDC staff and a Public Health Nurse. For more info call 250-632-3144.THE KITIMAT GIRL GUIDES urgently need new leaders for the lo-cal groups. For more info call Lois at 250-632-3446 or Nancy at 250-632-0135.KITIMAT PUBLIC LIBRARY - Storytime for preschoolers hap-pens Friday mornings from 10:30- 11:15 a.m. Activities include silly song, fuzzy felts, story book and funny rhymes.
COMING EVENTS
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Kitimat Fire truck is on its way to PeruCameron Orr
The Kitimat Fire Department’s long out-of-service vehicle, Unit 21301, has now physically left town.
The Sentinel reported in October 2012 that the fire truck was being donated to Fire-fighters Without Borders Canada for a trip to Peru where it would make a welcome addi-tion to one of the many under-supplied fire departments in that area.
As of June 21, that fire truck was on the road, packed with various supplies provided by the Kitamaat Village Fire Department and the Terrace Fire Department.
Picking up the truck was Bob Dubbert, who is the president and director of appara-
tus and equipment for Firefighters Without Borders Canada.
He said by July 17 the fire truck, and all the equipment that was going with it, would arrive in Peru.
There are three trucks going down, one from Kitimat and two from Smithers. There’s also a 14-foot storage trailer heading down with it.
Dubbert said that while the equipment might not pass British Columbia’s standards, it will still work great for those South Amer-ican fire departments, who will repair the equipment and put on a new coat of paint.
“This is a great alternative,” he said of throwing out old equipment.
He said helmets, for example, would have to be thrown out after an expiration date here in Canada, even if it was brand new and out of the box.
Insurance won’t even cover vehicles af-ter a certain point as well.
Kitimat’s fire chief Trent Bossence said that it was about seven or eight years ago when the firetruck they’re sending was taken out of regular service and put into their train-ing grounds. But even for the past four years it hasn’t been used at all, due to liability.
Regardless of the local regulations, the truck is still in driveable shape and the pump does still work, although it will need some repair. But that will all take place and he said
he expects to see a photo of it in the near future, all fixed up and re-painted.
He said it’s bittersweet to see the truck leave Kitimat after it has been with the de-partment for so long, but he’s happy that it will have a second life.
“We know it’s not going to a landfill...it’s actually going to get used some more,” he said.
The truck is a 1978 Ford L9000.After leaving Kitimat, Dubbert was go-
ing to meet more volunteers in Beaverly, near Prince George, and he would connect with the two other trucks from Smithers.
All the trucks and equipment will even-tually be shipped out from Vancouver.
A crew at the Kitimat Fire Department stands with Firefighters Without Borders Canada President Bob Dubbert, second from right. Fire chief Trent Bossence is on the far left, and deputy chief Pete Bizarro at far right.
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Continued from page 1“We need it to be in the
$90 a tonne [range],” Hall said in March about card-board.
She didn’t say how high office paper would need to go to make money on processing it but said as well it would have to go much higher.
With this new infusion of money, KUTE should be set for the remainder of the year.
However there are po-tential changes on the hori-zon on how recycling is col-lected and processed, which could impact KUTE’s opera-tions.
The changes are coming from the province and may mean an even heavier load to the local recycling depot, depending on how it’s imple-mented.
We’ll continue that story next week.
KUTE
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New book moves ForwardCameron Orr
Mike Forward could have done what most do during time off from work with a newborn at home: nap in between the bouts of joy and panic.
Yet the new fa-ther-for-a-second time didn’t fall into that usual routine entirely. By day he took care of the family, but in those precious off moments he wrote a book.
Now available for purchase through Amazon, either in pa-perback form or in a Kindle e-edition, is Forward’s Alex Quinn and the Gemstones of Dunkel.
He says the book takes inspiration from series like The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
And like most exciting fantasy sto-ries, the story of his book began with a trek through the snow.
“Where it began, I guess you could say it was last winter. I was walking to work one day through the snow and I just had an idea about two boys whose father disappeared and they find this stone that links them to this other world where they go looking for him,” he said.
That idea lodged in his mind for months, until his leave from work gave him time.
“I usually don’t get much further than writ-
ing a few pages, scrap it, [say] ‘that was a bad idea’ and call it a day,” he said. “But being off on parental leave now I got to the point where I sat down again and this idea was still in my head.”
He quickly bashed out an outline to his story, a very basic synopsis which didn’t even include character names.
Once the overall plot was worked out, he went to work flesh-ing out the characters and scenes.
In the writing you may notice words taken from other lan-guages, for instance the main bad guys in the book are called the Krieg, taken from the German word for war.
“Once I got passed about 20 or 30 pages it was rolling at that point,” he said.
Once his manu-script was completed, he took the draft to his wife to get a new per-spective, and let her go to work with an edit-ing pen.
“She took to edit-ing it, she liked it a lot,
and that was the pro-cess of how that was written.”
Even though he has two boys of his own now, he said there aren’t many direct par-allels to his kids and the ones in the story.
“I certainly hope I’m not going any-where for seven years,” he said, referring to the missing father of the story. But there are traits in the characters that he hopes for in his own family.
“I like to think that my boys would exhibit some of the traits of the two boys in the book, which is generally kindness and thinking your way through problems, rather than just bully your way to the easy solutions,” he said.
That was one of his own mandates in the story, go for clev-
er solutions and wits, rather than large scale battles.
Depending on how the reception to his book goes, Forward has ideas for continu-ing the story.
However that will certainly come about once his work is fin-ished with this one.
Mike Forward
The Kildala Out of School Care Program recieved a $20,000.00 grant from RBC. This is the second year that this program has won this grant from RBC. The program operated by the Kitimat Child Development Centre in Kildala Elementary School has 38 children registered from community schools, offering a social, art and learning program. Submitted
$900 million short in gov’t projectionsTom Fletcher
Government revenues have fallen $900 mil-lion short of February’s budget projections, and teachers and other government workers can expect no new money for wages, Finance Minister Mike de Jong said last Thursday.
Bright spots for the B.C. economy include an expected recovery in natural gas prices from his-toric lows, and $500 million in savings on govern-ment operations, de Jong said in a post-election budget update.
B.C. is continuing an effective freeze on pub-lic sector wage growth that began in 2010. Since the government’s “cooperative gains” mandate in 2012, nearly three quarters of union members have signed contracts with average pay increases of one to two per cent, financed through savings in other areas of operations. Most are two-year deals, with some halfway through.
The projected surplus for this year is trimmed from $197 million in February to $153 million, and de Jong had to trim contingency funds to reach that.
Tax hikes are unchanged from February, in-cluding a two-year increase for personal income over $150,000 and a tobacco tax increase set for October.
The budget calls for $30 million in spending cuts this year, after last year’s reduction of $20 million in all ministries except health. The govern-ment’s “core review” of government operations is getting underway with a target of another $50 mil-lion in savings by the end of 2014, but no program targets are identified in the budget update.
The price for natural gas, the key commodity for the government’s debt reduction plan, is fore-cast to rise from $2.25 per gigajoule this year to $2.51 and $2.89 in the next two years. Exports of liquefied natural gas to Asia, where prices are cur-rently far higher, can’t begin until well after 2015.
Lumber prices are forecast to decline, from a peak of US $348 per 1,000 board feet this year to $308 in 2014 and $300 in 2015.
De Jong said the government’s asset sales plan is about $8 million ahead of projections, with about half of the properties, bonds and other financial holdings sold or in negotiations to sell. The goal is to raise $475 million for next year’s budget.
Properties already sold include land on Tran-quille Road in Kamloops, a school board office in Kelowna, surplus school land in Delta, vacant lots in Burnaby, Surrey and near Victoria General Hospital and former school sites in Surrey and North Vancouver.
Properties going on the market include a for-mer school board office in Surrey, a vacant site north of Kelowna once planned for a provincial prison, former school sites in Central Saanich, Sidney and north central Vancouver Island and land for LNG development in Kitimat.
NDP finance critic Mike Farnworth blasted the B.C. government’s budget update, pointing to deteriorating financial conditions that make it even less likely the promised surplus will materi-alize by next spring.
“Economic growth is down. It was forecast at 1.6 per cent. Now it’s down to 1.4 per cent,” Farn-worth told the legislature. “Retail sales are down … Housing starts are down 13 per cent. People are leaving B.C. for Alberta and other stronger economies. That’s nine straight quarters where more people have left than arrived.”
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More PTI questions answered
Cameron Orr
PTI Group executives were in town
for a second community open house to
talk about their proposed work lodge
just off from Kitimat’s downtown core.
The event provided people the
chance to catch up on the details of their
proposal while also allowing PTI rep-
resentatives to � eld questions from the
public.Earlier questions included inquiries
into the availability of health services
for such a large facility.
Sean Crockett, the company’s vice
president of business development, not-
ed that health services is a government
responsibility, however their facilities do
enable health services, and by that they
mean their facility can be designed to
reduce burdens in the emergency room.
“We can create space for medical
service contractors for physiotherapists,
for doctors, for dentists,” said Crockett.
That said, he also pointed out that
the workers aren’t coming to Kitimat
because of their lodge, but because of
the other, major industrial projects be-
ing proposed.
PTI Group director of business
development Bob Greaves said that
they have been working with North-
ern Health in Kitimat to develop ways
to provide health services on their site,
such as allowing nurses to check blood
pressure and provide diabetes support on
site.The company also answered ques-
tions relating opening their lodge to more
public events. Crockett said it’s not nec-
essarily the business they’re in but “with
the permission of the community,” they
could open up for special events such as
hockey tournaments.
But, “If that’s competing with a local
hotelier’s business, we wouldn’t do that.”
Project legacies are still to be worked
out but he mentioned possible future uses
of their land to be converted to recre-
ational uses such as trails. Their core site
though would likely be sold, as a fully
serviced lot at the time they’re � nished.
But they wouldn’t leave behind an
abandoned property, he said.
PTI Group has purchased one site
and has a purchase offer on another for
land east of the Kitimat General Hospi-
tal, in the Strawberry Meadows area.
They propose to construct a work-
force lodge that could eventually house
up to 2,100 people. They say that the fa-
cility would be a � ve minute walk to the
downtown core, which would provide
retail bene� ts to businesses.
Crockett said in an ideal world
they’d have the � rst few hundred beds
set up by October but because of various
factors such as public consultations and
the ongoing work to prepare site zoning
and work to amend the Of� cial Commu-
nity Plan — which is taking place with
the municipality right now — he expects
an opening around April of next year.
The Smithers Storm midget hockey team attempts a goal against the Kitimat Legion Bombers during the
zone championship � nals on March 7. Smithers would end up taking the game, 4-2.Cameron Orr photo
Oil refinery
money in place
David Black says he’ll build his own pipe-
line to carry crude oil from Alberta if that’s what
it takes to supply a massive re� nery he wants to
build on the Dubose plateau north of Kitimat.
“I have the � nancing. That’s not a problem,”
said Black last week following a presentation to
the B.C. Chamber of Commerce March 6.
Black provided an update on his project � rst
announced last August to build a 550,000 barrel-
a-day re� nery supplying Asian and other custom-
ers with gasoline, diesel and jet fuel among other
products.
The cost is now in the $25 billion range and
Black said he has a general agreement with his
company called Kitimat Clean to line up the mon-
ey through the Swiss-based Oppenheimer Invest-
ment Group although more detailed negotiations
have to take place.
“I hope to sign a � nancing [memorandum of
understanding] within 60 days,” said Black of the
debt-� nancing for the project.But � rst he needs
to demonstrate he has
customers for the re-
� nery’s output and
Black expects to have
a memorandum of un-
derstanding, called an
off-take agreement, in
place within a month.
Black wouldn’t comment on whether those
potential customers include any of the ten com-
panies who have provided Enbridge with the seed
money for its Northern Gateway Pipeline project.
It’s those companies who have interests in the
Alberta oil sands and want to ship the raw product
overseas but who, for now, lack a way of getting
their product to the coast.
But Black did say the generally accepted
business model for re� neries elsewhere is for
their owners to also own the pipelines supplying
the raw product.
“Then you’re dealing with suppliers who are
locked in,” said Black, adding that it’s a more ef-
� cient way to do business.
Black wouldn’t comment directly on whether
he’s considered asking Enbridge to sell its North-
ern Gateway project but he has told Enbridge its
concept of shipping crude to the coast through a
pipeline and then having the unre� ned product
taken overseas won’t be accepted in B.C.
“I’ve thought a lot about that,” said Black. “I
think it would be very, very dif� cult now for En-
bridge to win.”
Enbridge is now in the middle of extensive
public hearings and a � nal decision to accept or
reject the project is expected from the federal gov-
ernment late this year.Continued on page 2
“I think it would
be very, very
diffi cult now
for Enbridge to
win.”
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Cameron Orr
PTI Group executives were in town
for a second community open house to
talk about their proposed work lodge
just off from Kitimat’s downtown core.
The event provided people the
chance to catch up on the details of their
proposal while also allowing PTI rep-
resentatives to � eld questions from the
public.Earlier questions included inquiries
into the availability of health services
for such a large facility.
Sean Crockett, the company’s vice
president of business development, not-
ed that health services is a government
responsibility, however their facilities do
enable health services, and by that they
mean their facility can be designed to
reduce burdens in the emergency room.
“We can create space for medical
service contractors for physiotherapists,
for doctors, for dentists,” said Crockett.
That said, he also pointed out that
the workers aren’t coming to Kitimat
because of their lodge, but because of
the other, major industrial projects be-
ing proposed.
PTI Group director of business
development Bob Greaves said that
they have been working with North-
ern Health in Kitimat to develop ways
to provide health services on their site,
such as allowing nurses to check blood
pressure and provide diabetes support on
site.The company also answered ques-
tions relating opening their lodge to more
public events. Crockett said it’s not nec-
essarily the business they’re in but “with
the permission of the community,” they
could open up for special events such as
hockey tournaments.
But, “If that’s competing with a local
hotelier’s business, we wouldn’t do that.”
Project legacies are still to be worked
out but he mentioned possible future uses
of their land to be converted to recre-
ational uses such as trails. Their core site
though would likely be sold, as a fully
serviced lot at the time they’re � nished.
But they wouldn’t leave behind an
abandoned property, he said.
PTI Group has purchased one site
and has a purchase offer on another for
land east of the Kitimat General Hospi-
tal, in the Strawberry Meadows area.
They propose to construct a work-
force lodge that could eventually house
up to 2,100 people. They say that the fa-
cility would be a � ve minute walk to the
downtown core, which would provide
retail bene� ts to businesses.
Crockett said in an ideal world
they’d have the � rst few hundred beds
set up by October but because of various
factors such as public consultations and
the ongoing work to prepare site zoning
and work to amend the Of� cial Commu-
nity Plan — which is taking place with
the municipality right now — he expects
an opening around April of next year.
The Smithers Storm midget hockey team attempts a goal against the Kitimat Legion Bombers during the
zone championship � nals on March 7. Smithers would end up taking the game, 4-2.Cameron Orr photo
Oil refinery
money in place
David Black says he’ll build his own pipe-
line to carry crude oil from Alberta if that’s what
it takes to supply a massive re� nery he wants to
build on the Dubose plateau north of Kitimat.
“I have the � nancing. That’s not a problem,”
said Black last week following a presentation to
the B.C. Chamber of Commerce March 6.
Black provided an update on his project � rst
announced last August to build a 550,000 barrel-
a-day re� nery supplying Asian and other custom-
ers with gasoline, diesel and jet fuel among other
products.
The cost is now in the $25 billion range and
Black said he has a general agreement with his
company called Kitimat Clean to line up the mon-
ey through the Swiss-based Oppenheimer Invest-
ment Group although more detailed negotiations
have to take place.
“I hope to sign a � nancing [memorandum of
understanding] within 60 days,” said Black of the
debt-� nancing for the project.But � rst he needs
to demonstrate he has
customers for the re-
� nery’s output and
Black expects to have
a memorandum of un-
derstanding, called an
off-take agreement, in
place within a month.
Black wouldn’t comment on whether those
potential customers include any of the ten com-
panies who have provided Enbridge with the seed
money for its Northern Gateway Pipeline project.
It’s those companies who have interests in the
Alberta oil sands and want to ship the raw product
overseas but who, for now, lack a way of getting
their product to the coast.
But Black did say the generally accepted
business model for re� neries elsewhere is for
their owners to also own the pipelines supplying
the raw product.
“Then you’re dealing with suppliers who are
locked in,” said Black, adding that it’s a more ef-
� cient way to do business.
Black wouldn’t comment directly on whether
he’s considered asking Enbridge to sell its North-
ern Gateway project but he has told Enbridge its
concept of shipping crude to the coast through a
pipeline and then having the unre� ned product
taken overseas won’t be accepted in B.C.
“I’ve thought a lot about that,” said Black. “I
think it would be very, very dif� cult now for En-
bridge to win.”
Enbridge is now in the middle of extensive
public hearings and a � nal decision to accept or
reject the project is expected from the federal gov-
ernment late this year.Continued on page 2
“I think it would
be very, very
diffi cult now
for Enbridge to
win.”
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HOURS OF SALE FOR A LIQUOR PRIMARY LICENCEAn application has been received by the Liquor Control and Licencing Branch, Victoria, BC from Hirsch Creek Golf and Winter Club, operating the Hirsch Creek Golf and Winter Club, located at 2000 Kingfisher Ave Kitimat, BC, to change the hours of sale to 11:00am - 2:00am (Thursday to Saturday). Hours of sale will remain the same Sunday to Wednesday.
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FOR SALE BY OWNER
Large Executive Style 3 Bedrooms 4 Bath Home In The Horseshoe Area Of Ter-race Close To The High Schools. Features A Double Curved Oak Staircase and Unique Architectural Designs, Hardwood And Stone Throughout, Open Concept Living, Gourmet kitchen with large island and stone tops, Theatre Room, Large Landscaped Yard Fully Fenced With Fruit Trees, Concrete Driveway With Parking For 10 Cars, 2 Car Attached Garage In Front And one Attached Garage On Side, drive in basement shop for His Toys.
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• Skills including coordina-tion and group facilitation would be an asset.
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We are accepting applica-tions for our Purebred Lab-rador Puppies (for Sale). Sire is #2 lab in Canada. Both parents are Champion and Grand Champions. Our pups have been micro-chipped, dew claws removed and have their fi rst shots. OFA HIPS - Good, OFA EL-BOWS and CERF - Normal, PRA and EIC - Clear $1,000.
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For Sale By Owner
Bungalow in Kitimat1,214 sq ft. 3 bdrm. New in-terior paint, laminate fl oor-ing, fenced back yard, newer appliances, close to schools and backing onto walkway. $205,000. 778-631-2007
Kitimat - Mobile home for sale. 250-639-9677
LakeshoreLAKEFRONT home and acreage for sale on Francois Lake, BC. Guest cabin, 50x50 heated shop, 2 car carport, on over 3 private acres with ap-prox. 350 ft of Lake Frontage. $380,000. 250-695-6975 or email:[email protected]
Other AreasLARGE Log House +84 acr, Sussex NB, $199,000. 506-653-1374 [email protected]
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250.632.4254
Homes for RentHOUSE for Rent on Baxter Av. $2100/month Available imme-diately. Great location, 3 bed-rooms, 2 bathrooms, fi replace, wood stove, garage and big backyard. Not furnished but in-cludes all appliances. Utilities not included. Non smoking, no pets. References and damage deposit required. Contact Nathalie at (778) 631-2220 or [email protected]
Kitimat - Attached House for Rent. Nechako area. Fully furnished, ready to move in. 2 bdrm plus den. Perfect for out-of-town work-er. No smoking, no partying. Refs Req. Successful appli-cant able to move in Aug 1. $1,200/mo plus utilities. Please call:
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TownhousesTOWNHOMES in KITIMAT3 bdrm, 1 ½ bath, carportStart $700. Sorry no Pets.
Call Greg 639-0110
Transportation
Cars - Domestic
1982 Datsun 280zx128,000 km. T-sunroof, stan-dard. Good working condi-tion. $3,000 obo250-632-2176 or 250-639-1154
Transportation
Recreational/Sale
1996 Winnebago VectraA class diesel pusher
$35,000 fi rm780-881-4722
Kitimat
Kitimat2003 Starcraft Travelstar
21SB Hybrid Ultralite. In-cludes anti-sway bars and hitch. Rarely used, very good condition.
$9,200. 250-639-3858
MOTORHOME34ft, 1996 Fourwinds, Ford F460, 66,553km. Sleeps 6. Generator (52 hours), A/C (front & rear), Maxi vents, awning, fridge, range and oven. Hot water tank, fur-nace, toilet/shower/sink.
$17,000250-632-2983 Kitimat
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17 ft. Alum. Canoe “Spring bok” very stable, perfect of family / hunting canoe. $600. ----------------------------------13 ft. Alum. Canoe “Sports pal” very stable & very light, 2 seats. $600.
Call (250) 692-2372
21’ Fibreform CabincruiserKitimat - 5.7L - V8 Mercruis-er with Alpha 1 leg. Great running condition. Brand new exhaust manifolds, bat-teries and starter (over $2000 spent). Stringers and fl oor replaced. 40 gal alum gas tank. Sleeps 3 com-fortably. Heavy duty double axle trailer included. Priced for quick sale @ $6,900
Ph: 250-632-5673
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32’ FIBERGLASS FERRELL BOAT
370hp 8.1L John Deere Diesel, 1500hrs on engine. Trolling valve, Bow Thruster,
3 Stage Steering. 2 Hydraulic Deep lines,
Hydraulic Trap Puller, 3 Sounders, Radar, 8’ Dinghy,
2 Radios. Com-Dev Auto Pilot, Spare Prop. Can be seen at MK Bay Marina.
Assessed at $84,400.Contact Warren Poff at
250.632.6119or 250.242.1789
$65,000 Firm(will consider trade for part)
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Legal NoticesNOTICE TO CREDITORS
AND OTHERSRe: The estate of Brian Hi-deaki Hashimoto, de-ceased, formerly of 193 Whittlesey Street, Kitimat, British Columbia.Creditors and others having claims against the estate of Brian Hideaki Hashimoto are hereby notifi ed under section 38 of the Trustee Act that particulars of their claims should be sent to the admin-istrator at 173 Collinge Road, Hinton, Alberta T7V 1L9 on or before August 9, 2013, after which date the administrator will distribute the estate among the parties entitled to it, having regard to the claims of which the administrator then has no-tice.
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Great fun at Walk/Run festivalCameron Orr
It’s a festival more than a race, so a good time is emphasized over people’s ac-tual performance.
Still, people put in great effort at the annual Walk/Run Festival, which was held on June 15.
The event even brought out the very young, a three-year-old being the youngest participant this year.
One of the event’s organizers, Cori Bo-guski, said that it was great to see teams
from both Nechako and Kildala elementary schools, plus all the family teams which had multiple generations coming out for the exercise.
In the 21km run, Dwayne Felewich completed the route � rst, followed by Eric Caruana.
For the same run for the women, Mar-laina Rymer � nished � rst, followed a few minutes later by Emily George.
In the 10km walk, Zelia Marleau and Suzie Smeader walked across the � nish
line simultaneously with a time of 1:37:48.In the 10km walk, in the men’s, Will
Blair � nished � rst with a 42:20 time, fol-lowed by Michael Voyer at 45:13 and Stacy Smeader at 46:55.
For the women’s, Kaitlyn Hartmann walked across � rst with a 53:04 time, fol-lowed by Erin Baker a few seconds later, and Kathleen Cherry was third at 55:14 time.
In the � ve kilometre walk and run, for the men’s, Dan Carrow � nished � rst with
a time of 24:44, followed by Gregory Dol-man with 26:25, and Mike Reid in third with 30:02.
In the women’s, Laurel Neumann � n-ished � rst with 25:14, then followed Julia Jacobs with 26:12 and then Janelle Hittel with 28:51.
For the mini, 2.5 kilometre walk, Noah George completed the route � rst with a time of 19:17, then Benjomen George with 35:08. Jacob McIsaac � nished third with 46:05.
Runners take off from the start line at the Walk/Run Festival at Riverlodge, which was held on June 15. Cameron Orr
Twenty strong years for Big BikeThe Heart and Stroke Foundation’s Big Bike came through
Kitimat again on June 20, an appropriate number considering it’s the bike’s 20th year riding through communities, raising money for the charity.
This year also marks Terry Runion’s 17th year with the bike, who has headed up the Heart of Kitimat team and has been a volunteer and coordinator for the Heart and Stroke in Kitimat.
“I started as a volunteer...after my father-in-law passed away from a heart attack,” she said.
She said as heading up a team she has to always get 29 people together to ride, and the Heart of Kitimat team is a col-lection of business people, friends and family, and its aim has always been to support community spirit.
“Everybody coming from a different direction, but all com-ing together for one joint cause,” she said.
Over 17 years, she said it’s always been fun, and riders keep their spirits up whether rain or shine, and there have been some serious drenchers over the years.
The bike, out of 10 in the country, tours different communi-ties, and Richard Rappel pilots the thing, and he said he’s been doing it since he retired in 1998.
His most remarkable memory from the bike is from a ride which ended up taking place at night, which turned into a six mile ride. They had to push the bike up a few of the hills, all under the cover of darkness.
The only good thing was it didn’t rain, he said.