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The band Les Copains du Nord perform at the Saturday brunch on February 22 of AFFNO’s Return of Winterfest celebration. The winter celebration returned after a few years hiatus, but the Association des francophones et francophiles du Nord-Ouest welcomed it back over three days this year. More pictures on page 6.

Flap over LNG tax cap

The provincial government will contemplate giving a limit to municipalities on how much they can tax lique� ed natural gas projects.

It’s a move that may make projects more competitive but has local politicians speaking out.

The idea was � oated by Minister of Natural Gas Development Rich Coleman in an interview with the Globe and Mail.

The Sentinel has contacted his of� ce for com-ment but have not heard from him by press time.

There were few details on how such a tax cap would work, including whether it’s for the entire-ty of the Class 4 (heavy industry) tax category or just for LNG projects themselves.

But the District of Kitimat Treasurer Steve Christiansen explained that a tax cap would, in time, shift municipal expenses on to residents.

“It is fair to say that a cap on Class 4 taxes would, in Kitimat and other communities with Class 4 holders, likely result in a large shift of property tax burden to other tax classes, most to Class 1 — residential — and Class 6 — business,” he said through e-mail.

He added, “There would also be a concurrent reduction in municipal non-core services, most likely in recreation, culture, beauti� cation, snow-clearing, and a general lowering of maintenance.”

However, such a reduction would not be im-mediate. He said that Class 4 properties begin with a high assessment, so the tax rate for them is kept lower, and raised over time to maintain the same level of taxation as they depreciate in value.

“Once the tax rates climb high enough to hit an arbitrary provincial cap, then the tax shift to the residential and business classes begins. Because we have a new asset with the rebuilt smelter, it may be some years before we reach this situation, depending on how low the cap is,” he said.

Of course the impact province-wide won’t be equal. Christiansen notes that some towns won’t have the heavy industry that they already rely on, while others will see drastic shifts, such as those with full depreciated pulp mills as an example.

Mayor Joanne Monaghan remembers past � ghts to stop taxation caps for industry and is not left pleased with talks of bringing it back again.

She points to the swimming pool, ice rinks, and the library, among the services the town offers to make this an attractive community for workers.

She sees tax caps as the province’s way to take more money out of the community.

“For our bridge, for instance, we’ve actually had to turn some of the equipment away for the modernization on the trucks because they were too heavy for the bridge,” she said. “Does that make sense to you? And now they want to take some money away from us. Am I happy? No.”

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DCW hosts plebiscite meetingCameron Orr

Approximately two dozen people at-tended Douglas Channel Watch’s meet-ing last Wednesday, set to educate people on the 209 conditions on the Northern Gateway Pipelines project.

Or more speci� cally the 209 con-ditions as laid out by the Joint Review Panel for the proposed project.

DCW opted to host the community meeting in order to set a base of under-standing ahead of a plebsicite in Kitimat which asks residents what their opinion is of the JRP’s conditions, and whether people are in favour or against them.

Cheryl Brown, Murray Minchin and Dave Shannon each gave their perspec-tives on the conditions at the evening meeting, from an overview of the JRP re-port, to speci� c comments on their feel-ings on the report.

Organizers didn’t hide their distaste

for the plebiscite question itself, but did encourage people to vote on it regardless.

“The way I’ve been looking at it, it’s been written on smoke and deposited on mirrors, because even though there are 209 conditions, some of them are really � acid, there’s no real stringent ones, but they can change them at a whim at any time,” said Murray Minchin ahead of the meeting.

He refers in particular to the � rst condition, which states: Northern Gate-way must comply with all of the certi� -cate conditions, unless the NEB other-

wise directs.That clause at the end worries him

that the conditions aren’t � rm, so why should the community vote on it.

“So as a community we’re voting on something that is of no consequence. It won’t exist in its present format that we’re voting on in the future, so why even vote on it?”

He calls it unreasonable that the av-erage Kitimatian should have to vote on the 209 conditions rather than a more concise question on whether people want the project or not to be built here.

“The question is absolutely unrea-sonable because even Enbridge didn’t un-derstand the conditions and would have to step back and consider them awhile, so how can you expect anybody who hasn’t gone over all the conditions to actually vote on them?” asked Minchin.

Continued on page 11

“Even though there are 209 conditions, some of them are really fl acid, there’s no real

stringent ones.”

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Housing stats show prices still risingCameron Orr

The District of Kitimat’s latest Housing Facts document shows home rental prices still on a rise while vacancy continues to dive.

Rental vacancy sits at just one per cent as of October 2013.

That drop comes even as the aver-age rent rose to $926.

That average includes all rental types, from bachelor apartments to three bedroom townhouses.

Statistics from the Canada Mort-gage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) showed a zero per cent vacancy rate for bachelor units in Kitimat in the fall of

2013. The average rent for one was $785.

A one bedroom apartment wasn’t much better, at .6 per cent vacancy.

Two bedroom apartments actually shared the same vacancy rate of .6 per cent, with an average rent of $871.

Three bedroom apartments ap-peared to have the best vacancy rate at 9.3 per cent, however rent for such a unit averages at $1,489.

There are 1,042 units to rent in Kiti-mat of all types, the report states.

Dwelling unit construction is on the rise, however. In 2013 there was a jump in construction, driven, says the Hous-

ing Facts report, by development of the Strawberry Meadows and Forest Hills subdivision.

Four dwelling unit permits in 2012 jumped to 15 in 2013.

Real estate listings meanwhile have dropped. In January 2014 the report says there were 16 total listings, down from 43 in 2013.

The year 2002 saw the highest Jan-uary listings at 121, and 2014’s 16 is a 12 year low.

As for a home’s price itself, the av-erage single family home is valued at $228,000. In 2004 it was at a 14-year low at $92,896.

Cameron OrrA budgetary and

scheduling review is underway for the Rio Tinto Alcan modern-ization project in Kiti-mat.

But KMP General Manager Gaby Poirier is thinking that the first quarter in 2015 will see the commissioning and start-up of the rebuilt smelter.

Poirier spoke to members of the Kitimat Chamber of Commerce at a lunch meeting on February 26, giving an overall update to the KMP project.

In general though the KMP project is 65 per cent complete — that includes pro-curements and mate-rial gathering — while construction specifical-ly is 40 per cent com-plete.

KMP workers cur-rently sits at 2,400 people now with a peak in workforce this coming June. Poirier didn’t specify how many are needed in June but RTA is bring-ing in a retrofitted ferry to house workers. With a capacity of 500 beds, that will add to the 460

capacity remaining in the existing camp.

He said 1,300 of 1,760 beds at the KMP camp are currently full.

We asked Manag-er, Corporate Affairs & Community Relations Colleen Nyce to elabo-rate on the camp situ-ation and she said the occupancy varies dur-ing the week as people go on days off, but they are planning a zero per cent vacancy by the end of the month. With the arrival of the Delta Spirit they anticipate that to be full as well.

As for incen-tives to keep people in the camps, given the town’s nearly full ca-pacity, she said work-ers are now not being offered a living allow-ance to live in the town over the camp.

“This was done

in the earlier stages of the project when the town’s accommoda-tions were not full to capacity and landlords and the business com-munity preferred us to allow workers to live in town. Since other proj-ect proponents have come to the region and also occupying local accommodations, our company has a) dis-continued the practice of entering new living out allowance agree-ments and b) procured the supply of the Ac-commodation Vessel in order for us to take care of our own workers,” she wrote in an e-mail.

As for the perma-nent workforce, RTA is still eyeing an approxi-mate 1,000 workforce for the smelter once completed, with up to 800 employees work-ing under the smelter’s union.

Poirier said the drop from the existing 1,200 workers to the 1,000 will be a gradual process and that there will be surplus people during the transition.

However he said they’re going to use natural attrition to re-

duce the workforce.So far 95 per cent

of the workforce know what their role will be in the new smelter and they have over 150,000 training hours still to do before everyone will be trained on their new roles.

While his presen-tation didn’t touch in detail on emissions, we asked whether the appeal challenges to RTA’s new sulphur di-oxide (SO2) emissions would in any way im-pact construction.

The short answer is no.

“We do have a per-mit,” he said, despite appeals which are com-ing in May.

“We’ve got every-thing to install a scrub-ber if we need to. But if we base on the science, the report that we have, the best option is the one that we take, so the stack to disperse it. If not we’re going to con-centrate everything in the Douglas Channel.”

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The Coast Mountains School District (CMSD) revealed the dis-trict’s latest staff-ing changes at the monthly school board meeting Feb. 19.

Director of fa-cilities John Gar-rosino, who joined the district in 2007 in that position, is leaving the district to take a similar po-sition with the Ver-non school district. The move will al-low him to be closer to his family and grandchildren, he said.

At Uplands Elementary, Julia Nieckarz has been acting principal fol-lowing former prin-cipal Todd Hollet’s move to Caledonia Secondary School, where he is now vice principal.

She’ll now take on that role perma-nently.

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And Christine Goncalves is the new vice principal of Nechako Elemen-tary School. She’s been an intermediate and resource teacher at that school until now.

“Christine has a wealth of teach-ing experience and a sound knowledge base in assessment and instruction,” reads the release. “Her enthusiasm for learner success and her reputation as a team player and re-lationship builder will serve Nechako Elementary School very well.”

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Plebiscite changes continue to be madeCameron Orr

By now council will likely know whether or not they are for sure go-ing to hold a plebiscite, after debat-ing Phil Germuth’s notice of motion to cancel the whole thing.

There will still be costs whether or not they go through with it though.

The administration may have to tack on an extra $500-or-so dollars if they have to reprint the ballots.

That’s because council had pre-viously established three responses to their question; Yes, No, and Un-decided.

But when staff wanted to con-firm the wording of the advertise-ments at the February 24 Committee of the Whole meeting, some didn’t realize they had added that option on the ballot.

Phil Germuth brought up the is-sue, and Mayor Joanne Monaghan also thought the vote would only have two options.

“I think it’s such an impor-tant question, having undecided in there...I think by now everybody knows yes or no. It just leaves it

open to misinterpret the results,” said Germuth.

Councillors opted to remove the wording from the ballot.

The ballots, however, had al-ready been ordered for the plebi-scite. Staff will look at the possibil-ity of re-purposing the ballots but if they can’t without making them confusing they may have to order a reprint.

This discussion precluded this past Monday’s council meeting where councillors were expected to discuss whether or not to cancel the whole thing.

Initial estimates of the plebi-scite cost were $15,000 but Deputy Chief Administrative Office Warren Waycheshen said their latest esti-mates were just over $13,000.

Staff wages for the plebsicite are valued at $7,500. The ballots themelves budgeted at $1,000 cur-rently.

Advertising is expected to cost $3,000, and other materials set at $2,000, with the whole budget total-ling $13,500.


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Why has basic common sense and patience apparently abandoned Cana-dian political leadership? At federal, provincial and municipal levels, lead-ership seems to be simply stumbling around in self-interested, self-induced fogs, while international, national, pro-vincial and municipal issues are plagu-ing Canadians on all sides.

Yikes, I hate to start off a new month with a rant on longstanding, seemingly unsolvable problems.

Federal. While no one has any real idea what is happening in the Ukraine, after the past few weeks of violent pro-test, the Canadian government simply can’t wait not to mind its own business. They are rushing off a government del-egation (not one that represents the Parliament of Canada, with Opposition representation excluded) but one that does include “prominent” Ukrainian Canadians, to “� nd out” what’s going on.

Meanwhile, the United Nations, NATO and other international organi-zations where Canada is represented are also asking questions and keeping a close eye on developments in Ukraine, including the latest armed “coup” in the Crimea — a foretaste of things to come.

Canadians, however, will bear the full cost of any Canadian delegation as well as their assessed “fair-share”

on other organizations’ efforts. Why? How is this duplication of effort com-mon-sense?

Most people who read the papers or watch news developments on the Internet are well aware what’s go-ing on in the Ukraine: the usual mix of deeply-divided political tensions, demonstrations, violence and death (or are we talking assassination?) coupled with demonstrable brazen and almost unparalleled levels of corruption and theft by political leaders.

Add to that a “most-wanted” presi-dent who vanished at the height of the violence but may be found before this appears.

Still, with federal issues, essential economic opportunities for Canada are being stymied, squandered or being permitted to languish because govern-ment is unable to focus suf� ciently on the present. They are already overly obsessed by the 2015 election when seemingly, out of the blue, proposals for billions of dollars of “if you vote for me and want to prosper” projects

will get the multi-party meaningless “go-ahead” promises, albeit, largely from those unable to deliver, elected or not.

Ongoing feuds between the feds and the provinces are exacerbating this situation.

The only issue will be, can we deliver enough interested constituents to vote, which seems to be all that Ca-nadians can do. It seems that about a quarter of eligible voters can determine the future of government for the next four years.

How is that common sense?Provincial. Not to get tangled with

seemingly-unending Quebec cultural and linguistic issues, the current gov-ernment of that province still contin-ues to support plans to separate from Canada.

Hopefully the English-speaking minority in Quebec is taking notice. That would be common sense, but not by leadership but by the people.

Cascadia-options appear to have � nally taken a back seat in the west, where environmentalists, funded by self-interested U.S. foundations, ap-pear to have seized the moment from re-election focused governments com-pletely uncertain of their next moves. Little common-sense on the horizon here either.

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Something on so many levels

Tax burden or benefit

Thank the academy...

In the District of Kitimat about 65 per cent of the municipal taxes which go towards our local ser-vices is paid for by our Class 4 properties, or heavy industries.

That of course puts a big burden on Rio Tinto Alcan at the moment, given they are, essentially, the only heavy industry here at the moment.

In a recent presentation the company included the tidbit that they paid the DoK $13 million in prop-erty taxes in 2012.

I’m sure RTA would be happy to have more industry come to Kitimat to share in the industrial share of tax money to the town.

But a question of taxation is now being asked with comments from the minister of natural gas de-velopment Rich Coleman that the government may consider capping the taxes of LNG projects, a way to make them more competitive.

There are no details or announcements about that right now, so it’s all pie-in-the-sky, but the im-plications are easy to see.

I’m essentially re� ecting what the mayor and our MLA have already said, but it creates an awk-ward position if LNG gets a limit on taxes, while a company like RTA has been shouldering the entirety of it so far without government intervention.

Now it’s not an argument of whether or not a company can afford it but of fairness.

How would RTA stand by while a company like Shell gets a pass on how much they need to pay?

It creates a problem that they might start de-manding fairness if that tax cap were implemented.

And if industry has its taxes capped, the shift of payments would go towards commercial and resi-dential properties.

So in short, capping taxes for LNG may mean residents have to pay a higher share of a municipal-ity’s bills.

The idea may have merit in attracting these busi-nesses to B.C. but clearly there’s a risk that, as the mayor told me, these could be built on the backs of the municipalities themselves.

Each year the B.C. and Yukon Community Newspapers Association takes submissions from the province and territory and sends them to judges across Canada to grade for the eventual Ma Murray Awards. Submissions include individual pieces or the newspapers as a whole.

The Northern Sentinel, it turns out, is a � nalist — which means we just have to wait if we’re � rst, second or third — for Newspaper Excellence in our circulation class.

Forgive our bragging, but we just had to tell you all about it. That means that this paper you’re hold-ing is, as graded by our peers, one of the � nest in the province.

Cameron Orr

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Continued from page 4Provincial. Canadians with

health issues, coast-to-coast, can be sure they will wait longer and longer for reduced levels of health care while governments demand the bureaucracy continue to centralize vital services in larger cities while making it more and more difficult and expensive for the needy to ac-cess these services.

There are no common-sense answers just more government gob-bledygook and assurances of better days ahead.

Municipal issues. Not to men-tion the Mayor Rob Ford shenani-gans in Toronto or the small army of corruption-charged Quebec mu-nicipal mayors or officials awaiting court dates, very few municipalities appear to be truly booming. Well, Fort MacMurray does stand out.

But Kitimat, Terrace and Prince Rupert are front and centre as com-munities rapidly becoming un-af-fordable but with zilch guarantees that any of the “saviour energy in-dustries” tooling around town, will

come through with the required fi-nal investments needed to trigger the heavy equipment developments needed to proceed.

Daily, the B.C. government ignores the economic warnings is-sued by business media that they are “missing the boat” due to uncertain-ty and lack of a genuine assurance of support.

Time is flying while B.C. poli-ticians dither over the “tax” share between the province, the native communities and host communi-ties, now facing a cap on what they will be able to tax LNG proponents. The municipalities are largely un-heard from.

There are dozens of other ex-amples of where Canadians’ focus is utterly divided and common-sense messages are falling on deaf ears.

I despair the foot-dragging, the diversions, the endless objections and demands for consultations and “funding” for more detailed liaison on the basis of “what’s in it for me?”

Just to mention a few issues.

Levels

The great race of lifePhilippians 3: 13-14, “But this one thing I

do: forgetting what lies behind and straining for-ward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”

The Olympics are over but I’m sure we will all have a few lasting memories.

As I watched the athletes competing, I couldn’t help but think of this passage from the Apostle Paul.

If anyone had the excuse to give up and bow out of the race it was Paul. As an Apostle of Jesus Christ he was beaten, stoned, whipped to within an inch of his life.

He was shipwrecked, left for dead and many times he lacked the basic essentials of food and shelter.

Yet despite all of that adversity, he still strained onward in order that people might hear about the love of God in Christ Jesus. He pressed on toward the finish line where he knew that all God’s eternal promises to him in Christ would be fulfilled.

You see, he was in the race —the race of life — and it was his faith in Jesus Christ that put him in that race.

At one time, like many people he was a spec-tator in the stands. He didn’t understand that he could be in the race that leads to eternal life in Heaven; he didn’t know that Jesus had paid the entry fee for him to enter that race on the cross and all he need do was repent of his sin and be-lieve on Jesus as his Lord and Savior and he would become a participant, where all who cross the fin-ish line in faith receive the crown of eternal life.

That all changed the day he met the living and risen Lord Jesus Christ on the road to Damascus. Every day after that, Paul ran the race of eternal life.

And so it is with you and me. In our unsaved condition we are merely spectators watching life go by without understanding its meaning or pur-pose.

But when we meet the risen Savior in God’s Word, when we understand that He loved us so much that He gave His life for us on the cross so that we might be saved for all eternity, everything changes.

When we have been given a clean slate by God’s grace through faith in Christ, then we can be like Paul and forget what lies behind (it is in the past and is forgiven by Christ’s sacrifice), and instead we can press on towards the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

It is only in Christ that life has meaning and purpose. At the end of his life Paul wrote this in 2 Timothy 4: 7, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. And now there is laid up for me the crown of righteous-ness.” May the Lord bless you and keep you faith-ful to Him all the days of your life.

Amen.

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Truck driver says farewellDear Sir,

Longtime local Canadian Freightways driver, Rod McInnes, would like to thank all his customers and friends in Kitimat for their loyalty and com-radery over 36 years.

I first started de-livering freight to Kiti-mat in 1972 with CNR then Lindsay’s Cartage and then with CF since 1978.

After over 40 years of delivering to your fine community it came to a halt when CF closed their doors without notice on Janu-ary 17.

I found out when I showed up to work Monday morning at 6:00 a.m. I was de-livering to third gen-eration customers and achieved over two mil-lion accident free miles

with CF since 1978. The residents of

Kitimat are like family to me and I will miss delivering their freight in a timely and profes-sional manner.

It doesn’t feel right not coming to Kitimat on a daily basis and I wish you all a happy, healthy life and hope to see everyone at some time in Terrace.

Once again thanks for all the help, sup-port and friendships over the years, it was much appreciated and because I knew a lot of your families I truly wish them well and hope they continue the friendly, caring ways of your community.

You will remain part of my fond memo-ries as I enjoyed ser-vicing Kitimat for so many years and spent over half my life going to Kitimat every work-ing day.

You all made my work enjoyable and it was a pleasure servic-ing your freight needs through the good times and the slower times. I can’t say enough of how the people of Kitimat have made my working years at CF so much fun and reward-ing and hope you don’t miss all my gossip.

Take care and good health and happiness to all, I’ll miss you.

Rod McInnes

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Drunk driving laws are working: AGTom Fletcher

Roadside suspensions and vehicle seizures for driv-ers blowing as low as 0.05 per cent blood alcohol have helped cut B.C. drinking and driving deaths by half, Attorney Gen-eral Suzanne Anton said.

Government statistics show average fatalities from drinking and driving have fallen to 54 a year from a previous five-year average of 112, since the law took effect in September 2010. Anton said the program is so successful that other provinces

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Ellis Ross in the Masters quarter final of the 55th Annual All Native Basketball Tournament. The Haisla Masters placed fourth in the tournament after losing the game 81-71 to Kincolith. In the Women’s Division, Kitamaat landed in second place after falling to Nanaimo 64 to 56. Shaun Thomas

Hamper appeal wraps up season

Winterfest returned

SubmittedEven though Christmas Ham-

pers for 2013 have all been de-livered, the volunteers have now wrapped up all the back-end work for the season.

Organizers are incredibly pleased that Kitimat has surpassed all past years donations for the 2013 Kitimat Christmas Hamper Appeal with a final total of $58,363.56.

Organizers are absolutely amazed and so grateful to all for their generosity – churches, schools, community organizations, small businesses and the large cor-porations along with all their em-ployees and you, the general public of Kitimat and Kitamaat Village.

Organizers are equally as thankful to all the wonderful volun-teers who donated so much of their time, energy, vehicles, and support.

The Christ the King Catholic Church offered up the use of their hall during hamper week, as this fa-

cility gives us the space needed and is easily accessible for drop off and pick up.

The gifts received this year were amazing, they say. There were enough drivers with vehicles to enable them to be finished before lunch on delivery day.

School children and staff of-fered up donations of food. That’s in addition to all of the churches in town too who offered their support with donations and volunteers.

Finally, organizers praise the work of the Kitimat Food Bank ex-ecutive who manage the day-to-day running of the food bank: Marjo-rie Phelps, Lois Godfrey, Bill and Robin Willis, Sheila Reeves and Sally Rigoni as well as Pearl Len-nox who co-chairs the Hamper Ap-peal.

As the saying goes “it takes a community to raise a child”, and it also “takes a community to feed the hungry”.

The Association des franco-phones et francophiles du Nord-Ouest (AFFNO) hosted the return of the Winterfest celebration, encompass-ing three days of social gathering and music.

On February 20 AFFNO held a social at Rosarios, and the follow-ing evening live music from Barefoot Caravan was played at the Luso club.

Then Winterfest concluded with a brunch with live music at the Riv-erlodge.

At left is Simran and Munpreet, doing some colouring after eating a hearty breakfast. Below, people line up for their pancakes, beans, eggs, and other foods.

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plans. And they’re on top of the $1.2 billion in taxes Northern Gateway will contribute over 30 years to the province which can be used for schools, hospitals and infrastructure.

A solid plan, years in the makingUnlike some promises made to Northern British Columbians that have been made in the past, Northern Gateway is a detailed and reliable plan that’s been years in the making. The Joint Review Panel (JRP) process that assessed our project was the most comprehensive, science-based review in Canadian history. And it concluded that Northern Gateway was in our country’s best interests. The JRP also concluded the project could be built and operated safely for our environment.

A safer, better pipelineFrom the very beginning, the team I lead atNorthern Gateway has worked hard to builda safer, better pipelinethat provides newopportunities and jobsfor British Columbians. My commitment to thatis stronger than ever. Because just like me,all Northern British Columbians deservethe opportunity to live, work and raise a familyin the place we’re allproud to call home.

JANET HOLDER

Stable, long-term jobs in KitimatIn Kitimat, Northern Gateway will create approximately 180 stable, long-term jobs at the terminal and pump station, coordinating environmental protec-tion, and supporting pipeline operations. Each one of these jobs is important. It gives the people of Kitimat new opportunities to work and raise a family at home in the North. It means good wages and a stable future. And the spin-off jobs created will expand new opportuni-ties even further.The new jobs Northern Gateway will create in Kitimat contribute to the overall economic impact of the project, which includes 3,000

construction jobs, 560 permanent jobs, and hundreds of millions of dollars in procurement opportunities for comp-anies and communities along the right-of-way.

Skills training that will last a lifetime As important as long-term jobs are to long-term economic stability for Kitimat, Northern Gateway is also giving young Northerners new skills that will last them a lifetime. Northern Gateway’s $3 million Education and Training Fund has already impacted the lives of over 1,800 inB.C. and Alberta.And Northern Gateway was proud to donate $225,000 to Project Shop Class, a program organized by theConstruction Foundation of B.C. to upgrade skills training facilities in our schools. Our contribution to that program will go towards schools in the North, including right here in Kitimat.

New support forlocal prioritiesIn addition to stable jobs and skills training opportunities, Northern Gateway will contributeup to $10 million a year in taxes to Kitimat. These new resources can beused to invest in local priorities, improved community services and economic development

My life is in Northern B.C. It’s where I was born, and where I live. And I want to see theNorth prosper. I want tomorrow’s generation of northerners to have the same opportunities I did to succeed and to build a life inthis beautiful part of the world.But for many young people from Northern B.C., that can be diffi cult. Too often they have to leave home and family to fi nd education, work and economic opportunity. That’s why I believe Northern Gateway is right for Northern B.C.

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KATE MARIEFebruary 9, 2014

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WARREN REGOAugust 15, 2013

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BARRETT JAMESDecember 30, 2013

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RYLAN LEEApril 5, 2013

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SADIE BESSAugust 19, 2013

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Recycling project moves aheadJeff Nagel

A new container recycling plant will be built in the Lower Mainland this year as industry stewardship group Multi-Material B.C. takes over respon-sibility for an expanded blue box recycling pro-gram.

MMBC is the or-ganization in charge of implementing a door-to-door recycling pick-up service across B.C. The District of Kitimat, as were many other communities, were of-

fered to manage local pick-up, however due to cost concerns the town turned down the offer.

A Request for Pro-posals was expected to be sent out to find an interested provider for recycling pick-up.

MMBC last Thurs-day meanwhile named Green By Nature EPR, a firm formed by three recycling industry partners, to handle the processing of packag-ing and printed paper province-wide.

Cascades Recov-ery, Emterra Environ-mental and Merlin Plastics are the three companies that have joined forces to invest $32 million building the new container recy-cling plant, a new ma-terial recovery facility in Nanaimo, as well as other infrastructure.

Green By Nature won’t handle the curb-side collection of pack-aging – that will still be done mostly by local municipalities, except those places like Kiti-

mat where an unnamed provider will do the work.

Besides new plants, existing opera-tions will also be used.

A material recov-ery facility in Surrey run by Emterra will help sort materials, and the plastics recovered are expected to be pro-cessed at Merlin Plas-tics’ plant in Delta.

A site for the new container plant hasn’t yet been revealed.

“The entire sys-tem is designed to shift

everything into two streams,” said MMBC managing director Al-len Langdon. “One is for fibres – newspa-pers, cardboard and printed papers – and the other for contain-ers.”

Green By Nature expects to employ 570 workers in all.

The new system – slated to launch May 19 – promises to add 10 new types of contain-ers or other materials to what households can place in blue boxes.

Continued from page 1Skeena MLA Robin Austin, also the oppo-

sition critic for natural gas development, feels an LNG tax cap would be a bad idea as well.

“I think it’s completely wrong that the provincial government is going outside of its jurisdiction and starting to step on the toes of what municipal government has by constitu-tion and always had the right to do,” he said. “This is the one way in which small town com-munities are able to retain some of that benefit themselves.”

He said the BC Liberals contemplating such a plan shows “how much trouble they’re in on this file.”

“They’re trying to ride roughshod over municipal government and start dictating from Victoria how they should set their tax rate. And it’s fundamentally wrong.

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Voting to strike PTI Lodge development permitTom Fletcher

B.C. teachers are voting on anoth-er mandate to strike March 4-6, B.C. Teachers’ Federation president Jim Iker said last Tuesday.

“Unreasonab le proposals” from the province’s negoti-ating team include wage increases lower than what other pub-lic sector unions have received, and a con-tinued refusal to put class size and special needs support limits back into the contract, Iker told a news con-ference in Vancouver.

Education Minis-ter Peter Fassbender said wage negotia-tions “have to start somewhere” and after a year of bargaining, the BCTF has yet to present a wage de-mand. He declined to provide specifics of the government offer, but said classroom conditions are on the negotiating table.

“Clearly we’re at the table with class size and composi-tion,” Fassbender said. “Our negotiators presented a package of proposals. We are still waiting to see the full proposal, includ-ing the wages, from the BCTF.”

Iker confirmed the union has not yet made a wage pro-posal, after a year of negotiations to re-place a contract that expired in June 2013. The union described the government’s of-fer as a 0.5 per cent increase on ratifica-tion, not retroactive to the past year, making three years with no in-crease.

“The proposal is followed by another zero for 2014-15

school year and then various ones and point fives over the next four years,” the BCTF said in a statement.

Iker said any strike action would be

phased in, and would not immediately in-clude forcing teachers to stop extra-curricular volunteer work, with-holding report cards or walking off the job.

Notice should be going out to neighbours and the Advisory Planning Commis-sion for comment on a de-velopment permit for the PTI Lodge proposal.

With the land zoned, a de-

velopment permit is required for the actual construction.

The permit application, available at the District of Kit-imat, shows their layout and design considerations. It also shows plans for a short-term

300 room camp, to house people who will construct the camp itself.

The Kitimat staff report indicates PTI expects the first lodge phase to be done in ear-ly 2015.

Time to don your running shoes, the Relay for Life is approaching

LNG boss says time a factor in getting projects online in B.C.

Cameron OrrOrganizers are mobilizing once again to

bring back the annual Relay for Life event at Mount Elizabeth Middle School’s outdoor track.

The annual cancer fundraiser at this point needs volunteers to help get things underway, and if you have a team you can also register it at the early-bird registration cost.

Co-chair for the Relay committee Michel Voyer said that the committee is open to receiv-ing at least four more members to help with or-ganization and planning, to add to the six people already onboard.

Last year he said there were about 20 regis-tered teams and so far there are 10 already signed up.

To help set the pace the committee has cho-sen this year’s theme as Back to the 80s, a nod to the Relay’s beginnings in 1985.

As participants begin to gather up their shoulder pads and leg warmers, fundraising and awareness activities are already planned, includ-ing a coffee house at the Pizza Factory later this month.

Organizers also plan to open information booths in the community at various times.

Anyone contemplating joining the commit-tee is welcome to call Voyer at 250-639-2739.

He said in particular they hope to get some volunteers with a background in teaching or working with kids.

But they of course welcome volunteers of any backgound, including for working the day of the event

The Relay will be held on May 31.The event will run from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.The Kitimat Relay for Life website is also set

up and running at www.relayforlife.ca/kitimat.

Shaun ThomasWhile there may be nine liq-

uefied natural gas export projects proposed for the northwest, the BG Group’s vice-president of global LNG expects only a frac-tion of the terminals will actually come to fruition.

BG Group is a company seek-ing to establish an LNG facility in Prince Rupert.

“Our modelling shows three projects in Canada and they may not come on in the time frame imagined by your government. I think that is a realistic projection...by 2025 there will likely be one to

three projects in this region with two to three trains each,” said Dr. Andrew Walker during a presenta-tion to Prince Rupert city council on Feb. 24, noting time is a factor.

Speaking on the current con-dition of the market, Walker proj-ects demand for LNG to grow at 2.4 per cent per year compound-ing through to 2025, resulting in an export increase from 240 mil-lion tonnes per year to 420 mil-lion tonnes per year. While other countries, including Australia and the United States, are rushing to create new export capacity, Walker said that may not be enough.


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School order has been stayedTom Fletcher

The B.C. Court of Appeal has suspended a lower court ruling that would force B.C.’s school districts to reorganize around teacher contract terms that were scrapped by the gov-ernment in 2002.

Education Minister Pe-ter Fassbender said the latest turn in the long-running legal battle with the B.C. Teachers’ Federation allows stability for parents and students while ne-gotiations continue on class size, special needs support and other issues.

The decision provides a “stable environment” for the 60 school districts to prepare for next September under existing arrangements, he said.

“We need to now get back to the table and see if we can find that sweet spot between both parties where we have a negotiated settlement,” Fass-bender said.

Those negotiations, to re-

place an imposed contract that expired last June, are scheduled to continue next week as BCTF members take a strike vote.

The appeal court decision, released Wednesday, allows the government to pursue its ap-peal of a January ruling that it argued would cause major dis-ruption to schools, which will likely take several months.

In January, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Susan Griffin found for a second time that B.C. legislation imposing con-tract terms violated teachers’ right to collective bargaining.

In his decision, Justice Da-vid Harris agreed with submis-sions from district superinten-dents around the province.

“The evidence demon-strates that the immediate re-insertion of the deleted terms into the collective agreement will probably lead to a dislo-cation of current planning and budgeting for the next school year, immense challenges in

hiring sufficient suitably quali-fied staff, lay-offs of employ-ees, change to available school programs, cancelling school programs, creating more class-es, moving students to other schools, disrupting programs for special needs students, the provision of additional class-room space (likely through the addition of portables where space permits), and the break-ing of contracts with communi-ty groups who use school space for their activities as school districts reclaim the needed space to accommodate addi-tional classes,” Harris wrote.

BCTF lawyers had argued that the 2002 rules could have been reinstated in time for the September 2014 school year.

Harris said it would be unlikely the appeal of consti-tutional arguments would be complete by then, and if it is successful, the school system would have to be made over again.

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Please be advised the Rio Tinto Alcan’s BC Operations will be testing its emergency siren system on a monthly basis beginning 6 February 2014.While it’s unlikely, there is potential that the siren could be heard as far as Kitimat or Kitamaat Village.This is just a test and will repeat on the first Thursday of each month until further notice.For more information please contact Rio Tinto Alcan’s Plant Protection at 250.639.8273.

Public AdvisoryCouncillors now face four yearsTom Fletcher and Cameron Orr

Winners of next November’s local elec-tions will serve four years on councils and school boards.

Minister of Com-munity, Sport and Cultural Development Coralee Oakes said Tuesday she will intro-duce legislation shortly to extend local govern-ment terms from three years to four. The change is to take effect in time for elections next fall.

Oakes said the change comes after the Union of B.C. Munici-palities supported it at their convention last September. The issue has been debated many times and has been di-visive over the years, with some rural politi-cians arguing against extending the com-mitment for jobs with little pay.

Oakes, who served two terms on Quesnel city council before be-ing elected to the B.C. legislature last year, said she had her own doubts about it when it was debated during that time. But she has

made up her mind.“The reason why

provinces across Canada have moved to four years is it pro-vides greater certainty in communities to move those very im-portant projects for-ward, things such as infrastructure improve-ments,” Oakes said.

“It provides op-portunities for local government officials to understand their proj-ects and to carry them through.”

The change would mean the next mu-nicipal election would be held in 2018, on a schedule that follows provincial elections by one year. Oakes said there was no intent to avoid having both elec-tions at the same time, and she is acting in re-sponse to the UBCM’s vote to go ahead.

Asked if the leg-islation would include a “Rob Ford clause” to remove politicians who misbehave while in office, Oakes said the ministry is examin-ing changes to the oath of office to “provide more tools” to deal with such situations.

Kitimat Mayor Joanne Monaghan, who has been in lo-cal politics for over 30 years, said there will be benefits to a four-year council.

“Three years is hardly enough,” said Monaghan. “It’s just getting into the fray of things.”

She said it can take three years just to properly network with government ministers and make the connec-tions needed to get no-ticed. There have been some critics who say four year terms could push out a younger group of would-be council members, but Monaghan said regard-less of age the position of councillor or mayor takes time.

“If you can’t give up your time, don’t bother,” she said.

That being the case she doesn’t think any-one will be particularly cut out for a potential run for local politics, and that there’s usually a good mix of experi-enced councillors and new ones to share a workload in the start-up years for someone.

A four year term would, she adds, take away the financial burden of campaign-

ing every three years which could make the run for council more affordable for each election.

The only real downside to a four year term as she sees it is that it means one more year in government if a person on council is “a total misfit” and not allowing the rest of council to reach its full potential.

Continued from page 1As for specific concerns, he worries

about a condition that requires Enbridge to file a report that they are going to hire temporary foreign workers 14 days in advance, rather than conditions which limit such hiring.

Minchin says voting yes on the plebiscite in Kitimat “will be voting in favour of temporary foreign workers and exporting thousands of Alberta refining jobs overseas.”

To that claim though Enbridge Northern Gateway’s Communications Manager Ivan Giesbrecht said that the pipeline project would “create 180 high paying, long-term operational jobs that will be based in Kitimat.”

He said it’s the company’s desire to hire locally for those jobs “and we’re working in the community to ensure

people know what skills they’ll need to get these jobs.”

Giesbrecht also responded to other claims by Minchin, including company statements that a spill affecting the Kiti-mat River could take four hours to reach the Douglas Channel, the same amount of time it would take a response crew to even arrive at the spill source.

“Our top priority is to ensure a spill never occurs,” said Giesbrecht.

He continues that the pipeline will have thicker walls at the river, and will have spill response resources and capa-bilities better than is required by regula-tion.

As for what would happen in a hy-pothetical leak in the Kitimat River, he said it would start with emergency shut-down procedures “to minimize further release.” If oil released from the pipe could not be spotted through usual visual means, control measures would be de-ployed at pre-designated control points, he said, “to protect sensitive areas.”

The Joint Review Panel’s 209 condi-tions covers the marine terminal, infra-structure, the two pipelines (condensate and bitumen) and the overall Northern Gateway project.

A lot of it is requirements to create plans or file documents relating to phas-es of its construction, including impacts to certain animals and environments.

We’ve made the JRP conditions eas-ily available at www.northernsentinel.com/ourtown.

Dave Shannon, a Douglas Channel Watch speaker, looks over the JRP conditions at last Wednesday’s meeting.

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moved to four years is it provides greater certainty in

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and ends April 7. Ses-sions open to anybody regardless of religious af� liation. Call Lidia at 250-632-6292 or Susana at the parish of� ce at 250-632-2215 to register.The Kitimat Seniors Centre is hosting some new programs this year. Chair yoga is on Wednesdays, at 11 a.m. Mahjong on Wednesdays at 1 p.m. and chess is on Tues-days, at 6 p.m. Pro-grams are free. Please call the Centre in ad-vance to sign-up; 250-632-3405.PICKLE BALL. Ev-ery Tuesday and Thursday, from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Riverlodge. For those aged 50+. Call the Kit-imat Seniors’ Centre at 250-632-3475 for further information.THE KITIMAT QUIL-TERS Guild meetings are the � rst Thursday of every month, held at M.E.S.S. Sewing room. All experience levels welcome. (19+) Call Aileen at 250-632-6225 or Wanda at 250-632-4458.HEALTHY BABIES drop in is held every Thursday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Kitimat Child Devel-

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come at our Care Group and Bible Study for men and women, singles or married, Thursday at 7:00 P.M. For infor-mation phone Brenda at 250-632-1616. DID YOU KNOW that literacy is more than just being able to read? The Kitimat Adult Literacy Pro-gram provides FREE tutoring services for adult interested in im-proving their reading, writing, math, com-munication, and in-formation technology skills. Is English NOT your � rst language? We provide FREE tu-toring and small group English as a Second Language (ESL) class-es. For more informa-tion please call Brandi at 250-632-7393 or to see what’s happen-ing at the Community Corner check us out at www.kitimatcom-munityservices.ca/KALP.html or � nd us on facebook. PRAYER CANADA KITIMAT meets up-stairs at the � re hall Tuesdays, from noon - 1:00 p.m. All are wel-come to pray for our city council and those in positions of author-ity in Kitimat, for the government of BC and of Canada. For infor-mation call Lesley at 250-632-4554.

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“Northern Gateway is taking extraordinary measures to ensure marine safety—reducing tanker speeds on British Columbia’s north coast is just one.”

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Northern Gateway has proposed tanker-related safety measures designed to maintain safe vessel transportation. These measures, together with lower tanker transit speeds in the coastal channels, not only reduce the risk of marine incidents, they also minimize potential adverse eff ects on the marine mammal environment.

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BEYOND WHAT’S REQUIRED The commitment to reducing transit speeds is not a regula-tory requirement, but one of many voluntary marine safety

initiatives that was put forward by Northern Gateway. As Anderson puts it, “Project-related vessels are capable of speeds of 15 to 16 knots. Many other oceangoing vessels can travel at even higher speeds. Northern Gateway is committed to reducing vessel speeds by as much as half that as an added

measure of prevention.”

GOING EVEN FURTHER TO ENSURE MARINE SAFETYIn addition to reducing tanker speeds, Northern Gateway has committed to the use of two escort tugs for every loaded tanker associated with the Project, with one tug being tethered at all times. According to Anderson, “In the event of a mechanical issue, the tethered escort tugs can take over steering and braking which greatly reduces the risk of an incident occurring. This commit-ment will also help protect British Columbia’s north coast.”

ENDORSED AT THE HIGHEST LEVELSThe Joint Review Panel’s endorsement of the Northern Gateway Project came after a rigorous, scientifi c review of the evidence, including Gateway’s precautionary approach to vessel speeds and escort tug standards. Northern Gateway is working hard to meet all of the fi nal conditions set out by the Panel, the same way they are working to meet the fi ve conditions set out by the Province of British Columbia. Northern Gateway is committed to doing everything possible in order to build a safer, better project.

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The Northland Dodge Northern Female Midget AAA Cougars completed a successful league weekend in Burnaby in January.

The 10 game league week-end saw all six teams from the BCFMAAA in action at Burna-by 8 rinks and was hosted by the West Coast Avalanche Team.

The Northland Cougars won three games and lost one, taking six of a possible eight points. They gained ground in the standings and are now in second place in the league.

On January 10 they beat the Vancouver Island Hurricanes 2-0. The game was largely dominated by the Cougars how-ever they couldn’t � nd the back of the net until six minute left in the game when Taylor Beck made a terri� c forecheck turned into a goal while shorthanded. Madison Fjellstrom added an empty netter late in the game.

Kelsey Roberts, of Kitimat, turned in a solid goaltending ef-fort in getting the shutout. Tay-lor was the obvious choice by the players as team game star.

On January 11 the Cougars played the Kootenay Wildcats. Once again the Cougars car-ried most of the play early but couldn’t score, however Koo-tenay capitalized on Cougar miscues and a power play and built up a 3-0 lead into the third period.

The Cougars dug deep and responded with 13 minutes left in the game with a 4 goal bar-rage with the winner coming with 2 minutes left. Tessa Hare and Madison Fjellstrom each scored two goals in the team’s monumental comeback, with Tessa getting the team star. Av-ery Quiring and Kelsey Roberts shared the solid goaltending du-ties.

Saturday evening the Cou-gars took on the improving Thompson/Okanagan Rockets. This game had all the makings of a nailbiter however the Cou-

gars opened the scoring in the 1st period and kept them com-ing, ending in a 4-0 victory.

Roberts put in a superb goaltending effort for her sec-ond shutout of the weekend. Goal scorers were Hunter Mosher, Lauren Smaha-Muir, Tessa Hare and Ava Keis with Lauren getting the team game star award.

The last game was played against the forminable Fraser Valley Phantom on January 12. The Phantom recently won the Notre Dame Tournament in Sas-katchewan and lost the Mac’s tournament in sudden death in the � nal game.

The Phantom jumped out to an early lead in the � rst period and added another later in the period. The Cougars halfway through the third period with Ava Keis getting a power play goal. However the Phantom re-sponded and came away with a 3-1 win.

Avery Quiring put in a solid effort facing the hard shooting, talented Phantom team.

Kelsey Roberts of Kitimat in goal. Roberts is credited with some sharp goaltending in Burnaby.

Kitimat goalie saves big

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$3K for tournamentCameron Orr

Kitimat Council has approved a $3,000 sponsorship grant for the Kitamaat Open Basketball Tourna-ment.

Now it its 10th year, the tour-nament brings out basketball teams from the Kitamaat Village, Kitimat and the surrounding region.

The event began in 2005, and this year will be held from April 4 to 6, hosted at the Mount Elizabeth Secondary School gymnasium and

at the Kitamaat Village Recreation Centre.

The $3,000 offered up for the event from council is above their established policy but they agreed it was a worthwhile event.

In other sports grants, council approved a $350 travel grant for the MEMSS female curling team to travel to Parksville for the high school curling championship. That event takes place this week, until March 8.

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