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Community garden grows with gazebo.

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Town celebrates Queen’s long reign.

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Fish DerbyAutumn Pow and Leah McConnell play with hula-hoops at Heritage Park during the Kitimat Fish Derby on September 6. The popular community event brought in all the usual staples of games, music and food. For results of the derby turn to page 12. Cameron Orr

Unifor announced on Friday that they have been successful in their � ling of a judicial review of their appeal of Rio Tinto Alcan’s emissions per-mit which allowed the company to proceed with-out installing sulphur dioxide (SO

2) scrubbers.

SO2 at the modernized smelter is permitted to

rise, from 27 tonnes a day to 42.“The union has been given standing to allow

the board to consider a mitigation plan around possible ill effects of sulphur dioxide on human health,” explained Unifor 2300 President Sean O’Driscoll. “As an organization, we care about our members but we also care about the commu-nity at large. Anything to impact human health we’re going to be front and centre in ensuring the most appropriate mitigation strategies are put in place.”

He said there will likely be hearings in the new year on this matter. He said the door is also not closed to potentially formally joining the ap-peal put forward by Emily Toews and Lis Stannus on the permit.

O’Driscoll said the path forward is primarily up to Unifor’s legal team. He said the union fully supports modernization “but not at all costs.”

Toews and Stannus recently concluded their own hearing process on their appeal of RTA’s ap-proved environmental permit and await a deci-sion.

Rio Tinto Alcan has consistently stood by their decision not to install scrubbers, saying envi-ronmental reports the company has commissioned show the impacts from the SO

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cantly impact the health of people in the Kitimat area. The Sentinel did not receive comment from RTA in time for our print deadline.

Within the arguments of this ruling is while there are environmental thresholds quanti� ed for environmental health affects there is no thresholds relating to human health.

Unifor wins chance to appeal RTA emissions

Vista Village back at councilCameron Orr

Vista Village Trailer Park continues to be a subject that comes to the municipal council, this time on concerns regard-ing oil leakage on site.

Housing Resource Worker Paul Lagace and Vista Village resident Marie Turner presented their recent concerns at the September 8 council meeting

Of note, Turner and Lagace pointed to a letter provided to residents recently from Watermark Solutions, which referred to leak detection and repairs recently done at the park, but found concern that some vehicles were parked over water main lines, and that one vehicle in particular was found to be leaking oil, which had the potential to impact drinking water at the site.

The greater concern Lagace spoke to was that if such is-sues were enforced by the Residential Tenancy Board it could lead to evictions.

Beyond that though are photographs presented at the council meeting which he says show discarded old oil tanks sitting on property on the site owned by the owner herself.

Lagace’s request to council was that the council contact the ministry of environment to look at the oil leak situation at the park, saying it’s not an issue limited to just the tenants.

Lagace also took the opportunity to make reference to a trailer park in Port Edward which it was recently announced

would be closing, putting its residents on a 12-month notice they’ll have to � nd a new place to live.

As reported in The Northern View newspaper, The 12-month notices, form 31 of the Residential Tenancy Branch, were delivered on Aug. 22 by owners Stonecliff Properties following a prolonged dispute between the company and the Port Edward Manufactured Home Association.

According to Stonecliff Properties, the evic-tions are the only option left as it looks to undertakenecessary repairs.

“The infrastructure has deteriorated to the point that it needs to be replaced ... they won’t let us do any repairs. We need to get between every trailer and under every trailer and all we have asked is that they move boats and cars and they have refused,” said a spokesperson.

The situation in Port Edward is in a sense a signal of a possible future in Kitimat, said Lagace.

“There should be great concern, potentially this could happen to Vista Village too,” said Lagace.

Kitimat Council gave direction to its staff to prepare a report on posible directions council could take to address the issues at Vista Village brought up at the meeting.

The Sentinel sent a request for comment to Vista Village however a response was not received in time for our print deadline but a response will be printed once received.

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given a complaint from a person who felt threatened by the actions of another per-son. The complainant alleged that the sus-pect made reference to a serious assault that had recently occurred

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Two arrested in drug bustCameron Orr

Prince Rupert RCMP say two Kitimat people were arrested in relation to drug traf� cking.

Jeremiah Dylan, 34, and Cait-lyn Ashley Nelson, 26, have bee charged in connection to a drug bust where police say large quan-tities of pills and cash seized.

The Prince Rupert RCMP say they acted after receiving a re-quest to assist the Kitimat RCMP in relation to an alleged assault that occurred in Kitimat.

In all police say 1,200 tablets con-taining heroin and fentanyl were seized, as well as $12,000 in cash.

The two are charged with two counts of possession for the purpose of traf� cking and will appear in court later this month.

“Illicit drugs have a profound effect on all communities, including the North Coast and are not just a big city prob-lem,” said Sgt. Jagdev Uppal, spokes-person for the Prince Rupert RCMP. “There has been one death earlier this year in Prince Rupert believed to be re-lated to a fentanyl overdose as well as multiple non-fatal overdoses.”

In Kitimat there have been at least two incidences of overdoses which are believed to be connected with the use of fentanyl, however there have been no deaths reported in the community.

Fentanyl is a powerful drug be-lieved to be 100 times more potent than morphine.

The situation is serious enough that the Ministry of Health has host-ed information conference calls with media to spread the word about its

dangers.Among statistics gathered relating

to fentanyl was the one which shows a large percentage of people who have tested positive for traces of it in their bodies had not reported taking any, in-dicating people aren’t aware that they have consumed it.

Prince Rupert RCMP photos of the tablets seized in last week’s drug bust.

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Premier Christy Clark and cabinet min-isters met with hun-dreds of aboriginal leaders from around B.C. in their second an-nual session, with so-cial issues and energy projects high on the agenda.

Aboriginal Rela-tions Minister John Rustad opened the two-day event with an an-nouncement that Grand Chief Ed John of the First Nations Summit has been appointed a senior advisor on ab-original child welfare. A lawyer and former children and families minister, Rustad has a six-month appointment to look at reasons why one out of seven aborig-inal children in B.C. are taken into government care at some point in their childhood.

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Garden continues to growBetty Leppard (left) cuts the ribbon, along with Kitimat Community Services’ Willow Rudiger, at the grand opening celebration of the community garden’s new gazebo. Kitimat Community Services Society were also taking applications from people who want beds for next year at the event which also served a selection of fresh vegetables grown in the area behind the Mountainview Alliance Church.

Douglas Channel Watch stands with Unis’tot’enCameron Orr

In a release to me-dia last week, Doug-las Channel Watch say they support the Unis’tot’en First Na-tion’s right to not allow Northern Gateway or natural gas companies from accessing their lands.

“The June 2014 Supreme Court of Canada decision, Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia, found that First Na-tions which have never signed a treaty have never relinquished tra-ditional governance of their land or its re-sources, and therefore, has never adopted those of the Crown,” said Watch’s media release. “Before Bill C-51 the rules of en-gagement between pipeline companies, First Nation protectors, sympathetic civilians, and the RCMP were clear because court orders or injunctions were required before arrests began.

“After Bill C-51 the rules are vague at best, and untested. People can now be

deemed terrorists be-cause they may be interfering with the ‘economic or � nancial stability of Canada’, because they may be ‘interfering with criti-cal infrastructure’, or that they might in the future.”

The new desig-nations under C-51, warn Douglas Channel Watch, would result in peaceful Unis’tot’en people and citizens to be detained without a

warrant “and be held for up to a week with-out any charges being laid.”

Watch contin-ues that, “DCW asks that Coastal GasLink Pipelines remove their complaint with the RCMP, coming as it does during a federal election and when winter snow will soon make any survey work nearly impossible until spring.”

They further ask

Indian Act Chief Councillors, hereditary chiefs and provincial and federal govern-ments “to resolve out-standing land claims and treaties.”

“ G ove r n m e n t s , First Nations, com-panies wishing to do business, and Canadi-ans as a whole would bene� t from a clear understanding and re-spect for each other’s de� ned rights and re-sponsibilities.”

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An educational blitz could be on the horizon for Kitimat drivers un-aware of local speed limits.

Kitimat resident and member of Kitimat’s Emergency Services team Cameron Kelso had come to council to originally talk about lowering the speed limits in Kitimat.

Before he showed up to the meeting last Monday he learned that, in fact, the town does have varying speed limits.

Not that they aren’t poorly marked though, and Kelso is still hopeful the town can play a role in promoting safer driving in the com-munity.

In the Kitimat Municipal Code, speed limits are determined based on the road type. Boulevards, such as Haisla, are set to 60 km/h.

An avenue, like King� sher, is 50 km/h. A street, basically any of the horseshoes, are capped at 30 km/h.

You’re also only supposed to go 15 km/h in a parking lot.

There are some exceptions within the Code. For instance Kul-

do Boulevard is capped at 50 km/h rather than 60.

Even though Kelso was pleased to see speed limits re� ected the neighbourhoods they exist in, he believes work needs to be done to make streets safer for children and families.

“The last thing I want is for a little kid to get tagged in front of my house,” he said. His home is at a corner of a through-fare of many children going to school in the day means he sees the hazards of speed-ing drivers daily.

He said he’s seen a number of near misses and would hate to see the statistics of how many occur in town, were such statistics tracked?

Councillors directed to have this matter referred to the community traf� c committee for discussion and future recommendations to council.

Council hears concerns regarding town speed limits

“The last thing I want is for a little kid to get tagged in

front of my house.”


“When you go to Europe, they treat you well, they give you a house, they pay you money, they take care of your health,” said Ali Hattam Jassim, 37, whose brother recently arrived in Belgium. “We have so many friends there, and they tell us how great the life is.”

That’s a direct quote from New York Times coverage of the ongoing Middle East refugee crisis in an ar-ticle last week about a new surge of migrants, this time from Iraq, which to date has not had nearly as many refugees on the run, as war-torn Syria enmeshed with its own civil war and a brutal assault by ISIS. Hundreds of thousands are dead and at least four million people are displaced.

For Canadians it has become the unanticipated election crisis that al-most inadvertently waylaid the long campaign, chosen by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who felt it would be advantageous to his ruling Conserva-tive government.

Right about now, I suspect, given another opportunity to drop the writ later, Harper would chose a more tra-ditional 40-day timeline.

Harper has laboured very hard to stay on his preferred message about

proven leadership and the economy but as usual there’s always the unex-pected in an election.

Harper must now try to gauge ac-curately the majority will of the Cana-dian people on his refugee policy and � nd a way to make his mixed message of doing more for migrants/refugees while protecting Canadians from dan-gerous terrorist exposure.

While I tend to agree with the Canadian answer provided by Harper on taking more Syrian refugees into Canada, he does � nd himself at odds with an awful lot of people favouring faster action, including all opposition leaders and many major media names, as well as a war hero general who begs him to take in 50,000 refugees immediately.

For myself, I am more than sat-is� ed with a “go-slow” approach to fully identifying refugees because

I spend a lot of time reading over-seas media which claim in numer-ous stories that ISIS is boasting that there are thousands of their kill-ers masquerading as refugees be-ing admitted into countries likeFrance, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium.

To me this is not the time to be rushed into a rash decision.

At the time of writing Harper’s view is still this: “We’re going to make sure we identify the most vul-nerable people from the most vulner-able groups.

We’re also going to make sure, when we’re talking about a signi� cant number of people who come from a terrorist war zone that all screening is done to make sure we protect the se-curity of Canada and Canadians.”

However, one of the things that is happening is the number of additional countries joining the alliance to keep air strike pressure on ISIS.

Also, the British government has reiterated it will not hesi-tate to carry out more drone at-tacks against militants suspected ofplotting assaults against the U.K. and its allies.

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Refugee issue tough to tackle

Driving us crazyYou know, I didn’t realize speed limits in town

were as low as they are.I share the council’s appreciation for Cameron

Kelso (Hey fellow Cam!) bringing attention to the fact that if you’re going 50 km/h on a street in town you’re going too fast.

I don’t say this with any sense of innocence though. I’ve certainly been a little extra keen on the gas pedal in the past.

Yet this reminds me that our streets are physi-cally designed to limit our speeds.

There is, I’m sure, many levels of reasoning to why our streets are curved like horseshoes and I’m sure on that list is safety. It’s hard to justify going too fast when you can’t see what’s around the corner.

For a town that’s always been focused on being family friendly it’s good to have streets where it’s more challenging for someone to go too fast when there may be children playing nearby.

With a three-year-old at home the idea of safety has been a growing area of concern for me for, oh, about the last three years.

But sadly it seems there are people in the com-munity intent on shaving a good 30 or 40 seconds off their cross-town commute by gunning in through streets.

I say seconds because for the most part getting from Point A to Point B anywhere in Kitimat realis-tically only takes, maybe, seven minutes. Assuming you’re not held up by construction site traf� c control.

Truly no one is as good of a driver as they think they are and it just takes one kid rushing to grab a ball to cause a tragedy.

If residents are to the point of asking the town council to get involved, then there’s really a serious issue here.

But Kelso is right, an effective educational cam-paign is perhaps the right start. We can’t put up a billion speed limit signs in town. We can just educate our drivers, and ensure that ICBC is testing new driv-ers at the right speed limits too.

As for how to reach the community’s drivers in an educational blitz, that is certainly a good question. Print and radio ads are perhaps a way to go, I’m just saying.

Colour-coded speed zone maps may also be handy, put up in parking lots or walkway paths.

And hey, if we can solve the speeding problem in town, maybe we can move on to people not using their blinkers, headlights, or overly-loud vehicles de-ciding that limiting decibel output is really for other people.

Clearly I have some road issues to sort out, but in the meantime lets take the opportunity to collec-tively take a breath if we think we’re driving a bit too fast.

It’s Kitimat, there’s no rush.Cameron Orr

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Dear Sir,Over 40 Conservative campaign signs have

been removed from the highways leading to Ter-race from Prince Rupert and Kitimat, over the last week. Signs have been removed from private property as well. It is an illegal act to remove a political sign during an election, subject to a heavy � ne and/or incarceration.

The question is, “Why would a supporter of an opposing Party participate in such an undemo-cratic event or action? Are they insecure, cow-ardly, or just mischievous? Why are the Conser-vative signs, only, targeted? Why are people not allowed to publically express their interests and

concerns in such an important event, which will have signi� cant impact on the future of our coun-try, region, riding, and each of us as individuals?”

I appeal to community members to report re-moval or vandalism of signs that have been placed on the designated municipal, highway, and private properties. The perpetrators must be held ac-countable for their illegal actions. Otherwise we have allowed an undemocratic element to inter-fere with our right to respectively and peacefully participate in our free and open political process.

Sincerely,Al Goodwin

Kitimat Resident

Dear Sir,(Open letter to Kitimat Gen-

eral Hospital’s Health Services Administrator Jonathan Cooper)

I am writing to you in regards to the deterioration of the quality of food served at the hospital and long term facilities in Kitimat.

Having been a resident here for 45 years I have had many op-portunities with myself (last week being a patient for a knee replace-ment) and family members to ex-perience and eat the food. A par-ent stayed in your facility for over a year and I also delivered Meals on Wheels for 7 years. My profes-sion for 33 years was teaching, in that time I had training and had taught in the Home Economics � eld so I have good knowledge about the goals of the Canada Food rules and the importance of good nutrition to improve and maintain one’s health.

It is easy to be complacent about a negative situation when the end is in sight but there are many residents of these facilities in for a very long period of time. On their behalf, I am compelled to urge you to look at this dire situ-ation and do something about it. I was on a committee with Mr. Er-nie Archer years ago (2011) when we petitioned the management to address these similar concerns and sadly, things are much worse.

Breakfast menus are accept-able but it is the presentation and very poor cooking process for lunch and dinner that account for incredible waste.

It would be interesting to weigh how much food is left on plates and hence discarded in the garbage. I realize that the budget-ing restraints over the years have closed and reduced services pro-vided by the “in hospital” kitchen

facilities. All the main entrees have been prepared, cooked else-where and then shipped frozen to hospitals in the region. Reheating for some of these items is accept-able but the greatest disgrace and totally unacceptable presentation is in regards to vegetables.

Some like spinach, zucchini and yams become “slop” that need to be eaten with a spoon. It does not take a rocket scientist much effort to prepare raw or fro-zen vegetables for serving.

Over a six day period, 3 small celery sticks and ½ a slice of to-mato were the only fresh raw veg-etables served to me. Fruit was even worse: half an apple sliced and half a banana. But juice and rich sickly sweet squares were never lacking. Processed juice provides little nutritional value nor do sugary dessert “squares”.

Because I wasn’t a diabetic

I was never offered any refresh-ments from the food cart in the evening. Interestingly, all patients having a surgery like mine are put on heavy antibiotics so I was surprised when several nurses en-couraged me to make sure I had probiotics in my diet. I asked if there was any yogurt available. They said it was only served from the cart to diabetic patients. Yes, I had an outside source but what about the others who are in there without family support?

It is easy to criticize but I would be willing to dialogue and meet with you and the food ser-vices team to brainstorm for some simple solutions. (The menu se-lection the patient makes at the beginning of the stay is meaning-ful but after surgery one doesn’t always have the same appetite.)A simple start would be for the serv-ers to have more interaction with

the patient; ask them what piece of fruit, raw vegetables, dessert, milk or juice they might “fancy” for that day. Do they want soup, dessert or a bun with the meal? Food is contaminated once it is in the room so why not allow pa-tients to make these daily choices. Provide a tub on the server’s trol-ley holding these items so that only the choice selected is pro-vided.

This will reduce the incred-ible waste. This interaction with a patient promotes a healthy and a much more personal stay in the hospital that is a very positive move in promoting healing.

Very sincerely a concerned and pro active citizen,

Susan JayPS. I encourage you to eat the

meals served to the patient for a period of time and come to your own conclusions!

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Taking a poke at the elephant in the room

Back in April of last year I wrote about the elephant in the LNG room - Japan restarting its nuclear power plants.

On August 11 the elephant stirred.

To quickly recap, as 2011 dawned Ja-pan had 54 operational nuclear power stations which produced just shy of 30 per cent of the nation’s electricity needs.

In March of that year a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and result-ing tsunami caused a catastrophic meltdown at the three Fukushima reactors.

Alarmed by the disaster, the Japanese government ordered every nuke plant shut down and one by one over the next two years they did just that.

The huge hole in electricity supply was � lled by increased im-ports of oil, coal and especially LNG which by 2013 accounted for slightly more than 43 per cent of Japan’s en-ergy mix.

Over that same two years the price of oil rose steadily and, since LNG prices were tied to oil, so did the cost of imported LNG, at

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its height hitting $20 a million British Ther-mal Units (mbtu).

That drove a bus through Japan’s bal-ance of trade resulting in four straight years of unheard of trade de� cits that hit a record US$103 billion by last year,

In the same time frame electricity rates for residential users rose 19 per cent while industry/commercial got hit with a 29 per cent hike, the latter prompting one promi-nent Japanese industri-alist to suggest compa-nies looking to invest in new manufacturing facilities could decide to do so in countries where the energy costs were signi� cantly low-er.

Not surprisingly the Japanese govern-ment, led by prime minister Shinzo Abe, decided that the solu-tion was to signi� cant-ly reduce the country’s reliance on imports which in turn meant re-

starting its nukes.At the same time,

and mindful of opinion polls that showed 60 per cent of Japanese were opposed to any such move, it knew that could only happen if a regulatory regime was put in place that allayed people’s fears.

The vehicle to do that was a newly cre-ated Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority armed with stringent new rules regarding plant safety and the teeth to enforce them.

Which takes us to August 11 this year, the day on which the Kyushu power com-pany, having jumped through all the hoops and cleared all the hurdles, restarted its Sendai 1 reactor on the island of Kyushu.

Now granted this is only one reactor but the question of what effect this will have on Japanese LNG con-sumption is still rel-evant.

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That’s because Kyushu’s power plant � eet, like most other utilities in Japan, in-cludes oil-� red and coal-� red plants and it was � ve of the former that were taken off line when Sendai 1 pow-ered up.

And it is safe to assume that the same fate awaits the remain-ing two when Sendai 2 goes operational next month.

(It should be noted they are not be-ing mothballed be-cause they might still be needed at times of peak demand.)

So if oil-� red is shuttered � rst, surely coal-� red is the next to go. Not necessarily. The problem is that while oil was an obvi-ous target given it was the most expensive feedstock for power production, as cheap as LNG is these days coal is cheaper still.

In fact so compel-ling were the econom-ics that this Spring Japanese utilities were talking about building dozens of new coal-� red plants.

However, that was was before nuclear had taken the � rst small step in rising pheonix-like from the � gurative ashes of Fukushima.

What happens to those plans from here on depends on just how high that nuclear pheonix � ies.

Which takes us to just how many nukes are likely to come on line and in what time frame.

But that will have to wait for next time.

Poking the elephant

EAO says Kitimat LNG “substantially started”It’s not a Final Invest-

ment Decision but it is good news for the Chevron/Wood-side partnership that is Kiti-mat LNG.

The facility, proposed to be built at Bish Cove, al-ready has its environmental

certi� cate in hand, which was given an extension in 2011.

In a letter from the BC Environmental Assessment of� ce this month, the proj-ect is said to be considered “substantially started.”

What that distinction boils down to is that the of-� ce believes that enough work has commenced on the project so far that the envi-ronmental certi� cate will now never expire for the project.

The project as it ex-ists in Kitimat did slow down signi� cantly earlier this year, after Chevron re-opened Bish Forest Service Road. Early site work had taken place where the facil-ity would be built, but the

company said it is focusing on the upstream assets and engineering is still ongoing before the company makes an investment decision.

Chevron added Wood-side as its partner after Apache sold its stake.


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tain School District is switching to a new stu-dent information data-base that is more intui-tive and user-friendly.

The move is in line with a 2013 decision by the provincial edu-cation ministry to get rid of a former system called British Colum-bia Enterprise Student Information System (BCeSIS).

The ministry then signed a contract with Fujitsu Consulting to develop a new pro-gram, which was ready in 2014 and is known as MyEducationBC.

The Coast Moun-tains School District started training teach-ers on the new system in June.

Not publicly ac-cessible, the database program logs all the student information from demographics and contact informa-tion to achievements, special education, and medical and custody alerts.

The old BCeSIS program was not very functional or user-friendly, said Janet Meyer, Director of Instruction, School Support at the Coast

Mountains School Dis-trict.

“I don’t think it lived up to its poten-tial or our expectation of it… I am already farther along in My-EduBC then I ever was in BCeSIS simply be-cause of its intuitive-ness and its ease of use,” she said.

“It is so much easi-er to use.”

The school dis-trict conducted a brief refresher course for teachers on the � rst day of school yester-day, and will hold open houses throughout the fall for anyone with questions.

Meyer says an im-plementation team is in place offering a lot of support for teach-ers or staff as they get familiar with the new program.

In October, before the � rst report cards of the new school year are prepared, teachers will have one more train-ing session about data entry.

MyEducationBC also has capabilities for parents and students to access certain informa-tion, but that will not be implemented this year.

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Adding re� ning capacity to increase fuel supplies might bring down the price of gas, say Skeena – Bulkley Valley fed-eral election candidates, but where or if a re� nery might be built remains an open question.

The issue arose with NDP candidate Nathan Cullen promising that an NDP government would aggressively pursue lower pump prices and � ning gas compa-nies found to be overcharging.

But he also said high prices are often blamed on the global market conditions, wondering why that's so because Canada has the third largest supply of oil in the world yet imports the product.

“One of the clear solutions to shield-ing ourselves from that overseas volatility is to be re� ning more of that resource, and creating more jobs, right here in Canada," said Cullen in a statement.

But speaking later Cullen would not broaden that statement out to supporting either one of two proposals for a re� nery on the north coast.

“I think � rst you need a real [environ-mental] assessment process and I would argue that doesn't exist,” said Cullen.

“You would need to address [aborigi-nal] rights and title and get local commu-

nities onside and public support.”Cullen said the NDP have consistently

opposed moves by the federal Conserva-tive government to weaken the way en-vironmental reviews are conducted and federal agencies charged with overseeing industrial activity.

In any event, Cullen continued, nei-ther the Kitimat Clean project proposed for Kitimat nor the Paci� c Future Energy project proposed for near Prince Rupert are anywhere close to beginning an envi-ronmental review.

Both would also require a pipeline to carry crude from Alberta to the coast, a concept Cullen vigorously opposes when it comes to the Northern Gateway propos-al sought by Enbridge.

That involves pumping Alberta crude to a planned export terminal at Kitimat to Asian re� neries.

Liberal candidate Brad Layton said he'd support construction in one or the other of the two locations “if it could be done in a responsible, safe and environ-mentally sound way.”

“I would most de� nitely like to see us re� ne more of our raw resources here in Canada including crude oil. This would boost jobs and contribute to a healthy

economy,” he said.But, Layton added, he hasn't seen any

environmental assessments connected to the projects nor any details.

The Liberal candidate did “caution people that with the way our current gas prices are determined I suspect this will not impact our prices in any signi� cant way” he said of an increased supply of fuel.

The Christian Heritage Party's Don Spratt also supported the construction of a new re� nery while emphasizing the need for environmental safeguards.

“We should wean ourselves off for-eign oil, have a domestic free market pricing system, like other oil producing countries. That should lower prices at the pump, while we sell our surplus oil and gas at world market prices,” said Spratt.

He was more leery of the NDP's abil-ity to manage prices.

“Even if they could somehow force lower prices at the pump, they would eventually raise the price up in higher gas taxes,” said Spratt of an NDP government.

Cullen's position on gas pric-ing included a promise that a NDP government would create a gasombudsman position.

Information provided by his campaign indicated the position's job description and responsibilities would be similar, but not exactly the same, as to those called for in a private member's bill introduced in 2012 by a now-former NDP MP.

In that bill, the ombudsman would take in complaints about the business practices of oil and gas suppliers and, if warranted, investigate those complaints.

If the complaint is, to use the bill's wording, “well-founded,” the ombudsman would send recommendations for action to the oil or gas suppliers.

And if the ombudsman is not satis� ed with the response by the supplier, a report is then sent to the federal industry minis-ter.

The private member's bill was, how-ever, silent as to what the minister could or would then do.

Cullen also said a NDP government would follow through on Conservative legislation which called for � nes to those whose gas pumps aren't calibrated and so pump out less than what is indicated on the meter.

The legislation came into force in 2014 but no � nes have yet been issued.

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Labour Day PicnicFamilies not shy on rain water came out to Unifor 2300’s annual Labour Day Picnic and took the weather in good spirit as they enjoyed activities and a free barbecue to celebrate the day. Cameron Orr

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The good work done by Kitimat Search and Rescue has to be paid for somehow.

The group’s major annual fundraiser is com-ing back in October, two-shows of a collection of high intensity � lms.

The � rst show is the Radical Reels Tour, a collection of “the most outrageous � lms from the Banff Mountain Film Festival and beyond.”

The event is taking place at Mount Elizabeth Theatre October 3 at 7 p.m.

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The report on the website UFO Stalker does not include the submitter’s name.

As per the report posted on the site, “Two of my friends were comming [sic] out of the Subway restaurant located at the mall in Kitimat BC at 22h00 on Sept 1st 2015. Once they reached their car 300ft away, they looked back

and saw 3 spheres hov-ering over the mall.”

The report contin-ues that one was big and yellow, “not a per-fect sphere” and two were smaller white spheres.

“The bigger one stayed still all along with the two smaller ones were moving fast, disappearing and re-apparing somewhere else.”

The person said his friend � lmed the scene for over a minute before getting inside of the car, “too frightened to continue.”

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got 37sec of which only 5sec is viewable. It’s possible to see on slow motion one small sphere making a loop under a street light,” the submitter’s report concluded.

The Kitimat RCMP say there were no reports on Septem-ber 1 involving unex-plained objects in the sky.

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know that there is an armed attack that is likely,” Mr. Fallon told the BBC. “If we know who is in-volved in it, then we have to do something about it.”

He said there were a number of terrorists in Syria “who are actively involved in planning attacks on our streets, who have been planning attacks on the streets of Australia, and on the streets of the United States.”

It was a Canadian youth in his black ISIS gear, we saw burning his Canadian passport on TV and warning Canadians “we are coming to get you.”


Long live the QueenCelebrating her record-breaking 63-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II was honoured with a small ceremony at Kitimat’s Centennial Park on September 9.

The Christ the King Parish in Kitimat is putting a new spin on an annual event.

This year the parish is hosting a Community Fall Fayre — yes Fayre — which will bring together food and activites for all ages on September 19.

Fayre, if you’re wondering, is an old-fashioned spelling of the more familiar ‘fair’.

The event will include a Kids Corner for activities, which will also see the appearance of Flopsy the bunny who will star in his own gameshow.

Any further details will have to wait for Flopsy’s showtime that day.

Other events will include sing-ers and performers, and a car wash by donation.

There will also be merchants at tables and even in the parking lot, where there willbe Kitimat’s � rst

car-boot sale.Money raised at the event

through donations and ven-dor fees will be donated to Syr-ian refugee relief through theCanadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace.

There will be bottle and can collections at the event too.

A “White Elephant Table” will be set up where donated items will be sold too.

You can donate items for that table at the church base-ment on September 11 and 18from 3 to 4:30 p.m. and again from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

You can also drop off items on September 12 from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

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The First Nations Framework for Land Management allows First Nations to opt out of land related sections of the Indian Act thereby enabling us to manage our reserve lands under an overarching Haisla Land Code. The Haisla Land Code was ratified by the community last year. We are looking for someone who is qualified or is likely to qualify by April 1, 2016, for a position of Lands Manager, to contact us at [email protected].

DUTIES:Work with Haisla Land Advisory Committee to draft Haisla Land LawsObtain and organize information required to make decisions about the use, development and administration of landReview and evaluate land applications and development proposals by taking into account basic land administration and planning concepts as well as land administration by-laws, community plans and zoning by-lawsMaintain and use records and information systems to manage community landPrepare sketches, drawings, maps and site plans and interpret legal survey plans, maps and air photosPrepare and approve land leases, land agreements, land use permits and land development permitsAdminister, monitor, and enforce land contracts through field inspections and surveys, and through compliance requests, public awareness and negotiationsMaintain and use records and information systems such as GIS to manage community landTo follow the HNC personnel policy and manualOther related duties as required

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DISTRICT OF KITIMATINVITATION TO TENDER

CABLE CARWATER RESERVOIR REPAIRS 2015

Tenders, sealed in separate envelopes marked “Tender for Cable Car Water Reservoir Repairs 2015” will be received at the District of Kitimat office, located at 270 City Centre, Kitimat, BC V8C 2H7, no later than 2:30 pm local time on Tuesday, September 22, 2015 and will be opened in public at that time.

The work under this contract includes, but is not limited to, the following:- Remove and dispose of degraded

concrete wall areas;- Supply and place rebar reinforcing;- Supply and place water stops;- Pour approximately 8 m3 of internal and

external concrete bracing wall;- Backfill reservoir footing in native material

and compact.

Tender documents may be obtained from the District of Kitimat. Inquiries should be directed to Noel Simpkins, Engineering Technologist at the District of Kitimat, Engineering Department at 270 City Centre, Kitimat, BC V8C 2H7, telephone 250-632-8900.

Tenders must be accompanied by a Certified Cheque or Bid Bond in the amount of 10% of the tendered price as bid security. The District of Kitimat reserves the right to reject all tenders or to award the Contract to other than the lowest tender received if it perceives that to be in its best interests.

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September 14UNIFOR RETIRED WORK-ERS Chapter Social at 1:00 p.m. at the Unifor Union Hall 235 Enterprise Ave. Kitimat. All Unifor Retired Workers in Northern B.C. are welcome to attend. Contact Raymond Raj at [email protected] or 250-632-4006 for more informa-tion.September 21CHRIST THE KING PAR-ISH Bereavement Ministry Committee will be sponsoring “Connecting Each Other With Hope”, a six-week grief sup-port group for adults. Sessions run 7 to 9 p.m. Open to all, re-gardless of religious af� liation. To register or � nd out more call Lidia at 250-632-6292 or Su-sana at 250-632-2215.OngoingPRAYER CANADA. We meet each week on Tuesdays 12 noon to 1 p.m. For location and further information please call 250-632-4554. Or e-mail [email protected] you or someone you know have bladder cancer? You’re not alone. It’s the 5th most com-mon cancer in Canada. Bladder Cancer Canada is here to help... or just to talk. In Kitimat, call Glen Sevigny at 250-632-3486. Or [email protected] TOASTMAS-TERS meet the � rst and third Thursdays of the month in

the Kitimat General Hospital multi-purpose room. Meetings start at 7 p.m. The new season will begin September 10.HOSPICE: Do you have a cou-ple of hours a month to make phone calls, plant � owers, share memories, play cards, etc.? Hospice can provide you with excellent training. Call us now at 250-632-2278.KITIMAT LADIES AUXIL-IARY, Branch 250 hold regular meetings every second Thurs-day of the month. More in-formation by calling Nancy at 250-632-4051, or Lyn at 250-632-2351.FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY To join, contact Luce Gauthier at [email protected] or Virginia Charron @ [email protected] or call 250-632-8985.KITIMAT QUILTERS GUILD: If you are interested in join-ing the Kitimat Quilters Guild please contact Aileen Ponter at 250-632-6225 or Janet Malnis at 250-632-7387 for further in-formation.THE KITIMAT POTTERY GUILD meets in the River-lodge arts wing every Thurs-day, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Interested in playing with clay? All experience levels welcome. For more information call Anne at 250-632-3318.THE KITIMAT PUBLIC LI-BRARY offers the highly en-

gaging Mother Goose Story-Time for pre-schoolers Monday mornings from 10:30 -11:15 .am. Please register for this free program.HEALTHY BABIES drop in is held every Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Kitimat Child Development Center. They welcome fami-lies throughout pregnancy and up to one year (older siblings welcome). Come meet other parents and infants over light refreshments with support from the CDC staff and a Public Health Nurse. For more infor-mation call 250-632-3144.CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTRE FunSpot drop-in for children aged birth to 5 years with caregivers. Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays 10 am- 12 pm. Fridays are now a combined drop-in/multicultural playgroup. All are welcome to attend. Contact 250-632-3144 for more information.KITIMAT FIBRE ARTS GUILD: Interested in knitting, spinning, weaving, or any other � bre? For more information phone Maureen 250-632-5444.KITIMAT MULTIPLE SCLE-ROSIS - I have M.S. but M.S. does not have me. You are not alone, male or female, and the Kitimat M.S. group would like to be here for you. To-tal con� dentiality. For more information contact Mary at 250-639-6016.

Works of GuldinOn now at the Kitimat Museum & Archives art gallery is a collection of works by Andrea Guldin. The collection of paintings show opened on September 10. Guldin was sure to bring her daughter Elowen to the opening too.


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Top to bottom, Daryle Bolton, Linda Patterson, and Hayden Calkins. Photos taken by the Kitimat Chamber of Commerce.

Despite downpour, derby delights

KITIMAT VALLEY INSTITUTE

KVI supports and appreciates the dedication of our 2015 summer students.

Grayden Gosselin & Janay Hansen Janay worked within our administration department and handled all general inquiries while assisting our Human Resource and Marketing departments. Grayden was an excellent add on to our maintenance group and really excelled at tackling any painting or maintenance task. KVI wishes a successful and fulfilling new 2015-2016 school year for all families and students in Kitimat and Kitamaat Village.

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KVI supports and appreciates the dedication of our 2015 summer students.

Grayden Gosselin & Janay Hansen Janay worked within our administration department and handled all general inquiries while assisting our Human Resource and Marketing departments. Grayden was an excellent add on to our maintenance group and really excelled at tackling any painting or maintenance task. KVI wishes a successful and fulfilling new 2015-2016 school year for all families and students in Kitimat and Kitamaat Village.

1352 Alexander Avenue * Toll Free: 1-855-431-0012 * Phone: (25O) 639-9199

“Where Education, Industry and Culture Come Together”

KVI supports and appreciates the dedication of our2015 Summer Students.

Grayden Gosselin and Janay HansenJanay worked within our administration department and handled all general inquiries while assisting our Human Resource and Marketing departments.Grayden was an excellent add-on to our maintenance group and really excelled at tackling any painting or maintenance task.KVI wishes a successful and ful� lling new 2015-2016 school year for all families and students in Kitimat and Kitamaat Village.

The annual Fish-ing Derby continued its tradition of being an activity-packed day at the Visitor Informa-tion Centre at Heritage Park.

With an assortment of activities, DJ music and barbecue there was no shortage of things for the family to do, as anglers poured in to weigh their big catch.

This was the Der-by’s 28th year.

Hayden Calkins’s 12lbs 5 3/4oz coho earned him the largest � sh in the Youth cat-egory.

Linda Patterson stood tall in the Wom-en’s category with her 12lbs, 11 3/4 oz catch.

Daryle Bolton topped the Men’s with his 12lbs, 10 5/8oz coho.

The list of recipi-ents for youth grand prizes were Myles Pe-dro, Keaton Demelo, Brody Velho, Alexa Rigoni and Trevor Crosby.

Adult grand prizes were awarded to Kevin Barry, Cheryl Gilbert, Duane Hanson, Wen-dy Kraft and Michael Luis.

Lucky winners of shuttle bus rider prizes were Justin Lowes, Cliff Forster, Deanne McConnel, and Mike Ward.

Finally, the win-ners of the scavenger hunt were Val Little, Darlene Gordychuk and Shannon Molloy.

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