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Kitimatian cooks way to successCameron Orr

Did you know the Sguazzin’s? Then you may already be familiar with a Presi-dent’s Choice product in SuperValu right now.

Those who watch the CBC series Recipe to Riches, where competitors race to have their food chosen for cash prizes and their product in the frozen food aisle, will have seen appetizer � nal-ist Elisa Hendricks.

And if Hendricks herself seems fa-miliar, it’s because she was born and raised in Kitimat, and is now making a mark in the food world.

“I’ve had contact from lots of won-derful old friends and from people who knew my family, and from people who get in touch with me and say ‘your mom was one of my favourite teachers,’” Hen-dricks told the Sentinel following her win.

Her story has been shared widely since in Kitimat’s social media circles.

“Being from Kitimat, no matter where you go in the world you’ve got this group of people who can always have

your back.”Her award winning recipe is called

Italian Lollipops, which may sound more like a dessert food, but the cheese and meat dish is anything but.

“An Italian Lollipop is friulano cheese, mortadella, in a crispy coating on a lollipop stick,” she said.

It’s been modi� ed in some ways, especially to allow it to properly freeze and cook to be on store shelves, but in general its a recipe she adapted from her dad, Italo Sguazzin.

“It’s a family recipe that my dad brought with him from Italy and I worked on it a little bit to make it work for this competition,” said Hendricks.

A more resilient crust is among the major changes, using cornmeal.

“I think lots of people in Kitimat would have had a version of this recipe

at one of my parents’ parties somewhere along the line growing up. I was born and raised in Kitimat, I was born in the old pink hospital that’s not there anymore,” she said. “My parents were always big entertainers and very active in the com-munity and lots of people will remember them there.”

The speci� c ingredients in the appe-tizer tell a story of her family history.

“The friulano cheese is a really im-portant part of it for me because it’s the cheese from the region of Italy that my dad is from which is called Friulano.”

Her parents Italo and mom Cindy are, understandably, very happy for her.

“My parents are just delighted and so pleased. I think in many ways this is about honouring them and that fusion of Canadian and Italian culture that I was so lucky to grow up with.”

Hendricks is still connected to many friends in Kitimat but she calls Gibsons, BC her home now, on the Sunshine Coast, where she commutes to Vancou-ver for her work in social housing.

Continued on page 3

Mall Hotel set for 2015Cameron Orr

By the end of this year the City Centre Mall should have its new restaurant open, anchored to the planned hotel which should be ready 12 months after construction begins.

Mall owner Jer-ry Minni showed the Sentinel the plans for the building and some of the � oor plans last week, following his company receiving the development permit which sets conditions for how the building will look.

He just needs a construction permit now but he said it’s all lining up to begin building this spring. It will only be about two weeks, he anticipates, to get the construction permit and to put the project out to tender.

The hotel will be built between the breezeway where the Salvation Army store was, to where the video store was.

It will be a two storey hotel — three � oors when you include the ground � oor where a res-taurant will be built — which is short of Minni’s original vision.

“The design is a little different than the � rst design we came up with but we sort of jumped the gun a little in the sense that the footings here would only support so much weight,” he said.

Any possible construction was also delayed last year because the mall’s original engineering plans were lost to time, meaning extra work had to be done to � gure out how much the existing structures could support.

But the new restaurant should be ready to go by the time the year turns to 2015.

“We’re trying to push to get the roof on, the [restaurant] open by December 31 this year, and then we’ll continue on the inside of the rooms.”

Minni purchased the City Centre Mall in 2006, and had ideas from the start to build a hotel.

He said he began considering the land where Tim Hortons is now for his hotel, but then decided to build it over the existing mall.

His entire plan for City Centre will cover two phases. By early to mid next year the hotel will be complete, ending phase one.

Phase two will be an upgrade to the mall it-self, inside and outside, and modernizing its look, similar in a way to how Terrace’s mall was recent-ly renovated.

Continued on page 6

Today is the � rst day of advance voting for the plebiscite, and both sides of the question continue to battle it out for public opinion. The issue has also sparked the interest of our readers who have been pouring in letters on the subject. Those begin on the next page.

“I think lots of people in Kitimat would have had a

version of this recipe.”

“The design is a little different

than the fi rst design we

came up with but we sort of jumped the

gun.”

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My name is David Black. I am the ma-jority owner of Black Press, the company that owns this newspa-per. I worry about the impact of a bitumen spill on our coast so for the last two years I have spent a great deal of time studying oil re-� neries, oil pipelines and tankers.

Bitumen, even if it is diluted, does not � oat in sea water if there is sediment pres-ent. Since there is an abundance of sediment along the BC coast, the bitumen will sink rap-idly and there will be little chance of recov-ering any of it if there is a spill. Re� ning bi-tumen before it is load-ed into tankers solves this problem because re� ned fuels � oat and evaporate.

There is a great deal of misinformation being disseminated about the threat to the coast. For example, recently a senior ex-ecutive at one of the big oil companies in Canada told me their of� cial position is that bitumen doesn’t sink. That is nonsense. The Federal government published a thorough study on November 30 2013 proving that it does sink if there is sediment around. The report is available on-line and I encourage you to access it.

Also, the BC Chamber of Shipping is currently running ads talking about the advantages of GPS-based navigation and saying spills such as Exxon Valdez would not be possible today because of double

hulls and sub-divisions within tankers. Again, this is nonsense. Dou-ble hulls do not prevent hull fracture if there is a collision at speed, only if there is a gentle scrape. As for the GPS claim, most marine ac-cidents are caused by human inattention, not by a lack of knowledge about position. All

ships carried systems to indicate their loca-tion before GPS came along. The Exxon Valdez crew could have glanced at their instruments to deter-mine their location but they didn’t. The crew on the Queen of the North also didn’t do so. Marine disasters regu-larly occur and a quick

search of the internet shows human error is usually the problem. We can rest assured there will be more ac-cidents in future.

Our research has shown us that modern pipelines can be built and operated safely. Leak data is available for everyone to see on Canadian and US gov-

ernment websites and it proves recently con-structed pipelines are not leaking. Further-more some of the best pipelining companies in the world are based in Canada.

Unfortunately we cannot have the same level of con� dence about tankers which are the most critical

component involving the shipment of oil because recovery is so dif� cult. The ground-ing of the Exxon Val-

dez is usually held up as an example of how bad a spill at sea can be.

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Details overlooked in LNG excitementDear Sir,

During this last cold stretch in February, I would admit to spend-ing a few more hours indoors rather than outdoors. Perhaps it was that my warm space heater or a hot coffee had more appeal that the bitter north wind. Even though remaining indoors was pleasant enough, my thoughts drifted back to my naturalist beginnings and to the future of my special places in this valley.

They all began on a rocky hill-top park near my family home in Victoria.

While visiting Victoria this past Christmas, I returned to this same park where I spent endless amounts of time as a young natural-ist. I used to explore hidden trails in the underbrush, spy on quail and towhees as they pronounced their springtime vigor, and marveled at the lush wild� owers of Camas and White Fawn Lilies. Today,

the park is but a shadow of what it once was. The wild oak forest with its abundance of open spaces, scrub forest, and rocky viewpoints has been minimized by mono-lithic housing developments. As a young person, it never occurred to me that this special place and its natural inhabitants might one day be diminished or gone.

When I moved to Kitmat some 36 years ago, I had the same feel-ing. There was so much forest,

lake, stream and channel waters. They seemed inexhaustible. They would be here forever - pure and pristine. Imagine my surprise when I received a phone call re-garding our local Pine Creek. In the � urry of LNG excitement, drawings on display at Riverlodge showed a gas pipelines traversing Pine Creek.

Did no one seem to know there was a legal covenant on Pine Creek, protecting in perpetuity, a

60 m zone along both sides of the creek? In 2006, the creek and sur-rounding old growth forest was forever saved from the saw, guar-anteeing that � sh, birds, bears and even butter� ies would have a safe refuge, clear water, and open air spaces. The short, two km loop trail allowed all human visitors free access to see truly large trees and watch salmon spawning in the autumn.

Continued on page 8

Refinery proponent weighs in on tankersGuest Column:David Black

Northern Sentinel, Wednesday, April 2, 2014 3

Truck driver representatives and provincial govern-ment officials shook hands on a deal to get picket lines down at Port Metro Vancouver.

United Truck-ers Association and Unifor representa-tives joined Pre-mier Christy Clark and Jobs Minister Shirley Bond at the B.C. legislature to announce the deal, which addresses pay and wait time issues.

The B.C. gov-ernment will aban-don back-to-work legislation to impose a 90-day cooling off period, along with stiff fines for Unifor-organized truckers who had been poised to continue their strike in defiance.

More than 1,000 other non-union independent ow n e r- o p e r a t o r s represented by the United Trucking Association who weren’t covered by the legislation had been under threat of port access permit terminations by Port Metro Vancouver.

The federal gov-ernment committed to increase trip rates by 12 per cent with-in 30 days, with a temporary rate hike to take effect after a week of normal op-erations.

“What changed today was a willing-ness to listen,” said Unifor president Jerry Dias, adding that he had arrived in Victoria to announce a plan to defy the back-to-work law that was being de-bated.

Port Metro Van-couver has agreed to consult with truck-ers on the licensing system to control the number of trucks calling at the port and get the multiple trucking companies to comply with rate and employment agreements. A wait time fee of $50 per trip is part of the agreement.

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Sewer charges for ferryNo property taxes

from the Delta Spirit ferry in Kitimat’s har-bour means the town won’t be flush with money from its ar-rival, but the town will establish a sewage rate for its waste.

At their March 31 meeting it was expect-ed that Kitimat Coun-cil would be debating a fees bylaw to poten-tially add 10 cents per bed, per day to cover the cost of processing the ships sewage.

That cost would mean a sewage fee of $21,900 a year.

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sessments and sew-age processing is paid from that, but anything not assessed will not pay in to property tax-es.

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Airport numbers riseThe Northwest Regional Airport continues to

post record passenger numbers with February’s total being the second highest on record.

The 18,092 figure was eclipsed only by De-cember 2013’s total of 18,182.

Combined with the January total, the figure to date for 2014 is 35,595.

That’s more passenger traffic than generated at the airport for the first four months of 2011, the year passenger traffic at the airport began to climb and broach 120,000 for the first time for a calendar year.

Airport manager Carman Hendry attributed the healthy passenger numbers to the increasing amount of industrial activity in the area.

“We’re only looking forward,” said Hendry in sketching out a projected busy year at the airport.

Rio Tinto Alcan is not only extending its work on rebuilding its Kitimat aluminum smelter but has arranged for a converted Baltic Sea ferry, dubbed a ‘flotel,’ to hold 600 construction work-

ers as it ramps up activity.And if the Northwest Regional Airport here is

busy, so are ones in Smithers and at Prince Rupert.“Across the region, for the 2013 calendar

year, passenger traffic increased by 17 per cent. Everyone was up double digits, but we were more so,” said Hendry.

Northwest Regional Airport’s overall share of northwest passenger traffic has also increased.

In 2012 the share was 51 per cent, a figure that climbed to 56 per cent in 2013.

Northwest Regional Airport’s 2011 passenger total was 120,384, climbing to 139,193 in 2012 and 177,294 in 2013.

The ever increasing number of passengers has put a strain on the airport’s parking capabilities.

“Parking is at a premium right now. If you can get a ride, please do so,” said Hendry.

The airport will be expanding its long term lot to handle 800 vehicles, an increase from the 340 spots now available.

Continued from page 1Hendricks said

she got involved in the contest after sending in an audition tape but it was part a lesson to her kids and part pur-suing her passion in the kitchen.

“For me the big-ger picture was re-ally trying something new and showing my kids that sometimes you have to stick your neck out there and do something different and leave your comfort zone and be willing to take some risks and take some chances and try something new,” she said, but also noted that she’s most happi-est in the kitchen with friends so her own pas-sion for food creation played a large part.

She said she’s very

grateful for the support she’s had from people in Kitimat since her win.

As for the contest itself, she said it was high energy and put herself to the test, hav-ing to create 500 of the lollipops in three hours.

“I’ve never made that many and cer-tainly not under that kind of pressure. The way the show is you know you have to make 500...and they’re throwing curveballs at you and surprising you

with what you can and can’t do in a profes-sional kitchen.”

Public voting on Recipe to Riches prod-ucts ended on Sunday,

Winning the cate-gory means in addition to having her prod-uct — complete with a caricature of her-self on the box — on store shelves, she takes home a $25,000 prize.

If she manages to win the grand prize on the series finale, she’ll earn $250,000.

Elisa

Elisa Hendricks in promotional photos from Recipe to Riches.

“The bigger picture was really trying something

new.”

Despite not paying property taxes, the Delta Spirit ferry is set to pay its share of sewer use.


Plane crashes, with multiple fatali-ties, do not occur every day of the week.

That’s why, despite the fact that they do occasionally and tragically take place, air travel, statistically they say remains the safest way to travel long distances.

That will be of little comfort to the families of passengers and crew of Ma-laysian Air Flight MH370.

The disappearance of Malaysian Air Flight 370, with its 239 passengers and crew, which departed Kuala Lum-pur on March 8 and (at time of writing hasn’t been seen since) has captured the attention of the world.

In a very short time, without doubt, it became one of the most mysterious and most discussed accidental airline disasters ever. (Actually, even as I write this, and continue to delay sending it to my editor, in the hour-by-hour expec-tation that answers will arrive, there is still no � rm information on what hap-pened.)

For more than three weeks, the story has gripped the imagination of the world and demonstrated the lengths to which some news entities, such as CNN, are prepared to go to � ll in the gaps while there is no “real news” other than activities in the ongoing search for the missing aircraft..

This is Day 21 and in front of me are three more talking head experts dis-

cussing the latest abrupt change in the search area off Australia.

No need to recap, but this aircraft, a Boeing 777, last made verbal contact with air traf� c control during the night on March 8, less than an hour after takeoff. The plane simply vanished and ceased to communicate in a convention-al way.

I was among the many millions of people around the world, semi-trans-� xed, following the day-to-day events related to tracking and re-tracking the whereabouts of this � ight.

Daily, I expected to turn on the TV or check my phone to � nd that ac-tual wreckage had been found and the search would be focused on for the air-craft’s “black box” pilot cabin and data recordings.

But for three weeks, every day, the story was the same. No real news of the plane. Just endless evolving talk-ing head speculation, accompanied by a huge build-up of criticism about the way various authorities communicated information as the mystery expanded

into a series of increasingly fantastic “conspiracy” theories about the where-abouts of the missing plane, ranging from pilot suicide to hijacking and re-ports of various possibilities about � ight direction changes, and more theories about how long, how fast and how far the plane could travel before running out of fuel.

What I did learn was that there are dozens, maybe hundreds of retired pi-lots, air safety experts, � oating debris consultants and multiple speciality the-orists who can help maintain the mys-tery around a vanished aircraft for as long as needed with some very credible, often eminently sensible conversation about the many eventualities that could be involved in the disappearance.

We also learned that air traf� c con-trol conversation is only one of a num-ber of ways that can be used to track the movements of a plane in the sky as it reports automatically with satellites, en-gine makers and other monitors in the sky.

I remain startled to know there are more than 1,600 satellites orbiting earth as high as 22,000 miles in space. That’s why, three weeks later, technology pointed the way to one speci� c search area in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of western Australia, to concentrate the hunt for debris.

Continued on page 13

The mystery of MH370 continues

Rock the voteGet out your voting hat, today is the � rst day of

advance voting for the plebiscite.Yes, that plebiscite.Whether you’re in Kitimat, Vancouver, or any-

where in between or beyond, this plebiscite has taken the corporate and environmental world by storm. It’s a far greater beast that I ever expected.

I’ll hope that my story on page 11 will give a little insight into how it will be conducted.

What I learned from the questioning at the meet-ing is that the voting rules are a little more relaxed than they would be in a ‘real’ election, but in some ways it has worked out.

For one, you don’t have to be a Canadian citizen.I’ve see remarks on the World Wide Web that

seem to take issue with that, but from Douglas Chan-nel Watch’s perspective that is actually good, as they say they learned recently there are a number of non-Canadians who have lived in Kitimat a long time who will be allowed to vote in this issue. It opens up the voting � eld more.

However the biggest confusion appears to be that people think camp workers will be able to vote, because of the requirement you only have had to live in Kitimat for 30 days.

But anything showing an address of a work camp doesn’t meet the “primary residence” requirement.

The potential loophole is however that a person living in an apartment here could be a temporary worker but is eligible to vote.

That will all depend if they’ve gone through the work to have Kitimat put on their government IDs.

I couldn’t say if that’s common or not among workers who live outside of camps, but I suppose that’s where the element of trust comes into play.

I personally feel that temporary workers prob-ably don’t have the interest or time to bother to get tangled up in local politics, so in good faith I’ll as-sume the majority of whoever votes will be local in the truest sense.

But that just means it’s extra important for Kiti-matians to cast their vote.

Sure it’s non-binding, and we don’t know ex-actly what will happen once the vote is done and counted, but both the company and opponents have committed a lot of time and resources into the ques-tion. It has struck a chord and even if it’s just a moral victory, the answer that Kitimat residents give at the ballot boxes will be heard far and wide.

Do not be surprised at all that Canada’s Prime Minister could be briefed on what happens here.

Even if nothing is impacted on the project in the end — whichever way it goes — we’ll be setting the tone for projects to come.

It may be slight, but the vote matters.So get your hat on.

Cameron Orr

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Dear Sir,After researching

and analyzing the nasty results of various dilbit and condensate spills that have occurred in the US and Canada in the last few years it is painfully obvious to me that the Enbridge Northern Gateway pro-posal is too dangerous and by far not worth the risk.

I will be voting no on April 12 in an effort to maintain what little remaining protection we have of our streams and head waters here in northern B.C.

A no vote on the Kitimat plebiscite will go a long ways in help-ing to protect the exist-ing integrity of North Coast B.C. from the

ravages of dilbit and/or condensate spills. By not having super tank-ers plying our coast we can all rest a lot easier. Think of it as 100 per cent spill prevention even in the worst of weather conditions.

After closely fol-lowing all of the Joint Review Panel proceed-ings I am unable to vote anything other than no on April 12. A short while into the proceed-ings it became clear to me that the level of the playing field was be-ing manipulated by the National Energy Board and the federal govern-

ment. Due to timelines and the JRP’s narrow, and NEB mandated, scope there were per-tinent facts and science that was not allowed to be introduced into evi-dence.

This in my view put a black eye on the quasi-judicial proceed-ings, and for me called the whole process into question.

For example the JRP looked past all the flaws that were found in the Environmental Assessment that were pointed out by many and some flaws even Enbridge concurred

with. The JRP were then able to make a finding of any and all spills that would be viewed as “insignifi-cant.”

As if that state-ment weren’t sicken-ing enough they went on to find that a spill of “Significant Adverse Environmental Impact would be justified un-

der the circumstances”. The majority of

Kitimat jobs that may be produced by this proposal are fleeting and any remaining jobs would be few. These few remaining jobs would come at the peril of many existing jobs and lifestyles that already exist on our coast.

Long term windfall tax benefits may not be as plentiful as adver-tised.

We are all aware of the ability and ease in which large corpora-tion’s claw back their tax dollars.

I view the JRP findings as more than just absurd. People who have watched the

Enbridge Northern Gateway review pro-cess unfold and are still able to vote anything other than no on April 12 have been watching with more than just one eye closed.

I implore you to please reconsider and vote no.

Sincerely,David G McRae

Enbridge project “by far” not worth risk, says reader

Chance to change for betterDear Sir,

It’s an open secret that B.C.’s Northwest, with a few notable ex-ceptions, has struggled for years.

We have a chance to change that for the better and that’s why I’m voting ‘Yes’ in the upcoming Northern Gateway plebiscite.

When I first arrived in Kiti-mat in 1980, the economy was still rolling along pretty smoothly,

thanks in part to my old employer Methanex and its construction of the methanol plant in 1982 and the related ammonia plant a few years later. Alcan was the key employer, and the Eurocan mill was also a significant player, not yet hit as it was later by a global economic slowdown and plummeting US housing starts.

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When it comes to the much trumpeted new industry in the Northwest and its gla-cial progress towards becoming a reality, I have this image stuck in my head of premier Christy Clark, decked out in a Snow White costume, plaintifully singing “Someday my prince will come”.

As in the LNG prince.

It is understand-able if she feels a wee bit melancholic given the extravagant prom-ises she made prior to the last election.

But I will give her and her government credit for finally fac-ing facts on LNG as in absolutely no men-tion of the fictional X plants by year Y in the Throne Speech and fi-

nance minister Mike de Jong not including in his budget speech any LNG Prosperity Fund money in his three year revenue forecast.

De Jong went fur-ther in talking to re-porters after the speech by saying he did not expect any LNG tax revenue to be rolling in during the next five years.

He is right on the money - or lack thereof - in saying that.

That’s because none of the projects have yet been green-lighted by proponents

and even when they are it will be four - three at the most optimistic - years before any LNG flows from the new plants.

Granted, on that construction time scale it is theoretically pos-sible one plant could be up and running in 2018 - a year earlier than de Jong has factored in.

But that would re-quire what’s called a Final Investment Deci-sion (FID) being made almost immediately.

And that ain’t gon-na happen.

The reason is that

the proponents need to have certainty on what their costs and revenues will be before making a positive FID decision - these com-panies are not about to spend billions of dol-lars on a wish and a prayer.

The curious thing is the provincial gov-ernment is not exactly helping them achieve that certainty on the costs side.

Which takes me back to the budget speech in which the government’s proposed LNG export tax regime was unveiled.

It has a two tier structure which will see a 1.5 per cent tax applied in the early years, then up to 7 per cent for the rest of the lifetime of the plants.

Except it is not that simple.

The 1.5 per cent will apply to the rev-enue less expenses and those expenses include the capital cost of con-structing the plant.

And the 7 per cent may not actually be that - see the words “up to” above - and even if it is it won’t really be because the companies can deduct the total of 1.5 per cent tax they have already paid from the higher rate.

In reading the gov-ernment’s budget back-grounder #3 on the pro-posed tax I noticed that the list of expenditures that would be regarded as capital costs did not include either the pipeline to deliver the natural gas to the LNG plant or the gas-fired

power plant needed to liquefy that natural gas.

So I sought clari-fication from the Fi-nance ministry as to whether they did count as capital costs or not. They said they’d get back to me.

Three weeks later there has been no an-swer.

In the interval I came up with another question: the scenario offered in the back-grounder assumed the companies would “ful-ly deduct” their capital costs “by the end of year four”, year one being the start of pro-duction.

I asked whether the companies had to fully deduct in that time span or whether they could choose to drag it out, which

would make total sense to me - as in delaying the higher tax rate as long as possible. I did get a reply to that one but unfortunately it was contradictory and then ended with “these are some of the details that will become more apparent and specific when the legislation is introduced.”

So nothing has re-ally been decided? I do not see much certainty in any of this.

And that will re-main the case until the government brings down legislation for the tax, now postponed again until the Fall.

But in fairness to the government, it is not the elephant in the room.

More on that next time.

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Continued from page 2A meeting with TransCanada pipeline was

arranged and the terms of the covenant were ex-plained. The value of Pine Creek to both the wild-life and the community was explained. The pipe-line planners listened. Reasonable alternatives were put forward and it now seems the pipeline route has been diverted around the creek watershed leaving the covenanted land alone.

Pine Creek, however, is but the tip of the pro-verbial iceberg. We are now faced with an un-imaginable threat to the Kitimat River and 60 km of pristine shoreline along Douglas Channel. The tankers and freighters that have navigated our wa-ters for years are about to be dwarfed by some of the largest vessels in the world. Most will be tank-ers, specifically built to carry LNG and oil.

Not oil, however, as we see on the TV as it surges out of wells in the Arabian desert. Rather, the proposed pipeline and tankers will ship bitu-men, the product we see being dug out of the ground in northern Alberta.

Fast forward to February 14 of this year. The front page of the Northern Sentinel carried a story about a proposed refinery. Mr. Black, the refinery proponent, spoke of a bitumen spill.

“It would be pretty awful,” and worse than the Exxon Valdez,” he is quoted as saying. “And even if we did know where it went (in the water column) we couldn’t get it back up.”

Bitumen is not your average, everyday oil product. And as Mr. Black relayed, it is pretty aw-ful and not something anyone would want in any of our drinking water, waterways or ocean shorelines.

To me, this is like visiting the park near my Victoria family home. How did the park become so small, so insignificant, and lost to the local resi-dents.

It happened, at least in part, because the de-veloper won the day with the municipal council. They were somehow convinced a dozen or two more homes were more important than preserving a piece of irreplaceable parkland.

Does this also have to happen here? Will we put at risk or even lose the very part of our land-scape and waterways here that makes this valley special and even unique? The answer is no, pro-vided enough of us say ‘no’ to moving bitumen products throughout our valley or along Douglas Channel.

Sincerely, Dennis Horwood

Continued from page 2However, a bitumen spill would be

far worse. Exxon Valdez carried light oil and lost 250,000 barrels (the equivalent of 17 Olympic swimming pools). The light oil floated for the most part and could be washed off beaches. Even so, after four years of work with up to 11,000 work-ers and 1,400 boats involved, less than 10% was recovered. Bitumen is very different. It would harden up on shore and much of it would sink to the bottom and be unrecoverable. If we lost a tanker load, which is eight times greater than the Exxon Valdez spill, we would destroy the coast and fishery for hundreds of years.

Our grandchildren will not thank us if we destroy the coast on our watch. In my view, we should build a refinery to remove any chance of a bitumen spill at sea. There are other benefits to be had from a state-of-the-art refinery:

There will be a major reduction in greenhouse gases. The refinery will be

built in Asia if not in Kitimat, and it will emit double the CO2 of our new Kitimat design. An Asian refinery will also gener-ate 100 train cars a day of very dirty coke which will be subsequently burnt in the atmosphere to create power. The Kitimat refinery will not result in the production of any coke. As we all live on one planet, it is far better for the global environment to build this refinery in Canada.

Construction of the refinery will cre-ate 6,000 jobs in BC for five years. Op-erations at the refinery will result in more permanent jobs than any project has ever created in BC with approximately 3,000 direct jobs.

These will be skilled highly paid per-manent jobs. These jobs will be available for the life of the refinery which should be in excess of 50 years. In addition there will be thousands of other jobs created in spinoff local petrochemical companies and in indirect employment throughout the province.

It is also our intention to build a safe pipeline and a fleet of new tankers, pow-ered by LNG rather than Bunker C oil, to transport the refined products to Asia. We have a solid business plan and as a consequence the money is available to build the greenest and most efficient re-finery in the world.

Let me declare my biases. I am for creating thousands of good permanent jobs in BC. I am for creating billions of new tax dollars for government coffers. I am for reducing the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions. I am for building an oil pipeline that will never leak. I am for building a new tanker fleet, owned by a BC company that cannot shirk its li-ability for a spill at sea, and that carries refined fuels that float and evaporate if spilled. I am against shipping bitumen in tankers.

David Black is the Chairman and owner of Black Press, who owns,

among others, this newspaper

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DCW is not anti-development

Dear Sir:On April 12th, I’ll be voting “yes” in sup-

port of the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, which has undergone thorough public and scien-tific scrutiny.

In December, a non-partisan panel recom-mended moving ahead with the pipeline subject to 209 rigorous environmental and socio-economic conditions.

Pipelines are not new to this country, this province or this region. Canadians know how to build safe pipelines — they’ve been building them since the 1850s. We’ve learned a lot in that time, and modern pipelines are the safest way to trans-port Canada’s oil.

Northern Gateway will provide direct eco-nomic benefits to Kitimat, including 180 jobs and some $5 million in tax revenue, while ensuring our beautiful environment is protected.

Sincerely,Dennis La Hue

Dear Sir:Things are heating up in Kitimat

as the April 12 Enbridge plebiscite gets closer. Assumptions have been made, and accusations hurled at Douglas Chan-nel Watch for being an anti-development organization, and nothing could be fur-ther from the truth.

Our group formed because of our shared concerns regarding Enbridge’s history of spills and their Northern Gate-way dual pipeline and supertanker port proposal. We have not stood in the way of any other project currently being pro-posed in Kitimat.

Many of us believe the tar sands should be refined in Alberta, thereby cre-ating thousands of jobs for Canadians. Royalties and taxes garnered could fund

research for better, cleaner energy solu-tions. The stone age didn’t end because they ran out of stones, it was because of the bronze age. We could utilize our tar sands in a wiser, forward looking way which could put Canada at the very fore-front of cleaner energy systems into the future.

When you lay down on an issue, you get stepped on. Douglas Channel Watch prefers to stand firm with our conviction to protect the place we love, stare En-bridge and the Federal Government right in the eyes, and ask the hard questions

while also demanding solid evidence, and will not apologize for doing so.

The JRP figures temporary foreign workers can build pipelines in Canada, that Enbridge’s project should be for the export of unrefined, raw, diluted bitumen, and that the Exxon Valdez and Kalama-zoo spills, if they happened in BC’s salm-on rivers or onto our pristine north coast, would be “justified in the circumstances”.

I, and many others, intend to send a massive, clear message to Ottawa that Enbridge’s Northern Gateway is a bad deal for Kitimat, for BC, and for all of Canada. They need to rethink their pri-orities, and why we are voting no to En-bridge.

Sincerely,Murray Minchin

Continued from page 5Those dwindling

housing starts, in part, effectively shut down several regional saw-mills that dried up Eu-rocan’s residual fibre supply.

The rest is history – and not very positive history at that.

In terms of jobs, those past several years have been very hard indeed.

Just look at the numbers: 535 jobs gone with the clo-sure of Eurocan; 120 more disappeared with Methanex. The mod-ernization of the Alcan smelter has been im-portant, but the work-force will be reduced there as well, moving forward. And as for all those sawmills, the loss of positions in the services sector, and in hospitality, we can as-

sume at least several dozens of job losses, if not more.

I worked in the petrochemical industry more or less for my en-tire working life, and only recently retired from Methanex after having managed and shipped methanol and ammonia in Kitimat for the past 34 years.

Over that time I’ve seen cycles where the local economy has grown, then foun-dered. When you’re in the midst of one of those economic low points as indeed we are right now, you tend to look more diligently for an opportunity to turn the corner and move forward toward prosperity.

And if it’s prosper-ity for the long term, then it’s so much the better.

From my per-spective, the Northern Gateway pipeline proj-ect needs to form a key part of this region’s sustainability for the future. The commit-ment from the propo-nents is that Northern Gateway will be built to the most specific, strict safety and envi-ronmental standards, and that monitoring and maintenance will be done in the most diligent way.

The Joint Review Panel, after rigorous scientific review, has imposed 209 Con-ditions on Northern Gateway to ensure the project meets its com-mitments and Cana-da’s high safety and environment expecta-tions.

How do I know this?

Having been a

close observer of this project since its in-ception, I’ve watched how the proposal has evolved through its public engagement and review phases to where we stand to-day. Every aspect of the proposal has been open to scrutiny and analysis, and nothing has been spared.

Further, if you have a question of concern about North-ern Gateway, at some point you’ve had the opportunity to ask that question and receive your answer.

When Kitimatians vote in the April 12 plebiscite, we should think about future em-ployment in connec-tion with this project and really consider the significant number of jobs the area could win.

Post-construction, the project will re-quire more than 180 employees in Kitimat alone. These will in-clude electrical and mechanical techni-cians, tug and mooring operations personnel, emergency response, administration, envi-ronmental and land coordination positions and more.

Bottom line? We need this project, and voting yes in the up-coming plebiscite is Kitimat’s opportu-nity to say that. Now is the time to get out and show support for Northern Gateway and the sustainable jobs it will bring to this re-gion.

On April 12, please cast your vote for a strong future.

Sincerely,Bill Eynon

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“ENBRIDGE HAS DEVASTATED OUR COMMUNITY.”

— DEB MILLER, COMMUNITY RESIDENT

Dear Kitimat citizens,

I am a citizen of Ceresco Michigan, located on the Kalamazoo River, and I need to let you know the truth about how an Enbridge pipeline devastated our communities. Here is the truth:

• 3 ½ years later, the clean up is not complete — and Enbridge has been dragged kicking and screaming to keep their commitments

• We still have toxic bitumen sunken in the river

• Houses sit empty and property values are down

• We are still living the nightmare while Enbridge buys ads trying to convince people that everything is okay

Enbridge devastated our community. Please don’t let them do the same to you.

— Deb Miller

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In questioning councillors on the spe-cifics, Douglas Chan-nel Watch representa-tive Murray Minchin said the Canadian citi-zenship requirement is beneficial to some in Kitimat. He said there are many people in town who do not have a Canadian citizenship but who’d be allowed to vote this time. They discovered that when they had gone door-to-door.

As for how vot-ing will play out, the District of Kitimat’s returning officers will have a voter list of residents and you will sign your name on the form to prove you had voted.

Deputy Municipal Clerk Shirley Bou-dreault explained the process at the March 24 committee of the whole meeting.

In the case you’re not on a voters list, you’ll have to produce identification showing that you have a pri-mary address in Kiti-mat. An address show-ing you live in a work camp will not satisfy the requirements of Kitimat being a per-manent residence.

In the absence of any identification, potential voters will be asked a series of questions to determine their eligibility.

Chief Administra-tive Officer Ron Poole admitted that there is always a potential for some people to com-

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Six scrutineers have now been ap-pointed in total, three

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“With all the ups and downs over the years, it’s been tough for Kitimat. We need some stability. We need to know that everything’s going to be good for a long time, not just a year or two.

The Northern Gateway project will bring that stability. I’m glad it’s going to bring jobs, but also training. Wouldn’t it be great if our kids could get more education here, rather than heading off to Vancouver or Calgary?

For me, the best thing about living in Kitimat is that you can go hiking or fishing on your way home from work. It’s a special place to live.

But without jobs and stability, I worry that my kids and grandkids won’t be able to live here with me. And that’s what I want more than anything.

So I’m voting yes.”

“i want my grandchildren to work here. i’m voting yes.”

trish parsons, Kitimat

T:10.31”T:14”


Author sails back to Kitimat on book tourIn 2012 it was a

nautical trip through the Great Bear Rain-forest, a firsthand look at the area where tank-ers are proposed to come and go to support industry, in this case namely the Enbridge Northern Gateway project.

Today, that trip has earned writer and jour-nalist Arno Kopecky a Hubert Evans Non-Fiction BC Book Prize nomination.

Kopecky was in Kitimat this past week-end on a book tour pro-moting his book, The Oilman and the Sea: Navigating the North-ern Gateway.

He said he was motivated to take on the project of the tour

in 2012 because he felt the people who actu-ally lived in the Great Bear Rainforest region were not being rep-resented in the media when people were talk-ing about projects like Northern Gateway.

“There’s no roads, one or two airports...so it just seemed like it was this big blank spot on the map of the Northern Gateway de-bate,” he said.

But Northern Gateway was, in his words, a plot device to shine a light on the geographic area.

“I was trying to tell a great story as well and I find that I’ve fallen into a bit of an activist advocate role here with this book, which I’m

happy to take on be-cause I do feel strongly about this issue but I also take some pride in being a writer who can tell a good story.”

He said he’s pleased with the award nomination for his book which validates his writing.

“The people who give these awards, I don’t think they’re out to validate any particu-lar set of politics. They don’t care for North-ern Gateway per sé, they like good stories and they like good lit-erature. Hopefully this award will help me be taken a bit seriously as a writer,” he said.

Kopecky said he planned to also take the opportunity of his visit

to apologize to anyone who might have taken an issue with the way they were portrayed in his book.

Some First Nations members, he said, were apparently unhappy with his portrayal of them.

“It was certainly not my intention. I did my best to paint First Nations in a sympa-thetic light that was also honest. I do be-lieve that came across but I also know what it’s like to be written about, that you are de-fenceless as the subject of a book.”

The book includes the photography of Ilja Herb, who accompa-nied Kopecky on the original trip.

Submitted by Michele FraterOlympic medals were

abundant as Nechako Ele-mentary students were award-ed medals for achieving ex-cellence in home reading.

One hundred and ten students earned gold, ten earned silver and another ten earned bronze as they worked

to read ‘Higher, Faster, Stron-ger!’

The closing ceremonies capped off an eighteen day Winter Reading Olympics event that included theme days, a picture book compe-tition, reading rooms and a Winter sports day.

The students were given

reading goals based on their grade, and so many young reading athletes rose to the challenge to ‘own the podi-um.’

Congratulations to all of Nechako Reading athletes for their hard work and determi-nation in going for gold.

Keep reading.

Reading Olympics at Nechako

Onboard Arno Kopecky and Ilja Herb’s sailboat during their travels up to the north coast area. Submitted file photo


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More PTI questions answered

Cameron Orr

PTI Group executives were in town

for a second community open house to

talk about their proposed work lodge

just off from Kitimat’s downtown core.

The event provided people the

chance to catch up on the details of their

proposal while also allowing PTI rep-

resentatives to � eld questions from the

public.Earlier questions included inquiries

into the availability of health services

for such a large facility.

Sean Crockett, the company’s vice

president of business development, not-

ed that health services is a government

responsibility, however their facilities do

enable health services, and by that they

mean their facility can be designed to

reduce burdens in the emergency room.

“We can create space for medical

service contractors for physiotherapists,

for doctors, for dentists,” said Crockett.

That said, he also pointed out that

the workers aren’t coming to Kitimat

because of their lodge, but because of

the other, major industrial projects be-

ing proposed.

PTI Group director of business

development Bob Greaves said that

they have been working with North-

ern Health in Kitimat to develop ways

to provide health services on their site,

such as allowing nurses to check blood

pressure and provide diabetes support on

site.The company also answered ques-

tions relating opening their lodge to more

public events. Crockett said it’s not nec-

essarily the business they’re in but “with

the permission of the community,” they

could open up for special events such as

hockey tournaments.

But, “If that’s competing with a local

hotelier’s business, we wouldn’t do that.”

Project legacies are still to be worked

out but he mentioned possible future uses

of their land to be converted to recre-

ational uses such as trails. Their core site

though would likely be sold, as a fully

serviced lot at the time they’re � nished.

But they wouldn’t leave behind an

abandoned property, he said.

PTI Group has purchased one site

and has a purchase offer on another for

land east of the Kitimat General Hospi-

tal, in the Strawberry Meadows area.

They propose to construct a work-

force lodge that could eventually house

up to 2,100 people. They say that the fa-

cility would be a � ve minute walk to the

downtown core, which would provide

retail bene� ts to businesses.

Crockett said in an ideal world

they’d have the � rst few hundred beds

set up by October but because of various

factors such as public consultations and

the ongoing work to prepare site zoning

and work to amend the Of� cial Commu-

nity Plan — which is taking place with

the municipality right now — he expects

an opening around April of next year.

The Smithers Storm midget hockey team attempts a goal against the Kitimat Legion Bombers during the

zone championship � nals on March 7. Smithers would end up taking the game, 4-2.Cameron Orr photo

Oil refinery

money in place

David Black says he’ll build his own pipe-

line to carry crude oil from Alberta if that’s what

it takes to supply a massive re� nery he wants to

build on the Dubose plateau north of Kitimat.

“I have the � nancing. That’s not a problem,”

said Black last week following a presentation to

the B.C. Chamber of Commerce March 6.

Black provided an update on his project � rst

announced last August to build a 550,000 barrel-

a-day re� nery supplying Asian and other custom-

ers with gasoline, diesel and jet fuel among other

products.

The cost is now in the $25 billion range and

Black said he has a general agreement with his

company called Kitimat Clean to line up the mon-

ey through the Swiss-based Oppenheimer Invest-

ment Group although more detailed negotiations

have to take place.

“I hope to sign a � nancing [memorandum of

understanding] within 60 days,” said Black of the

debt-� nancing for the project.But � rst he needs

to demonstrate he has

customers for the re-

� nery’s output and

Black expects to have

a memorandum of un-

derstanding, called an

off-take agreement, in

place within a month.

Black wouldn’t comment on whether those

potential customers include any of the ten com-

panies who have provided Enbridge with the seed

money for its Northern Gateway Pipeline project.

It’s those companies who have interests in the

Alberta oil sands and want to ship the raw product

overseas but who, for now, lack a way of getting

their product to the coast.

But Black did say the generally accepted

business model for re� neries elsewhere is for

their owners to also own the pipelines supplying

the raw product.

“Then you’re dealing with suppliers who are

locked in,” said Black, adding that it’s a more ef-

� cient way to do business.

Black wouldn’t comment directly on whether

he’s considered asking Enbridge to sell its North-

ern Gateway project but he has told Enbridge its

concept of shipping crude to the coast through a

pipeline and then having the unre� ned product

taken overseas won’t be accepted in B.C.

“I’ve thought a lot about that,” said Black. “I

think it would be very, very dif� cult now for En-

bridge to win.”

Enbridge is now in the middle of extensive

public hearings and a � nal decision to accept or

reject the project is expected from the federal gov-

ernment late this year.Continued on page 2

“I think it would

be very, very

diffi cult now

for Enbridge to

win.”


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PTI Group executives were in town

for a second community open house to

talk about their proposed work lodge

just off from Kitimat’s downtown core.

The event provided people the

chance to catch up on the details of their

proposal while also allowing PTI rep-

resentatives to � eld questions from the

public.Earlier questions included inquiries

into the availability of health services

for such a large facility.

Sean Crockett, the company’s vice

president of business development, not-

ed that health services is a government

responsibility, however their facilities do

enable health services, and by that they

mean their facility can be designed to

reduce burdens in the emergency room.

“We can create space for medical

service contractors for physiotherapists,

for doctors, for dentists,” said Crockett.

That said, he also pointed out that

the workers aren’t coming to Kitimat

because of their lodge, but because of

the other, major industrial projects be-

ing proposed.

PTI Group director of business

development Bob Greaves said that

they have been working with North-

ern Health in Kitimat to develop ways

to provide health services on their site,

such as allowing nurses to check blood

pressure and provide diabetes support on

site.The company also answered ques-

tions relating opening their lodge to more

public events. Crockett said it’s not nec-

essarily the business they’re in but “with

the permission of the community,” they

could open up for special events such as

hockey tournaments.

But, “If that’s competing with a local

hotelier’s business, we wouldn’t do that.”

Project legacies are still to be worked

out but he mentioned possible future uses

of their land to be converted to recre-

ational uses such as trails. Their core site

though would likely be sold, as a fully

serviced lot at the time they’re � nished.

But they wouldn’t leave behind an

abandoned property, he said.

PTI Group has purchased one site

and has a purchase offer on another for

land east of the Kitimat General Hospi-

tal, in the Strawberry Meadows area.

They propose to construct a work-

force lodge that could eventually house

up to 2,100 people. They say that the fa-

cility would be a � ve minute walk to the

downtown core, which would provide

retail bene� ts to businesses.

Crockett said in an ideal world

they’d have the � rst few hundred beds

set up by October but because of various

factors such as public consultations and

the ongoing work to prepare site zoning

and work to amend the Of� cial Commu-

nity Plan — which is taking place with

the municipality right now — he expects

an opening around April of next year.

The Smithers Storm midget hockey team attempts a goal against the Kitimat Legion Bombers during the

zone championship � nals on March 7. Smithers would end up taking the game, 4-2.Cameron Orr photo

Oil refinery

money in place

David Black says he’ll build his own pipe-

line to carry crude oil from Alberta if that’s what

it takes to supply a massive re� nery he wants to

build on the Dubose plateau north of Kitimat.

“I have the � nancing. That’s not a problem,”

said Black last week following a presentation to

the B.C. Chamber of Commerce March 6.

Black provided an update on his project � rst

announced last August to build a 550,000 barrel-

a-day re� nery supplying Asian and other custom-

ers with gasoline, diesel and jet fuel among other

products.

The cost is now in the $25 billion range and

Black said he has a general agreement with his

company called Kitimat Clean to line up the mon-

ey through the Swiss-based Oppenheimer Invest-

ment Group although more detailed negotiations

have to take place.

“I hope to sign a � nancing [memorandum of

understanding] within 60 days,” said Black of the

debt-� nancing for the project.But � rst he needs

to demonstrate he has

customers for the re-

� nery’s output and

Black expects to have

a memorandum of un-

derstanding, called an

off-take agreement, in

place within a month.

Black wouldn’t comment on whether those

potential customers include any of the ten com-

panies who have provided Enbridge with the seed

money for its Northern Gateway Pipeline project.

It’s those companies who have interests in the

Alberta oil sands and want to ship the raw product

overseas but who, for now, lack a way of getting

their product to the coast.

But Black did say the generally accepted

business model for re� neries elsewhere is for

their owners to also own the pipelines supplying

the raw product.

“Then you’re dealing with suppliers who are

locked in,” said Black, adding that it’s a more ef-

� cient way to do business.

Black wouldn’t comment directly on whether

he’s considered asking Enbridge to sell its North-

ern Gateway project but he has told Enbridge its

concept of shipping crude to the coast through a

pipeline and then having the unre� ned product

taken overseas won’t be accepted in B.C.

“I’ve thought a lot about that,” said Black. “I

think it would be very, very dif� cult now for En-

bridge to win.”

Enbridge is now in the middle of extensive

public hearings and a � nal decision to accept or

reject the project is expected from the federal gov-

ernment late this year.Continued on page 2

“I think it would

be very, very

diffi cult now

for Enbridge to

win.”

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Northwest Community College has turned down a $15,000 student bursary do-nation made by Enbridge, the company that wants to build the Northern Gateway pipe-line to pump Alberta crude oil to a marine export terminal at Kitimat.

The donation, made up of six bursaries of $2,500, was first announced by the col-lege March 3 and 71 applications for the money were received by the middle of last week.

But that was before the college board, in a March 21 meeting, reversed the origi-nal decision to accept the money.

A two-sentence statement released by interim college president Denis Caron pro-vided no explanation as to why the money was returned.

“At its regular monthly meeting on Fri-day, March 21, the NWCC Board of Gov-

ernors passed a motion to return a donation of $15,000 to Enbridge. As a result, the NWCC board will be reviewing its dona-tions policy,” read the release.

Even before the board met, the college came under criticism for the wording con-tained in its March 3 press release announc-ing the money.

The wording, a description of the proj-ect provided by Enbridge, was removed after college vice president Dave O'Leary said he received emails and several phone calls, the latter from college employees.

Prior to the board meeting, O'Leary said the original wording should not be taken as an endorsement of Enbridge or its Northern Gateway project.

He said the college does not take po-sitions endorsing projects or positions by companies or others providing it with mon-

ey or services in kind.He said the college will only accept

money or services if it comes with no strings attached.

“We've had occasions where someone has wanted to [provide money] and has been pretty specific and we've said 'no,'” O'Leary continued.

He noted that Enbridge was a sponsor of a recent regional skills competition held at the college.

After receiving the emails and phone calls, O'Leary said he contacted Enbridge and was asked to remove the project de-scription.

“They didn't want to be seen to have an effect on the intent of their donation,” he said.

The six bursaries, to be distributed based on need, were for trades, technology,

science or environmental studies students. It's not known if the six students chosen were informed they had been selected prior to the March 21 board meeting.

The Northwest Community College Students Union, which met with O'Leary after the wording had been removed and before the college board met, did question the release, saying Enbridge provided the money after a deadline for bursary provi-sions had passed.

“We are not opposed to bursaries but we are opposed to NWCC publicizing com-ments that are not balanced on behalf of any corporation or group, and specifically proj-ects or companies that are this controver-sial,” said union organizer Mikael Jensen.

“The college acted far too favourably by giving them special coverage of their bursary, upon missing the deadline.”

Enbridge money returned to college

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Continued from page 4Days later, despite numerous

indications of debris, the search focused 700 km to the north where spotters in planes are pho-tographing debris last Friday.

You’ll know, likely before you read this, what actually may have happened, but at this point

in time, it’s mere speculation that it is debris, or from Malaysian Flight 370 – it’s as big a mys-tery as it was one, two and three weeks ago.

I try to think of how I might feel if my family members had been among the missing and I had to watch as the authorities

fumbled, obfuscated and dem-onstrated incompetence and an inability to take command of the situation, to communicate clearly what they knew and did not know. In fact, we may never know what some of them did know or hid or why they did.

Mystery

SubmittedThe Kitimat Marlins attended the Smithers

regional swim meet with a small group of swim-mers but had some great individual results from all.

Olivia Pearson (9) took the silver medal for overall points in the 10 and under girls division.

Ewan Thomopoulos (10) took the bronze medal in the 10 and under boys division.

In the 11-12 age groups Hannah Pearson (11) took the bronze medal for the girls while Gabriel Lamarre (12) took the bronze for the boys.

Kleanza Cathers (14) also took the silver for the 13-14 girls.

Making the largest one swim improvement for the Marlins at the meet was Laurence Bouch-ier (13) with a 30 second improvement in her 200 meter backstroke.


Tom FletcherCandidates for municipal and

school board elections will have to register with Elections BC and re-port donations of $50 or more when they run in elections this November.

Legislation tabled by the B.C. government last Wednesday will extend the term of office to four years as well as tightening rules for campaign financing and advertis-ing. Third-party advertisers will also have to register before promoting candidates, and financial disclosures will have to be filed with Elections BC within 90 days of the vote.

Community, Sport and Cultur-al Development Minister Coralee Oakes said the new rules have been developed in consultation with the Union of B.C. Municipalities, and that discussion determined that an outright ban on anonymous dona-tions is too strict.

The disclosure rule will also ap-ply to third-party advertisers, who will have to report sources of do-nations more than $50 and identify themselves in advertising.

Campaign spending limits won’t be imposed until after the elections scheduled for Nov. 15, 2014.

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Techahche Under Water by Loretta Quock Sort is one of the works on display now at Kitimat Museum & Archives, part of their Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art Student Exhibition. The show runs to April 12.

Continued from page 6Police were unable to track

down a suspicious person re-ported at the corner of Haisla Boulevard and Tsimshian Bou-levard. A caller reported the per-son wearing all-black and wear-ing a skull-design face mask. The same person has been ob-served before by another RCMP member.

March 21A black Dell laptop was re-

ported stolen from a vehicle in the lower City Centre Mall park-ing lot. A person matching the

description of the suspect was later seen near the Dairy Queen. After being asked to empty his backpack police say they found the stolen laptop. The individual was arrested and will be appear-ing in court.

Police attended to a fight near the First Line bus depot. An officer arriving witnessed a man and woman in a fight. A member arrested the man but a witness said that the fight may have been initiated by the wom-an and the woman herself was not cooperative. The man was

released and police are still in-vestigating.

March 22Police are unsure who threw

a 2x4 through a window at Kil-dala Elementary. The hole it made was not large enough for a person to enter. Damage esti-mated at $300.

There was property dam-age to the Presbyterian Church estimated to cost $100, possibly done between 11:30 pm March 22 and 7:30 a.m. on March 23. Police have no suspects at this time.

Police beat

Great results in SmithersThe Marlin swimmers with their medals from a Smithers regional swim meet.

Skeena MLA Rob-in Austin has put his endoresment to NDP leader-hopeful John Horgan.

Austin now joins 14 other MLAs in their endorsement of Hor-gan.

“I am incredibly grateful for the sup-port and encourage-ment from this group of talented and com-mitted colleagues and the growing number of New Democrats throughout the prov-ince,” said Horgan. “They are a reflection

of the diversity of our province.”

Austin said Hor-gan understands re-

source communities.“John gets the

needs of resource-dependent communi-ties like ours and can connect with voters who live in the outer regions of B.C.” said Austin in endorsing Horgan.

“In particular, John’s work on the en-ergy file is well known and respected – having a leader who under-stands the importance of this issue matters a great deal for those of us living in the north-west.”

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bottle feeding. With the appearance of their fi rst tooth, it’s time to switch to a soft-bristled toothbrush and for their fi rst visit to the dentist within six months of getting their fi rst tooth, before their fi rst birthday. Consult with your health professional to determine when your child should begin using a fl uoridated toothpaste. Schedule visits every six months after that to ensure proper tooth development.DiabeticsPeople who suffer from diabetes are more likely than others to suffer from oral health issues. In fact, nearly two out of three adults with diabetes also suffer from infl amed gums – a sign of gingivitis. Your oral care routine should consist of fl ossing, brushing - for the dentist recommended two minutes - twice daily and rinsing. – (News Canada)

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April is...fl uoridated toothpaste. Schedule visits every six months after that to ensure proper tooth development.

People who suffer from diabetes are more likely than others to suffer from oral health issues. In fact, nearly two out of three adults with diabetes also suffer from infl amed gums – a sign of gingivitis. Your oral care routine should consist of fl ossing, brushing - for the

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Jeff NagelThe NDP is ac-

cusing the provincial government of handing over control of B.C.’s blue box recycling sys-tem to Toronto-based multinational execu-tives who will be unac-countable while B.C. businesses and house-holds pay higher costs.

Opposition small business critic Lana Popham raised the is-sue of Multi Material BC in the Legislature, calling on the province to change course before

the agency’s new sys-tem for recycling pack-aging and printed paper takes effect May 19.

“If government doesn’t take a step back, B.C.’s recycling system is going to end up in a giant dumpster,” Popham said.

“The control of re-cycling should never have been outsourced to the large corporate interests based in On-tario and abroad. This is a profound failure. This program needs to be paused and the entire

concept reconsidered.”Popham’s com-

ments follow the launch earlier this month of a campaign against MMBC by a coalition of business groups, in-cluding the newspaper industry, who say they can’t afford to pay high fees imposed under the new system.

“The Liberal gov-ernment loves to claim they’re getting rid of red tape,” she said in an interview Monday. “So it’s quite ironic because MMBC is a Godzilla-

sized red tape monster.”Although MMBC

is registered as a soci-ety, Popham called it a “dummy corporation” because two of its three directors are Toronto-based senior executives with Loblaws and Uni-lever, while the third is MMBC managing di-rector Allan Langdon.

The Saanich South NDP MLA said the province should force MMBC to give B.C. stakeholders majority control.

Popham said the

MMBC system will be “dangerously close to monopoly” resulting in less competititon and innovation in recycling.

She also said mu-nicipalities have been pressured into signing contracts with inade-quate compensation for their costs, the threat of penalties for contami-nation and a gag clause.

MMBC’s new re-cycling fees on busi-nesses will be passed along to consumers through higher prices, Popham said, calling

it a “hidden tax” that won’t be transparent to consumers.

Meanwhile, she says cities are unlikely to rebate property taxes that households already pay for recycling.

“The slogan for MMBC should prob-ably be ‘Recycle once, but pay twice.’”

In some cities where MMBC won’t provide services, such as Kamloops, residents will pay for nothing, Popham added.

MMBC says it will

take new types of con-tainers and packaging not collected in B.C. before.

But Popham noted glass will no longer be collected curbside in many cities and there’s little evidence the sys-tem will improve recy-cling rates overall.

She said a smarter approach would have been to extend the beverage can deposit-refund system to more containers, such as milk cartons and laundry de-tergent jugs.

NDP takes aim at province’s recycling program

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A small majority of Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce members – 51.3 per cent – who filled out an online survey about Enbridge’s planned Northern Gateway pipeline support the project.

And more than 60 per cent feel the pipe-line will benefit their business.

Conducted from March 5 to March 19, the survey asked 11 questions surrounding the Northern Gateway project.

Results were re-leased last week.

Of the nearly 290 members of the cham-ber, approximately one in seven – or 41 mem-bers – filled out the sur-vey, a chamber press release indicated.

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sponse percentage.1. The 180 day

Joint Review Panel provided an adequate review process – 59.4 per cent in agreement.

2. Pipelines are a safer means to trans-port oil/condensate product than rail – 83.8 per cent in agreement.

3. The process to date has been adequate in keeping First Na-tions informed – 59.4 per cent in agreement.

4. People in the Northwest will benefit from Northern Gate-way Pipeline skills training programs – 72.9 per cent in agree-ment.

5. A pipeline de-signed with today’s engineering expertise and technology will adequately minimize the risks of pipeline leaks – 67.5 per cent in agreement.

6. Northern Gate-way Pipeline creates a risk to marine environ-ment – 67.5 per cent in agreement.

7. My concerns around the Northern Gateway Pipeline have been answered – 59.4 per cent in agreement.

8. Northern Gate-way Pipeline is impor-tant to the economic strength of Canada – 67.6 per cent in agree-ment.

9. Northern Gate-way Pipeline will posi-tively affect my busi-ness – more than 60 per cent in agreement.

10. Northern Gate-way Pipeline will bring economic stimulus and infrastructure dollars to the northwest – 73 per cent.

11. I support the Northern Gateway Pipeline project – 51.3 per cent.

A provincial cabinet minister is confident at least one liquefied natu-ral gas company will make a final in-vestment decision either by the end of this year or at least by this time next year.

“My hope is that by the end of 2015, hopefully we’ll see three,” said Aboriginal Affairs and Recon-ciliation Minister John Rustad who was on a brief tour of the region re-cently.

Although the northwest is re-garded as the hotbed for potential LNG projects, he said one near Squamish shows great potential.

Woodfibre LNG, owned by a company controlled by an Indone-sian billionaire, has expectations of producing LNG by 2017.

It has yet to receive environmen-tal approval for a project that would export 2.1 million tonnes of LNG a year, making it one of the smaller proposals being promoted in B.C.

It would be built on a former pulp mill site, has access to an exist-ing natural gas pipeline and access to power.

In making his prediction, Rustad did acknowledge the billions of dol-lars it costs to build natural gas pipe-lines and liquefaction plants.

Financial troubles have stopped, at least for now, development of the

BCLNG facility near Kitimat.Small in nature (its gas would

come from the existing Pacific Northern Gas pipeline), the project was the first to receive environmen-tal and regulatory approval. Initial plans called for it to be under con-struction by this year.

And Apache, an equal partner with Chevron in the Kitimat LNG project, has announced plans to sell some of its ownership stake because of increasing costs.

“You have to remember that any one of these projects dwarfs what is now the largest industrial project in B.C. and that is Rio Tinto Alcan at $3.3 billion,” said Rustad. “The [LNG] plants themselves are $10-15 billion.”

That’s why Rustad said it isn’t unusual for companies to sell off portions of their projects to other companies.

“It’s tough for a company to raise that kind of capital,” said Rus-tad.

If anything, Rustad added, it should be comforting to know that the largest energy companies in the world are interested in northwestern B.C.’s LNG potential.

“And we’ve got the gas supply to support a number of these proj-ects,” he said.


10 Truths About Oil Spills That Every British Columbian Should KnowMarch 24, 2014 was the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. To help remember the spill, and to provide a dose of reality in the face of millions of dollars of advertising for the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, here are 10 truths about oil spills that every British Columbian should know:

1. Oil spill cleanup is a myth: Once oil is spilled, the battle is lost. Rarely is more than 10 per cent of a marine spill ever recovered. Exxon spent more than $2 billion trying to clean up its Alaska spill, but recovered less than seven per cent.

2. Oil spills cause long-term environmental damage: Twenty-� ve years after the Alaska spill, scientists are � nding oil on the beaches that in some cases is just as fresh and toxic as if it had been spilled only a few weeks ago. Some populations, such as Paci� c herring and the AT1 killer whale pod have never recovered.

3. Oil spill restoration is impossible: Once a coastal or marine ecosystem is “broken,” it cannot be “� xed.” All the money in the world can’t repair a destroyed ecosystem or the human communities that depend on it.

4. Taxpayers are on the hook: Oil spill “cleanup” costs are covered by international cleanup funds up to only $1.4 billion. Taxpayers would be on the hook for as much as $22 billion if an Exxon-sized spill occurred in B.C.

5. Enbridge has zero liability: If there’s a spill outside its marine terminal, Enbridge is not responsible. This lack of responsibility is compounded by the fact that tanker companies use numbered companies to reduce their liability and � nancial risk in the event of a spill.

6. Double-hull tankers do not eliminate the risk of oil spills: Enbridge has acknowledged that approximately 30 double-hull tanker incidents have been reported over the past 20 years. At least one of these, the Volgoneft, spilled 1,300 tonnes of oil into the Black Sea after suffering a structural failure during a storm.

7. Government offi cials play down the risk of an oil spill: Seeking approval to build the Trans Alaska Pipeline in the 1970s, industry and government promised oil would be shipped safely from Alaska, and “not one drop” would be spilled thanks to fail-safe technologies. BP and Shell made similar promises before their drilling rig accidents in 2010 and 2012. We’ve heard the same “world-class” promises in Canada, at a time when coast guard resources and environmental emergency response centres are being cut in B.C.

8. The coastal economy would be destroyed: An oil spill would have devastating impacts on B.C.’s marine economy. Marine sectors on the north and central coasts and Haida Gwaii generate $386.5 million in revenue and provide 7,620 direct, indirect, and induced jobs.

9. Coastal First Nations have already banned oil tankers from their traditional territories: In upholding our ancestral laws, rights and responsibilities, the Coastal First Nations have declared that oil tankers carrying crude oil will not be allowed to transit our lands and waters. It is a sacred duty to pass our territories and culture on to following generations in good order.

10. Oil spills will be an issue in the next federal election: The Conservatives are the only political party that supports the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and oil tankers project. British Columbians will have a chance to vote against those who put our coast at risk of an oil spill in October 2015.

If we care about B.C.’s north coast and the people that live there, then we will reject the Northern Gateway pipeline and oil tankers project. The Coastal First Nations invite all concerned citizens to support our oil tanker ban by signing a declaration of support at:

www.oilspilltruths.com

Exxon Valdez:25 years later

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There is oil on beaches in Alaska as toxic as if it had been spilled only a few weeks ago.

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Oil Spill Truth #1:Oil spill “cleanup” is a myth.

Oil Spill Truth #2:Time doesn’t heal all wounds.

April 30IS YOUR CHILD starting kindergarten this year? The Health Unit will be holding a Pre-Kindergarten Immunization Clinic-KindergartenRound Up fair for all children born in the year 2009. Please call 632-3181 to book your appointment for 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.OngoingTHURSDAYS, sign up for the BC Seniors Games Zone 10, 1 to 4 p.m. at the Kitimat Seniors Centre. Every Thursday as long as necessary.The Christ the King

Parish Bereavement Ministry Committee is sponsoring “Con-necting Each Other with Hope,” a six week grief support group for adults who are griev-ing the death of a loved one. Sessions begin March 3, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Catholic Church Hall, and ends April 7. Sessions 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.PICKLE BALL. Every Tuesday and Thurs-day, from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the River-

lodge. For those aged 50+. Call the Kitimat Seniors’ Centre at 250-632-3475 for further info.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-opment Center. They welcome families throughout pregnancy and up to one year (older siblings wel-come). Come meet other parents and in-

fants over light refresh-ments with support from the CDC staff and a Public Health Nurse. For more info call 250-632-3144.CHILD DEVELOP-MENT CENTRE Fam-ily Fun Spot Drop-In Monday and Friday afternoons 1-3 p.m., Wednesday mornings 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Ages 0-5 wel-come “A Great place for families to meet over coffee and toys!” Contact 250-632-3144 for more information.KITIMAT MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS - 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. Total con-

� dentiality. For more info contact Mary at 250-639-6016.AGLOW OF KITI-MAT - All are welcome at our Care Group and Bible Study for men and women, singles or married, Thursday at 7:00 P.M. For info phone Brenda at 250-632-1616. DID YOU KNOW that literacy is more than just being able to read? The Kitimat Adult Literacy Program pro-vides FREE tutoring services for adult in-terested in improving their reading, writing, math, communica-tion, and information 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.kitimatcommu-nityservices.ca/KALP.html or � nd us on face-book. DO YOU HAVE DIA-BETES? We offer indi-vidual and group coun-seling. Certi� cation for blood glucose strips is available. Make an ap-pointment and bring your meter. The Good Food Box is part of our program. Forms for this can be picked up at the Living Well Pro-gram or at the hospital main desk. Donations

for this worthwhile program are always ac-cepted. For more info call 250-632-8313 dur-ing operating hours - Wednesdays 8:00 a.m. to noon, Thursdays 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. - or leave message on our voice mail. We are located on the second � oor of the Kitimat Hospital in the Home Support of� ces.PRAYER CANADA KITIMAT meets at the Northwest Community College Kitimat cam-pus, from noon - 1:00 p.m. Enter at main entrance and turn left, meeting room will be on the right. Wheel-chair accessible. All are welcome. For info call Lesley at 250-632-4554.


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We would like to invite the community to an open house on Tuesday, April 8 at the Kitimat Rod and Gun Club. There, you will have the chance to meet with Northern Gateway Project experts in the areas of Marine Emergency Response; Skills and Training; Marine Terminal Design and Construction; Pipeline Leak Detection; and Tanker Safety and Shipping.

We’ll also host a panel presentation during the evening so you can learn about specific aspects of our proposed marine safety programs and the long-term opportunities associated with the project.

We hope you will find this to be a great opportunity to talk with our team and other community members. Bring your questions, and let’s continue the discussion about Northern Gateway.

We look forward to seeing you there.

KITIMAT, LET’S TALKBUILDING A SAFER, BETTER PROJECT

Tuesday, April 8 6:00-7:00pm: Open house, meet the experts 7:00-8:00pm: Presentations 8:00-9:00pm: Open house, meet the experts

Kitimat Rod and Gun Club 386 Haisla Blvd.

For more information, contact our Kitimat Office at 250-632-5431

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Kitimat Northern Sentinel, April 02, 2014