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Northern Sentinel K I T I M A T Volume 61 No. 16 www.northernsentinel.com Wednesday, April 22, 2015 $ 1.30 INCLUDES TAX Kitimat- raised poet came to town. /page 8 Weightlifter breaks records in St. Johns. /page 12 PM477761 Affordable home group wants money for studies Cameron Orr A new housing society in Kitimat with plans to build affordable homes in the Whitesail neigh- bourhood is looking to Kitimat Council for assis- tance as they undertake environmental surveys of the land. The Mountain View Housing Society seeks to develop land adjacent to the Mountain View Alli- ance Church for affordable homes, on land which can accommodate up to 30 units, according to early studies. Even so, the group still needs to take a good look at the soil, which is possibly contaminated from an unknown history. Assuming the restoration costs won’t be too high a burden, the society can move ahead on the project. Representing the society was Don Read, who’s also the pastor for the neighbouring Moun- tainview Alliance church. Read said the society is looking for a match- ing grant of $15,000, or potentially up to $30,000, to undergo the environmental assessment for the ground. “The best guess is that Rio Tinto maybe, at one time, had a substation on the property. It’s unclear. All the documentation we have doesn’t show there was something there but through per- sonal interviews...there were individuals that said there was something there they couldn’t recol- lect,” he said. Doing the study will determine the overall cost of rehabilitating the land, and therefore how affordable a project could be. The group has been working with BC Hous- ing but dealing with them is no cake walk. Continued on page 9 One year on, DCW still on guard Cameron Orr Douglas Channel Watch is still standing guard and reminding the world their position on the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline project remains un- flappable. Members assembled in Centennial Park on April 12 with signs familiar to anyone who lived through the 2014 plebiscite, including the common “Unit- ed Against Enbridge” blue signs. One year on the group sees a dimin- ished Northern Gateway. “Enbridge has sort of disappeared on the landscape. They’ve disap- peared from media, from newspapers as compared to last year,” said Murray Minchin. He said the group’s heard of possible door-knocking campaigns and suspicious phone surveys in other com- munities. “I think they’re out there trying to come up with a softer and cuddlier ver- sion of their Northern Gateway pro- posal.” They just don’t get the fact that bitumen coming through this valley and down this channel is a no-go.” What’s next for the group though? Preparing the next step has not usually been in their playbook. “We never had a strategy,” said Minchin. “We’re run and gun and re- act. Like in a hockey context we’re the reflex goalie, the one that just reacts to whatever’s going on. We have long- term ideas...but there’s no real strategy involved, but that keeps up nimble and unpredictable.” He said the group had been invited by Enbridge to participate in Joint Re- view Panel mandated studies in to how bitumen reacts in water but they de- clined the offer. “In the first half hour it will be spun that Enbridge will claim ‘committed en- vironmentalists join Enbridge and the Enbridge team in making this a safer project...’ It’s just crazy because we know what happens to diluted bitumen when it separates and becomes bitumen in the water.” Meanwhile Northern Gateway itself continues onwards, according to com- pany spokesperson Ivan Giesbrecht. “I would say that our current prior- ity is to build trust, engage in respect- ful dialogues and to develop meaning- ful partnerships with First Nations and Metis communities. We believe First Nations and Metis communities should share in the ownership and benefits of Northern Gateway and we want to en- sure this happens,” said Giesbrecht in an e-mail to the Sentinel. “At the same time, Northern Gate- way continues to work to meet the con- ditions set by the Joint Review Panel and the B.C. government. One example of that is a research program we are undertaking with the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers to examine the behavior, cleanup, and re- covery of heavy oils spilled in freshwa- ter and marine aquatic environments.” He continues. “The project propo- nents remain committed to Northern Gateway and building this critical Ca- nadian infrastructure. As we continue to move forward, we have made internal organizational changes to reflect the ac- tive participation of the project propo- nents and our focus on First Nations and Metis partnerships.” Recently the company has cut down on the hours for their City Centre Mall office space. Patricia Lange, at left, speaks to fellow Douglas Channel Watch members during a rally marking the one-year point from the community plebiscite on Northern Gateway. Cameron Orr “I think they’re out there trying to come up with a softer and cuddlier version of their Northern Gateway proposal.”

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NorthernSentinelK I T I M A T

Volume 61 No. 16 www.northernsentinel.com Wednesday, April 22, 2015 $1.30 INCLUDESTAX

Kitimat-raised poet came to town.

/page 8

Weightlifter breaks records in St. Johns.

/page 12

PM477761

Affordable home group wants money for studiesCameron Orr

A new housing society in Kitimat with plans to build affordable homes in the Whitesail neigh-bourhood is looking to Kitimat Council for assis-tance as they undertake environmental surveys of the land.

The Mountain View Housing Society seeks to develop land adjacent to the Mountain View Alli-ance Church for affordable homes, on land which can accommodate up to 30 units, according to early studies.

Even so, the group still needs to take a good look at the soil, which is possibly contaminated from an unknown history.

Assuming the restoration costs won’t be too high a burden, the society can move ahead on the project.

Representing the society was Don Read, who’s also the pastor for the neighbouring Moun-tainview Alliance church.

Read said the society is looking for a match-ing grant of $15,000, or potentially up to $30,000, to undergo the environmental assessment for the ground.

“The best guess is that Rio Tinto maybe, at one time, had a substation on the property. It’s unclear. All the documentation we have doesn’t show there was something there but through per-sonal interviews...there were individuals that said there was something there they couldn’t recol-lect,” he said.

Doing the study will determine the overall cost of rehabilitating the land, and therefore how affordable a project could be.

The group has been working with BC Hous-ing but dealing with them is no cake walk.

Continued on page 9

One year on, DCW still on guardCameron Orr

Douglas Channel Watch is still standing guard and reminding the world their position on the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline project remains un-� appable.

Members assembled in Centennial Park on April 12 with signs familiar to anyone who lived through the 2014 plebiscite, including the common “Unit-ed Against Enbridge” blue signs.

One year on the group sees a dimin-ished Northern Gateway.

“Enbridge has sort of disappeared on the landscape. They’ve disap-peared from media, from newspapers as compared to last year,” said Murray Minchin. He said the group’s heard of possible door-knocking campaigns and suspicious phone surveys in other com-munities.

“I think they’re out there trying to come up with a softer and cuddlier ver-sion of their Northern Gateway pro-posal.” They just don’t get the fact that bitumen coming through this valley and down this channel is a no-go.”

What’s next for the group though? Preparing the next step has not usually been in their playbook.

“We never had a strategy,” said Minchin. “We’re run and gun and re-

act. Like in a hockey context we’re the re� ex goalie, the one that just reacts to whatever’s going on. We have long-term ideas...but there’s no real strategy involved, but that keeps up nimble and unpredictable.”

He said the group had been invited by Enbridge to participate in Joint Re-view Panel mandated studies in to how bitumen reacts in water but they de-clined the offer.

“In the � rst half hour it will be spun that Enbridge will claim ‘committed en-vironmentalists join Enbridge and the Enbridge team in making this a safer project...’ It’s just crazy because we know what happens to diluted bitumen when it separates and becomes bitumen in the water.”

Meanwhile Northern Gateway itself continues onwards, according to com-pany spokesperson Ivan Giesbrecht.

“I would say that our current prior-

ity is to build trust, engage in respect-ful dialogues and to develop meaning-ful partnerships with First Nations and Metis communities. We believe First Nations and Metis communities should share in the ownership and bene� ts of Northern Gateway and we want to en-sure this happens,” said Giesbrecht in an e-mail to the Sentinel.

“At the same time, Northern Gate-way continues to work to meet the con-ditions set by the Joint Review Panel and the B.C. government. One example of that is a research program we are undertaking with the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers to examine the behavior, cleanup, and re-covery of heavy oils spilled in freshwa-ter and marine aquatic environments.”

He continues. “The project propo-nents remain committed to Northern Gateway and building this critical Ca-nadian infrastructure. As we continue to move forward, we have made internal organizational changes to re� ect the ac-tive participation of the project propo-nents and our focus on First Nations and Metis partnerships.”

Recently the company has cut down on the hours for their City Centre Mall of� ce space.

Patricia Lange, at left, speaks to fellow Douglas Channel Watch members during a rally marking the one-year point from the community plebiscite on Northern Gateway.

Cameron Orr

“I think they’re out there trying to come up with a softer and cuddlier

version of their Northern Gateway proposal.”

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Kitimat RCMP re-ceived two reports of four or five dirt bikes in a park on Quatsino Boulevard and Kuldo Boulevard. Two youths were spoken to and warned not to ride their dirt bikes in the park. The youths were apolo-getic.

April 7At 11:50 a.m.

the RCMP attended to a mischief com-plaint behind a build-ing at Mountain View Square. Police noted graffiti painted on the

business wall and the file remains under in-vestigation.

At 11:45 pm an of-fier conducted a vehi-cle stop on Enterprise Avenue, after seeing the car at a burnt out tail light. The driver displayed symptoms of impairment and failed a roadside screening. The 30-year-old Cal-gary man received an immediate driving pro-hibition.

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and 4:30 p.m. two offi-cers conducted seatbelt checks on Quatsino

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April 9At 1:45 p.m. the

RCMP conducted a ve-hicle stop in the upper City Centre. The male driver was identified as a prohibited driver and the 36-year-old Kiti-mat resident had his vehicle impounded and released on a promise to appear.

At 3:30 p.m. the

police attended to a call of an assault at the lower City Centre Mall parking lot, and police on investigation found the fight was consensual, but a male does remain under in-vestigation for utter-ing threats. There were no injuries during the fight.

April 10At 11:11 p.m. the

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to appear.April 11At 4:27 p.m. the

RCMP investigated a disturbance in a home, and later attended the hospital on the same file. Police say at the hospital they found a man, in the company of a woman which was contrary to court imposed conditions. A 33-year-old man was arrested and remanded to appear in court in Terrace.

April 12At 3:30 a.m. the

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der the Controlled Sub-stance Act and recov-ered cocaine powder, baggies and approxi-mately $1,000 in cash. Two persons inside the residence were arrest-ed and subsequently released, police say, while the file remains under investigation.

At 9:05 a.m. the police attended to up-

per City Centre for a report of a disturbance involving an intoxicat-ed male. Police found that the person was not able to care for him-self and was taken to RCMP holding cells until sober. The man was released but given a violation ticket for public intoxication on his way out.

Hydrant damages no risk: ChiefCameron Orr

The Kitimat Fire Chief is emphasiz-ing the community is still well protected from fire, even as there are a number of broken fire hydrants in the community.

Trent Bossence issued the statement through the District of Kitimat commu-nications channels. The Sentinel was un-able to connect with him directly on this issue before our deadline.

Broken hydrants in Kitimat are a re-sult of February’s snowstorm, Bossence said in his communication.

Due to the labour strike, replacement and repair will not take place until after the strike is resolved.

Even so, he said no homes in Kitimat are in danger due to the adequate cover-age either from other hydrants or the ca-pacity of the fire trucks themselves.

“Kitimat has a robust water distribu-tion system with sufficient hydrants to manage fire suppression duties,” writes Bossence. “ Fire trucks carry 500 gallons of water and ample hose to reach other hydrants, if necessary.”

The letter says that it’s “not uncom-mon” for fire hydrants to be out of esr-vice for a month or two even in normal circumstances.

Even so, repair of hydrants will be a top priority as soon as the labour situ-ation is resolved, even as he emphasizes the public is not in danger.

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Show me the moneyA few things for the town to spend money onCameron Orr

As the town moves towards fully adopting the year’s bud-get, councillors took a few laps

at items that remain on the to-do list, and debated whether certain items should be included in the budget this time around.

The debate all centred around the municipal budget which this year is sticking to a three per cent increase in tax rates, as was the

town’s direction when budget deliberations began.

From crosswalks to play-grounds, here’s a round-up on

some of the outstanding pur-chases council sought to review and what they’re is going to do about them:

Fire training grounds

Radley Park sites

Pedestrian wayfinding

Hirsch Creek trails

Wakita crosswalk Riverlodge playground upgrade

Buildings assessment study

Fire hall generator

Master Plan review

Library cladding

The fire hall will get $52,000 to upgrade their training centre. It’s not just from the fire hall’s fantasy list, but maintaining their train-ing ground, which is getting old and worn down, is essential for the fire hall to maintain their level of certification, Fire Chief Trent Bossence said.

The expenditure is part of a multi-year plan to upgrade the grounds, located on Forest Avenue.

Kitimat Council opted in February not to give a pre-budget approval to replacing the fire hall’s broken back-up generator, which failed af-ter Kitimat’s massive snowstorm in February.

The $120,000 expenditure was put off again, but this time in an effort to seek out lower costs for the product.

Councillors seemed to agree that a new gen-erator is necessary but weren’t ready to rush in to outright give the green light to the high cost, but instead to look at pricing for used units or some sort of lease-to-buy arrangements.

The fire chief said that a part has been found which may potentially bring the current genera-tor back to life for a limited amount of time, but even so the back-up generator as is doesn’t sup-ply 100 per cent of the power needs of the fire hall — including bay lighting and some com-puter systems — and that a new generator would fix that gap.

The library’s covered walkway in their outside passageway needs some re-cladding.

At $30,000, council approved the expense, which will be paid from the town’s building reserve fund.

Some councillors were concerned it was merely aesthetic at this point, while others noted that if you fall behind on work it gets harder to catch up.

Councillors Claire Rattée and Mario Feld-hoff voted against approval, with the rest of council in favour.

Council voted to bring a $10,000 crosswalk project to Wakita Street at Nalabila.

The crosswalk has been an item of interest for residents in the area but there was discussion on whether crosswalks truly alleviate some traffic issues. Larry Walker noted the traffic committee has just recommended moving a school zone sign in order to encapsulate the area where this cross-walk would otherwise go. Engineer Tim Gleig also added that reports have shown crosswalks are not always effective.

Even so the motion did pass, with Walker and Edwin Empinado opposed.

The master plan review — which would have covered mainly Leisure Services operations — has now become an Official Community Plan up-date project, which comes with a total price tag of $100,000. The project is essentially an amalga-mation of two $50,000 projects, the master plan review and a social development strategy.

This $35,000 project actually comes from a grant, meaning it won’t ac-tually cost taxpayers money for it, which for the most part will update and install signage for the town’s walkways to guide people around. This expen-diture was tabled, but only until councillors can get a report on how else they can use the grant. The grant is designed for projects that encourage walking — or discourage driving — as a means to improve air quality. Councillors wanted to know if there were better ways to spend the money. The same grant will be used to upgrade the electric vehicle charging stations.

The Riverlodge’s playground is an existing non-conforming structure which basically means as far as the safety code goes, it’s grandfathered in.

So the question to councillors was should they spend $55,000 to replace the playground, bringing it up to modern codes.

The playground is not in dire straits, but any single modification to the playground would require extensive work to bring it in to ac-ceptable code.

Council opted to table the ex-pense, to await a report from Lei-sure Services about its playground

strategy for the whole town. For instance if money is better spent installing a playground on Wozney Street, or if there are other struc-tures which may need more work. Claire Rattée noted some people in the community have indicated they’d rather see an improved play-ground at Kildala Elementary. (she noted she is aware it’s a school dis-trict property)

Mary Murphy voted against the report, only because she be-lieved the work should be done to the Riverlodge playground right away, given its age and non-con-formity to current standards.

This may have been the larg-est discussion among councillors seeking ways to trim the budget.

At $575,000 it was certainly the most expensive.

The monies for this will be pulled out of the District’s build-ing reserves, and would essentially call on experts to provide a com-prehensive inventory of the Dis-trict’s owned buildings, and would include information about condi-tion and would potentially make a baseline for council to begin creat-ing reserve plans for future build-ing replacements, District staff said.

Even so it was a heavy dis-cussion about whether to pull the money out for this now or to do it later.

“I think this is one of the most important things for us at this time. We’re on the cusp of some major industrial development and doing a building assessment study and knowing what needs to be done and when, is going to give us the reason to justify taxation,” said Mayor Phil Germuth.

Opposition to the motion came from Mario Feldhoff, who believed the over half-million could be used better on more im-mediate projects, such as mov-

ing forward on developing aQuatsino sidewalk.

“I do believe we do need to do a building assessment at some point but I think this can be very safely deferred, and we can do the study next year,” he said.

He noted that it would be years before any actual work would be able to take place on municipal buildings.

Treasurer Steve Christiansen said the study would give the staff the leeway to begin building re-serve accounts for projects which may not happen for eight years, for instance.

“We have about $100 million worth of buildings and this would use about half a per cent of that cost, which I think is pretty impor-tant to get professional engineers, geotechnical people, asbestos ex-perts, all these people to actually study and say what we should re-place and what we don’t need to replace.”

Fire Chief Trent Bossence, who is heading organizing the building assessment project, also said that if council tried to lower costs by splitting the work over a year or two would likely raise costs in bringing in the experts more than once.”

Council is pressing ahead with an expansion at Radley Park with 10 new sites, plus expanding electrical to eight existing units.

The plan, coming from the town’s reserves, will cost $146,539, and was approved unani-mously by council.

Among the arguments for the expansion was to provide more paid camping opportunities to counter the existing riverbank camping problem.

Deputy Leisure Services Director Shaun O’Neill said that with the abundance of people in Kitimat lately the usage at Radley Park has been quite high, and even full most weekends in the summer.

Last year was also the first year the camp-ground recouped all its operation expenses — many Leisure Services facilities do not.

Council tabled a $60,000 project for Hirsch Creek which would upgrade a portion of the trail to be wheelchair accessible.

Among the reasons to table it was the uncer-tainty about whether there was a large demand for such a project.

By tabling it council will be expecting to hear back from the Persons with Disabilities Commis-sion about its demand.

Other reportsCouncillors have sought for two reports

on projects that are not included in this year’s budget. One is on the subject of recycling fa-cilities. Especially given the uncertainty from KUTE’s retiring board, council moved to have staff create a report on recycling options for Kitimat.

Council has also asked staff to prepare a report for options on building or developing sidewalks in the Kildala neighbourhood.

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Most regular readers of my col-umn will know I am a bit of a comput-er addict and news junkie. I do spend much more time than likely is healthy trolling through news sources on my laptop. You’ll know too that I’m not wholeheartedly in favour of the con-tent from numerous “news” suppliers. One of the growing agencies that fre-quently helps push my blood pressure past the 120/80 level is the Huf� ngton Post.

Huf� ngton Post is a relative new-comer to the � eld. It was launched in 2005, as a liberal/left commentary outlet and alternative news source. In 2011, America on Line (AOL) acquired the mass market HP for US$315 million, making Arianna Huf� ngton editor-in-chief of The Huf� ngton Post Media Group, which became the � rst commercially run US digital media enterprise to win a Pu-litzer Prize. HuffPost, as it likes to be known, has since grown incrementally and is a very large organization, with numerous national, international/local editions, including Huffpost Canada. Its subject material has also expand-

ed into blogs, opinion and numerous commentary matter.

In general it does a very good job, world wide but also on a daily basis it covers material which frequently gets my goat.

Frosting me today, is another of the HP’s Toronto-centric offerings. Recently, a writer tapped out an article on what $1 million will buy you in real estate and today they followed up with a review of similar funky real es-tate bargains in Toronto, only the price limit was raised to $5 million to re� ect the differences in real estate values in Montreal and Toronto.

I hear you saying, “Don’t like it? Don’t read it.” I can’t deny that ad-vice but often you’re “in” before you know the content or its condescending,

fawning and ingratiating attitude.Of course I can unsubscribe and

stop reading HP, but so many legiti-mate news source are going behind paywalls to � ght off the successes of rapidly expanding online news pur-veyors such as Huf� ngton Post.

Frankly, it’s getting more dif� cult daily to � nd out what’s going on in the world in a trustworthy way. The Globe and Mail and Toronto Sun are among the dozens of major newspapers trying to charge for access to their websites.

I contribute to none, as yet.The variety of believable sources

is still immense so it’s just not neces-sary.

What did I have against the Huff-Post article I mentioned?

Try this description of “a spectac-ular 5,400 sq.ft. New York style loft, features exclusivity and luxury in the heart of King West.” (A bargain at $4.3 million, no doubt.)

“The open concept living/dining room, gourmet kitchen and separate catering kitchen create an excellent space for entertaining.

Continued on page 5

Online news can be a muddy field

Down by the riverIt must be spring, we’re talking about riverbank

camping again.The subject was not lost on councillors recently

who worked their way through some of their sup-plemental projects in their annual budget last week. (and if you haven’t yet, take a look on page 3 for what stuck and want didn’t).

Councillors reminded themselves again that they should look in to this subject, or at least dig out the older reports to bring everyone up to speed on the is-sues and challenges for solving the issue.

Last May the subject had come up and there was a motion to install no-parking signs, but councillors didn’t believe the signs would solve any problem — or might even create new problems — and District staff said even with signs it’s the enforcement of those rules which would challenge the municipality.

The councillor who was championing installing the signs was Mary Murphy who noted that no other town allows camping like this, for such extensive pe-riods of time.

From what I can gather, she’s right.Tapping my extensive network of fellow editors

and reporters from throughout the chain I asked if any other community has problems like Kitimat.

While there are a few issues here and there, none are of the same sort as Kitimat deals with.

In Prince Rupert in July last year the mayor di-rected the city staff to write to the ministry of trans-portation to enforce the rules for a pullout at Taylor Lake, where motorists had been taking advantage of long-term parking, impacting daytime users.

Terrace occasionally has people parking along the Skeena River too, but not as chronically as Kitimat, and word from our sister paper, the Ter-race Standard, is that it’s not a problem anyone has brought up.

From Chilliwack they said they did have a prob-lem but we quickly realized that they were talking about parking on the road near their rivers and lakes, not actually parking on the riverbank itself.

The most relevant community I did discover was Keremeos, a small community near Oliver and the Canada-U.S. border. I’ve only heard through my peers in that area and unfortunately couldn’t get a conversation with the municipality down there itself before deadline, but the situation sounds like camp-ing issues on the river on the outskirts of their town.

What I heard the town has done, and again this is from trusted colleagues and I still plan to follow up later, is that Keremeos, with the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen and the Ministry of Envi-ronment are working together to put environmental protections on ecologically sensitive lands to prevent camping.

Remains to be seen if issues like enforcement will be a stumbling block, as it would be here, but such a partnership could be a precedent for work to be done in Kitimat.

Cameron Orr

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Clear cutsKerkhoff Construction has begun the process of clearing the land to make way for the Haisla Town Centre development. The first phase will see the construction of an apartment building. The trees were cleared to make room, but the extent of the cut is as far as they need to go, and the company does have to respect a 60 metre tree line buffer as well, which is a condition of the rezoning for the property.

Josh MasseyThe resumption

this month of a de-layed appeal of a per-mit allowing Rio Tinto Alcan to increase the amount of sulphur di-oxide (S0

2) released

into the atmosphere once its modernized Kitimat aluminum smelter goes into pro-duction will feature a number of expert wit-nesses.

The appeal, launched in 2013 by individuals from Kiti-mat and Terrace and by conservation groups before the provincial environmental appeal board, opposes the planned increase to 42 tonnes a day of sulphur dioxide from the cur-rent 27 tonnes a day.

Rio Tinto Alcan’s new smelter will pro-duce more aluminum

than the old one, in-creasing the amount of S0

2 being generated.Instead, the in-

dividuals and groups want Rio Tinto Alcan to install scrubbers which would use sea water to transform the S0

2 into a form of salt

and then release it into the Douglas Channel at Kitimat.

The new smelter will cut emissions of

other pollutants and Rio Tinto Alcan says it’s disappointed that raising the emissions of one pollutant is causing a backlash among people in the Terrace and Kitimat airsheds.

One of the groups opposing the S0

2 in-

crease is SkeenaWild and its executive direc-tor estimates the cost of installing scrubbers

to bring emissions down to zero would be approximately $200 million.

But installing scrubbers to keep air-borne emissions at the current level would cost half that, says Greg Knox.

“They already have a permit to release 27 tonnes of sulfur di-oxide, so if they kept within that permit they

would have to spend $100 million,” he said.

“It’s obviously a significant cost but when you look at it, it’s a $4 billion project, so not a large percent-age,” Knox continued. “The question is, why should locals be bear-ing the cost instead of the company? It’s all about money in the end of the day...We know that scientifically

there are no safe levels of SO

2 in the atmo-

sphere and even small amounts can have impacts on people’s health. And as you in-crease that, the impacts increase,” said Knox.

However, accord-ing to Rio Tinto’s manager of commu-nications Kevin Dob-bin, “scrubbers are not solely an issue of cost.”

Continued on page 6

RTA emissions appeal resumes this month

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The elevated loft space is per-fect for a live/work lifestyle. The intimate 10 unit building is conve-niently located close to the Finan-cial District, theatres, restaurants and The Island Airport.”

Just what I’m looking for as a beach house.

It’s all just right, except for the location, the size and the price. To be fair, my bleat about the real es-tate “non-news” content from Huff-Post, is only a part of what con-cerns me.

I find that starting from my Google News page, recently I find myself on websites I’ve never seen before, and I’ve been browsing off Google News for well over 10 years. Therefore, I’m wondering if Google News is feeling the same effects of restrictions I’m seeing from the growth of paywalls on more news sites.

Paywalls prevents Internet us-

ers from accessing webpage content without a paid subscription. There are “hard” and “soft” paywalls; the first allow almost no unpaid access, while “soft” paywalls allow some leeway in what a browser can view without subscribing, mostly offer-ing a limited number of articles per month.

Newspapers have been step-ping up the use of paywalls on their websites to increase plummeting revenue from lower subscriptions and advertising income.

However, there are always al-ternatives and consumers are used to making choices.

I’m glad to find I’m not alone. A Canadian study surveyed

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Nav system cancels flightsAnna Killen

Last Wednesday only two flights took off and no flight land-ed at the Terrace-Kit-imat Northwest Re-gional Airport due to an error discovered in the navigation system used to land planes in bad weather.

The system was briefly repaired but broke down again.

Airport manager Carman Hendry said Friday that the federal agency, NavCanada, which maintains the system, reported the new failure Thursday night.

“The equipment is at the end of its life cycle and there are some rubber cover-ings [on] connections but moisture was get-ting in,” said Hendry.

R e p l a c e m e n t s have been ordered and will be installed as soon as possible, he said.

The instrument landing system is due for replacement at the end of June and the project will take eight weeks, said Hendry.

The initial situa-tion made for a hectic day at the airport.

“We have a fair amount of people in the terminal build-ing,” said Hendry last Wednesday.

A flight arriv-

ing last week had to be diverted to Smith-ers when an error in the instrument land-ing system was dis-covered around 8:30 a.m. on the plane’s approach. The instru-ment landing system uses lights and radio signals to guide planes approaching the run-way when visibility is low.

This is the second

time in two months an error in the navi-gation system has impacted flights.

Hendry said there is no public safety is-sue and that Terrace has Nav Canada tech-nicians on staff at the airport to monitor and fix the equipment.

“I don’t think there is any kind of public safety issue there at all.”

Back to old stomping groundsA Kitimat-raised poet returned to her hometown for a poetry reading, part of the BC Book Prizes Tour. Kayla Czaga has been nominated for a BC Book Prize, and read her work at Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School, and later to people at KVI.

Continued from page 5“Rio Tinto Alcan has taken great effort to

provide a comprehensive third-party scientific re-view of the environmental impact expected from SO

2 and the available technologies and courses

of action to mitigate these risks,” he said by email. “The third-party scientists conducted an 18 month study and determined that atmospheric dispersion is the most effective solution.”

And as far as the health and environmental risks, RTA maintains that “the SO

2 concentra-

tions from an aluminum smelter are very dilute and are lower than what is emitted from a SO

2

scrubber on a power plant.”RTA points out that only 11 of 200 smelters

across the world have this technology, though op-ponents argue that RTA should have world-class environmental standards at their largely expand-ed modernized Kitimat plant.

The company also says “it has developed an extremely comprehensive SO

2 environmental ef-

fects monitoring (EEM) plan that will be taking a very close look at environmental impacts and emissions from the smelter operations,” in the pe-riod following start up of the modernized plant.

It will include participation from the Kitimat Public Advisory Committee (KPAC).

Airshed studies previously submitted by Rio Tinto Alcan to obtain its new permit indicated that there would be a slight increase in incidents

of respiratory incidents for those with pre-exist-ing problems as well as higher acidity in some lakes and vegetation in the Kitimat valley.

The hearings will resume without the official presence of SkeenaWild, the Lakelse Watershed Society and Charles Claus and Lynda Gagne of Terrace.

All were denied official standing because in the case of the former their status as groups and not individuals was not permitted, while for the Terrace residents, their city was deemed outside of the major affected airshed.

However, both groups subsequently chal-lenged successfully this appeal board ruling at the BC Supreme Court, however, in all cases the appeal board did not uphold the non-binding rec-ommendations from the courts and they were still denied standing.

It is now just Emily Toews and Elisabeth Stannus of Kitimat who will be appearing at the tribunal this spring along with expert witnesses arguing on their behalf.

They will have the support of those denied standing with an effort underway to raise $50,000 for costs, says Knox.

Rio Tinto Alcan will also have expert wit-nesses defending their case at the hearing.

The hearings will be held April 27-May 1 and May 11- 15 in Victoria, and then June 1-5 and June 8-12 in Kitimat.

Emissions

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The appeal of RTA’s emissions per-mit isn’t the only thing the company is dealing with these days.

A lawsuit against Rio Tinto Alcan from some First Nations re-garding impacts to the Nechako River fishery has been allowed to proceed.

The decision by the BC Court of Appeal is a victory for the Saik’uz and Stellat’en First Na-tions, who have been seeking legal action for claims of nuisance and breach of “riprar-ian rights” against the aluminum company regarding the Kenney Dam and Alcan Res-ervoir.

The First Nations’ claims are that the company’s operation of its dam and reser-voir, including the di-version of water from the Nechako River since the ‘50s, “are causing significant im-pacts to the Nechako fisheries and harming the aboriginal rights and title of the two First Nations,” claims a press release for the two nations. The law-suit claims that the 1987 and 1997 Settle-ment Agreements en-tered into by Alcan and BC and Canada are not defenses against the First Na-tions, based on consti-tutional grounds. The Court agreed these are valid arguments for the First Nations to make in Court.

“We are very pleased with the Court’s decision. We intend to pursue our action for an injunc-tion to protect the Nechako River, our fisheries and our way of life,” said Chief Stan Thomas of the

Saik’uz First Nation.Chief Archie Pat-

rick of the Stellat’en First Nation added that “We are pleased that the Court of Ap-peal recognized that

First Nations’ aborigi-nal title exists, prior to proof in Court or trea-ties with Government, and can sustain the same kinds of private law protections as any

other individual land owner. Our Peoples are determined to con-tinue to seek justice for our rights and the Nechako River.”

In reaching its de-

cision, the court reject-ed the company’s argu-ment that First Nations have to prove their interests against the Crown before bring-ing a claim against a

third party.“This is a signifi-

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to protection now, and that third party indus-trial interests must respect those rights,” said Gregory McDade, Q.C., legal counsel for the First Nations.

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The Kitamaat Open, jointly hosted in the Rec Centre in Kitamaat Village and at Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School, proved another exciting round of basketball, with teams from all over the north competing for sweet prize money. Ultimately, for the Mens Division, it was the Prince Rupert Lights Out taking the trophy, beating the Terrace Waks 115-83. Above is the Prince Rupert Rain in their � nal against the Haisla Senior Ladies, which the Rain won 87-62. In inset is the Lights Out taking on the Waks in the � nal.

Town adopts park swap bylaw for HTC

Forest Hills rezone goes through

Cameron OrrAn exchange of

parkland has been completed with the adoption of the park closing and exchange bylaw for the Haisla Town Centre.

Council unani-mously agreed to the plan at their April 13 meeting, which takes a 100 square meter sec-tion of park that now exists within the prop-erty line of the Haisla

Town Centre and adds it to an adjacent prop-erty.

The move was required in order to make room for a future driveway access to the property at the old hos-pital site from Haisla Boulevard. Elector as-sent was required to approve the bylaw and no objections had been received.

The question was raised on what will

happen to the commu-nity Christmas tree on the property but an-swers to that question are not yet known.

Director of Plan-ning and Community Development Gwen Sewell said questions about that will likely come out in future de-velopment permit dis-cussions for the site, rather than the zoning process that comes � rst.

The Forest Hills subdivision has been given � nal approval for its plans to move a park space from a lot on a future street to a spot further north, which will allow the park to connect to a trailhead for the Hirsch Creek trail.

The adoption went through unanimously, even though the path to get there didn’t see unanimous

support to approve the park, on con-cerns that moving the park space would make it more distant for cer-tain properties in the future phase of the development.

Future development of the park, as far as installation of potential play-ground equipment, will remain up to the District of Kitimat and future decisions made.

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Low oil prices may possibly be im-pacting LNG plans in Canada but the project director for Coastal GasLink says they haven’t shifted their targets given the eco-nomic situation.

Greg Cano said the company is still targeting a ready-by date in 2016 to be pre-pared for construction, should a final invest-ment decision by LNG Canada be made.

Coastal GasLink is the TransCanada-owned pipeline project which would supply LNG Canada in Kiti-mat with its natural gas.

“We haven’t seen any change in our fo-cus on being ready to start construction next year,” said Cano. “We’re still proceed-ing with all our per-mits, all our agree-ments. Of course it all depends on the final investment decision of

LNG Canada, and it’s their decision to make on that. But we’ll be ready if and when they do.”

Meanwhile Gas-Link is moving for-ward in acquiring the remainder of their permits and approv-als. They already have their environmental assessment certificate, but they still need cer-tificates from the Oil and Gas Commission, and they’re also work-ing on First Nations benefits agreements.

“We have 19 First Nations along our route we have to con-sult and accommo-date with. We actually have several others we are discussing benefit agreements with that we are not required by the regulatory process to do that but we’re do-ing it anyway,” he said.

When the com-pany held an informa-tion session at Kitimat Valley Institute last week they were focus-ing on providing local

business providers the information on how to be involved in the proj-ect.

“The majority of our contracting op-portunities will be through our prime con-tractors,” he said. “We haven’t hired them yet, so when we hire them we want to have a list of people and services and companies, ready to give to them to say ‘these people are in-terested, go talk to them.’”

Greg Cano

That pour old sidewalkA constant stream of water has been pouring out of cracks on a sidewalk on Banyay Street. District of Kitimat Director of Engineering Tim Gleig says the town is aware of the problem but it is not so far causing any major problems, as the water is draining in to a catch basin. A repair is not currently scheduled, he said, but other utilities have been made aware of the issue.

Continued from page 1Read said that

agreements you get from BC Housing pub-licly can sometimes change behind closed doors.

“In order to move ahead with them they are going to be pro-viding us a consultant

which we will have to pay for,” he said, and added there is a lot of red tape in working with them.

The uncertainty of receiving any matching grants from BC Hous-ing is why the society is crossing their fingers they may get $30,000

from other sources such as the District of Kitimat.

Meanwhile the eventual environmen-tal study on the ground will determine if they can build at an afford-able rate.

There would be stipulations in any ap-

proved monies that if the land does end up selling that the grants would be repaid from the selling price. The land would only be sold if it’s found too costly to build afford-able units, and the soci-ety would look to other lands if that is the case.

What? A public hearing will be held on Monday, 4 May at 7:30 pm at Council Chambers, 606 Mountainview Square to consider ‘Service Centre M2 Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 1865.’

What changes?McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd. has submitted an application asking Council to change zoning on a parcel of land — the intended home of Inland Industrial Supply Ltd. — from M2-A Service Centre Commercial Zone to M2 Service Centre General Zone. Council is considering ‘M2 Service Centre Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 1865’, and is seeking your input.

Where is it?

PUBLIC HEARING MAY 4, 2015Service Centre M2 Zoning

Amendment Bylaw No. 1865

When can I speak? Anyone wishing to comment on this issue may provide written comment to Mayor & Council c/o 270 City Centre, V8C 2H7; fax 250-632-4995; or email [email protected]. Comments regarding this proposed zoning change must be received before 8:30 am on Thursday, April 30, 2015 to be included in the report to Mayor & Council. Submissions received by email after this deadline but before 4:30 pm on Monday, May 4, 2015 will be read aloud at the Public Hearing. You may also speak in person, or deliver written comment, at the Public  Hearing on Monday, May 4, 2015, 7:30 pm at Council Chambers, 606 Mountainview Square.

Need more info?The bylaw, Council resolution(s), staff report(s), submitted application, and other background material are available for review at www.kitimat.ca/pn and at the District of Kitimat Reception Desk, 270 City Centre. Reception is open8:30 am-noon and 1:00-4:30  pm, Monday to Friday, excluding holidays. Further inquiries should be directed to Community Planning & Development at 250-632-8900.

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Lydia Hermina HenriksenJuly 28, 1923 to April 2, 2015

Mrs. Henriksen was born in Deutsch Proben, Czechoslovakia to Josefi ne (Oma) and Aloys Sirotny. She came to Canada in 1950. She moved to Kitimat in 1958 with Yvonne, Eric and Oma to join her husband, Kristian, where she lived for 57 years. Lydia was a stay at home Mom.She is survived and lovingly remembered by her 5 children Yvonne (Michael), Eric, Krista, Jens and Helga, her grandchildren Megan (Dan), James (Josee), Angie (Joe), Curtiss (Samantha), Trevor (Jennifer) and Kate, great-grandchildren Tylar, Michaela, Jessica, Myles, Daymon, Willow and Adelyn. Grandma Lydia was predeceased by her husband,

Kristian, her parents and her brother, Willie and her daughter-in-law, Linda.

The family would like to thank Dr. Huang, the paramedics and the fi remen who came to her aid several times over the last few years. We would also like to thank Kevin, Margarida, and other friends, too numerous to mention, for

the time they spent with Mom, their help, caring and their sympathy now for

us who remain.The funeral will be held at:

Christ the King Catholic Church in Kitimat, BCApril 23, 2015 at 1:30 pm

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mornings from 10:30 -11:15 .am. Please register for this free program.HEALTHY BABIES drop in is held ev-ery Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Kitimat Child Development Center. They welcome fami-lies throughout pregnancy and up to one year (older siblings welcome). Come meet other par-ents and infants over

light refreshments with support from the CDC staff and a Pub-lic Health Nurse. For more information call 250-632-3144.CHILD DEVELOP-MENT 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 play-group. All are welcome

to attend. Contact 250-632-3144 for more in-formation.KITIMAT FIBRE ARTS GUILD: Inter-ested in knitting, spin-ning, weaving, or any other fibre? For more information phone Maureen 250-632-5444.KITIMAT MULTI-PLE SCLEROSIS - I have M.S. but M.S. does not have me. You are not alone, male or female, and the Kiti-

mat M.S. group would like to be here for you. Total confidentiality. For more information contact Mary at 250-639-6016.AGLOW of Kitimat All are welcome at our Care Group and Bible Study for men and women, singles or married, Thursday at 7:00 p.m. For infor-mation phone Brenda at 250-632-1616. PRAYER CANADA KITIMAT meets

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William Dejong as he breaks a record in St. John’s, lifting 295.5 kg in the powerlift Nationals. Dan Smith photo

Dejong returns from Powerlifting Nationals with a Canadian record

A Kitimat powerlifter has broken a Canadian record for lifting just over 295 kilograms at a national champi-onship in St. John’s.

To be speci� c, William Dejong broke the record lifting 295.5 kg in the 105 kg junior weight class, beat-ing the previous record by half a kilo.

This is Dejong’s eighth year lift-ing, and it’s over a year since he be-gan competing in the sport.

That process led him to St. Johns where his successful performance earned him a ticket to Finland to be a part of Team Canada for the World Championship.

“I’ve been wanting to set the Canadian record in deadlift for about a year and a half now,” he said. “It’s a pretty emotional lift to get it on my � nal attempt.”

Powerlifting gives athletes three at-tempts, which incorporates a squat, bench press

and deadlift.As much as the sport requires

muscle, the mental component is also crucial he said.

“Just got to be consistent, keep pushing yourself,” he said. “It’s re-ally a big mental game. You’ve got to believe in yourself.”

He said he pushes himself to train consistently, even between his

heavy job demands as a 1st year apprentice steam � tter, and he manages to get to the gym on alter-nating days.

After Finland he has hopes to compete at the Commonwealth Games for powerlifting in Rich-mond later this year.

He has his sights set on Texas for next year’s Worlds as well, although by then he’ll be in the Mens Open category, for people 24-40 years old.

“It’s a bit more challenging,” he said. “Re-cords are a bit higher.”

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Kitimat Economic Development AssociationKitimat Chamber of Commerce and LNG Canada present

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We recognize that there are serious challenges once LNG gets off the ground. Other communities have gone through these challenges and opportunities and we would like to share what they have learned during the process.Guest Speakers• Greg Halseth

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“It’s really a big mental game. You’ve got to believe in yourself.”