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Ruth LloydCaledonia Courier

The KEY Resource Centre will be opening this Friday, July 26 in down-town.

Located next to Integris, the finishing touches were being put on the building as the paper was going to press. The grand opening was scheduled for 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday to offer the public a chance to come and tour the centre and enjoy some barbecue cooked up by the College of New Caledonia’s (CNC) Professional Cook students.

KEY stands for Knowledge Empow-ers You, which is the central goal of the project.

“The Key Resource Centre will offer in-house and outreach services with the goal of improving access to education and training for individuals who visit the centre,” said Ann McCormick, regional supervisor for CNC Fort St. James. “This will be done by increasing access to services for their specific needs. The centre’s staff will strive to build connections with the participants to the college and other social service agencies programming.”

McCormick added local Aboriginal and non-Aborigi-nal service providers will be available at the centre, creat-ing an inviting, welcoming, inclusive and culturally sensi-tive environment for individuals.

Once at the centre, clients can access a computer lab, ask for drop-in academic advising services or even take a course or be directed towards other resources available in the community.

There will be three staff associated with the centre: a coordinator, outreach worker and an academic advisor.

“The idea is to go right into the downtown core,” said

McCormick.The programs at the centre will be free to access and

the pilot project is currently funded until May 2013 to see what kind of impact it can make.

An outside evaluator will be assessing the program.The college-led initiative came to fruition after a study

the college did which looked at what marginalized indi-viduals in the community needed to help them get a leg up or access resources.

An application for grant funding from the provincial government to create a drop-in centre was turned down, but in looking for other funding possibilities, McCormick got creative because she saw a need in the community.

While the plan had to change somewhat to be more geared towards a resource centre and funding had to be pulled from different sources, McCormick wanted to see if it was possible.

“It’s really about giving an opportunity to people who

want an opportunity,” she said.Integris has donated the space for the cen-

tre for its first year, and Conifex donated the wood needed to renovate the space.

The money for the programming will be coming from funding aimed at training and employment from Enbridge, a step McCor-mick did not take lightly, given the strong feelings about Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Project in the community.

McCormick spoke to the advisory board about this possibility and asked if they felt this need in the community was significant and if people could separate where the money came from with what it can do for the community.

Enbridge will not be involved in the proj-ect or its operation in any way, they just made some funding available to the college for training and employment initiatives.

“I don’t think it’s political,” said McCor-mick. She spoke to Nak’azdli Health, the

District and members of the Fort St. James Sustainabil-ity Group and other stakeholders before going ahead, to make sure the move was not going to create concerns for people.

“It’s about our project and our story,” said McCormick.She said she wanted to ensure the clients who would

be accessing services at the resource centre would be pro-tected from being exploited in any way.

McCormick wants the focus to stay on the centre and the goal of helping to offer people access to resources and see if they will take advantage of them.

“We’re going to try,” she said. “It’s the college going downtown. We’re going to do what we do best: work with community members.”

The centre will have public washrooms but will not be serving food except perhaps for special events, and will not be open in the evening.

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Four files appear-ing before the Fort St. James Provincial Court on Tuesday, July 16.

Shaun S. Anatole was sentenced to two days in jail for possession of a con-trolled substance.

Daniel J. Daley was given one year probation with con-ditions for assault-ing a peace officer.

Bonnie A. Durand was fined $1,000 and prohibited from driving for one year for operating a mo-tor vehicle while impaired.

Gilbert B. Felix was fined $500, charged a victim surcharge of $75 and prohibited from driving for one year for driving while prohibited.

Janey M. Quaw was given a condi-tional discharge for six months and six months probations with conditions for assault.

Beating the heat

Some young men playing in Stuart Lake had the right idea for cooling off in the heat. Cottonwood Park beach was busy recently, with calm water and hot weather.

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The KEY to open

The new storefront for the KEY Resource Centre.Ruth Lloyd/Caledonia Courier

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Fire contained to loader


A loader working at the Northern Interior Forest Products (NIFP) mill site caught � re on Wednesday, July 17, and within minutes it was fully engulfed.

The mill is located a few kilometres from High-way 27 on Tachie Road.

The machine “went up instantly,” said Justin O’Hara, who was operating the equipment at the time. He said the smoke came from the engine of the machine when it started, but spread quickly.

The Fort St. James Volunteer Fire Department arrived within minutes and contained the blaze to the machine, keeping it from spreading to the decked logs nearby.

Fort St. James Fire Chief Rob Bennett said the machine was fully involved upon their arrival.

It did not take long for the � re� ghters to calm the blaze, however, and within a matter of only minutes more, the blaze was reduced to some smoke from the wreckage of the loader.

Two � re engines and one tank truck responded to the � re, and � re� ghters were letting the ma-chine cool off after it had been doused with water at just after 4 p.m..

NIFP was the site of another � re on April 5 which destroyed the mill itself, which has not been rebuilt.

KDL Group owns and operates the site and was the owner of the loader which burned.

Management did not return a request for an in-terview prior to press time.

A Fort St. James volunteer firefighter finishes off cooling a loader which burned at the Northern Interior Forest Products mill on July 17.


Keep your hands on the wheel and

eyes on the roadRuth LloydCaledonia Courier

The Fort St. James Trans-portation Committee is roll-ing out a new driver educa-tion campaign.

The initiative is meant to spread awareness about the dangers of distracted driving, with all of the new drivers in town and the increasing traf-fic.

“We just thought it would be a nice education place to go,” said Gretchen Vogel-

sang, a committee member.The pledge campaign be-

gan on Canada Day, with driver’s able to sign a pledge sheet to pay attention to the road and leave cell phones alone while driving.

According to the Cana-dian Automobile Association website, drivers engaged in text messaging are 23 times more likely to be involved in a crash or near crash event compared to non-distracted drivers.

According to ICBC, dis-

tracted driving leads to an average of 94 deaths per year in B.C..

The District of Fort St James Office, Integris Credit Union and some other local businesses have the pledge sheets for people to sign.

Those who pledge are en-tered into a contest to win prizes such as hands-free de-vices from The Source.

The plan is “to raise aware-ness, because it’s still a large problem, not just here, but all over,” said Vogelsang.

July 2013 -- When Mount Milligan comes into production later this summer it will be a milestone in many ways. It will successfully conclude an 18-month construction project, where the project team accumulated more than 5 million hours without a lost time injury. It will be the � rst, major, new, metals mine built in British Columbia in more than a decade. And, for Thompson Creek Metals, it will be the company’s � rst copper and gold mine.

Designing and building a mine in the 21st century created opportunities to use technology in interesting ways. Trucks in the open pit are equipped with on-board diagnostic systems to measure fuel consumption and emissions. Each vehicle has a Global Positioning System (GPS) so staff in the control room can see where each of the large 793 haul trucks is working. Cameras on-board the trucks give the drivers a 360 degree view of their

surroundings, reducing the risk of accidents or collisions.

At the plant, perfecting the performance of the processing equipment is central to smooth operations. An innovative process control system, called “Expert System”, will ensure each section of the plant runs at peak performance. As a part of “Expert System”, cameras, placed at key points along the conveyor belt, will provide video images of the rock from the mine. Analysing these images produces data on the rock type and sizes. This information will be used in mill control systems to adjust grinding levels based on the characteristics of the rock.

Microphones, placed near the Semi-Autogenous Grinding (SAG) mill, will listen to the grinding process. Over time, a database will be created that identi� es the sound of optimal performance. Further along the processing cycle, at the � otation circuit, cameras will be used again to view material in the � otation tanks. The size and colour

of the bubbles produced during � otation process give the process control system information to set the amount of reagent needed to optimize the production of copper and gold concentrates. It also means the process can be set to use the smallest amount of reagent – expensive process chemicals - to generate the highest quality concentrate.

To learn more about Mount Milligan, members of the public are invited to join one of the summer tours to site. The tours began July 8 and continue until September 23. Tours leave from our community of� ces with transport and lunch included. To register for a tour spot, please call our local of� ce in Mackenzie (250-997-8800) or Fort St James (250-996-0066). To allow as many people as possible to participate, there is a limit of one tour per person.

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Tom FletcherBlack Press

VICTORIA – Premier Christy Clark didn’t win a seat in time to join her 48 fellow B.C. Liberal MLAs in the leg-islature for the summer session she ordered up.

By the time the byelection in Westside-Kelowna is certi-fied by Elections B.C., Clark will be off to Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. to meet with her fellow premiers in what is now loftily called the Council of the Federation.

These gatherings used to be called First Ministers’ Con-ferences, and there was a set ritual, largely designed for the consumption of network tele-vision. Provincial premiers ganged up on the prime min-ister to demand federal “fund-ing” for every conceivable need, just as municipal leaders get together each year to pres-

ent their demands to the B.C. government.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper ended the show, declin-ing to play the role of villain in this bit of political summer stock theatre, and it’s unlikely that any future national leader would reverse this prudent de-cision.

The result, at least among western premiers, has been a quieter, more pragmatic effort to work together, rather than clumsy attempts to play a shell game with taxpayers’ pockets.

The public got tired of this routine some time ago. I don’t need a poll to tell me this is one of the reasons for the de-cline in voter participation and engagement in issues. Today, politicians frequently remind themselves out loud that there is “only one taxpayer” sup-porting the squabbling layers of this over-governed country.

And yet, the same mistake

keeps being made over and over by opposition politicians, and dutifully reported by the news media. The notion that all problems can and should be solved by “more government funding” is now so engrained in our education system that it seems inescapable.

One of the NDP’s big “got-cha” items last week was the failure of the B.C. government to buy the latest sonar technol-ogy to locate and recover the bodies of people who have drowned in one of our thou-sands of lakes and rivers. As with the health-care system, as soon as something is invented, some assume a right to it, re-gardless of cost.

Another big opposition tar-get was the province’s failure to buy up remote properties in the Kootenays that have been discovered to be at high risk of further landslides such as the one that swept through a year

ago.The question of limits for

protecting people who choose to build homes in risky loca-tions seldom comes up in our political-media theatre. The media’s key ingredients are sympathetic victims to fit their narrative that all corporations and governments are greedy, stingy, callous and incompe-tent in everything they do.

What the opposition has dubbed “Christy Clark’s wheelchair tax” is another case in point. A Fraser Health Au-thority official patiently ex-plained what was really going on here.

An average $35 monthly rent for wheelchairs is charged at the majority of care facili-ties, which are contracted by the health authority. Opera-tors charge as they see fit for maintenance, disinfection and replacement of this equipment, for patients who don’t own

their own chairs.In September, a $25 fee is to

be extended to the few facili-ties still directly run by Fra-ser Health, which have aging equipment and no fees. In all facilities, the fee is waived for those who can’t afford it.

It would be useful for our politicians to frankly discuss the trend towards contracted health services, and the role of user fees in forcing people to take more responsibility for maintaining their own health.

But that is not what hap-pens. The narrative of dump-ing frail, impoverished seniors from their wheelchairs has no relationship to reality, but it’s how post-modern political the-atre is done.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com

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Breathing life into downtownRuth LloydCaledonia Courier

During the long, hot days of summer, downtown can be a quiet place. Once the stores have closed for the day and people have headed home to stay cool indoors or conversely, to enjoy the evening sunshine on the beaches of Stuart Lake or backyard lawns, downtown can be downright silent.

But one night in August may have a livelier atmosphere if the new Downtown Activities and Events Coordinator has anything to say about it.

Jessica Rasmussen has been hired on for a part time posi-tion with the District of Fort St. James as part of an economic development initiative to help support local businesses.

“I needed help,” said Emily Colombo, economic devel-opment of� cer for the District of Fort St. James, “It’s just too much to do with just one person in the of� ce.”

Rasmussen’s position is only part time until the end of August, but Colombo is hoping to � nd funding to continue the position.

The role is meant to ful� ll a few objectives, part of which was helping to � ll the massive gap left when Kandace Kerr moved to Vancouver Island. Kerr was a driving force for the local farmer’s market.

“With Kandace leaving the farmer’s market, they really needed assistance in terms of set up,” said

Colombo. But Rasmussen will also be aiming at small business in the area in general.

At the August 20 event, she is inviting downtown business-es to stay open later for the evening, there will be a stage with musical acts to entertain the customers and vendors - including Canadian Waste, an up and coming young band from Prince George, artisans, the Fraser Lake and Vanderhoof farmer’s mar-ket vendors will also be invited to encourage cross-community networking and for people to know what is available regionally.

The event, while livening up downtown after 6 p.m., will also be where the District of Fort St. James will hopefully roll out their new buy local campaign.

The buy local initiative is part of a pilot project by Northern Development Initiative Trust (NDIT) to design a promotional website and materials for local businesses.

Amy Quarry, a creative designer who developed a pro-gram in Quesnel, B.C. called Small Town Love is expected to be working on similar projects for Fort St. James, Vanderhoof, Mackenzie, Logan Lake, Valemount and McBride.

The project will also help to ful� ll some of the goals and strategic objectives the District of Fort St. James has identi-� ed in creating a vibrant, appealing and attractive commu-nity and having a strong, sustainable and diverse economy.

“Mayor and council have been very supportive,” said Colombo. “It’s like we’re all kind of moving in the same direction, which is nice.”

Jessica Rasmussen is the new Downtown Activities and Events Coordi-nator for the District of Fort St. James.


Fort St. James RCMP reportJuly 10, at 5:31 a.m., RCMP

responded to a report of a pos-sible stabbing at the Stuart Lake Hospital.

An unknown male had come for treatment of a one-inch laceration between his thumb and index � nger on one hand.

The victim reported he had been sleeping when he woke up to someone choking him.

The suspect then reportedly grabbed a pair of scissors, and during the course of their alter-cation, cut the victim.

The suspect was known to the victim and the RCMP sub-sequently located the suspect at the Petro Canada gas station.

The suspect was then brought in for questioning but the victim declined pressing charges against the suspect.

On July 10 at 1:51 p.m.,

RCMP responded to a report of a domestic dispute. Upon arriv-al, police found a female victim had been assaulted. The victim was eight months pregnant at the time of the incident.

While the victim declined to cooperate with RCMP, the sus-pect was located at Cottonwood Park and subsequently taken into custody.

RCMP have recommended a charge of assault in the inci-dent and the male suspect is waiting for a court appearance.

Also on July 10, at 4:30 a.m., RCMP attended the scene of a single vehicle collision at 5 km on the North Road.

Someone driving a company vehicle hit a deer. The vehicle, a 2013 Ford Pickup, sus-tained serious damage after a deer reportedly

jumped out of the bush in front of the vehicle, giving the driver no chance to stop.

July 12 at 9:45 a.m., RCMP attended Suspender’s Conve-nience Store after the manager reported having images of a man stealing liquor on their se-curity camera.

RCMP then reviewed the recordings, and found two sus-pects were involved, a male and a female. The female was iden-ti� ed by RCMP, while they are still trying to identify the male suspect.

The value of the liquor re-portedly stolen in the incident was $25.85.

RCMP are waiting for pros-ecutors to approve charges and will be serving the female her notice to appear in court.

On July 12 at 5:33 p.m., RCMP attended the Fields store in downtown Fort St. James in response to a report of an intoxicated female.

The suspect was identi� ed, and RCMP at the scene, dis-covered the woman was with her aunt, who was also report-edly intoxicated.

The suspect was also identi-� ed as being bound by a proba-tion order not to drink.

Upon being taken into cus-tody and searched, marijuana

was also found on her person.RCMP have recommended

charges of breaching a proba-tion order and possession of a controlled substance.

On July 13 at 5:16 p.m., RCMP responded to a call of a male and female hitting each other on a park bench in front of the Royal Bank.

RCMP attended, and took both into custody for causing a disturbance. Both suspects were reportedly intoxicated at the time.

The female was held until sober and released on a prom-ise to appear. RCMP are rec-ommending charges of assault

against the woman. The male was believed to be

a victim in the incident and was released.

On July 13, at 5:44 p.m., a female called RCMP to re-port her parents were arguing and the woman had reportedly scratched the male’s face dur-ing the dispute.

The female suspect was then located and arrested for assault.

The woman was held in custody until sober and released on a promise to appear in court in October.

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Assistant Professor Dr. Sarah de Leeuw from the UNBC Faculty of Medicine returned to Nak'azdli last week to bring some art to the community.

De Leeuw is part of a research project into the role of art in health, well-being and community.

The art workshops have been coming to Fort St. James and Nak'azdli for a few years now. This summer, there will be an-other free workshop this week on July 25 at Kwah Hall as well.

Part of the program's goal is also to allow young medical students to come out and visit ru-ral First Nations commu-nities.

During last Wednes-day's session, there were a number of opportuni-ties for participants to try out different art tech-niques.

One station allowed people to try melting

crayons with a hair dryer over a canvas to give dif-ferent effects.

"It was great, there was a lot of youth today," said de Leeuw.

While the youth participants can not be part of the research unless their parents are there to sign re-leases, she was still happy to see them out doing art.

"It's totally great to just have 20 youth wander-ing around making art," she said.


One young man is pretty happy with a gen-erous gift he received thanks to some locals.

Aaron Calder is enjoying a new swing set made especially for him by the machinists at Fort Machine Works.

Dalton Lerum, Jeff Davis, Don Derksen and Norm Leggatt were involved in building the set for Aaron.

Aaron is a young man with autism who, with a height around six feet and a weight to match his stature, can not use just any old kids swing set. But Calder can safely use a specially-made swing set in his own yard now, which is pretty great for someone who lives out of town and has special needs.

Hannah Phillips, who works at the Fort St. James Secondary School came up with the idea to look into having a swing made for Aaron be-cause she would go to the swings at Goodwin Park with Aaron from school sometimes and knew he enjoyed them.

Phillips had thought she would look into getting some materials and having the swings made at the school, because she knew a sturdy metal swing set would be very expensive.

So she approached Fort Machine Works to see if they could donate some materials or help with plans for one.

She said when she asked, Fort Machine Works told her they could build the set and have it ready by spring, at no cost.

"It was pretty exciting that they offered," she said.Once it was completed, Fort Machine Works staff came out and installed the set, and Phil-

lips said it is now a part of Aaron's regular routine.


NEWSCourierInto the swing of it

ABOVE: Aaron Calder playing on his new swing set made especially for him by Fort Machine Works.

Photo courtesy of Hannah Phillips

ABOVE: Fort Machine Works made their mark on the custom swing set they made for Aaron. His name was on one of the other footings.

Photo courtesy of Hannah Phillips

Art at Nak'azdliFAR LEFT: Michelle Law was creating mixed media art at the Nak'azdli art workshops with the UNBC researchers. Law came with her sister Christine, one of the UNBC medical students helping do the research. NEAR LEFT: Sydney was one of the local youth giving the art workshop a try, and she was working on this cool mixed media piece.


The art workshops are only being offered at Nak'azdli at the moment, be-cause Nak'azdli had asked de Leeuw back after the initial study.

"This is a pretty welcoming commu-nity," she said.

De Leeuw said researchers are still hoping to take the workshops to some other First Nations communities such as Hartley Bay and First Nations groups in Prince George, however.

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LETTERCourierEditor:

July 25, 2013 marks the third anniversary of the Enbridge pipe-line rupture near Marshall, Michigan.

Despite numerous alarms from their automated leak detection system, the spill went undiscovered and unaddressed by Enbridge for almost 17 hours.

Not until the Edmonton control centre was noti� ed of the rupture via a telephone call to their emergency line, were the remotely con-trolled valves of the pipeline closed by control room staff.

By then more than three million litres of bitumen had spilled into an adjacent wetland and then into Talmadge Creek, eventually mak-ing its way into the Kalamazoo River.

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report on the spill stated the rupture and prolonged release were attributed to “pervasive organizational failures” at Enbridge that included de� -cient pipeline integrity management procedures; inadequate training of control centre personnel; insuf� cient public awareness and educa-tion programs; and an ineffective emergency response.

Can Enbridge Northern Gateway be trusted to ensure the same thing doesn’t happen on their proposed Northern Gateway pipelines?

Through the Joint Review Panel (JRP) process for the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines project and with research I have done outside of it, I have followed the developments of the Ka-lamazoo spill and sought the answer to that question.

As a member of the Fort St. James Sustainability Group and in-tervenor in the JRP process, I have read material � led as evidence in regard to the Kalamazoo spill.

Following the release of NTSB’s report in July 2012, it was � led into evidence and became a point of examination for many interve-nors. I questioned Enbridge Northern Gateway witnesses on aspects of that report.

I asked what lessons had been learned from the spill, if the les-sons had been implemented, and how the lessons would apply to the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines so that the same thing doesn’t happen from them.

What I heard from the witnesses was that lessons were learned, some lessons had been implemented by Enbridge, and others would be applied to the design and operation of the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines. In answer to the question, they said, you can trust us.

In Enbridge Northern Gateway’s written � nal argument they made suggestions to the JRP members, who are tasked with making a recommendation to government on whether or not the Northern Gateway project should be approved, that there needs to be a dis-tinction between what should be considered from the Kalamazoo spill in relation to the proposed Northern Gateway project, and what shouldn’t be considered. The statements read:

“Lessons learned from the Marshall Incident inform how the Project would be designed and operated and, to that extent, discus-sion of the Marshall Incident is warranted and appropriate.”

“However, to the extent that Intervenors attempt in argument to focus the JRP in any way on an inquiry into the root causes, environ-mental or other impacts or any other aspects of the Marshall Incident, such arguments should be disregarded.”

In other words, they said again you can trust us, and that only lessons learned are relevant.

The research I did on the Kalamazoo spill outside of the

JRP process told a very different story, and lead the Fort St. James Sustainability Group to encourage the JRP through our written and oral arguments to consider and weigh heavily the NTSB report, and other reports on past, current-day and on-going Enbridge pipeline spills and incidents in their deliberations.

In other words, we said don’t trust them.Through my research I learned that one of the “pervasive orga-

nizational failures” at Enbridge is still having an impact today, and will have well into the future if not in perpetuity; that is, ineffective emergency response from a cleanup perspective.

While cleanup allowed parts of the Kalamazoo River to be opened to the public last summer, it is by no means complete.

This year in March, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) directed Enbridge to dredge the Kalamazoo River to remove sunken oil and oil-containing sediment.

As part of the directive, Enbridge submitted a work plan for re-covery of submerged oil and a “Quanti� cation of Submerged Oil Report”. Their initial Work Plan was rejected by the EPA “due to a substantial lack of detail, particularly with regards to the speci� c submerged oil removal strategy”. The EPA also found that the con-clusions of their “Quanti� cation of Submerged Oil Report” were not valid as they failed to use the required methodology. Enbridge esti-mated the volume of oil remaining as between 1,528 gallons to 8,012 gallons; when the EPA applied the required methodology the vol-ume of oil remaining submerged in the river bottom sediment was estimated at 180,000 gallons. Of that, only 12,000-18,000 gallons are recoverable; the remaining oil will not be able to be recovered right away without causing signi� cant adverse impacts to the river.

To date, Enbridge is projected to spend $995 million in cleanup costs. In contrast, Enbridge Northern Gateway has “conservatively” estimated a terrestrial spill from their proposed Northern Gateway project to cost $200 million, and they plan on having only $250 mil-lion in insurance.

Can Enbridge Northern Gateway be trusted to ensure cleanup of a spill from the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines will be done more effectively than that of the Michigan spill?

With more than three years of cleanup experience for the Kalam-azoo spill, does practice make perfect?

Not when you consider how much oil will be left in the river.Two other “pervasive organizational failures”

also warranted research: de� cient pipeline integ-rity management and inadequate emergency re-sponse from a leak detection perspective.

It cannot go without mentioning that, in Can-ada, of the last nine Enbridge spills listed by the NEB prior to the Kalamazoo spill, eight had a root cause of de� ciencies in pipeline integrity.

After the Kalamazoo spill, at least six of the seven releases, the most recent being last month, had de� ciencies in pipeline integrity.

Of the seven spills after the Kalamazoo spill, at least � ve went undetected by their automated leak

detection system. Both of these “pervasive organizational failures” were attributed

to a number of spills in the U.S. before and after the Kalamazoo spill.Can Enbridge Northern Gateway be trusted to ensure pipeline

integrity and leak detection are managed to a higher degree of con� -dence for the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines, than that of the Michigan pipeline and other Enbridge pipelines that have had spills? Why haven’t lessons learned been implemented?

My research also brought to light that while replacing the pipeline that spilled into the Kalamazoo, last month Enbridge was found in non-compliance of two of their permits by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, for releasing an untold amount of a red-dish ef� uent into North Ore Creek.

The ef� uent release was � lmed by a member of the public and submitted to the government agency; it was not reported by En-bridge.

In addition, there were 11 other � ndings of non-compliance.Can Enbridge Northern Gateway be trusted to ensure the En-

bridge Northern Gateway pipelines are built safely, unlike the re-placement of the Michigan pipeline?

Only if the public keeps their eyes on them, and the government regulators do their job.

On June 24, 2013, while talking to the CBC about the public’s concerns and pipeline safety, John Carruthers, President of Northern Gateway Pipelines, said “that’s the key question that people want an-swered: Can the project be built and operated safely?

“It’s a key question for British Columbians...We need to build their trust.”

The Kalamazoo River spill is now in its fourth year of cleanup. Despite lessons learned, history has repeated itself through at

least 12 Enbridge spills since that incident. The non-compliances in construction of the Michigan pipeline

replacement are troubling. I do not trust that Enbridge Northern Gateway can build and op-

erate their proposed Northern Gateway pipelines safely. Nor can they build my trust.

I ask you, can they build yours? Brenda Gouglas

Fort St. James

On the third anniversary of Kalamazoo

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Records checks for people working with "vulnerable sectors" will be taking longer due to policy changes coming into effect soon.

Vulnerable sectors would include youth, seniors and those with disabilities.Staff Sergeant Paul Thalhofer is warning organizations to get their applications for background checks (known as

police information checks and referred to often as criminal record checks) in sooner rather than later, as checks which would have taken about an hour will soon take six to eight weeks.

For those whose names raise some � ags due to similarities with known offenders or other concerns and therefore require � ngerprints, checks could take as long as two to three months.

While electronic � ngerprinting will help speed up checks for those needing � ngerprinting, unfortunately Fort St. James' RCMP detachment does not have an electronic � ngerprint machine, and while they are looking into getting one, each one currently costs $40,000, and every small detach-ment across the country will be looking to get one.

"It's not really in the budget right now," said Thalhofer. Ottawa will no longer be taking hard copy � ngerprints after 2014, so many detachments will be facing the same issue.

The nearest electronic � nger-printing device is in Prince George, and their ability to do this service for Fort St. James applications will depend on how busy they are as well. People applying for checks who need � nger-printing would have to travel to Prince George to have them done.

The new, more in-depth checks into peoples' back-grounds will also include going from a one-page form for the check to a seven-page form.

"It's going to create more work for us at the detachment as well," said Thalhofer.

The additional time to complete the checks means it could be harder to get through them all as the priority will remain with criminal code-related work and checks will take place when members have time.

The policy changes are expected to come into effect at the end of the summer.


NEWSCourierRecord check changes

will delay resultsChasing

golf historyBruce PentonSports columnist

The most dominating athlete in 2013 anywhere in the world — any sport — is South Korea’s Inbee Park on the Ladies Professional Golfers’ Association tour.

In early August, at the Old Course at St. Andrew’s Scotland, Park will go for gol� ng history when she attempts to win her fourth consecutive major championship, the 2013 women’s Brit-ish Open.

Park had one major to her credit go-ing into 2013 (she won the 2008 U.S. Open). But this year, she has stepped above the crowd and is becoming a household name among those who fol-low golf, and is even getting recognition from mainstream (non-golf) media out-lets.

Winning three tournaments in a row is amazing. Winning three majors in a row is almost unprecedented on the LPGA circuit. You may have heard of Tiger Woods, who won four straight men’s majors over two years and got a little bit of publicity as a result. The only other woman golfer to win three majors in one season was Babe Zaha-rias in 1950.

So Park’s performance this year has

brought some wonderful attention to the LPGA. ‘Grand slam’ talk is everywhere but even if Park wins the British, she still won’t have the ‘slam’ because there are � ve major tournaments in the women’s pro game. The Evian Masters, in France in September, was recently granted ‘major’ status, so a Grand Slam now consists of � ve majors. Hardly fair, but what an accomplishment it would be if Park can somehow win at St. Andrew’s Aug. 1-4 and follow it up with a victory in France. Her smiling face would be everywhere — TV, magazines, news-papers, cyberspace. To the LPGA Tour, it would be Lindbergh crossing the At-lantic, Armstrong walking on the moon. Five majors in one year — wow!

Among those excited about Park’s run are her LPGA colleagues. “ It’s great what she’s doing,” said Ameri-can Stacey Lewis, displaced in April by Park as the No. 1 ranked golfer in the world. “It’s creating a lot of headlines for us, which is good.”

Another American, Paula Creamer, said Park’s incredible run is raising the LPGA bar: “It’s elevating all of us. It’s where we need to be. If we’re not, she’s going to leave us all in the dust.”

That cloud of dust is de� nitely form-ing.

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The Nak’azdli Band has an opening for a Term Reception-ist. This is a full time term position for August 2, 2013 to June 2, 2014. (Please note this position may be available to a term of one year This person is a con dent, energetic, and able to follow direction and policy.

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