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RTA’s ‘flotel’ leaves Kitimat harbour.

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Day of Mourning event marked in Kitimat.

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Walk for a causeA community walk for Autism Speaks Canada, to raise money and awareness about autism, was a great success, with 200 attendees and thousands raised for the cause. More about the walk on page 8.

Cameron Orr

Alternate schools getting reviewedA review of all the alternate schools

and programs in the Coast Mountains School District had students, parents and interested community stakeholders out to Kitimat City High last Tuesday to discuss the programs they run, their strengths and challenges.

The review is being facilitated by consultant Frank Dunham, who will begin writing his report on feedback this week for submission to the school board.

This review was initiated by the school board.

But what the review is not, accord-ing to superintendent Katherine McIn-tosh in an opening remark, is a discus-sion on whether or not to close this or any other school.

“The alternate program review is truly to help the board learn about what we’re providing for kids in those pro-grams and what the challenges are,” she told the Sentinel.

The process began with the new school board following the election, and talk about reviewing alternate programs

began in December.“It was the new board [after the

elections]...they started talking that per-haps it’s time to review all the alternate programs in our school district,” said McIntosh.

Last week the � rst phase of the pro-cess wrapped up, and he’ll begin assem-bling the report this week.

“It’s part of a healthy school system and a healthy school district. We really should be doing regular program re-

views and the alternate programs in our District hadn’t been reviewed for quite a number of years,” she said.

“Our students change and our communities, and families change. Our community expecta-tions of our programs change as well. That was why the board decided to em-bark on the alternate program review process.”

She said district wide about 200 students use alternate programs and schools, and Kitimat City High enroll-ment is about 46.

The eventual report from Dunham, which McIntosh expects at some point within the month, will be made public and will be a guide to the board for fu-ture discussion.

“It will outline information for them and provide a direction for the future,” she said.

McIntosh noted she has been im-pressed with the quality of the informa-tion that had been gathered in the pro-cess.

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SO2 hearings underwayCameron Orr

The environmental appeal hearings for Rio Tinto Alcan’s emissions permit that allows it to increase it’s sulphur dioxide (SO

2) emissions

without the use of scrubbers has begun.The emissions currently permitted for the

new smelter will be mostly reduced, while SO2

speci� cally will increase 56 per cent from its cur-rent emissions of 27 tonnes a day.

Kitimat’s Lis Stannus and Emily Toews suc-cessfully � led an appeal of the permit, after sev-eral others also attempted but were denied.

The hearings formally begun April 27, with remarks from the pair’s lawyers, and the North-west Institute (NI) has provided summaries from the proceedings and submitted them to news me-dia.

NI says Stannus’ counsel Chris Tollefson opened the case saying it’s not about pitting jobs against the environment or people opposed to KMP. “This is about the need for an adequate venue to critically...review available science.”

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27 tonnes/

day (old)

42 tonnes/

day (new)

“It’s part of a healthy school system and a

healthy school district. We really should be doing regular program reviews

and the alternate programs in our District hadn’t

been reviewed for quite a number of years.”

April 20At 2:38 p.m. the

RCMP received a com-plaint of two female youths fighting each other on a porch of a lo-cal apartment unit. Of-ficers arrived and sepa-rated the two. One was suffering from a swol-len cheek and was taken to the hospital, police say. Both were intoxi-

cated and uncoopera-tive. Police released the woman to sober adults without charges.

April 21At 9 a.m. a grizzly

bear sighting was re-ported to RCMP, in the area of Wakita Street. Officers on arrival could not find the bear but a homeowner did show photos of the animal

in a field across from their home. Neighbours and the nearby school were notified of the sighting. The public is encouraged to contact the Conservation Of-ficer Service or RCMP if they are concerned about an animal sight-ing in a high human traffic area.

At 4:32 p.m. po-

lice received a report of online harrassment. Police say the com-plainant said their ex was posting derogatory remarks about their current partner through Facebook. No threats to harm were posted but the individual was making “disparaging religious remarks,” police say. Police sub-

sequently discovered this was not the first instance of harassment among these individu-als, and police advised the subject to be re-spectful about online postings, to which this individual agreed. The public is also reminded nothing is ever truly deleted online and they should be mindful of

what they post.At 8:06 p.m. po-

lice received a report-ed threat against an animal. The individual in this case said they feared a neighbour’s dog — which had got-ten loose — could harm

their own animals and children and the person protected them with a knife. Police advised the animal’s owner to be more cautious in keeping their animal contained.

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Continued from page 1Rio Tinto Alcan maintains that the increase

in the SO2 emissions won’t increase SO

2-related

health effects from current rates.Those health effects include risk of episodes

of restricted airways for people who already have respiratory issues, like asthma.

RTA claims that “healthy individuals will not be impacted by SO

2.”

RTA says the way their modernized processes work means a different emission process which “offsets the increase in the amount of SO

2...”

The company, they say, will be monitoring emissions through the “SO

2 Environmental Ef-

fects Monitoring Program.”As the hearings moved in to day three, NI

continued the summary release of the day’s hear-

ings, saying one of the witnesses, Rock Ouimet, the Quebec government’s expert on acid rain, had three main concerns regarding the science behind RTA’s claims.

Ouimet said that when assessing the effects of acid rain, RTA’s criteria to balance acidifica-tion against neutralization would only protect tree roots, not long-term soil fertility, according to NI’s report.

Secondly, RTA used simplified models to determine soil neutralizing capacity, Ouimet claimed. Finally, by using average values to pre-dict acidification of various sites, long-term harm to sites receiving above average acidification is not considered.

Hearings in Victoria will run to May 15, be-fore coming to Kitimat in early June.

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A phone call from anyone claim-ing to be Haisla Chief Councillor Ellis Ross and ask-ing for money is not actually him.

The Haisla Na-tion Council issued a notice last week warning people they had become aware of phone calls in the area to people by a caller claiming to be Ross.

The caller asks for money under guise of an emer-gency of some kind.

It’s believed some people could have already pro-vided money.

The Haisla Na-tion Council warns people not to pro-vide the caller with anything, and if you have provided any money then you should file a police report about the in-cident.

Scam

Government provides training moniesHaisla Deputy Chief

Councillor Taylor Cross says new funding from the prov-ince will aid in the Haisla’s own training plans to get their members in to future pro-posed projects.

“We already have a train-ing plan going...this is just going to add to it,” said Cross about a $10 million a year funding boost to First Nations along proposed natural gas pipeline routes.

The funding totals $30 million over three years.

“Hopefully First Nations along the pipeline take ad-vantage of this opportunity, to benefit their members so we can get trades or whatever it is. Get a long term job,” he said.

The money was an-nounced as part of B.C.’s Skills for Jobs Blueprint, a document outlining goals and strategies to make the prov-ince ready for liquefied natu-ral gas developments.

The overall goal, accord-ing to the Ministry of Ab-

original Relations and Rec-onciliation, is to add 15,000 Aboriginal workers within 10 years.

“The Aboriginal Skills Training Development Pro-gram is a good example of how our government is walk-ing a better path and working in partnership with First Na-tions to ensure a positive leg-acy from LNG development,” said Minister of Aboriginal Relations John Rustad in a prepared statement.

Funds will help address

barriers that First Nations communities face in access-ing skills development and labour market programs and services, especially in remote and rural areas, says the min-istry. The funds will be man-aged and distributed by the Ministry of Aboriginal Rela-tions and Reconciliation. The B.C. government will seek to leverage the new funding with additional investments from partners, including the federal government and in-dustry.

Despite criticized consultation plan, marine use document gets releasedCameron Orr and Tom Fletcher

A marine planning exercise which Kitimat Council urged a com-ment deadline exten-sion for has been com-pleted.

The B.C. govern-ment has completed regional marine plans with 18 First Nations on the B.C. Coast, from northern Vancouver Is-land up to the Alaska border.

The marine plans are to be an extension of the 2007 coastal land use plan that has become known as the Great Bear Rainfor-est agreement. The four regions are Haida Gwaii, Central Coast, North Coast and North Vancouver Island, but they do not attempt to intrude on the key federal jurisdictions of

shipping and fisheries management.

Kitimat Mayor Phil Germuth said the town still has lingering concerns that not ev-eryone was fully con-sulted on this process before being finalized.

“We were con-cerned last time...that we heard from the oth-er user groups that they didn’t get a chance to really be consulted on this,” said Germuth shortly after the report was released.

Late last week he said he hadn’t had a chance to read the en-tirely of the report.

“I did read the comments and it’s great that First Nations are fully in support of it, that’s good. But we haven’t had a chance to read it yet and I’m sure none of the user

groups have either to see if all their concernswere addressed.”

Aboriginal lead-ers said they were pro-ceeding with B.C. and environmental organi-zations, but the federal government has not participated in what they call MaPP, the Marine Planning Part-nership for the North Pacific Coast.

Haida Nation Pres-ident Peter Lantin said the marine plan for the waters around Haida Gwaii sets aside 20 per cent as a marine re-serve, and discussions with Ottawa are under-way to add more area around Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve. But with pipelines and oil and gas projects proposed for the re-gion, the plans are far from completion.

“When we em-barked on this jour-ney a decade ago, the whole intent was to be comprehensive ma-rine planning, which involves everything,” Lantin said. “So as the environment’s changed over the last 10 years around those federal jurisdictional issues, we’ve seen them not want to be part of this process.”

The Haida Nation remains opposed to crude oil tanker traffic through its marine ter-ritory, and is studying the issue of liquefied natural gas tankers in North Coast waters, he said.

Fisheries and Oceans Minister Gail Shea’s office issued a statement in response to the announcement in Victoria.

“The Department of Fisheries and Oceans did not participate in MaPP as it is involved in similar initiatives with similar partners such as the Canada-B.C. Marine Protected Area network strategy, which achieves marine protection and conser-vation goals through a joint federal-provincial approach, collaborative decision-making and a participatory process,” the statement said.

Doug Neasloss, representative of the Central Coast Indig-enous Resource Alli-

ance, thanked Tides Canada and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foun-dation, a San Francis-co-based environmen-tal charity started by a co-founder of Intel Corp., for continuing to support the estab-lishment of protected areas on the B.C. coast.

U.S. donors work-ing through the Tides Foundation put up $60 million in 2007 to par-ticipate in the Great Bear Rainforest land use agreement. B.C. and the federal govern-ment put up $30 mil-lion each.

[email protected] shed light on current state of town labour strike

The District of Kitimat says they are ready to go back to bargaining, fighting what they say are mis-conceptions in town that the municipality is refusing to continue negotiations.

To that end, the District released a let-ter from the town’s ne-gotiator Adriana Wills, to the union, specifi-cally to business agent Martin McIlwrath.

“We continue to be more than willing to meet with you and your committee in or-der to conclude that

Agreement,” reads the letter, dated April 30.

“It is up to you whether or not you in-volve Mr. McGarrigle. [Gavin McGarrigle is Unifor’s B.C. area di-rector] We are willing to meet with your com-mittee, regardless of its composition.”

The letter contin-ues that mediation is still on the table for the sides to pursue.

“We consider the mediator’s availability to the parties would likely enhance the po-tential for settlement,” the letter continues,

before asking the union for dates where the meetings could take place.

In response, Uni-for 2300 released their correspondence which preceded the District’s lawyer’s response.

“I know that going backwards in bargain-ing will not bring an end to this labour dis-pute. Equally I know that holding firm on all of the outstanding items will not bring an end to this labour dis-pute either,” read the letter from McIlwrath.Continued on page 8


How do people react to such in-cidents as the destructive megathrust earthquake that has killed thousands of people in Nepal?

In a serious way, obviously. We’ve all watched it on TV for the past week and a half as half the world responded with assistance.

How do we react, more particularly to the recent study warnings of more serious seismic warnings about earth-quake probabilities in northern B.C. as a result of new research pointing out that the region that stretches from the northern tip of Vancouver Island down the coast to northern California has experienced 22 major earthquakes over the last 11,000 years, and could be due for another mega-quake. Obviously without immediate panic or direct gov-ernment fundraising and emergency ac-tion.

However, Audrey Dallimore, of the School of Environment and Sustain-ability at Royal Roads University, the author of the recent study, said the re-search showed such earthquakes may occur every 500 to 1,000 years. The last

one took place 313 years ago. “What that means is we’re due for

another subduction zone earthquake either tomorrow — or 700 years from now,” she said.

Fair enough I thought, and like a lot of Kitimatians renewing house in-surance in the past week or two, I asked for quotes to include such coverage. To avoid suspense, I didn’t take it, for reasons of cost, although I have friends who do hold varied earthquake cover-age.

They delight in warning me I might regret it. My only excuse is that right now I’m only “betting”, that we won’t have an earthquake that will destroy my home before April 19, 2016.

I might regret it, no doubt. Let’s face it, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake oc-

curred off the west coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands, in October, 2012 and was the second-largest ever recorded in Canada but it was not a megathrust quake like the 7.8 event in Nepal.

Researchers also determined large earthquakes also took place about 1,200 and 4,000 years ago.

However, there has never been a megathrust earthquake in written Ca-nadian history. That doesn’t mean we won’t experience one, even before this appears on May 6. Nothing guarantees that.

British Columbia forms part of the North American section of what is called the Paci� c “Ring of Fire,” a 40,000 kilometre horseshoe of ocean trenches and volcanoes where 90 per cent of the world’s earthquakes take place.

So that being said, we ought to have a reasonable level of caution.

The 7.8 April 25 earthquake in Ne-pal caused untold chaos, destruction and many thousands of deaths and in-juries.

Continued on page 5

No guarantees with earthquakes

Anti-social networking

This week’s police report includes some telling reasons why you need to be careful on social media.

I had recently, for other reasons, been looking through examples of where social media turns sour for people, even for people who think they may have the upper hand.

There was a high pro� le case last year when a woman who worked for a PR � rm tweeted an in-sensitive joke just before boarding a plane to South Africa. Before she even landed her comment went viral — modern lingo for popular, really — and the resulting storm meant she lost her job.

It’s not just things you do to yourself though. At a programming conference in California a couple of years back a woman heard two men behind her whis-pering sexist jokes to each other. (double entendres referring to devices like forks and dongles, of which I’m not educated enough to explain.) The woman slyly took a photo on her phone and shared it to her own followers. The result was that one of the men photographed was � red, but even so the photogra-pher herself drew enough frustration to her employer that she lost her own job too.

Something you say online, or say within earshot of someone who is, can have huge consequences.

There’s this questionable behaviour online sometimes where well-meaning people on the Inter-net gang up on a person they feel is doing wrong.

Sometimes groups of people get together and track down personal information on people like ad-dresses and phone numbers, and share it online, all under the guise of providing justice.

All this to say that the Internet can be a cruel, cold place if you ‘step out of line’.

I hear frequently from people that they’re glad they grew up before YouTube or Facebook, because things they did in their youth really has no business being repeated through history.

In the cases of the alleged harassments or threats made online in our police report this week I do not know the particulars, so I’m not suggesting anything one way or the other on those � les.

But to the greater picture it’s a reminder that being online these days means to be in some way exposed.

For students in schools these days don’t take any pictures you wouldn’t want your mother to see, be-cause it is so easy for your mother to see them, or others of course who may not know privacy bound-aries. For people taking photos of what you think are funny people you see in the world, remember they are individuals who have, as you do, a right to secu-rity and privacy.

To make a newspaper analogy, papers have edi-tors to prevent silly things from being printed. (Usu-ally...) Make sure you edit yourself before publish-ing.

Cameron Orr

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Walter Thorne was kind enough to share this photo he took of the Delta Spirit Lodge as the ship, which was used for accomodations for the Kitimat Modernization Project, sailed off from the Douglas Channel.

Continued from page 4The world has rushed to the scene to provide aid and

assistance worth millions of dollars and it will take a very long time, if ever to return Nepal to anything like the way it was.

It’s a fact, however, the day before, April 24, saw a 6.1 earthquake off shore from the Queen Charlotte Islands, 167 km south of Queen Charlotte City, that was “felt” as far away as Northern B.C. (places like Smithers, Kitimat and Terrace,) but resulted in no damage, no tsunami - no panic.

Why? Different types of earthquake. I don’t have the

space (or expertise) to explain. Check them out online. But earthquakes are here to stay. There are approxi-

mately 5,000 recorded in Canada each year, most of them small ones.While earthquakes can and do occur in most Canadian regions, British Columbia is most at risk from a major earthquake.

Keep this in mind: in the past 100 years, at least nine earthquakes in or near Canada have registered a magni-tude greater than 7. A few have caused damage. A mag 6 earthquake in a major urban area would likely be the most destructive natural disaster this country could experience. So, you can’t ever write off the possibilities.

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Delta Spirit ship departs KitimatCameron Orr

The sudden depar-ture of the Delta Spirit Lodge, Rio Tinto Al-can’s floating worker accommodation ves-sel, is a sign of the project’s rapidly ap-proaching conclusion, says company spokes-person Kevin Dobbin.

“We’ve started our transition, we’ve peaked around 3,200-3,400 people and now we’re starting a pretty quick transition, close-out,” said Dobbin.

At the moment he said there is approxi-mately 2,800 workers on the KMP site, and will further dip to just the hundreds by the fall.

“It’s going to be

fairly quick. There will be another switch in May, June, and it will keep going down,” he said.

“Essentially all the pots are in place and now they’re just fine tuning them, get-ting them ready to go and starting to begin the commissioning and start-up.”

The Delta Spirit ship itself — its actual official name is the Sija Festival — was contracted for housing until the end of March, with a one month ex-tension requested by RTA.

The ship is owned by Bridgeman Ser-vices.

At the end of last

week the ship was in port in Vancouver.

The departure of the ship does mean good things for the project, said Dobbin.

“It’s not a bad sign, for sure, for the project. It’s a good sign...It’s been a long project with lots of challenges so every-body on site is very excited to get it up and running,” he said. “It’s becoming a reality.”

The persons who lived on the ship have either been moved to RTA’s land camp, in to the town, or have left due to their portion of the project being over.

As for the work camp at the site, Dob-bin said the ATCO

trailers are leased so it will be up to that com-pany to decide where they will go once the project closes out.

He said there have been thoughts to re-using the trailers in other projects in the

area, and even poten-tially using the exist-ing camp site for other possible projects.

“It could be. I wouldn’t rule it out, but again it’s timing for the other projects,” he said, also noting it’d

be a decision by Atco as well.

The Kitimat LNG project has a camp fa-cility near the former Eurocan mill for their early works.

The other project likely to use a camp is

the LNG Canada pro-posal.

We asked that company if they have any plans to use RTA’s camp facilities or grounds but did not hear back by press time.

District gives updates on strike impactsCameron Orr

The District of Kitimat has been on a public relations mission as the labour strike continues, posting informational releases on what is and is not impacted by the strike.

Among the recent ones from last week was on the topic of water, saying water testing continues at regular rates, despite the strike.

“District of Kitimat citizens are protected during strikes through essen-tial services legislation requiring that striking employees provide services necessary for the health and safety of the community. In the event of an emergency, striking employees who have been designated essential are re-quired to respond,” read a press release on the District’s website.

Aside from emergencies, “The municipal water system is being moni-tored at the same frequency as prior to the strike by Engineering Services personnel. These checks include daily monitoring and adjusting disinfection levels to maintain a safe drinking water supply.”

On the issue of trails and paths, the town also warns people about the risk from fallen trees and branches, saying people can report issues to the town itself.

The District says clean-up work is scheduled “as time allows” but may not happen until the strike is resolved.

Once the strike is over the town will also set an opening date for Radley Park and Hirsch Creek Park.

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A program from the Northern Development Initiative Trust (NDIT) seeks to get smaller, independent businesses online ex-posure.

Effectively a buy-local campaign, NDIT’s business devel-opment director Renata King says that on the whole they’ll have over 1,000 businesses listed through their online service.

Kitimat will be among the most recent to join, following a workshop NDIT held at Kitimat Valley Institute

“Kitimat would be the 21st community that’s participating in the program,” said King.

The program is focused entirely on local, independent, and non-franchised businesses.

“That’s purposeful in that those types of businesses often struggle with marketing. This is a smaller community so the customer base is smaller and these businesses need to have a platform to be able to showcase what they do and the products and services they provide,” she said.

The Small Town Love initiative provides these smaller businesses an online ‘landing page’ which will feature profes-sionally taken photographs of them and their store. A profes-sional will also write a profile of the business.

The program initially began in 2013 in six communities.

NDIT took on the services of Quesnel’s Amy Quarry, who had begun the Small Town Love program in her own commu-nity, and NDIT took it to expand the whole region.

“We looked for a business retention initiative that helped support shopping local and we found it in Quesnel,” said King.

There are almost 1,000 businesses registered in the pro-gram now, with an anticipation of 1,200 by the end of the year.

“We’re trying to encourage people to visit the town next to them and go on to the Small Town Love site and frequent those businesses.”

To be guaranteed to be part of the main Kitimat launch, businesses are encouraged to sign up by May 15.

District of Kitimat’s Economic Development Officer Rose Klukas is available to assist people in registering for the pro-gram, King said.

“Almost 50 per cent of Canadian businesses don’t have a website and it’s usually this type of business, the smaller ones, that think that it’s a big ticket item, but in this day and age you have to be online,” said King about this program. “This is a way to highlight [businesses] in one place and what we hope is when visitors come in to town they’ll go to that website.”

She added, “And also locals quite often don’t know that those businesses are there. This is a way to highlight them.”

CarnivalYou may be as confused as we were but that is in fact a clear sky behind the ferris wheel at the West Coasts Amusements carnival on April 28. After a day of heavy rains, evening fair goers were certainly pleased with a break in the weather to enjoy the lights before the day was out.

Continued from page 1Kitimat’s newest

school board trustee, Margaret Warcup, said she’s embracing the review of the district schools.

“The intent is to receive input from communities, teachers and students on what

works best for the stu-dents we care for and want to have success in their education,” she said through e-mail.

She said the input she heard at the com-munity stakeholder consultant meeting at Kitimat City High last Tuesday, “was help-

ful and the intent is to continue the dialogue so the board can be fully informed when making decisions.

“The board wel-comes fulsome in-put and the report and decision making will be a public pro-cess.”

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DoK applying for B.C. asset grant

The District of Kitimat will ap-ply for a grant from the ministry of community, sport and cultural de-velopment, which will lead to an asset plan for municipal infrastruc-ture.

The grant would provide 100 per cent funding up to $60,000 to develop an asset management plan for the town.

The government has provided the funding for communities that could be impacted by LNG devel-opments.

Chief Administrative Officer Ron Poole said the province last year committed $1 million under a Northwest Readiness program for communities and this grant money

is a result of that commitment.“This money is sitting there in

Kitimat’s name. The province just wants to know do we or don’t we want it. And if we do want it, it has to be for the purpose of develop-ing your asset management,” said Poole. “They want us to make sure we’re ready.”

Staff’s memo to council on the matter said having a plan developed “will help ensure the District is set-ting funds aside (or planning long-term debt) to replace existing assets as their useful lives expire.”

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Appeals court sides with B.C. on teachersTom Fletcher

The B.C. Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of the B.C. govern-ment on the long-running dispute with the B.C. Teachers’ Federa-tion over the removal of class size and special needs support formulas

from classrooms.In a lengthy judgment released

Thursday, four of five appeal court judges found that the province did not infringe on the constitutional rights of teachers to bargain working conditions. The appeal court point-

ed out numerous errors in the 2011 judgment of B.C. Supreme Court Justice Susan Griffin, and over-turned her order that the government pay $2 million in damages, which has been paid to the union.

BCTF president Jim Iker said

the decision is “very disappointing.” He announced that the union will seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in its bid to restore classroom rules the government re-moved from its contract in 2002.

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Continued from page 2April 22Police were called

with a report of two men attempting to tear down a tree near Gyr-falcon Avenue with a truck. Police say they determined the truck owner had been try-ing to use a tree as leverage as they were hauling away building supplies. The attend-ing officer noted the tree was not damaged “and was no longer being used as a tool.” The truck owner apol-ogized and offered to pay any damages caused by driving on grass as well.

April 23Police responded

to a caller, who was distraught over alleged concerns that a person to whom they owed money was threaten-ing to post private photos of them on the Internet. Police say the investigation is ongo-ing, and remind the public to limit the op-portunity for persons to take advantage of them by limited their online footprint, and being mindful of what they share.

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Kitimat’s autism walk were steps in the right directionCameron Orr

Jessica Fredrickson gave it three weeks from inception to execution and hoped for, at the most, $500 to get Kiti-mat’s first annual autism walk underway.

When the community gathered at the Child Development Centre for the Autism Speaks community walk on April 26, there was a showing of approx-imately 200 people, and by last week do-nations leveled off at about $3,090, with some additional donations expected in the days to follow.

“It was a really good turn out,” she said.

Fredrickson was the walk organizer, although is quick to point to the im-mense support from fellow parents and from the Child Development Centre em-ployees who pitched in their own time to help make the event possible.

She said the idea was sparked from a mother in her parent support group who was moving away and mentioned a com-munity walk in their new community. In a sort of ‘why don’t we have that here?’ moment, Fredrickson decided to take ac-tion to have it here.

Her own daughter Ava was diag-nosed with autism in February, and she

spent a lot of time reading up on the con-dition, and joined a Kitimat parent group as well.

Among the things she’s learned about autism, beyond the simply medi-cal knowledge, is that there are negative feelings from some towards people with autism, and efforts to spread awareness will go a long way towards reducing that negativity.

The money raised will go to Autism Speaks Canada, which directs money towards autism research, advocacy and awareness, and family services, as well as fundraising expenses and operations.

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Alicia BridgesThe Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine

(RDKS) has drafted a medical marijuana bylaw aimed at preventing grow-ops from cropping up near schools, daycare centres and hobby farms.

Prompted by changes to the way medical marijuana is being handled by federal and pro-vincial law, the regional district started reviewing its zoning policies in July 2014.

Growing marijuana is legally permitted in ar-eas within the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) and some of that land is close to public facilities, including schools, in Terrace and Hazelton.

Local governments are not allowed to pro-hibit medical marijuana facilities on ALR land, but the RDKS wants to ensure its zoning in-cludes provisions to prevent grow-ops sprouting too close to certain places.

The draft bylaw requires medical marijuana facilities to be at least 150 metres away from schools, daycare centres, parks, churches, com-munity halls and campgrounds.

It also requires the property being used to be at least 10 acres in size, a measure aimed at keep-ing the facilities out of small-lot subdivisions and hobby-farm areas.

Without a new bylaw, RDKS bylaw enforce-ment officer Murray Daly said medical marijua-na could be permitted in some residential areas.

“We allow hobby-farms and agricultural use in the Thornhill area and small-lot residential lots are allowed, agriculture, hobby-farm type stuff in small proximity of other areas,” said Daly.

“If you don’t have something in place that specifically regulates medical marijuana then it could potentially crop up ... almost anywhere.”

The RDKS draft bylaw is currently being circulated among relevant agencies including the Coast Mountains School District (CMSD).

Thornhill Elementary School in Terrace is near pockets of ALR land, as is the Hazelton Secondary School.

Daly said there could be changes to the draft based on feedback from agencies.

“That’s why it’s being circulated to ensure we can regulate the things that we put in there to regulate,” he said.

“If you put in things like no facilities within 2,000 metres of a daycare facility that might be seen as being too restrictive.”

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Regional district drafts pot bylaws

Local Unifor members, Jeremy Dos Santos, Martin McIlwrath and Rick Belmont at the Day of Mourning event on April 28, held at the viewpoint. McIlwrath said that he hopes the spirit of the day — which reflects on workplace safety as a day to remember people hurt or killed on the worksite — might bring the union and the District back to the bargaining table. The event was attended by some councillors and District of Kitimat staff as well.

Continued from page 3In McIlwrath’s letter he writes that

“I believe we were very close to con-cluding this labour dispute in Vancouver. However, we need to focus on the posi-tives not the negatives. There have been many negative things said by both parties during this difficult labour dispute and in an effort to end it we must move past the negativity.”

He continued, “I think that both sides can recognize that neither side will be able to declare a victory, but rather we should both be able to say that we made changes that will have a positive outcome for the workforce and our community.”

The letter further offers an “olive branch” to the District, inviting them back to the bargaining table to work on the outstanding issues.

“If you’re interested in resolving this labour dispute please let me know which way you’d like to proceed,” he writes, asking if the town wants to continue us-ing their external negotiator and Unifor’s national representative or rather “take an-other crack at it locally?”

It remains to be seen whether the union takes up the District negotiator’s offer to resume mediation.

Continued from page 7“All teachers are looking for is workable and

teachable classrooms,” Iker said.Education Minister Peter Fassbender said the

changes made to classroom organization in the disputed period have led to “dramatic improve-ments in student outcomes, particularly for stu-dents with special needs.”

The B.C. education ministry has argued that caps on class size and number of students in each class with personalized learning plans were un-duly restrictive. The NDP government of the late 1990s negotiated a settlement where the BCTF

gave up salary increases in exchange for class size caps, specialist teacher levels and limits on the number of designated special needs students in each class.

The appeal court decision leaves in place ef-forts by the government to settle the bitter dispute, including a provision in the current contract to pay $105 million to the union to retire thousands of grievances filed over class size and composition.

The six-year contract signed last fall after a lengthy strike also includes additional preparation time and a “learning improvement fund” to deal with special needs support.

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Scientist cautious on LNG potentialJosh Massey

“They’re going to put a bullseye on my picture down in Victoria,” says David Hughes as he leaves the interview room to continue on an eight-stop tour of northern B.C. to cast doubts on the promise of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) economic boom for the region.

An independent geo consultant with 35 years expe-rience at the Geological Survey of Canada, Hughes has been a consistent voice of caution during the province’s gallop towards an industry being promoted by the provin-cial government.

His 2013 report Drill Baby Drill warned the U.S. about its overestimation of new oil and gas reserves made acces-sible from modern drilling techniques and now a study of Canadian reserves with similar conclusions, BC LNG Re-ality Check, is to be published by the Canada Centre For Policy Alternatives in May.

Hughes thinks the amount of natural gas avail-able in major reserves in northeastern B.C. and the ability of companies to extract it is greatlyoverestimated by the Christy Clark government and the companies pitching their multibillion dollar projects.

The information Hughes uses to argue his case comes from the federal National Energy Board (NEB) and the province’s B.C. Oil and Gas Commission’s own calcula-tions and projections.

The first target for Hughes are the 18 liquefaction fa-cilities proposed on the coast, 12 of which already have export licences.

He doubts they are even possible given the huge amount of production that would lead to and the reality

of demand.“Adding them up comes to 60 million tonnes more

than the entire world trade of LNG,” says Hughes.Just supplying one or two facilities would require a

dramatic drilling increase beyond the midrange expecta-tions of the National Energy Board, he continued.

Hughes says it’s likely Canada would become a net importer of natural gas to feed those facilities.

“Basically we have to ramp up gas production way more than the NEB reference case forecast in order to have more than one terminal,” he said of the 330 per cent increase from current gas levels anticipated by 2035 in midrange NEB supply projections.

“If we commit to 20 year projects, and are required contractually to provide that gas, we’re going to need to import a lot more gas.”

The “high case” scenario of five LNG plants, would require 43,000 new wells by 2040 according to his calcu-lations and he says there are limits to how many drills will fit in these areas that can effect recoverability of deposits.

Just keeping up with current demand would require that 8,000 new wells be drilled in B.C.

And domestically in Canada, where we are huge con-sumers of energy because of the climate and distance be-tween cities, that demand is massive and will continue to be large even as renewable energy sectors grow.

“We’re right up there with Saudi Arabia. Actually we are worse than Saudi Arabia. We use about 5.3 times as much energy per capita as the average person in the world. The Americans use 4 times the world average. We use 5.3.”

“What is the best use of those resources? Liquidate it as fast as we can?” Hughes asks.

“Future generations are going to curse us if we liqui-date this for marginal returns.”

He said that in the five LNG terminal scenario the Ca-nadian gas surplus would run dry in several decades.

“You could run a five terminal case, if you could drill wells fast enough, for about 40-50 years. You could run a two terminal case for longer but that’s making optimistic forecasts about recoverability.”

He said the amount of gas in the ground hasn’t been proven through drilling yet and is a theoretical “resource” number as opposed to reserve.

Hughes said he is aware of the optimism in the north-west for an economic upsurge.

“Prince Rupert is dying. Fishing is really down. Log-ging is really down. So people are really looking at LNG as wow, this could be really great.”

The final analysis of Hughes might even seem opti-mistic to those with vastly lowered expectations in an area that is pessimistic about grand promises.

He sees two projects led by state-owned companies as the most likely to forge ahead.

These are Grassy Point LNG led by China National Offshore Oil Corporation and Pacific Northwest LNG owned by Malaysia’s Petronas.

“Their concerns are maybe not as much profit-based as energy security based, so they are trying to tie down a supply,” said Hughes.

“They don’t care what the price is because they know they are going to need it eventually.”

Continued from page 8CMSD board chair

Art Erasmus said the board had provided a letter of support for the bylaw with a sugges-tion to increase the 150 metre setback distance from schools.

“There was some discussion with our board meeting that a little larger holdback might be helpful and we’ve forwarded that on to them,” he said.

He said the school district’s level of con-cern over a grow-op would depend on its exact conditions and location.

The RDKS is not aware of any current applications to grow medical marijuana in its district.

Health Canada, which processes and approves or rejects the applications, said ear-lier this month there were 324 open appli-cations.

The federal health authority has re-ceived a total 1,250 applications since new regulations were introduced in June 2013, but a spokesperson said it could not pro-vide figures for

individual districts.RDKS planning

manager Andrew We-ber said the decision to draft the bylaw came from within his orga-nization and was not prompted by public concerns.

Regional Dis-trict of Bulkley-Nechako (RDBN) planning director Jason Llewellyn was aware of two applica-tions to grow medi-cal marijuana in the district, one in Topley and another closer to Smithers.

However, with the applications being made through Health Canada, he did not know how far those applications had pro-gressed.

Llewellyn said the RDBN’s zon-ing provisions were sufficient to man-age medical marijuana applications and his district was not plan-ning to introduce a specific bylaw.

“They’re dealt with in our zon-ing bylaw likemost municipalities would, identifying which zones they are appropriate in,” he said.

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Hospice WeekMayor Phil Germuth proclaims the week of May 3 to 9 as Hospice Week in Kitimat, joining in to the National Hospice Palliative Care Week. He’s joined in the photo by Dorothy Egan, Frank Da Silva and Dina Da Silva. Hospice volunteers will set up an information table in the mall this week about what they do. Hospice volunteers provide time and compassion to terminally ill patients and their families.

Chevron says no FID this yearIn a first quarter earnings conference

call, Chevron noted there won’t be a final investment decision for the Kitimat LNG project in 2015.

A transcript of the exact comments were not immediately available.

A communications spokesperson for the company noted that the company “hasn’t ever stated an estimated FID date for Kitimat LNG.”

An FID remains contingent on fin-ishing up the project engineering stud-

ies “to gain greater project cost and ex-ecution certainty, establishing a clear, competitive and stable fiscal framework with governments, gaining additional First Nations support, and executing firm LNG marketing agreements.”

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May 14KITIMAT MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY Annual General Meeting. At 7 p.m. in the Kitimat General Hospital cafeteria. All welcome. Contact Raymond Raj for more informatin at [email protected], or call 250-632-4006.September 1SPORTFISH ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING, 7 p.m. at Kitimat Rod & Gun Club. Topics for discussion: Fish posses-sion limits and transporting; and Steelhead plan. For more info call Jack Riddle 250-888-8202.OngoingHOSPICE: Do you have a couple of hours a month to make phone calls, plant flowers, share memories, play cards, etc.? Hospice can provide you with excellent training. Call us now at 250-632-2278.BRANCH 250 of the Kitimat Ladies Auxiliary hold regular meetings every second Thursday of the month. More informa-tion by calling Nancy at 250-632-4051, or Lyn at 250-632-2351FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY To join, contact Luce Gauthier at [email protected] or Virginia Charron @ [email protected] or call 250-632-8985.KITIMAT QUILTERS GUILD: If you are interested in join-ing the Kitimat Quilters Guild please contact Aileen Ponter at 250-632-6225 or Janet Malnis at 250-632-7387 for further in-formation.THE KITIMAT PUBLIC LIBRARY offers the highly engaging Mother Goose StoryTime for pre-schoolers Monday mornings from 10:30 -11:15 .am. Please register for this free program.HEALTHY BABIES drop in is held every Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Kitimat Child Development Center. They

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Marlins compete in Prince GeorgeJason Cathers

The Kitimat Mar-lins Swim Club com-peted at the Prince George long course (50 meter pool) invitational swim meet.

The swim meet was large with 350 swimmers from around northern B.C. and the Okanagan. Although the Marlins sent a small team due to the municipal strike and having to train at the Terrace pool there were some excellent results.

There were only two medal events avail-able for the 10 and un-der swimmers but two Marlins capitalized on the opportunity. Adri-anna Florit, 10, took the gold medal in the 10 and under girls 200 individual medley and the silver medal in the 200 meter freestyle.

Marlin team mate Ol-ivia Pearson, 10, took the bronze medal in the 200 im.

Zachary Dumas, 15, took the gold med-al for overall points in the 14-15 boys. Dumas also made it to the sec-ond round of the sprint eliminator competi-tion.

Brander Pacheco, 16, took the bronze medal for overall points in the 16 and over boys. Pacheco also made it to the third round of the sprint eliminator and took third place win-ning $25.

Achieving the tough task of swim-ming to converted per-sonal best times in all eight races were Angus Bathe, Emilie Krabes, Marianne Trembley, Micaela Pearson and Jayden Johnston

StatsCan after people’s bodies for knowledgeApproximately 350 Terrace and

Kitimat residents are being randomly selected to be asked if they’re willing to be weighed, measured, poked and prod-ded by Statistics Canada employees to determine their general fitness and health level.

Participation is voluntary and begins with questions asked in a participant’s home about nutrition, alcohol and to-bacco consumption, medical history, and level of physical activity.

They’ll then be asked to go to a Sta-tistics Canada mobile clinic in the Ter-race Sportsplex parking lot where their body dimensions will be taken along with undergoing testing for blood pres-sure, respiratory function and hearing.

“Finally, urine and blood samples will be collected to assess participants’ cardiovascular health, nutritional status, and exposure to environmental con-taminants,” indicates a Statistics Canada press release.

Data “helps to provide an accurate portrait of the health of Canadians. Vari-ous health care stakeholders, including professionals, researchers and public health planners, use this data to adapt programs and services to the popula-tion’s needs,” the press release continues.

“Moreover, well-known national organizations such as the Canadian Red Cross and the Heart and Stroke Foun-dation have shown their support for the survey.”


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Interested in contracting opportunities with LNG Canada?Attend one of our upcoming Local Contracting Networking Events to learn more:

May 11— 4:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Kitimat Rod and Gun Club

May 12— 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Terrace Best Western Hotel

Please RSVP for one of the events by emailing us at [email protected] no later than May 8, 2015.

If you have not registered for potential contracting opportunities, contact [email protected] to receive and submit a Request for Information Part 1.

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Kitimat's gymnasts put on a strong competition for the Dynamics Gymnastics Club's Spring Fling Meet on April 18.

In Level 1 girls, Brooke Gray, 10, earned bronze with 31.25 overall points. Faith Tweedy, 8, also � nished with a bronze for her overall 31.05.

Level 2 begins with Maggie Baker, 9, earning silver with 33.20. Savannah Boudreau, 10, � nished with bronze with 31.05. Jessi Ka-

berry, 10, also earned bronze with 31.60 overall.

There were two groups of Level 3 gymnasts. In the � rst group, Angelia Losier, 11, placed seventh, with 32.25 overall points. Alexa Rigoni, 11, placed sixth with 32.35 overall. There were � ve Smithers gymnasts in this group as well.

In the second group, of just Kitimat gymnasts, Hannah Durrant, 16, earned silver with 30.60 overall. Delaney Ribeiro, 14, earned

gold with 32.50.There were also two

groups of Level 6 gymnasts. In group one, May Anthony, 11, placed fourth with 30.55 overall. Camryn Oliveira, 10, earned silver with 31.55. An-dria Van Horne, 10, earned bronze with 30.95. And Brooklyn Wojciechowski, 11, earned gold with 32.475.

In the second group, Sydney Bovingdon, 15, placed seventh with 29.35. Anne Desrosiers placed fourth with 30.70. Ferron

Ouwehand-Minchin, 14, placed sixth with 29.70, and Drae Schrier, 14, placed � fth with 30.05 overall.

For the boys division, Charles Gagnon, 8, earned gold in Level 1 with 66.05 overall.

In Level 2, Noah Arlt-Dufresne, 13, earned gold with 72.80. Edouward Sauve, 11, earned silver with 62.50. Liam Velho, 11, took bronze with 58.15.

In Level 4, Nicholas Fer-guson took gold with 62.80.

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