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A vessel at MK Bay Marina presses against and damages a walkway, following a snow storm which caused a number of boats at the facility to sink.

Union gives strike voteCameron Orr

Martin McIlwrath, the business agent repre-senting the District of Kitimat employees, says the union absolutely will work towards avoiding a strike, but even if it comes to that they will await essential service designations from the Labour Relations Board before serving a notice.

As of Friday union members had voted 95 per cent in favour of strike action, but Unifor 2300 was waiting for an essential services hearing scheduled for this past Monday before potentially issuing a strike notice.

He said there were still meetings planned be-tween the District and themselves.

“We’re still trying to avoid a labour dispute, for sure,” he said.

McIlwrath, representing the members of Uni-for 2300, says it had been a struggle getting the city’s negotiators to the table to bargain but as-sured that no snow clearing efforts were compro-mised due to collective agreement negotiations.

Local 2300 released a letter last week outlin-ing the timeline for bargaining since December, explaining their frustrations making headway, while negotiations are now well past the expiry of the last agreement which ended December 31, 2014.

The letter was a means to combat rumours on social media that snow clearing may have been slowed due to contract issues and that the mem-bers may have already been on strike.

A month’s worth of meetings in January only resulted in 21 of their 90 or so items reaching agreement with the District, the union says. The District of Kitimat also indicate they’ve met eye to eye on approximately 20 topics. Snowfall causes damage to MK

Cameron OrrThe intense level of snow Kitimat

experienced in just one weekend result-ed in a number of boats lost at MK Bay Marina.

Marina manager Kevin Guest said four boats were sunk due to snow, two boathouses, and one vessel was nearly fully submerged before it was recovered.

Guest said staff went to work Friday morning but were sent away by the af-ternoon as the road was to be closed off.

“We weren’t allowed back until Sunday,” he said.

Guest said the fact that boathouses toppled over is unusual and he had been out inspecting damages and has some guesses for what happened.

“It’s very unusual for boathouses to go over. I’ve been out there in the boat to assess what it was and my estimate is the boathouses that went over got heavy with snow and one side of the snow let go and then it becomes like a bobbing

cork...they � ip to the side,” he said.“We’re just guessing because we

don’t really know,” he added.He said the next step is for the insur-

ance companies to get in touch with boat owners to � gure out how to proceed. The marina meanwhile is doing what it can to protect the environment in the area.

“Right now we have oil retention booms around the vessels to stop the hydrocarbons being discharged in to the general marina,” he said.

“But the biggest problem is, we’re getting fuel [come in] from Minette Bay and from the Village, because they had vessels sunk in both locations too. Un-fortunately the tide washes in towards us more than anything.”

One of the boats that sunk is break-ing up the sea dock, he said, because of how it came up under the walkway.

For boat owners whose boats didn’t sink, Guest says they should get down to the marina if they haven’t already and

clear off snow to protect against future possible sinking.

Kitimat’s Marine Rescue Society had issues of their own getting to their boats so no efforts could have been made to save the other marina boats until it was too late.

Unit Leader Chris Peacock said the group had seen the photos of the dam-age on social media and began fearing for their own boathouse too, but they couldn’t get to it until Monday because the road was not cleared until then.

“After shoveling off our boat and dock, I was relieved to see that no dam-age had occurred. At that point, attention was turned to MK Bay,” said Peacock.

He took a salvage pump over to the marina but the only boat that could be saved was a 12 foot aluminum skiff that was nearly under.

Peacock said boat owners and ma-rina staff did a great job doing what they could to save boats.

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Port Edward’s Pacific NorthWest LNG may have de-layed a final invest-ment decision last year, but community relations advisor Derek Baker told Port Edward council work on the project are still very much alive.

“We deferred that decision for a number of different reasons, including not having regulato-ry approval and oth-er approvals from the government. There is a view that once we are done the environmental assessment process that is it, but really there are a number of other permits through other agen-cies that we need to get as well,” he said at the Feb. 10 meet-ing, noting there is no definitive time-line for a decision.

“We really are hesitant to put a date on it because we are not in control of what the clock is, it’s to their [Cana-dian Environmental Assessment Of-fice’s] discretion. If there is an addi-tional information request that could stop. I don’t know what day we’re on, but we’re a good portion of the way through and we’re certainly hopeful for a decision this year ... the early part of this year.”

Terrace RCMP are still trying to under-stand the circumstances of the tragic shooting of a 15-year-old boy ear-lier this week.

On Feb. 10, Terrace RCMP reported that officers were called to a residence on Molitor St. around 10 p.m. Feb. 9, where they found a 15-year-old suffering from a gunshot wound. The boy was taken to hospital, but later died from his injury.

A 16-year-old, at the residence, was tak-en into police custody and later released to parents on conditions.

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Mayor explains why local government jumped in to racism debate

Family still fights against killer’s parole

Cameron OrrIn the mid-afternoon on January 30 a joint-

statement was released by the District of Kitimat, the City of Terrace and the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine.

The statement came in the wake of a racist comment made on the website of our sister paper, the Terrace Standard.

The comment made was more than deroga-tory to First Nations everywhere and created a fire storm of social media response.

The comment was more than condemned. The RCMP say they are even investigating the comment on the basis of a potential hate crime.

“As you can imagine, a statement like this on social media garners a lot of attention and we have had numerous reports,” said Const. Angela Rabut of the Terrace RCMP detachment in an ar-ticle published January 28.

The comment “is so low it deserves no re-sponse,” Rabut added, but instead it has spread and bred more negativity “like a bad virus.”

Yet as the RCMP suggest the comment is so low in value that it shouldn’t be engaged by oth-ers, although local governments did.

Kitimat Mayor Phil Germuth said he had been approached by a resident asking if the lo-cal government was going to do something in re-sponse to the comments, and Germuth felt it was important for the community’s image to go on the record condemning the comments, even if it went without saying.

“I had a call from a citizen who was con-cerned about it and asked if we were doing anything,”said Germuth. “So I got a hold of our [Chief Administrative Officer] and said ‘Hey, I think we probably should say something on this possibly.’ So he then contacted the regional dis-trict and Terrace and together...we decided we should say something.”

Germuth said he just wanted to put some-thing small out there just to show how Kitimat and the other communities felt on this issue. He also didn’t want to put too much out there in a statement given the RCMP’s ongoing investiga-tion on this subject.

“There’s a very large First Nations popula-tion in the region too, of course, and all our com-munities are multicultural in addition to First Nations so we want everyone to know they are

welcome and statements like that [the comment] clearly do not reflect the overwhelming majority in the community,” he said.

An online petition started by the family of a woman murdered in Terrace in 1998 oppos-ing parole for her killer has gathered more than 1,200 signatures.

Linda LeFranc’s family has also placed hard copy petitions in stores in both Terrace and Kitimat in hopes of preventing Christo-pher Maurice Alexan-der from being given day and full parole at a hearing scheduled for April.

He has, however, already been given a number of temporary passes since first be-coming eligible fol-lowing his murder con-viction and subsequent life sentence, a circum-stance that has consis-tently been opposed by LeFranc’s family over

the years.Previous applica-

tions for parole have been denied by the Na-tional Parole Board.

Alexander, 17 at the time of the murder, broke into LeFranc’s southside townhouse in Terrace in the early morning hours of Dec. 9, 1998, stabbing Le-Franc, then 36, 83 times with a hunting knife.

LeFranc’s seven-year-old daughter was in the home at the time.

“Our intent is not to exploit or sensation-alize Linda’s death but to justify our extreme concern and continued position that Chris-topher Alexander re-mains a serious threat to public safety and should never be re-leased,” reads a portion

of a statement written by Anita Johnstone, a sister to LeFranc, which is posted as part of the online petition.

Alexander has spent the last years in a Fraser Valley federal facility.

Alexander was found guilty of Le-Franc’s murder and sentenced to life in prison at a trial here in 2002.

He was arrested in Dec. 1999 after an ex-tensive RCMP inves-tigation that employed undercover police of-ficers who first gained Alexander’s confi-dence in order to get him to talk about Le-Franc’s death.

Alexander lived in a neighbouring townhouse to LeFranc whose hometown

was Kitimat.The petition can

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whole winter of 1971-72 takes the cake with what Thorne calls a “roof-breaking” 1,054.9 cm.

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February 2At 11:19 p.m. the police attended to a car

accident on Haisla Boulevard toward Rio Tinto Alcan. A single vehicle was in the ditch but the driver had already left the scene.

February 3At 4:15 p.m. a report of mischief was called

in regarding the Horizon North construction site on Forest Avenue. A door to a construction trailer was damaged. No suspects have been identified.

February 4At 12:04 a.m. the police were alerted to a

woman seeking shelter. Officers took her to the emergency weather shelter.

At 10:50 p.m. the RCMP responded to a break and enter on Industrial Avenue. A rock was used to smash through the glass window and the suspects took a television and household items. One suspect wore a motorbike-style helmet and another covered their face with a sweater. The file remains open.

February 5At 1:17 p.m. the RCMP responded to a hit

and run collision where a blue pick-up truck suf-fered damage to the left tail light and left tailgate. The owner believes the car was damaged while parked at the City Centre Mall.

At 7 p.m. there was a two-vehicle collision at Kuldo Boulevard and Nass Street. A vehicle did not see the other and police say a high snow bank was a contributing factor. Moderate damage to

both vehicles but no reported injuries.February 6At 10:07 p.m. the police were called to an

aggressive person at the KMP camp. The person was intoxicated and acting aggressively towards security. Police determined he was able to care for himself and escorted him back to his room.

February 7There was a hit and run involving a vehicle

and a snowmobile. The complainant says their ve-hicle was struck while in the driveway on Petrel Street by a person riding a snowmobile, causing minor damage. The snowmobile driver did not stop and police are still investigating.

There were three requests to check on the welfare of seniors from their children, who called in from out of town. There was also one check request for a person who was homeless and had tried to use the emergency weather shelter which was closed that night. Police did not report there were any concerns following the calls.

February 8Charges are being recommended against a

youth who was found not at home as per an estab-lished curfew.

At 11:33 p.m. police were called regarding an intoxicated woman lying on the snow on Lahakas Boulevard and Gyrfalcon. Police determined the person could not care for herself and was arrested for public intoxication and held in cells until so-ber.


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Interesting week. Canada has been ravaged by win-

ter snowstorms coast to coast that have reminded us that while scientists and learned scholars make up their collective minds about the effects of climate change, Mother Nature has a more practical way of telling all of us that she’s still around and the fu-ture mysteries can be supplanted very quickly by the unpleasantness of the present.

But while all these natural storms have been beating us down, there have been a whole lot of unrelated politi-cal whirlwind mini-storms going on, enough to remind us that 2015 is a scheduled federal election year and its going to be a very unpredictable one.

Various polls have shown us that the great Canadian political public is restless, in the mood for a change in attitude by any party in power after the scheduled date of October 15.

Despite the Prime Minister’s setting � xed election dates, there’s plenty of speculation that the October date is not necessarily cast in stone and the election could be brought for-ward. I don’t really subscribe to that view. There’s a large enough number

of possible game changing in� uenc-ers around this spring and summer to mitigate against a quicker election.

Stephen Harper and the Conser-vatives have seen some quick changes in fortune in the past week or two. The PM’s favourite pitbull John Baird simply up and quit abruptly, leaving Harper with a second quick cabinet shuf� e to carry out in a couple of weeks.

No one knows yet what’s behind the Bairr resignation or what he’s go-ing to do. One thing I know it will be good for John Baird. And I could care less.

The girls are causing trouble too: MP Eve Adams, a dyed-in-the-wool Harperite for years, put on her Belin-da Stronach shoes and stomped across the � oor to joining a cheery Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, who like all good politicians had a ready response

for Adams’ change of heart about the conservatives. Her trashings of Trudeau and his policies are infamous but she’s clearly newly appreciated the man behind the political facade.

The Duffy trial is coming up. Suspended Senator Mike Duffy’s fraud, bribery and breach of trust case will begin on April 7 and last for 41 days through June, lawyers agreed last year.

Duffy has said clearly he has no qualms whatsoever about dragging his former party through the mud. The speed of the trial and whether it presents the potential to damage Con-servative electoral fortunes will have political strategists scratching their heads as testimony proceeds.

Will Harper be called and show up? He can invoke Parliamentary privilege, something that should promptly be changed, but won’t.

The biggest question remains, did Harper know about the secret $90,000 payment made by his former chief of staff Nigel Wright to cover Duffy’s contested Senate expenses? He has vehemently denied it.

Can’t wait!Continued on page 7

Canadian storms both winter and political

Snow bizI go away for three days and this is what hap-

pens?Fine, maybe I won’t go away anymore.I am referring to the Family Day Weekend Bliz-

zard which powdered this entire town for days, left people stranded and without power as roads slowly opened up.

That’s what I’ve gathered, anyway. I was holed up with friends in Smithers away from the craziness and could only watch helplessly as the major event unfolded.

This is how crazy the whole weekend is, from my perspective: Kitimat, which means ‘People of the Snow’, were so amazed by the snowfall that a Facebook page was created just to document those photos.

From a distance it was hard to � gure out: was the snowfall really that bad, or have we become soft after such a mild, thus-far, winter.

I got my answer talking to Kitimat’s deputy � re chief who said Kitimat was so close to exceeding the historically largest snow fall.

For a town known for its snow that is impressive.Over 1.5 days, give or take, there was 168 cm of

snow, Environment Canada says.It was an impressive drop and the mayhem was

easy to report. Power off, roads closed, all very dra-matic.

And yes, you may remember just a few weeks ago I jokingly mentioned how I can never use the phrases Snowmageddon or the like, and I’ve care-fully resisted as best as I can so far. (Snowpocalypse Wow!)

The best news to come out of this event though is, like with any sort of hardship a town faces, the unity of the community.

The � re department activated the emergency op-erations centre, drawing in the local expertise, while local groups like the Snowmobile Club and Search and Rescue showed up in snowmobiles to lend a hand. Volunteers from throughout town offered their hand when people were evacuated from Kitamaat Village and put up in Riverlodge as a warming centre until people could go home.

Rio Tinto Alcan sent out their own snow clearing equipment to the town.

People shared in the challenge. You know what the word team stands for right? Together Each Achieves More.

There may have been gripes, complaints and whines — and certainly some legitimate criticisms in general — but all in all Kitimat showed its basic humanity in rising to the challenge.

Lately these days there are times when a person asks “What has our town become?” but when the lights came back on that weekend we saw our true colours.

And they are beautiful.Cameron Orr

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There is an old ex-pression that goes, “It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good.”

Case in point was the February 5 bliz-zard, about as ill a wind as you could get. Yet despite the general

chaos and misery, it was good news for the local heavy equipment contractors who sud-denly found their ser-vices in high demand.

In the LNG world there is a similar exam-ple where the impact of

a price hurricane felt in the Caribbean just might translate into a warm breeze that fills the sails of an LNG proposal in our back yard.

To explain, in 2012 a Belgian outfit called EXMAR signed an agreement with Cana-dian-based Pacific Ru-biales Energy (PRE) that was meant to re-sult in the first floating natural gas liquefaction plant in the world.

EXMAR was to

build, own, operate and maintain the plant while PRE, which owns gas fields in Co-lombia, had exclusive rights to supply and liquefy up to half a million tonnes of LNG a year for 15 years.

EXMAR awarded the contract to build the LNG barge to Wil-son Heavy Industry of Nantong, China and the plan was to have it up and running in Co-lombia in the second half of this year.

And everything went swimmingly with Wilson on Febru-ary 4 confirming the barge would sail away from its yard bound for South America by June of this year.

So smoothly did everything run that EXMAR ordered a second barge in De-cember of last year with a delivery date of 2017.

So what is the con-nection to projects up here?

Well, EXMAR is one of the members of the newly formed con-sortium that is plan-ning to have a floating LNG plant moored off Kitimat district lot 99 on the west side of the Douglas Channel and operational sometime in 2018.

It also just happens that the Douglas Chan-nel plan is for a barge capable of producing a half a million tonnes of LNG per year.

And this is where

the ill wind comes into play.

On February 3 EXMAR announced in its quarterly report that PRE had decided to delay the Colombia project because of “un-favourable energy mar-ket conditions.”

The same day, in an interview with en-ergy publication Inter-fax, Peter Volk, general manager of PRE, float-ed (pardon the pun) an-other possibility.Continued on page 12


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A market-based pineapple express may do more good than the real one

by Malcolm Baxter

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Dear Sir,I was born in Kitimat.I remember going to school and having to

walk on the main streets because the sidewalks were buried in snow.

Alcan would tell people even if you can make it out of your street there was no place to park at Alcan and to take the bus.

I also remember District employees pick-ing up our garbage, taking care of the dump, and painting lines on the streets.

Now we have less than half of the employees in the yard and much less equipment while we

have more streets and subdivisions.This is not the fault of the new city manager.

Due to the record snow fall, I have only made it home to sleep and my children had to take care of themselves with no power for 28 hours.

I did not get to spend Family Day with my kids.

Over the past five days I have worked over 70 hours as well as most of the other District em-ployees.

Sincerely,Doug Ribeiro,

District of Kitimat Employee

Dear Sir,I have spent 61 years of my 84

years in this community working also as a contractor when in win-ter for many decades we provided snow removal service to many pri-vate and public institutions. In the interest of public safety we worked around the clock when necessary, and often this was the case. I have never experienced in all my years living in Kitimat such a current di-saster and failure and irresponsible

negligence on the part of District of Kitimat administration who cre-ated this emergency situation be-cause of winter storm conditions.

Weather forecasters had for days predicted a heavy snow fall warning and warned the public to get organized and be prepared for a massive snow fall. The senior staff of the Public Works Yard should know better and be prepared for such a heavy snow fall.

Continued on page 12

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Dear Sir,My name is Norman De-

long and I have lived in numer-ous towns in BC and Alberta, this is the first community that I have lived in where the town cleans the roads, sidewalks

along with walking trails after a snow storm.

After this last storm, the largest in over a couple of de-cades, your dedication to get-ting the job done is much ap-preciated.

I think you all deserve a big Thumbs Up. I would like to thank the District crew for a Job well done.

From your friend onYukon street,

Norman Delong

Thumbs up to Kitimat public works

Troubles not on CAO’s shoulders

Local citizen is concerned over inadequate response


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Kitimat � re� ghters blast water on a Lillooet Street house which burned down on July 14. The home is

effectively gutted but the family of � ve managed to get out safely. The community meanwhile has rallied

behind the home owners in their time of need. See page 3. Cameron Orr

Kitimat Airshed Assessment released

Anyone holding their breath over

ever seeing the Kitimat Airshed Assess-

ment can breath easier now with its re-

lease on Friday.

The Government of B.C. commis-

sioned for the study of the impacts of

industrial developments to the Kitimat

area, but since it � nished the government

had held on to the document claiming it

as Crown privilege.

Speaking to reporters Friday En-

vironment Minister Mary Polak said it

was always meant to eventually be re-

leased publicly.

An overview of the report shows

that “The airshed can accommodate in-

dustrial growth without signi� cantly af-

fecting the health of residents or the en-

vironment,” a government Powerpoint

presentation says.

The study focused primarily on Sul-

phur Dioxide (SO2) and Nitrgen Diox-

ide (NO2).

SO2 is the subject of an environ-

mental permit appeal by two Kitimat

residents who feel Rio Tinto Alcan’s

post-modernization SO2 emissions are

too high.

The government study included the

possibility of four lique� ed natural gas

terminals, a proposed oil re� nery, gas-

turbine powered electricity generating

facilities, predicted increased shipping

along the Douglas Channel, and future

expected increases in road and rail traf-

� c.“We want to ensure any potential

impacts from industrial air emissions

are clearly understood before new proj-

ects are approved,” said Polak.

As for RTA’s existing permit, the

government has no plans to revisit it

save for possibilities from the appeal.

“We intend to see RTA operate un-

der its existing permit. The appeal will

be what the appeal will be and of course

we will look to the results of that if there

are any changes that need to be made,”

she said. “Our intent at this stage is for

RTA to operate under their existing per-

mit requirements.”

Lis Stannus, one of two Kitimat

appellants against the RTA permit, is

pleased to see the study � nally released,

but at over 300 pages she said she’d

need time to go over the details.

Graphs from the government do

show the potential for signi� cant SO2

reductions in the event SO2 scrubbers

are used by the smelter.

SO2 health risks showed minor (pos-

sibly) increases in respiratory incidents

of between .5 and two per cent, and risk

directly related to proximity to indus-

trial area. Continued on page 12

Campfire culprit

in Kitimat wildfire

The Kitimat Fire Department says an unat-

tended camp� re is the likely cause of a one hect-

are wild� re which put at risk the developments

at Strawberry Meadows and left downtown blan-

keted in smoke July 17.

The blaze was in challenging geography for

the local � re depart-

ment to reach and after

an intial assessment

they called the North-

west Fire Centre, based

in Smithers, for aerial

support.

Water tankers and

helicopters were im-

mediately dispatched

to get the � re under

control.Meanwhile heavy

machinery was put to use to create � re breaks, to

contain the � re if it managed to spread.

A � re break is essentially knocking down

trees and leaving a � re-fuel free buffer.

“We weren’t allowing any members to go in,

of our members or their [forest � re] members to

go in, just due to certain hazards. The condition

of the � re and the speed it was progressing,” said

Deputy Fire Chief Pete Bizarro.

In all there were about seven air drops with

water tankers, while helicopters continued to drop

water throughout the evening.

Once air support � nished ground forest � re

� ghters went in and took care of hot spots.

“Jack [Oviatt] was on site, obviously had

lots of equipment. We had a number of excava-

tors working to make these � re guards,” added

Bizarro.

The � re was also the � rst activation of Kiti-

mat’s new Emergency Operations Centre (EOC)

since they set up in the Public Safety Building in

the former council chambers.

“Equipment and personnel all gelled really

well, and we’re very pleased with the outcome of

the EOC,” said Bizarro, saying their new set up

proved very useful.

As for evacuations, the Lower Dyke area was

evacuated but he said there was no imminent dan-

ger to campers in the area.

“The only reason I initiated that is because of

the direction of the wind and the fact it would take

some time for those campers to leave,” he said.

If an evacuation was needed emergency

services, including the � re department and the

RCMP, would do a combination door-to-door

knocking, loudspeaker service and using local

media to alert people of the need to leave, and

would establish a place for evacuees to gather.

One Kitimat Fire� ghter did injure his ankle

during the event and was treated at hospital and

released.

“Equipment and

personnel all

gelled really well,

and we’re very

pleased with the

outcome of the

EOC.”


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Yearsest. 1954

Kitimat � re� ghters blast water on a Lillooet Street house which burned down on July 14. The home is

effectively gutted but the family of � ve managed to get out safely. The community meanwhile has rallied

behind the home owners in their time of need. See page 3. Cameron Orr

Kitimat Airshed Assessment released

Anyone holding their breath over

ever seeing the Kitimat Airshed Assess-

ment can breath easier now with its re-

lease on Friday.

The Government of B.C. commis-

sioned for the study of the impacts of

industrial developments to the Kitimat

area, but since it � nished the government

had held on to the document claiming it

as Crown privilege.

Speaking to reporters Friday En-

vironment Minister Mary Polak said it

was always meant to eventually be re-

leased publicly.

An overview of the report shows

that “The airshed can accommodate in-

dustrial growth without signi� cantly af-

fecting the health of residents or the en-

vironment,” a government Powerpoint

presentation says.

The study focused primarily on Sul-

phur Dioxide (SO2) and Nitrgen Diox-

ide (NO2).

SO2 is the subject of an environ-

mental permit appeal by two Kitimat

residents who feel Rio Tinto Alcan’s

post-modernization SO2 emissions are

too high.

The government study included the

possibility of four lique� ed natural gas

terminals, a proposed oil re� nery, gas-

turbine powered electricity generating

facilities, predicted increased shipping

along the Douglas Channel, and future

expected increases in road and rail traf-

� c.“We want to ensure any potential

impacts from industrial air emissions

are clearly understood before new proj-

ects are approved,” said Polak.

As for RTA’s existing permit, the

government has no plans to revisit it

save for possibilities from the appeal.

“We intend to see RTA operate un-

der its existing permit. The appeal will

be what the appeal will be and of course

we will look to the results of that if there

are any changes that need to be made,”

she said. “Our intent at this stage is for

RTA to operate under their existing per-

mit requirements.”

Lis Stannus, one of two Kitimat

appellants against the RTA permit, is

pleased to see the study � nally released,

but at over 300 pages she said she’d

need time to go over the details.

Graphs from the government do

show the potential for signi� cant SO2

reductions in the event SO2 scrubbers

are used by the smelter.

SO2 health risks showed minor (pos-

sibly) increases in respiratory incidents

of between .5 and two per cent, and risk

directly related to proximity to indus-

trial area. Continued on page 12

Campfire culprit

in Kitimat wildfire

The Kitimat Fire Department says an unat-

tended camp� re is the likely cause of a one hect-

are wild� re which put at risk the developments

at Strawberry Meadows and left downtown blan-

keted in smoke July 17.

The blaze was in challenging geography for

the local � re depart-

ment to reach and after

an intial assessment

they called the North-

west Fire Centre, based

in Smithers, for aerial

support.

Water tankers and

helicopters were im-

mediately dispatched

to get the � re under

control.Meanwhile heavy

machinery was put to use to create � re breaks, to

contain the � re if it managed to spread.

A � re break is essentially knocking down

trees and leaving a � re-fuel free buffer.

“We weren’t allowing any members to go in,

of our members or their [forest � re] members to

go in, just due to certain hazards. The condition

of the � re and the speed it was progressing,” said

Deputy Fire Chief Pete Bizarro.

In all there were about seven air drops with

water tankers, while helicopters continued to drop

water throughout the evening.

Once air support � nished ground forest � re

� ghters went in and took care of hot spots.

“Jack [Oviatt] was on site, obviously had

lots of equipment. We had a number of excava-

tors working to make these � re guards,” added

Bizarro.

The � re was also the � rst activation of Kiti-

mat’s new Emergency Operations Centre (EOC)

since they set up in the Public Safety Building in

the former council chambers.

“Equipment and personnel all gelled really

well, and we’re very pleased with the outcome of

the EOC,” said Bizarro, saying their new set up

proved very useful.

As for evacuations, the Lower Dyke area was

evacuated but he said there was no imminent dan-

ger to campers in the area.

“The only reason I initiated that is because of

the direction of the wind and the fact it would take

some time for those campers to leave,” he said.

If an evacuation was needed emergency

services, including the � re department and the

RCMP, would do a combination door-to-door

knocking, loudspeaker service and using local

media to alert people of the need to leave, and

would establish a place for evacuees to gather.

One Kitimat Fire� ghter did injure his ankle

during the event and was treated at hospital and

released.

“Equipment and

personnel all

gelled really well,

and we’re very

pleased with the

outcome of the

EOC.”

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We have now selected our preferred option for carrying out this project, which is to build a new line along the west side of the Kitimat Valley. This decision was based on environmental, archaeological, design, cost and other studies, as well as feedback received during consultation with First Nations, local governments and interested members of the public.

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Kitimat’s deputy fire chief Pete Bizarro snapped these photos from their operations during the storm weekend, which included a medevac from Kitamaat Village with the helicopter shown above. Pete Bizarro

Emergency operations tested by the snowfallCameron Orr

The Kitimat snow storm was the second activation of Kitimat’s new Emergency Oper-ations Centre — which activates in the Public Safety Building — and it was perhaps even more serious of the two times.

Deputy Fire Chief Pete Bizarro says the other activation was during the forest fire in Strawberry Meadows last summer.

The EOC was activated following a Friday morning of troubles on the road and at the fire hall itself which was wrestling with getting a back-up emergency generator working.

Bizarro says that any sort of call that the local fire department handles was called in over the weekend, put-ting a large workload on a department deal-ing with power outages and impassable roads.

Yet the community came together and sup-port from a number of sides meant the emer-gency coordinators are

cheering for jobs well done.

The fire depart-ment had two of their members stuck early on Friday on Kitamaat Village road with one of the rescue engines which was responding to a vehicle accident.

Bizarro said the ar-rival of the local Search and Rescue group meant Engine 12 could finally be reached and those members took two people back in to Kitamaat Village.

M e a n w h i l e through the weekend there were 29 dis-patches from the fire hall, including nine rescues (people strand-ed, patients needing out from their homes, etc.), three fire calls including a structure fire on Oriole Street and a chimney fire on Kechika.

Road crews would give certain streets pri-ority if there was an emergency call on it, he said.

Bizarro said part of what made all their operations effective was everyone’s under-

standing of the sever-ity of the storm and the community as a whole supporting their neigh-bours.

He also gave an extra thanks to the families of the vol-unteers who may not have seen their family for hours or perhaps days at a time.

Bizarro also re-sponded to questions related to fire hydrants, many of which are still buried under snow, but he said the primary source of water is ac-tually the fire trucks themselves. There are also apps on their smart phones and in the trucks which show precisely where all fire hydrants are and they can be quickly cleared while any potential fire is being fought.

Meanwhile Chad Fournier, who is presi-dent of the Kitimat Snowmobile Club and also a Search and Rescue manager, said it was a very unique weekend and he’s still trying to put his fin-ger on what made this snow particularly dis-

ruptive versus other heavy snow years.

“I’ve seen snow like this before for sure. Trying to wrap my head around what made this storm event so much different than other times, because we did have a similar...snowfall in 1999 where we had over a metre of snow that fell in 24 hours. It’s not like this hasn’t happened be-fore,” he said.

Even so it was an “interesting, new expe-rience” for everyone he said.

“Kind of a foreign

and atypical scenario with using snowmo-biles and ATVs with tracks to shuttle para-medics and firefighters to the scene of differ-ent calls.”

He’s thankful there were no calls that had serious delays and said if anything, the resources of SAR in times like that will be remembered in the fu-ture as another tool in an emergency.

The RCMP are part of the emergency operations centre too, but on the crime side staff sergeant Phil Har-

rison said it was fairly quiet.

“For us it was a good weekend. We had a few calls to check on the wellbeing of peo-ple, but otherwise it was fine,” he said.

The RCMP were called to the Kitimat

Modernization Camp due to conflict involv-ing security not letting workers drive out of the camp due to snow clearing efforts, but the police informed security that if people needed to leave no one could be forced to stay.

A home away from homeKitamaat Village residents evacuated from their community following a lengthy power outage after the snow storm found a place within the Riverlodge on February 8, which was made in to a warming centre for those not able to go home. Haisla ladies and volunteers prepared meals, with food purchased and donated from the community. Photo Louisa Genzale


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The national economy is reeling, the price of oil has plummetted. I doubt any Canadians will give the Conservatives credit for welcome cheaper gas.

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cal dollar. That can’t be good.Big job losses across Canada have brought

into question decisions of the competition board which really comes down to the Harper cabinet. The government is adamant it will balance the budget while revenues plummet. Nobody really believes its possible, so good luck with that.

I could go on but you get the picture. The

current government is in trouble, the door is open from Tom Mulcair and Justin Trudeau.

It’ll really come down to who’s behind them on the farm team to see if they can convince enough Canadians to actually get off their duffs to get out and vote to effect change. I doubt if Quebec will continue to hand bonus seats to Tom Mulcair.


The Chamber of Commerce, whether here in town or those in other communities, is essentially the primary resource for all things business for a community.They are the voice representing the business people and employers that keep economies humming.Most of B.C.’s 162 municipalities have a local Chamber of Commerce, according to the B.C. Chamber of Commerce.In Kitimat, the Chamber of Commerce continues to establish foundations to make the community a place of continual growth.As Chamber of Commerce week is upon us, the local chapter is looking at a three-pronged approach to settling various issues for Kitimat.Those prongs are: housing, child care, and skills training.Kitimat Chamber Executive Director Trish Parsons says the town is entering a new phase which means we have some breathing room from the break-neck pace it has been in for a few years. Yet she emphasizes that the community is still moving forward and has to be prepared to take advantage of new opportunities.In order to support the retail and service sectors in town she said the town itself has to be accommodating to potential employees.She said the Chamber is continually working with organizations and groups to make sure the town has housing stock, for instance.The Chamber of Commerce is set to co-host a housing forum with the District of Kitimat’s housing committee sometime in the near futureChild care is also a big

issue in the community. There are major wait lists for child care providers, which can be an impediment to getting people to work if their children can’t be cared for.Trades training is also important, and

Parsons said programs are really needed right now to have people available for future projects. Having a variety of types of training will also be crucial.The town, meanwhile, has

lots of opportunities to make itself known, and the Chamber, through their tourism promotion activities, will have a presence at the upcoming Canada Winter Games

in Prince George, getting the word out on what Kitimat has to offer, and letting people know there are rooms here in our hotels now too.The bottom line is that the community needs to look outside the box and realize that the way things may have worked in the past have changed.The Chamber of Commerce in Kitimat, said Parsons, works with all levels of the government, and with developers and educators to look for new opportunities for the town.It’s important, she said, to keep representatives for various projects in town at the table to tap in to

resources they may have to offer too.The Chamber is endeavouring to be fl exible and dynamic to meet the town’s always changing needs.The Kitimat Chamber of Commerce operates out of their location on Forest Avenue along Highway 37, which doubles as the Kitimat Visitor Info Centre.They operate the Tourism Kitimat website and actively promote Kitimat to the wider world as a tourism destination.

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Promotion. Advocacy. Volunteers. Connected. Progressive. Critical-Thinking. These are just some of the many words that can be used to describe the work of the Kitimat Chamber of Commerce.Serving as the Voice of Business in Kitimat since 1955, the Kitimat Chamber of Commerce has been an integral part of our community for the past 60 years. Supporting and advocating for the business community is one of our paramount underpinnings. From networking opportunities for our business leaders to holding community events in tandem with many of our community partners,

we are in our town connecting Kitimat. We offer a multitude of advertising opportunities in many forms to help you promote your business as well as an array of resources to help you recruit and retain your workforce, your Kitimat Chamber of Commerce is here for you. Kitimat is enjoying a period of economic opportunity, but with these opportunities comes challenges. As a business community it is important that issues such as a shortage of housing stock, worker recruitment and lack of necessary training courses do not hold Kitimat back from achieving our full potential as a

growing community. The Kitimat Chamber of Commerce will continue to advocate on behalf of our members to ensure that these challenges are at the forefront, and as the voice of business, we will lobby our elected of� cials in all levels of government for the betterment of our community.Our members are from where we get our strength; your continued support to your Chamber will help to continue on our path of growth and help see Kitimat continue to thrive for many years to come.

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The Kitimat Chamber of Commerce provides an opportunity for business people to create local jobs and drive the local economy to work with government and the public to build a better community.The Chamber Network in BC is the largest and most broadly-based business organization in the province representing more than 36,000 businesses. Chambers are recognized by the government as the voice for BC’s business community because each chamber is represented by local business people, providing input to government on regulatory policy at the grass roots level.The Kitimat Chamber provides an avenue for

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Erin YoungDramafest is an annual competition that

draws drama clubs of different schools together for a weekend-long presentation of a variety of short plays.

High schools from Kitimat, Terrace, Prince Rupert, Hazelton, Houston, and Smithers gather to participate, each presenting their own perfor-mance for the public as well as a selected adju-dicator.

Participating communities take turns hosting, and this year the job goes to Kitimat, Mount Eliz-abeth Theatre from February 19 to 21, each group will take turns performing plays between 20 and 60 minutes long for a number of awards.

The overall winners are invited to further compete at the provincial level, Destination Main-stage, an eight-day drama festival taking place in New Westminster.

“The most exciting part besides being a part of the play is the social aspect. You get to meet other high school students that are interested in the same things you are,” says Leah, a senior stu-dent who has attended Dramafest four years in a row. “I hope to see all the plays be successful and that as a part of the hosting town everyone has a tremendous amount of fun at our theatre.”

As for Kitimat’s contribution, Mount Eliza-beth Secondary School will be performing True the Mirror, a brief piece described as “Alice in Wonderland, but with a dramatic twist.” The show will be the second one of the night on Friday, Feb-ruary 20. Admission is by donation, and everyone is welcome.


Snow storm divides MEMSS band for hotly anticipated Vancouver tripEugene Chang

On February 5, the Mount Eliza-beth Middle Secondary School band was scheduled to depart for Vancouver on two separate � ights.

Prior to the trip, Kitimat received a weather warning for heavy snow, leav-ing the entire band on edge as the visit to Vancouver suddenly faced jeopardy.

On arrival, all the students were set to do activities such as seeing the Broad-way Musical of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, watch Theatre Sports — a perfor-mance of actors playing classic theatre games in teams in a head-to-head battle — see Space Centre and most important-ly, visit the campus of the University of British Columbia for a number of clinics and workshops for the variety of differ-ent instruments and age groups.

Unfortunately, the snowstorm warn-ing issued shortly before the trip had be-

come a reality for the second � ight. The � rst group was able to depart on time fairly smoothly.

Once they had arrived, word was re-ceived that the bus was able to take the next 33 of 45 passengers to the airport, giving hope to the band that everyone could make it.

However, by then the snow had picked up and visibility dropped. Hawkair was persistent with taking the band into the air but it was unsuccess-ful even after waiting hours for a chance. The original � ight was to leave at 6:30 p.m. but the band did not go home until the � nal decision to cancel the � ight was made by Hawkair at 9:00 p.m. that there was not going to be a � ight.

This would leave Nancyjane Har-ness and her small crew of 10 other band members in Vancouver without the rest of the team.

They would continue to do every-thing that was planned including the now modi� ed workshop, more suitable for a smaller group as well as all the shows.

Luckily most of the organizations shared their sympathy for our group and adapted to the sudden shortage of people when it came to doing tours or shows. The trip back to Kitimat went smoothly.

The plane left early and the weather back home had already cleared up.

Courtney Preyser, the director of the MEMSS concert band, came to the air-port to welcome the partial band home with joy for the safety and enjoyment of us few who were able to leave that Thurs-day morning.

Everyone � ew home in clear skies on the evening of February 9 with a great experience and new memories that we all wish could be shared with everyone intended to go.

What is this page?The Northern Sentinel is a community paper, and with that over-arching mission in mind, we decided we needed to open up space in our paper to a sometimes unheard part of our community: our students.

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space to highlight the news and trends happening in Kitimat’s high schools’ halls, all from the perspective of the students themselves. And with that, I’ll turn the page over to them... - Cameron

At least some of the MEMSS band made it to Vancouver for their trip of shows and workshops. The recent snow storm meant only part of the Kitimat contingent could make it. Photo provided by The Buzz correspondents

Kitimat set to host Dramafest

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MEMSS’ � ne drama tradition (from a 2013 performance of Con� agration) continues as Kitimat hosts Dramafest this month.

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Volume 1 No. 01 Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Continued from page 5This delayed re-

sponse and lack of action by the adminis-tration threatened the health, well being and safety of all citizens. This also hampered BC Hydro crews in their effort to restore power outages across Kitimat except for those areas which had preferred status for power sup-ply.

It is noteworthy that historically dur-ing times of heavy and continuous snow fall when the regular District crews needed relief due to fatigue, administrative offi-cers and staff as well as Public Works yard supervisory staff op-erated snow removal equipment. Even the

Municipal Manager of the day operated a snow blower.

Every October there is a parade of the snow removal equip-ment in the District Service Centre yard which is getting pre-pared for the winter. Where is this equip-ment today? Why is this equipment not now cleaning streets and sidewalks? Because of this negligence and poor planning it will now be ever more cost-ly to bring city street and sidewalks back to a normal.

I understand that there have been several house fires. Also when driving around I no-ticed that fire hydrants are still buried in the snow. When will they

be dug out? With great concern

I observed elderly and other pedestrians who had great difficulty in negotiating streets as sidewalks remain im-passable.

A commission of

inquiry should be set up to get to the bottom of this disaster. And it should not be an in-house white wash in-quiry/ investigation.

Sincerely, Leon Dumstrey-

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Jeremy Dewalt gave himself a unique vantage point during and after the Fam-ily Day weekend snow storm; from the sky.

The radio con-trolled (RC) device en-thusiast decided to take a break from endless shoveling to see what his neighbourhood looked like as Kitimat was pounded by snow, and the result was up-loaded to YouTube and viewed nearly 25,000 times.

He has also post-ed a follow-up video showing his street — Dunn — glowing with sunlight under mounds of snow.

Dewalt has lived in Kitimat since 2011, after moving here from Prince George. So he’s not unfamiliar with winters, even though he said the recent snow storm was only com-parable, from his own history, to a snow storm in 1996 in, of all places, Victoria.

Dewalt, an enthu-

siastic outdoorsman, has had a passion for the RC hobby grow-ing over years, since he was a kid.

“It’s my passion, my hobby,” he said.

Many of his neigh-bours are used to seeing his quad-chopper — well, that is his Blade 350 QX2AP — hover-ing around the neigh-bourhood. He has a few videos on his You-Tube account of flying

through his neighbour-hood, as well as a video of a pass through the air

at the Kitimat Air Park.“It’s amazing what

you can capture with

that thing,” he said.The technology is

impressive, even for a minute forgetting it’s a portable flying device. He said he can wire-lessly link the camera on his RC to his smart-phone and enjoy a live view of above.

That means he can also control it when it’s out of few. It has come in handy as he has pi-loted through Moore Creek, beyond the wa-terfall near Rio Tinto Alcan’s smelter.

It’s not only aerial vehicles he has though, but a range of air and land based vehicles, from boats to trucks to cars.

The device he used to grab the snow storm video on Dunn Street uses a GPS lock to find its way. He notes that in the video you can see the quad-chopper drift in the wind but move back automatically to the GPS designated spot.

Wind was a fac-tor in not going much

higher as well. Wind drifts that high up can be disruptive.

Any other local RC enthusiasts may soon see more of Dewalt’s name.

He’s hopeful to form an RC club some-time in the future, per-haps linked to other clubs in the region to take advantage of es-tablished tracks.

“It’d be nice to have a track to race around,” he said. He takes his boat to the lakes sometimes too, but he said he has to be careful when there are people around as his RC boat roars at typical, full-size boat speeds.

He at least has hopes to build a track for RC vehicles on his own property and he

has a garage full of parts.

His ultimate dream is to open a specialty RC shop, and looks forward to the chance to do that in Kitimat, a town he’s grown to love in his over three years here, where he works as a carpenter.

If anything though, the hobby of RC is great for people with families, he said, as a way to get kids outside away from non-stop video games.

Dewalt has two children, a five-year-old and a six-month-old, and he said his old-est is already getting in to the hobby too.

Taking hikes with their RCs and playing around with them pro-vides great family op-portunities, he said.


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PUBLIC FEEDBACK REQUESTEDCoast Mountains Board of Education School District 82 is seeking public feedback regarding the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 Proposed School Calendars. An all-partner consultative School Calendar Committee was formed by the Board of Education in March 2014 with a mandate to guide the development of an ongoing plan for school calendars over the next three years.

Details regarding the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 Proposed School Calendars are available on the Coast Mountains School District website at www.cmsd.bc.ca.

Public feedback is welcomed by February 24, 2015, by completing the School Calendar Survey (link available on the school district website) or by forwarding your comments by email to [email protected], by fax to 1-888-290-4786, or drop off/mail to:

Coast Mountains Board of Education School District 823211 Kenney Street, Terrace, B.C. V8G 3E9

A summary of all responses and feedback received will be reviewed by the Board of Education. The 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 Proposed School Calendars will then be considered at the Regular (Public) Meeting of the Board to be held on March 11, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. at the Board of Education Office.

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Continued from page 5“We are looking at various alternatives which would rep-

resent lower (capital expenditure) commitment in order to improve overall returns,” he said. “These include locations not only in Colombia but also other countries.”

Canada for instance? Volk wouldn’t name any “alterna-tives”.

But it strikes me that a logical play by PRE, given there is already a second barge under construction, is to cut a deal

with the Douglas Channel consortium that would see the first barge park up here and the second one go to the delayed Co-lombia project.

Which could translate to Doug-las Channel being up and running two years ahead of the current plan.

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Alicia BridgesTeachers’ union

leaders from Kitimat and Terrace, where Grade 7s were moved out of elementary schools two years ago, say the Coast Moun-tains School District should research how the change has affected those schools before it makes similar changes in the Hazeltons.

Hazeltons parents last week expressed concerns about a plan to move Grade 7 stu-dents to the Hazelton Secondary School in September 2015.

Their concerns re-late to a lack of consul-tation in the lead up to the move, longer travel times for younger stu-dents, bullying, and issues with Grade 7s sharing the school with older students.

Opposition to the plan was also voiced at the Jan. 26 meeting of the Hazelton Grade Re-configuration Commit-tee, which was created by the district to inves-tigate the best model for the move.

School district board chair Art Eras-mus told The Inte-rior News last week that the transition was aimed at improving

graduation rates.Two years ago, the

district moved Kiti-mat’s Grade 7s to Mt. Elizabeth as part of a district-wide shift towards the middle school model.

Unlike Terrace, where the Skeena Mid-dle School for Grades 7–9 has its own school site, Grade 7s at Mt. Elizabeth share the building with Grades 8–12s.

The transition planned for the Hazel-tons would be closer to the model used in Kiti-mat.

Cathy Lambright, the president of the Terrace District Teach-ers’ Union, said Coast Mountains had not done enough research into how reconfigur-ing grades had affected those schools.

“My concern is this, let’s take a look at our own district,” she said. “Kitimat is a school within a school, just like Hazelton. What were some of the concerns and pressures from the parents there, from the kids, from the teachers, what worked and what didn’t? Let’s take a look at that be-fore we rush headlong into making possibly

similar mistakes.”She said the union

was not opposed to the move itself but the time frame.

She believes it would be a mistake to introduce changes in Hazelton this year be-cause the school was not prepared.

“I think that try-ing to do it in too short a time can be really harmful because the high school is certainly not organized or set up for a group of students to move into HSS at this point in time for Sept. 1,” she said.

She called on the school district to pro-vide more evidence to support its claim that the change was benefi-cial to students.

Kitimat District Teachers’ Association president Kim Meyers does not believe the transition has helped students at the Mt. Elizabeth Secondary School.

She said she would not recommend a simi-lar model being intro-duced in the Hazeltons because resources at Mt. Elizabeth had been stretched by the move.

She believes a middle school that operated separately,

like the one in Terrace, would be more suc-cessful.

“A true middle school model provides for collaboration and team-building and kids doing collective activi-ties but that’s just not possible when they are in the same building ... it just doesn’t work when you’re all in one building and sharing resources,” she said.

“In Kitimat we were assured over and over that the students would be kept separate ... but there is no sepa-ration and there is no way to do it.”

Meyer agreed with concerns raised by Hazelton parents that younger students were more vulnerable in a high school environ-ment, “for a lot of dif-ferent reasons”.

“I find it cause for concern, absolutely,” she said.

In her opinion, a similar move in Hazel-ton would not “hurt” Grade 7 students aca-demically but it would not improve their grad-uation rates.

Board chair Eras-mus said last week the district was receiving positive feedback from parents, students and

teachers at the Terrace and Kitimat schools.

He said the board would consider how to respond to community concerns at its next meeting on Feb. 18.

“Given the amount of ‘we don’t want to do this’ that we had at the meeting ... clearly the board will be ad-vised from the meeting ... that it’s not smooth sailing.”


Cameron OrrThe Kitimat Modernization Project, which

should secure smelter operations for another 60 years in the northwest, certainly has its spin-off benefits.

While the more obvious benefits include em-ployment and busy local businesses, Kitamaat Village was provided one, perhaps seemingly random, donation from the aluminum company: concrete slabs.

"The concrete was developed...more spe-cifically for lines seven and eight," explains Rio Tinto Alcan spokesperson Kevin Dobbin.

Those old pot lines have been brought down over the course of the modernization project, and those old concrete slabs, which are custom made by Glacier Concrete, came out with it.

From there those slabs rested over at Glacier Concrete, but a busy place like Glacier didn't have a whole lot of room to spare for unusable slabs.

Dobbin said given the custom-made nature of the slabs there was no other place on the work site to move them to give them a new home.

"They were basically sitting at Glacier Con-crete on a cost to RTA," he said.

It's not entirely uncommon for the company to seek out ways to give their equipment or sup-plies a second life elsewhere off the property,

he said.The 75 concrete slabs, said Dobbin, have a

value of around $30,000.The company Dial N' Order handled the de-

livery of the slabs to Kitamaat Village.Haisla Nation Council Chief Councillor El-

lis Ross said the slabs will be a major part for an overall plan to renovate the marina in Kitamaat Village.

"Our administration is going to try to do improvements to our dock and our ramp system down at the bay for marine services," he said.

"The boat ramp that's down there right now was done on a similar donation," he added, say-ing their ramp is made from about 30 year old slabs, also from Rio Tinto Alcan.

The ramp improvement will be part of a larg-er plan which will also see the existing breakwa-ter replaced and improved.

"I think right now their [Fisheries depart-ment] priority is to put in a new breakwater," said Ross. "The old breakwater made up of logs is ac-tually causing us more heartache than anything."

He said the Haisla are working with the gov-ernment of Canada to install a new breakwater with an eye to making it a more long-term struc-ture.

"It's time we upgraded that facility," said Ross.

A view from the Kitamaat Village Marina, which may soon see some upgrades, in part from a donation from RTA.

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Rio Tinto Alcan initiated their emer-gency Business Re-silience Plan as the smelter shared in the immense snowfall the town was experienc-ing.

Even so the plant’s operations kept going, said company spokes-person Kevin Dobbin.

“The operations kept plugging along. Obviously when there’s a lot of snow our focus is on safety in the plant to ensure everyone was safe in how we kept running the smelter,” said Dob-bin last week.

Early in the week he said the plant wasn’t quite back to normal yet as snow clearing operations continued.

“Obviously a lot of the snow has fallen in the parking lots and so right now we’re running a shuttle from Kitimat to the plant

to make sure we can clean up those park-ing areas before we get everybody back to work, or driving back in to work,” he said last week.

That shuttle picked up employees from the Mountainview Square parking lot downtown.

Dobbin says there was little impact to how many people could show up for their shifts.

“[There were] not really any no-shows that we’re aware of. Right away the teams were fully there, en-gaged throughout the weekend...We had a bit of a command cen-tre at the main of� ce building.”

There were de-tours to the site as well due to downed trees.

From the Kitimat Modernization Proj-ect side he said the site wasn’t of� cially

closed down but a lot of the efforts were on dealing with the snow rather than the con-struction.

“I drove through there Sunday after-noon because it was a detour road to the plant and...in the camp park-ing lot the snow was pretty heavy,” he said.

“When you got to the construction site a lot of the pathways were done.”

Dobbin said he spent a lot of time communicating with the District of Kitimat from RTA’s command post at their admin-istrative building and they helped each oth-er out as best as they could.

“To help them out we lent a bit of equipment,” he said. A couple of loaders were sent out to help out with some of Kitimat’s side streets, he said.

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Continued from page 1Union demands

cover a wide range from wages, to seniority is-sues, to health and safety.

The District of Kiti-mat, meanwhile, has issued a media release of their own regarding negotiations, saying that the District of Kitimat and the union have met 18 times. The District says the 90 demands of the union “[amounts] to re-writing much of the Collective Agreement.” “District of Kitimat em-ployees already earn among the highest wages in the province,” the Dis-trict’s release adds.

“The District has tabled a two percent wage increase, which is consistent with other municipal contracts. The Union’s proposals would significantly increase the cost of the District of Kitimat’s operations and constrain the ability to deliver public services.”

The District of Kiti-mat says the union’s operational financial proposals would result in a minimum 12 per cent property tax in-crease. Responding to the union’s strike vote, deputy Chief Adminis-trative Officer Warren Waycheshen simply ac-knowledged the vote had taken place, noting the Labour Relations Board meeting on Monday. “The District of Kitimat is committed to continue working towards reach-ing a Collective Agree-ment,” he added.

Contract negotia-tions aside, the union is calling for a full inves-tigation in to how the town handled the recent snow storm. The Kitimat council has also called for a review. Acting mayor Mario Feldhoff said at the February 10 Committee of the Whole meeting that there will be one conducted.

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Haisla and proudTop Haisla basketball players were among the many athletes competing at the All Native Basketball Tournament in Prince Rupert last week. Final scores wouldn’t be available until after press, but here’s a shot from the week of the Kitamaat and Hesquiaht ladies fighting for a spot in the semi-finals. This game follows the Kitamaat Ladies defeating New Aiyansh the day prior. The Northern View

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