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Enbridge pipeline will hit wall in B.C., critics say By Jeff Nagel Black Press Environmental groups and First Nations quickly condemned the National Energy Board’s recommendation to approve the Northern Gateway oil pipeline project and predicted it will never be built. Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs president Grand Chief Stewart Philip said the battle will likely move into the courtrooms as First Nations mount legal challenges to Enbridge’s project – assuming it is approved in the months ahead by the federal government. “This is about the environmental integrity of the watersheds we all share and we are willing to go to any lengths to defend our watersheds,” he said. “We are prepared to go to the wall against this project. We have no choice.” Wilderness Committee policy director Gwen Barlee called it a reckless, foolish, disappointing decision that will run into a wall of opposition in B.C. “It’s going to be tied up in courts for many, many, many years,” Barlee said.
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Artist in residence
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SUNDAY
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W 4 11 18 25
F 6 13 20 27
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5:30pm Taekwon-do
12-3pm Strong Start
9 9 First Day of Passover
7:15pm Public Skating
10Good Friday 10
9-12pm Strong Start
10am Food Bank
12-3pm Strong Start
7-8:30pm 4H Early Rgstrn @ Sowchea
4-7pm Strong Start
8pm AA Mtg
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12-3pm Strong Start
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First annual night market The first ever Fort St. James Night Market to encourage activity in the downtown in the evenings saw an estimated 400 visitors. Organizers Olivia Mcmahon and Jessica Rasmussen, both working for the District of Fort St. James, said the event had around 38 vendors. Their goal for the event was 25. “So that was a big, happy surprise,” said Mcmahon. Vendors came from throughout the region, from Fraser Lake, Fort Fraser, Prince George, Cluculz Lake, Vanderhoof and Fort St. James. There were a few hiccups in the setup, with the lights for the outdoor stage being left behind then not able to be hooked up in time and the food vendor Spicey Greens getting lost on the way and being over an hour late. “There’s always a few kinks, but we ironed those out,” said Mcmahon. Once Spicey Greens arrived and set up they had a line up until they were completely sold out. In addition to the vendors selling everything from crafts to cupcakes, clothes to food, there were also entertainers performing on the outdoor stage, a portable stage the District of Vanderhoof supplied for the event. There was the Lost and Found Puppet Company, with a puppet theatre production by Maggie Winston of Vancouver for the kids, Marcel Prince and his guitar, Ditnikwun Drummers did some singing and drumming, Doug Koyama and friends created some on-the spot music, Rosewood’s Diary of Vanderhoof rocked the stage, Barefoot Caravan drummed some beats and Canadian Waste, a four-piece from Fraser Lake, finished everyone off with some originals. While many of the vendors packed up by around 9 or 9:30 p.m., the music went on past 10 p.m.. Some of the local stores such as TRU Value, The Source and the Health Food Store which stayed open during the event didn’t
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necessarily see a lot of extra business during the market itself, but many were busy with vendors getting ready prior to market hours and Mcmahon said they did find it was good exposure and they were excited for the Love Fort St. James buy local campaign which was launched at the event. The idea for the night market came about in July, and so while things were put together fairly last-minute, Mcmahon said things went well and she thinks they would go smoother with longer timelines and they may have had even more participants. The door prize drawn for visitors to the event was won by Cassandra Hammett and was a stay and play package which included one night at The View Hotel, free passes and lunch at the Fort St. James National Historic Site and a round of golf at the Stuart Lake Golf Club.
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Year End Revue September, 2013
Blockade comes down
A blockade of some forest service roads had gone up and come down in Tl’azt’en Nation territory in September. A group of keyoh holders were blockading the Leo Creek Forest Service Road and temporarily the Tanizul Forest Service Road as well over their frustration with the management of the resources in their keyoh. The group agreed to bring down the blockade pending further discussions with the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Management and others. Meetings were set up for later in the year. Keyohs are areas of land managed by hereditary inheritance, a system of the Carrier peoples of the area predating contact with Europeans. An area is handed down through a family for food gathering through hunting, trapping, fishing and berry-picking. “We don’t want industry to destroy what we have left,” said Charlie Joseph, one of the keyohholders of the Nesanye keyoh in the area. “There’s too much hunting. Our way of life is being infringed on,” said Alex Joseph, another member of the keyoh-holder group and a resident of Middle River. The roadblock, set up at the 2 km point on the Leo Creek Road, was being manned by a shifting group of about a dozen people through the week. The group was not letting any logging, mining-
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related, gas pipeline or hunting traffic through into the area. A blockade on the Tanizul FSR only lasted part of Thursday morning. “We just went ahead and did it,” said Alex Joseph. He said the loggers, Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations and the RCMP had all been respecting the blockade. “Which we appreciate.” The sign at the junction of the Tachie Road and the Leo Creek Forest Service Road had been defaced with derogatory comments, however. Someone had spraypainted “Hey, got two bucks” and another It was a beautiful September evening when the District of Fort St. James hosted their had spray-painted “No Indians.” annual classic car rally and recreation fair. The event offered recreation clubs and orgaThe blockaders’ demands were not nizations the chance to set up information booths and sign up members. specific, but Charlie Joseph said while Ruth Lloyd/Caledonia Courier compensation for some of the resource extraction and exploration has been gojunction against the protestors, which was granted ing to chief and council, his group of keyoh-hold- area, and recreational hunters were turned back. Workers staying at the Leo Creek logging the same day, but just after the blockade was taken ers have not seen any benefits. camp had to be redirected to the Stuart Lake Logdown voluntarily. “Some sort of agreement must be made with “We’re happy the roadblock is down and we us keyoh-holders,” he said. “If it’s monetary, let it ging Camp. MaryAnne Arcand of the Central Interior Logare fully expecting business as usual starting Monbe monetary. If it’s some sort of economic venging Association (CILA) said the blockade was day,” she said. “If it does go back up next week we ture, we could start something along those lines.” impacting logging contractors, and as many as will be enforcing the injunction.” He suggested opportunities for those in the She said they would apply to expand the inarea to again own cattle and have access to forest seven contractors were losing an estimated combined total of $560,000 a day during the blockade. junction if roadblocks were put up on other area range opportunities would be beneficial. CILA had gone to court on Friday to get an in- roads as well. The blockade was impacting some work in the
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Year End Revue October, 2013
Mt. Milligan commissioning The Mount Milligan copper-gold mine held a commissioning ceremony on site Oct. 8 with government and mine officials in attendance. The commissioning marked the mine moving into its operational phase, with the equipment having been tested and run through the start-up phases. The mine cost around $1.57 billion to build over three and a half years, and in 2012 pumped $125 million in spending into the region. Dennis Hoof, Mount Milligan vice president and general manager spoke at the event about the rapid development of the property, which was a deposit first discovered by
Fort St. James prospector Richard Haslinger in 1983. “What we’ve experienced at Mount Milligan … is nothing short of a very extraordinary accomplishment,” said Hoof. Thompson Creek Metals bought the Mount Milligan project from Terrane Metals in 2010 and began construction the same year. Haslinger himself was at the commissioning, and said the project would never have happened without Rob Pease, president and CEO of Terrane Metals, who brought the project to the development phase. Kevin Loughrey, chairman and chief executive officer of Thompson Creek Metals, remarked on the importance of Mount Milligan for
Thompson Creek, which up until now has been strictly a molybdenumproducing company. With molybdenum prices being low at the moment, Thompson Creek is looking to Mount Milligan to diversify their company’s assets and income. “We have worked a long time to get to this point,” said Loughrey, who joked lightly about the cost overruns and extra financing the project required to get to production. “This means everything for our company,” he said. Once in full production, the mine is expected to process an average of 60,000 tonnes of ore per day. The first concentrate
Lighting up the night
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has now been shipped via the load out in Mackenzie and the ore produced contains an estimated 2530 per cent copper and an ounce of gold per tonne.
The mine is expected to produce 81 million pounds of copper and 195,000 ounces of gold over an estimated 22-year mine life. There are around 350
people working at the mine, which is located 150 km northwest of Prince George, and there were over 1,000 people working at the site during the
Year End Revue November, 2013
Biomass plant breaks ground The Fort St. James Green Energy Project broke ground in November. The $235 million biomass power generating station has begun construction with Spanish firm Iberdrola starting excavation on the site. One of two biomass power-generation projects Iberdrola will build for Dalkia, one here and one in Merritt, the company chose to begin construction on the Fort project first. “We’re extremely excited as a council, as a community and I’m sure as a region,” said Mayor Rob MacDougall about the commencement. The project did have
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some delays as partnerships were created and the process moved through the required approval process and financing. “We had to raise a significant amount of money for the project and that can’t be done overnight,” said Fadi Oubari, of Dalkia Canada. “It took some time to have everybody’s interests aligned.” After financing was finalized, the project has begun to move forward, and while BC Hydro did cancel some power projects, this provides the long-term reliable power BC Hydro is looking for to supply future energy needs, according to Oubari, and would produce 40 mW of elec-
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tricity (enough to power an estimated 40,000 homes for a year) and would only be down for one 10-day maintenance period each year. Oubari said the “project is on track” and “there is no risk whatsoever in BC Hydro not honouring their contract” which consists of a 30-year purchase agreement with the company.
peak of construction. Eighty per cent of the employees are from the Prince George, Mackenzie, Fort St. James and Vanderhoof area.
MacDougall said the extra time is to be expected with such a major project in a competitive market. “I think that the extra time ensures that the project will proceed in a flawless manner,” said MacDougall. The plant is expected to begin producing electricity by the summer of 2016. The plant is also ex-
pected to improve air quality in the area, as it will burn wood waste at higher temperatures and produce less emissions from the mill waste which is currently burned in beehive burners. It will also reduce seasonal roadside burning of slash, as more of this wood would be burned in the biomass plant, again improving air quality.
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