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Cameron Orr The environmental appeal hearings for Rio Tinto Alcan’s emissions permit that allows it to increase it’s sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions without the use of scrubbers has begun. The emissions currently permitted for the new smelter will be mostly reduced, while SO2 specifically will increase 56 per cent from its current emissions of 27 tonnes a day. Kitimat’s Lis Stannus and Emily Toews successfully filed an appeal of the permit, after several others also attempted but were denied. The hearings formally begun April 27, with remarks from the pair’s lawyers, and the Northwest Institute (NI) has provided summaries from the proceedings and submitted them to news media. 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.” Continued on page 2
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Walk for a cause A 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 reviewed A 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, according to superintendent Katherine McIntosh in an opening remark, is a discussion 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 programs 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
“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.” began in December. “It was the new board [after the elections]...they started talking that perhaps it’s time to review all the alternate programs in our school district,” said McIntosh. Last week the first phase of the process wrapped up, and he’ll begin assembling 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 expectations of our programs change as well. That was why the board decided to embark on the alternate program review process.” She said district wide about 200 students use alternate programs and schools, and Kitimat City High enrollment 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 future discussion. “It will outline information for them and provide a direction for the future,” she said. McIntosh noted she has been impressed with the quality of the information that had been gathered in the process. Continued on page 6
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Police Beat
Dispute leads to report of knife threat to dog April 20 At 2:38 p.m. the RCMP received a complaint of two female youths fighting each other on a porch of a local apartment unit. Officers arrived and separated the two. One was suffering from a swollen cheek and was taken to the hospital, police say. Both were intoxi-
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 Officer Service or RCMP if they are concerned about an animal sighting in a high human traffic area. At 4:32 p.m. po-
cated and uncooperative. Police released the woman to sober adults without charges. April 21 At 9 a.m. a grizzly bear sighting was reported 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
lice received a report of online harrassment. Police say the complainant 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 individuals, and police advised the subject to be respectful 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
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In our April 15 edition under the headline “Park rezoning moves ahead” we incorrectly reported that the new park space in the future Forest Hills subdivision development would be smaller than the original planned, however we have since been informed that both the old and new park lots are actually the same size.
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 acidification 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 predict acidification of various sites, long-term harm to sites receiving above average acidification is not considered. Hearings in Victoria will run to May 15, before coming to Kitimat in early June.
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Scam A phone call from anyone claiming to be Haisla Chief Councillor Ellis Ross and asking for money is not actually him. The Haisla Nation 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 emergency of some kind. It’s believed some people could have already provided money. The Haisla Nation Council warns people not to provide the caller with anything, and if you have provided any money then you should file a police report about the incident.
Despite criticized consultation plan, marine use document gets released Cameron Orr and Tom Fletcher A marine planning exercise which Kitimat Council urged a comment deadline extension for has been completed. The B.C. government has completed regional marine plans with 18 First Nations on the B.C. Coast, from northern Vancouver Island 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 Rainforest 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 everyone was fully consulted on this process before being finalized. “We were concerned last time...that we heard from the other 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 entirely 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 concerns were addressed.” Aboriginal leaders said they were proceeding with B.C. and environmental organizations, but the federal government has not participated in what they call MaPP, the Marine Planning Partnership for the North Pacific Coast. Haida Nation President Peter Lantin said the marine plan for the waters around Haida Gwaii sets aside 20 per cent as a marine reserve, and discussions with Ottawa are underway to add more area around Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve. But with pipelines and oil and gas projects proposed for the region, the plans are far from completion.
“When we embarked on this journey a decade ago, the whole intent was to be comprehensive marine 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 territory, 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 CanadaB.C. Marine Protected Area network strategy, which achieves marine protection and conservation goals through a joint federal-provincial approach, collaborative decision-making and a participatory process,” the statement said. Doug Neasloss, representative of the Central Coast Indigenous Resource Alli-
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Government provides training monies Haisla Deputy Chief Councillor Taylor Cross says new funding from the province will aid in the Haisla’s own training plans to get their members in to future proposed projects. “We already have a training 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 advantage 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 announced as part of B.C.’s Skills for Jobs Blueprint, a document outlining goals and strategies to make the province ready for liquefied natural gas developments. The overall goal, according to the Ministry of Ab-
original Relations and Reconciliation, is to add 15,000 Aboriginal workers within 10 years. “The Aboriginal Skills Training Development Program is a good example of how our government is walking a better path and working in partnership with First Nations to ensure a positive legacy from LNG development,” said Minister of Aboriginal Relations John Rustad in a prepared statement. Funds will help address
Letters 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 misconceptions in town that the municipality is refusing to continue negotiations. To that end, the District released a letter from the town’s negotiator Adriana Wills, to the union, specifically to business agent Martin McIlwrath. “We continue to be more than willing to meet with you and your committee in order to conclude that
Agreement,” reads the letter, dated April 30. “It is up to you whether or not you involve Mr. McGarrigle. [Gavin McGarrigle is Unifor’s B.C. area director] We are willing to meet with your committee, regardless of its composition.” The letter continues 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 potential for settlement,” the letter continues,
before asking the union for dates where the meetings could take place. In response, Unifor 2300 released their correspondence which preceded the District’s lawyer’s response. “I know that going backwards in bargaining will not bring an end to this labour dispute. Equally I know that holding firm on all of the outstanding items will not bring an end to this labour dispute either,” read the letter from McIlwrath. Continued on page 8
ance, thanked Tides Canada and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, a San Francisco-based environmental charity started by a co-founder of Intel Corp., for continuing to support the establishment of protected areas on the B.C. coast. U.S. donors working through the Tides Foundation put up $60 million in 2007 to participate in the Great Bear Rainforest land use agreement. B.C. and the federal government put up $30 million each.
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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 profile case last year when a woman who worked for a PR firm tweeted an insensitive 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 whispering 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 fired, but even so the photographer 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 Internet gang up on a person they feel is doing wrong. Sometimes groups of people get together and track down personal information on people like addresses 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 files. 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, because it is so easy for your mother to see them, or others of course who may not know privacy boundaries. 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 security and privacy. To make a newspaper analogy, papers have editors to prevent silly things from being printed. (Usually...) Make sure you edit yourself before publishing. Cameron Orr
No guarantees with earthquakes How do people react to such incidents 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 earthquake 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 government fundraising and emergency action. However, Audrey Dallimore, of the School of Environment and Sustainability at Royal Roads University, the author of the recent study, said the research showed such earthquakes may occur every 500 to 1,000 years. The last
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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 insurance 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 coverage. 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 Canadian 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 Pacific “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 Nepal caused untold chaos, destruction and many thousands of deaths and injuries. Continued on page 5
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Delta Spirit ship departs Kitimat Cameron Orr The sudden departure of the Delta Spirit Lodge, Rio Tinto Alcan’s floating worker accommodation vessel, is a sign of the project’s rapidly approaching conclusion, says company spokesperson Kevin Dobbin. “We’ve started our transition, we’ve peaked around 3,2003,400 people and now we’re starting a pretty quick transition, closeout,” said Dobbin. At the moment he said there is approximately 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, getting 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 extension requested by RTA. The ship is owned by Bridgeman Services. 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 everybody 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, Dobbin said the ATCO
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. trailers are leased so it will be up to that company to decide where they will go once the project closes out. He said there have been thoughts to reusing the trailers in other projects in the
area, and even potentially using the existing 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 facility near the former Eurocan mill for their early works. The other project likely to use a camp is
the LNG Canada proposal. 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.
Earthquake Continued from page 4 The 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 approximately 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 magnitude 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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Cameron 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 essential 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 required to respond,” read a press release on the District’s website. Aside from emergencies, “The municipal water system is being monitored 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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DoK applying for B.C. asset grant The District of Kitimat will apply for a grant from the ministry of community, sport and cultural development, which will lead to an asset plan for municipal infrastructure. 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 developments. 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 developing 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 setting funds aside (or planning longterm debt) to replace existing assets as their useful lives expire.” Town staff will seek out a thirdparty company which are experts in asset management to work with them to make the plan.
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Carnival You 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 1 Kitimat’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 students we care for and want to have success in their education,” she said through e-mail. She said the input she heard at the community 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 welcomes fulsome input and the report and decision making will be a public process.”
Love Kitimat aims to promote local, independent businesses Cameron Orr A program from the Northern Development Initiative Trust (NDIT) seeks to get smaller, independent businesses online exposure. Effectively a buy-local campaign, NDIT’s business development 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 professionally taken photographs of them and their store. A professional 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 community, 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 program 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 program, 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.”
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Appeals court sides with B.C. on teachers Tom Fletcher The B.C. Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of the B.C. government on the long-running dispute with the B.C. Teachers’ Federation 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 overturned 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 removed from its contract in 2002. Continued on page 8
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Day of Mourning 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.
Labour Continued from page 3 In McIlwrath’s letter he writes that “I believe we were very close to concluding this labour dispute in Vancouver. However, we need to focus on the positives 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 using their external negotiator and Unifor’s national representative or rather “take another crack at it locally?” It remains to be seen whether the union takes up the District negotiator’s offer to resume mediation.
Kitimat’s autism walk were steps in the right direction Cameron Orr Jessica Fredrickson gave it three weeks from inception to execution and hoped for, at the most, $500 to get Kitimat’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 approximately 200 people, and by last week donations 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 immense support from fellow parents and from the Child Development Centre employees 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 community walk in their new community. In a sort of ‘why don’t we have that here?’ moment, Fredrickson decided to take action to have it here. Her own daughter Ava was diagnosed with autism in February, and she
spent a lot of time reading up on the condition, and joined a Kitimat parent group as well. Among the things she’s learned about autism, beyond the simply medical 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.
Appeal 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 improvements in student outcomes, particularly for students 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 unduly 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 efforts 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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Alicia Bridges The 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 provincial law, the regional district started reviewing its zoning policies in July 2014. Growing marijuana is legally permitted in areas 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 prohibit medical marijuana facilities on ALR land, but the RDKS wants to ensure its zoning includes 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, community halls and campgrounds. It also requires the property being used to be at least 10 acres in size, a measure aimed at keeping the facilities out of small-lot subdivisions and hobby-farm areas. Without a new bylaw, RDKS bylaw enforcement officer Murray Daly said medical marijuana 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.” Continued on page 9
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Hospice Week Mayor 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 year In 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 finishing up the project engineering stud-
ies “to gain greater project cost and execution 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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Continued from page 8 CMSD board chair Art Erasmus said the board had provided a letter of support for the bylaw with a suggestion 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 concern 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 earlier this month there were 324 open applications. The federal health authority has received a total 1,250 applications since new regulations were introduced in June 2013, but a spokesperson said it could not provide figures for
individual districts. RDKS planning manager Andrew Weber said the decision to draft the bylaw came from within his organization and was not prompted by public concerns. Regional District of BulkleyNechako (RDBN) planning director Jason Llewellyn was aware of two applications to grow medical 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 progressed. Llewellyn said the RDBN’s zoning provisions were sufficient to manage medical marijuana applications and his district was not planning to introduce a specific bylaw. “They’re dealt with in our zoning bylaw like most municipalities would, identifying which zones they are appropriate in,” he said.
Scientist cautious on LNG potential Josh 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 experience 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 provincial government. His 2013 report Drill Baby Drill warned the U.S. about its overestimation of new oil and gas reserves made accessible from modern drilling techniques and now a study of Canadian reserves with similar conclusions, BC LNG Reality Check, is to be published by the Canada Centre For Policy Alternatives in May. Hughes thinks the amount of natural gas available in major reserves in northeastern B.C. and the ability of companies to extract it is greatly overestimated 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 calculations and projections. The first target for Hughes are the 18 liquefaction facilities 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 expectations 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 calculations 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 consumers of energy because of the climate and distance between 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 liquidate this for marginal returns.” He said that in the five LNG terminal scenario the Canadian 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 northwest for an economic upsurge. “Prince Rupert is dying. Fishing is really down. Logging 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 optimistic 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.”
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Marlins compete in Prince George Jason Cathers The Kitimat Marlins Swim Club competed 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 available for the 10 and under swimmers but two Marlins capitalized on the opportunity. Adrianna 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 Olivia Pearson, 10, took the bronze medal in the 200 im. Zachary Dumas, 15, took the gold medal for overall points in the 14-15 boys. Dumas also made it to the second round of the sprint eliminator competition. 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 winning $25. Achieving the tough task of swimming to converted personal best times in all eight races were Angus Bathe, Emilie Krabes, Marianne Trembley, Micaela Pearson and Jayden Johnston
StatsCan after people’s bodies for knowledge Approximately 350 Terrace and Kitimat residents are being randomly selected to be asked if they’re willing to be weighed, measured, poked and prodded 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 tobacco consumption, medical history, and level of physical activity.
They’ll then be asked to go to a Statistics Canada mobile clinic in the Terrace Sportsplex parking lot where their body dimensions will be taken along with undergoing testing for blood pressure, respiratory function and hearing. “Finally, urine and blood samples will be collected to assess participants’ cardiovascular health, nutritional status, and exposure to environmental contaminants,” indicates a Statistics Canada press release.
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Results from Dynamics Spring Fling 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 finished with a bronze for her overall 31.05. Level 2 begins with Maggie Baker, 9, earning silver with 33.20. Savannah Boudreau, 10, finished with bronze with 31.05. Jessi Ka-
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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. Andria 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
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