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First pour is here: RTA eyes the finish line Rio Tinto Alcan has gleefully boasted that it has produced its first hot metal in the modernized smelter. The company held a special celebration inside the site’s new cafeteria, dubbed Henning Hall in honour of company executive Paul Henning. The company is hailing the milestone while also noting that they still have work to do to reach the ‘inauguration’, which will be the formal conclusion of all construction work, expecting in 2016. “We’re near the end,” said RTA Project Director Michel Charron. “We’re completing the journey for constructing the plant.”
Even so, they say the final two per cent of the project will be a long one still. “The last couple per cent on anything is always the longest ones,” he said. The smelter will conclude with a final price tag of $4.8 billion. The workforce, as of July 7, sat at just over one thousand people, but Charron says the workforce will dwindle rapidly by the end of this month and in to September. On the training side, General Manager of BC Operations Gaby Poirier says they are “far from the end” on con-
cluding worksite training for the new smelter. “We’ve got about 55 per cent of the training done,” he said, saying the ‘theory’ side of it is well established but it will take the arrival of operational equipment to get the training through the practical phase. “Practical training will go all over the rest of the year to the ramp up because we’re still running line three and four from the old smelter, so the employees from lines three and four will start to join more next fall while we’re doing the ramp up.” Continued on page 8
A view of the Rio Tinto Alcan smelter from above on their pollution control centre. The company announced they’ve produced their first ingots from the modernized smelter, which is still undergoing the last bits of construction before the plant can begin 100 per cent operations.
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Civeo gets deal with LNG Cameron Orr Civeo — which many in Kitimat may know better from their former name PTI Group — have announced they’ve locked in a deal for 400 beds with LNG Canada LNG Canada says they need the 400 beds for a proposed stage of early work site preparation projects coming in the fall, and this contract is not in anticipation of a full-out construction phase. The company says they are “exploring the potential” to do some advance work, which calls for the need of the 400 beds. The contract with Civeo does not preclude the company from eventually developing what they call the “worker accomodation village,” or the essentially the company’s own work camp in the industrial area. This new contract with Civeo covers the next 15 months, says LNG Canada. They company noted that the Civeo contract will also cover the first part of construction of LNG Canada while their own camp is being built, if the company makes a positive final investment decision for it.
Civeo says their new building for Kitimat under this contract will be called the Sitka Lodge Civeo has already had the land zoned and approved in the Strawberry Meadows area for worker accomodations, which at a full build can reach to approximately 2,000 beds. The company and the town have negotiated density bonuses for the facility, which will provide money to an affordable housing fund managed by the District of Kitimat. “This contract is an important milestone for Civeo and our clients, and we are excited to establish a strong position in the Kitimat region to support work associated with this potential LNG project,” said Civeo President Brandley Dodson. We are proud to be part of a project with the potential to transform Canada’s natural resource sector and look forward to working with LNG Canada in the region.” On the business end, Civeo has increased their 2015 capital expenditure to reflect the Sitka Lodge, which bumps their expenditure guidance from $80 million to $90 million, while they expect most revenues to to be received in 2016.
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No call for water restrictions so far ing of lawns and gardens” and that “it would not be possible to keep up with demands if every house had a garden hose running.” That said, “Fortunately Kitimat residents have been very conscientious in this regard and as a result we have not had to restrict water use in town.” He said in the past there had been notices sent to Ca-
Cameron Orr Not to say it’s probably not a good idea to do so anyway, but the District of Kitimat has yet to suggest water restrictions may be coming for the town despite the area’s significant heat wave. The town’s Director of Engineering Tim Gleig says that increases in water consumption are “primarily related to sprinkling and water-
As for efficient sprinkling, he did offer up some tips for residents: 1. If water is running over the curb it should be turned off 2. Water early in the morning, not in the heat of the day or when the wind is blowing 3. Grass will recover with wet weather so needn’t be kept green in dry conditions
blecar residents as their larger lots require more water than typical households, and the higher use of water can affect the adequate storage of water for firefighting needs, but no notices have been sent out this year. “If we suffer a major water system breakdown or power outage then measures would have to be taken,” he added.
Hotter, dryer than recent years has gotten as high as 34.6C, which happened on July 6. That’s nearly two degrees hotter than it was in 2013 when it reached 33C in July. In 2012 it was 32.8 In fact 2015’s weather records show that it has generally been hotter and dryer than
Cameron Orr Just in case you weren’t sure, it has been hot. Now, it’s unfair to compare this July with past ones since it’s not over yet, but already the month has shot past previous years for its temperature extreme. This July
In May the temperatures reached to 27.3C, versus 25 in 2014 and 24.9C in 2013. As for rainfall, the MayJune period in 2013 had 64.4cm of rain, and the same in 2014 had 123.3cm. For this year we’ve had just 38.7cm.
it has been in the two previous years, the only years the Canadian Weather Office shows comprehensive numbers for online. For June, we reached 30.9C this year. In 2014 we only reached 25.3C, and in 2013 June got as hot as 28.6C.
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ter line which feeds the District’s water reservoirs, above Kitamaat Village Road. “In order to assess the damaged area, water pumps were temporarily switched off. This caused some neigh-
bourhoods at higher elevation to have low water pressure or no water,” read a District of Kitimat news news release. “The pumps are operating again and the contractor is dealing with the leaking
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Riverbank cramping RCMP cruisers left sirens blazing to an call of an assault with weapon at the Kitimat River July 8, where trailers are parked in the community’s usual summer garden of RVs. It’s not the first such call the police have had for the area, in this case near the Giant Spruce. On July 3 the RCMP were sent on a file of a dirtbike rider allegedly flinging rocks in the air, which sent the debris into a fiveyear-old. That issue is still under investigation, says RCMP Sgt. Graham Morgan. With Radley Park having been closed until Friday, there’s been pressure, he said. Continued on page 9
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want the existing monitoring program to include a survey of the geographic extent of harm for area cedar and pine trees. There is no timeline for a decision on this matter. There is no legislation regarding deadlines on EAB results, meaning it could be months before it’s know what the EAB decides. RTA has always maintained that the proper research procedures were followed when the permit was issued and that there is no present reason to use precautionary measures to reduce emissions. Gaby Poirier, general manager for BC Operations, stands by the permit and told the Sentinel in June that all plans are in place to increase production levels by February 2016. As for the elevated levels of SO2 Poirier says that the company only plans to be releasing 33 to 35 tonnes of SO2 per day when production increases and that they don’t plan to reach the 42 tonnes per day limit.
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Cameron Orr The Environmental Appeal Board (EAB) hearings, held in challenge to Rio Tinto Alcan’s emmissions permit, have concluded with the final arguments given on June 30. The 10-week process concludes that phase of the appeal, put forward by Kitimat residents Emily Toews and Lis Stannus. According to hearing reports prepared by the Northwest Institute, the company and the Ministry of Environment defended the decision not to require SO2 scrubbers, pointing to a mountain of technical reports a requirement to monitor emissions as well. Meanwhile the appellants in the case pointed their finger at bias within the MOE, saying an employee working on the file was being paid by RTA (under a process called secondment) and also suggesting a memoranda of understanding between the MOE and RTA “constrained the director from properly consider-
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Council may even require the landowner to provide relocation plans, such as providing moving costs, down payments on other properties, or other means. Council will have the power to determine whether the landowner provided a reasonable relocation plan. The process to establish a policy is in the early days but representatives of the trailer owners of both of Kitimat’s parks did thank council for moving ahead on this, which may go a ways in alleviating residents’ fears.
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of last year’s Housing Action Plan for Kitimat which recommended a manufactured home park policy. In town there are residents of the two trailer parks who do worry that future rezonings may force them to relocate. The Housing Resource Project in Kitimat even hosted an open meeting for trailer park residents last year to discuss these subjects. As for the existing rezoning process, Martin said that after staff review the application it goes to council, and kicks off the public hearing process. The staff suggest that council create a policy that requires a landowner to give the residents a 10 day notice before the application even arrives to council, given them plenty of notice the issue is even up for discussion. “This way people know they don’t have to be worried it’s going to be slipped through,” said Martin.
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A 26-year-old Prince George woman, originally of Kitimat, is in hospital with serious injuries after her car went off Highway 16 near Terrace July 4. The woman’s name has not been publicly released. The injured woman apparently spent the night in the car before being discovered Sunday morning by friends who had started to search for her. Smithers RCMP say they received a call about an overdue traveller at about 9 p.m. Saturday, July 4. Earlier that day, the woman left from Prince George to attend Terrace regarding an urgent family matter. The last time her family had contact with her was around 5:10 p.m. when she told her mother she was in Smithers. A bulletin was immediately sent out to all neighbouring detachments regarding the overdue traveller. Patrols were conducted by all affected detachments but they were not able to locate the overdue woman or her vehicle. This included another family member who had also passed through Smithers around 7 p.m. At about 8:50 a.m. Sunday, friends of the woman who had been driving the highway located her vehicle approximately 50 kilometres east of Terrace on Highway 16. The cause of the incident is still under investigation, but it appears the woman’s vehicle left the road and went down a steep embankment. It is unknown at this time what caused the accident but no foul play is suspected.
Cameron Orr The process has begun to establish a town policy on manufactured home parks. The District of Kitimat’s planners introduced their proposals at a July 6 Committee of the Whole, overviewing their thoughts on how the town could regulate the future developments of community trailer parks. Such plans would complement existing B.C. legislation on things like rezoning of such parks, but the town may be looking at ways to go beyond the minimum, such as a 24-month window before any rezoning would actually happen, to protect the residents from sudden evictions do to new land uses. The provincial minimum requirement right now on that is 12 months. Kitimat Planner Daniel Martin informed council that what they can’t do is deny rezoning applications, but they can set reasonable ground rules. This initiative is part of the recommendations
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Reports Being presented with new information can be hard to process sometimes, especially when it challenges things you believe to be right. I am of the mind that LNG is a viable industry for Kitimat, of course part of me hopes that too because I know it will bring more jobs and money to our region. But not everyone is convinced, and not just the naysayers looking to take any opportunity to take the Premier down a peg. Most recently I was reading about this report by a UK-based group called Carbon Tracker, reported on by the Australian Financial Times which doused some excitement about LNG both in Australia and in Canada. In the article I saw, written by Times writer Angela Macdonald-Smith, said the demand for LNG over the coming decades may not be as strong as some would have hoped, and specifically called out Chevron, Woodside and Shell as companies which may get the short end of the stick on demand. Also, to meet the natural demand there is only requires minimal investment, that is to say not the major investments needed for things like Kitimat LNG and LNG Canada. Now this is a report from a research group and not time travellers, so even though they’re taking the best information they have, they might ultimately be off on their projections but it is a reminder that nothing is ever a done deal until the steel-toed boots are on the ground. At the very least this report — which the article says got a full release yesterday in London — doesn’t do much to diminish the idea that at least Douglas Channel LNG will go ahead. Like all the projects there’s no notice to proceed, but I was interested in hearing earlier that the DCLNG project makes sense precisely because of its size. Being small makes it palatable to the partners in the consortium. So basically while of course the math has to be there, they’re not looking at the mega investment others might be. Meanwhile though the work by Kitimat LNG is notably slower as the company says it focuses on upstream assets before doing anything crazy like making a final investment decision. Shell-led LNG Canada meanwhile is where it always has been, but now with an environmental assessment in hand and even a contract with Civeo to build worker accommodation in Kitimat for early work stuff. LNG Canada has done well in keeping their momentum up, but given the debbie-downer of the report out of the UK about need, I can only hope Shell and their partners either see things differently or operate on a different timeline which will encourage work done sooner. I still see LNG in oiur future, but this seemed like a refresher in being realistic. Cameron Orr
Letting the linguistic cat out of the bag Once in a while in my writing I use an expression or words in a seemingly strange context and my mind does this weird tangental jump and wonders, “Why do we say it?” Well I recently got a book by that title put out by Castle Books which answered many of those wonderings. I thought I’d share some of them with you starting with the very first one in the book, A1. We of course use that to indicate something that is as good as it gets and companies often use A1 in their name to bolster their image. Apparently it has its roots in maritime insurance. Back in the day when a group of English maritime insurance companies formed an association now known as Lloyds of London, they instituted a rating system which graded the condition of both ships and their cargoes. The condition of an individual ship was indicated by a letter with A being the best. With the cargo the grade was
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indictaed by a number with, of course, 1 being the best. Therefore a designation of A1 meant both the ship and the cargo were perfect. Now living where we do we well know what a bear is - and what it does in the woods. But what does that animal have to do with the stock market? The term is used to describe traders who sell stocks short, gambling the price of those stocks will have gone down by the time they have to make good on their purchase. And so the old folk saying applies, as in “he sold the skin before he got the bear”. Moving on to the Cs, why do we
say that someone who divulges a secret has let the cat out of the bag? It’s because in the days of yore it was the custom for farmers to bring a suckling pig to market in a bag. Sometimes, however, a less than honest farmer would substitute the pig with a cat. If the buyer was foolish enough to purchase this “pig in a poke” without opening the bag, he was cheated out of his money. If however he was smart enough to open it, he quite literally let the cat out of the bag. So where does the dogwood tree get its name from? It refers to its berries which are considered worthless dog is used generally in plant nomenclature to denote inferior quality. Perhaps we should have chosen a different provincial flower. One of the more fascinating ones is the answer to the question, “Who invented the word electricity?” Continued on page 5
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MP Cullen slams cuts to Canada Post This is an op-ed by Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen: It is often said that a government is judged by its ability to make the trains run on time and deliver the mail. Sadly, on both counts, this Conservative government has failed Canadians. Cuts to rail inspections and rail safety has had tragic and fatal consequences and the draining of Canada Post’s ability to get mail to the doorsteps of
the country is hurting our economy, seniors and those living with disabilities. As home delivery is being cut across the country, Canada will become the only developed country in the world not to have this service. The Conservatives have cried poverty yet Canada Post has turned a profit 19 out of the last 20 years, returning almost a billion dollars back to Canadians. Just last year, in which they did deliver
Nathan Cullen the mail, they made almost $200 million dollars for taxpayers. In fact, the only year in the last two decades that Canada Post
lost money was 2011 when management (with the backing of Mr. Harper) locked out the workers then forced them back to work. A drop-off in letter mail has been more than made up by a surge in packages from Canadians shopping and doing business online. This past week, residents of Kitimat found out their home mail delivery service is next on Mr. Harper’s chopping block. Over 3,200 households in
the area are scheduled to lose door-to-door delivery in 2016. Hundreds of municipalities have been speaking out about the devastating impacts this will have on citizens in their communities. All of them want Mr. Harper’s plan for Canada Post to be stopped. You can’t save a business by reducing services, raising costs, and chasing away customers, but that is exactly what
Mr. Harper is trying to do with Canada Post. And it is families and small businesses who will bear the true cost of less service, and in particular seniors and people living with disabilities who get hurt most by shutting down door-to-door delivery. I believe that we should be looking for best practices and examples in other countries who have successfully maintained their home delivery. There are many ways that
Canada Post could innovate, become more dynamic, and even increase its revenues, all while maintaining the proud service it has offered to Canadians since day one. I am proud that the NDP has promised to reverse Mr. Harper’s plan for Canada Post if we are elected to government in the fall election – and I am hopeful we can do so before the people of Kitimat are forced to lose their home mail delivery.
Many questions for board on SO2 hearings Dear Sir, The Environmental Appeal Board has finished its hearing and is now considering the argument that the Ministry of the Environment erred in giving Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA) a permit to increase its sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions by 56 per cent, from 27 to 42 tonnes a day. The Board needs to consider a number of important social questions. Does a private corporation have the right to pollute the public space? Unless the company can show that public benefit far outweighs harm, the answer is no. Do the taxes added to the public treasury and the jobs available to the community offset the damage to the environment and the people who live in it? Is the company doing its best to reduce pollution to its lowest? The answer to both questions is no. RTA could easily install a scrubber that would drastically reduce SO2 emissions. Norwegian Hydro has used scrubbers to reduce theirs by more than 90 per cent. So why doesn’t RTA follow world standard, removing over 800,000 tons of sulphur
dioxide, over the life of the smelter, from the air of a very confined air shed in which over 30,000 people breath? Is it because, if the permit to emit 42 tons of pollution a day is upheld, it will represent the maximum amount of SO2 that the valley can withstand? Which means that no one else can emit any. Which means that if RTA then puts in a scrubber and reduces their pollution, they can sell their reduction to other industries for more than the original cost of the scrubber? Does Rio Tinto think it’s OK to pollute when they don’t have to and to then sell pollution rights? Social licence is the application of public values, expressed as approval. Canadians value their health and that of their environment and strongly believe that great care should be take with both. Rio Tinto is losing social license by refusing to reduce projected pollution, when it is well within their power to do so, in order to increase their private profitability. They have argued that their increase in SO2 is defensible because the new smelter
Secret Continued from page 4 It was a Dr. William Gilbert , physician to Queen Eliabeth I, and he used the word to describe the static charge produced by rubbing a piece of amber with a cloth. The basis for choosing that name was the Greek word for amber, elektron. Quite why he did that rubbing is not explained. A delightfully cynical offering is why we call the period immediately following a wedding a honeymoon. “Honey” refers to the sweetness of marriage delights, “moon” to the rapidity with which they wane. Which is also why we say new governments go through a honeymoon period.
Too often this newspaper carries stories about the destructive work done by vandals. But why are the miscreants called that? The Vandals were a Teutonic tribe which in 455 AD, under the leadership of Genseric, captured Rome and mutilated the public monuments of the city with complete disregard for their worth or beauty. Finally, I have never understood why some people shorten Christmas to Xmas - it just never made any sense to me. Thanks to this book it now does: the Greek letter chi, written as X, is the first in the Greek word for Christ. You live and learn.
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will reduce other harmful emissions which they now have the technology to profitably reprocess. Should RTA only reduce emissions when they can profit from that? When does a permit to pollute go from an unhappy necessity to an addition to the company’s profitability? Rio Tinto Alcan has not explained why they think reducing 3 sources of pollution gives them the right to increase the fourth source. Sulphur dioxide causes acid rain which kills trees and aquatic life if it goes on long enough in high enough concentrations. This is not the first time this company has created a new profit centre at public expense. Alcan, as the company was known prior to its purchase by Rio Tinto, was given the right by provincial legislation in 1950 to divert a huge amount of public water to create the private electricity required to produce aluminum. In return, it was to produce jobs for the North. As electricity
became worth more than the aluminum, Alcan won the right to reduce its production and therefore the number of jobs it provided in order to sell more “surplus” electricity. In designing its new smelter, Rio Tinto Alcan could have increased production more given the amount of power it had available to it. It chose not to in order to protect it’s very profitable electricity sales. Less public good, more private profit. In designing its new smelter, RTA could have built in the scrubber to reduce its pollution. It chose not to. Less public good, more private profit. Can the government amend the permit it has issued Rio Tinto? Can they act on our behalf to increase the public good? There has been enough private profit at public expense. Sincerely, Robert Hart Member of Northwest Watch
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Hatch a match for Lapointe Engineering Lapointe Engineering has a well established reputation in Kitimat, but the local engineering firm, founded by Robin Lapointe in the 80s, is shifting to a new owner: Hatch. The deal was made official on June 1, which will start with the new name Lapointe-Hatch, and eventually it will become just Hatch, part of the larger engineering firm whose nearest major office is in Vancouver. Lapointe says Hatch was the closest fit to his own firm as far as company culture and believes opening their doors to Hatch will be beneficial. He said he initially did have a succession plan in line with co-partners in the company, but it was eventually decided that with the scale of work proposed for Kitimat over the next 10 years, it was a prospect that
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said, which has been an issue during these busy times in Kitimat. The process working with Hatch began eight months ago, and he said he wanted a company that could build on the 40 employees Lapointe has today.
The acquisition can also mean better opportunities for the employees. With Hatch being a global company, people in Kitimat have good opportunities to move on if they so wish. As for how everything will work,
Thorne keeps up the pace Ben Thorne of Kitimat turned in an Olympic standard time of 1:21.33 to earn a silver medal in the men’s 20-kilometre race walk last Thursday in Gwangju, South Korea. Thorne finished three seconds back of gold medallist Dane Bird-Smith of Australia. Thorne jumped into first place at the 12-kilometre mark, recording an 8:07 pace for four straight kilometres. He remained in the lead at the 16-kilometre check point, and was neck and neck with the Aussie until the final stretch. This is the second Universiade medal of Thorne’s career. The fourth-year University of British Columbia student won a bronze medal in the team race walk competition at the 2013 Universiade in Kazan, Russia. Jen Elliott
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Swimming pool should be back next week Cameron Orr There have been some slow downs on the way to resuming the District’s Leisure Services activities. While places like Riverlodge opened quickly, some facilities haven’t been so luck, the swimming pool among them. The District says that while almost everything was back to normal, a crucial piece of equipment, which is used to chlorinate the pool, had to be replaced. Once that piece gets installed, there are still the last steps before the doors can open. “Once installed, the pool will be chlorinated appropriately. Once all pools have been balanced and required standards have been met, water samples will be sent to the Health Department for review,” read a news release on the District’s website. The life guards also need a four day course before they’ll be ready. As for the wading pools, they’ll need some work too. Director of Leisure Services Martin Gould says the significant work to the wading pools boils down to two issues: some vandalism, but primarily their age. “Those wading pools are very near the end of their lives, if they haven’t reached them already,”
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being exposed to the environment like they are.” The wading pools were first opened in 1964. There have been
proposals, but no commitments, to replace them with water parks in the future. The work on the wading pools is expected to begin around
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Continued from page 1 The modernized smelter will have a production rate of 420,000 tonnes a year, and is powered by the newer AP40 technology, replacing the older söderberg process. Rio Tinto Alcan says that $684 million was spent through the northern B.C. region and $487 in the Vancouver area. Deputy Haisla Chief Councillor Taylor “Every Cross, representing his council, congratulated Haisla Nation the company on their member that milestone and pointed wanted to to the need for further collaboration with work was RTA. working.” Through construction he said the Haisla unemployment went from around 65 per cent down to approximately five. “Every Haisla Nation member that wanted to work was working,” he said. The Haisla and the company have a legacy agreement, and Cross said the need continues to have their members in work. “This project is coming to an end so our unemployment rate is going up again,” he said, in calling for the continuation of their ongoing relationship. Kitimat Mayor Phil Germuth said the modernization will provide economic certainty for a number of decades and that the project has provided the community with valuable knowledge. “As a result...Kitimat has current experience on the construction of a large industrial project within its boundaries,” he said through a media release. In another statement, the Kitimat Economic Development Authority says the start up of RTA’s modernized smelter is a “strong signal to other potential investors that Kitimat and the region is now ready for another mega project.” As the project works towards completion, the on-site construction crew will quickly dwindle. At the moment it sits at just over 1,000 persons, but it will quickly drop from the end of July towards September. At its peak the project was employing approximately 3,500 people.
Above, Haisla Hereditary Chief Sammy Robinson and wife Rose bless the Henning Hall cafeteria’s totem pole. Below right, Gaby Poirier discusses the new smelter during a site tour. Below left, Michel Charron walks through the pollution control centre.
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The valley’s 4,000 year logging history The Haisla, have been logging the forests for millennia. These forests provided them with everything, including homes, heat, canoes, totems, clothing and regalia. One foreigner who harvested trees from our region was James Colnett, Captain of the Prince of Wales. He and his crew, in 1787, rebuilt the hull of his crushed ship, the ship’s carpenters fashioning replacement timbers from trees cut on Banks Island. The first fur trader at Kitamaat was Frank Armstrong who in about 1860, just prior to the arrival of the missionaries, ended up building the first modern board and beam, fully winterized structure. His sawmill became popular with the Haisla. One of the early loggers was Bob Wright, a frequent visitor to Kitamaat. His base was just out of Hartley Bay. Logging down channel began in earnest in 1903 when the first Swanson Bay commercial sawmill started up. Just six years later the Swanson Bay community started up BC’s first pulp mill. Demand for logs was there and First Nations people and hand loggers responded. Many of the floating
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barge and boom-based hand loggers who eked out an existence along the channel were serviced by Rudolph Braun who made his weekly deliveries of fresh dairy products and farm produce via his boat, the Minette. These loggers made enough from their logs to purchase gas boats, winches, peevees and other machinery. Swanson Bay was a dawning of a new era of forestry for Kitimat, employing lots of local Haisla, providing good money and different prospects. The village was transformed when large frame homes were built with boards milled from Swanson Bay. Swanson also provided money for new gas boats and the marine possibilities that came with them. Many shoreline logging operations also sprang up, relying on accessible trees which could be felled downslope and floated into booms. Organized logging in the Kitimat River and Delta areas also began in about 1910 with Bob Mitchell
and Frank Hallet who started a river-based barge and scow. They logged a Crown Timber Limit just to the east of Kouthpegha, the Haisla name for the Anderson Ranch area. Their successful operation continued for two decades, eventually morphing into an operation with hired employees and a floating bunkhouse. Operations were marine-based and subject to the ebb and flow of the tides in the lower river area. Mitchell and Hallet operated a twentyeight foot gas-powered, double cabin launch capable of comfortable trips to Prince Rupert yet versatile enough to tow log booms 100 kms south to Swanson Bay. An early centre of logging activity was Clifford’s Wharf, built in 1904. It was near Moon Bay, on the west side of the channel, and an access point for various camps continuing into the late 1930s. Legendary pioneer loggers included the likes of Barney McConkey, Hans Larsen, Jack Pine and Frank
Logging has a long history in the Kitimat area. The industry has effectively died out but there’s always hope for renewal, says columnist Walter Thorne. Dirk Mendel Lee. Lee started logging in the area in 1938 with his partner Gus Genberg. Frank Lee’s son Marvin continued the family business and was conspicuous in the infant Kitimat town site of the 50s and 60s as an eccentric and, to Kitimat youngsters like Dirk Mendel, scary figure. Dirk can remember staying clear of Marvin with his stooped gait, rough looks and long bedraggled beard. In later years son David Lee, the third generation logger, took over at Lee and Genberg Logging. When Alcan began clearing inland in 1951 with logging crew chiefs such as Bert Fitzpatrick, the area was mostly a pristine, stump-free environment. Beyond the delta and up the valley the
forests were vast and untouched. But that was to change when Kitimat was connected to the outside world by first the establishment of a Kitimat-Terrace rail link, second the opening of Highway 25 connecting Kitimat and Terrace and finally, and most importantly, the running of a power line from Kitimat to Terrace. Terrace already had a number of wellestablished sawmill operations prior to the arrival of hydro power but they ran on diesel, an expensive fuel which limited the size of those mills. Plentiful electricity meant expansion of those mills was possible and that in turn led to logging in the Kitimat Valley taking off. The ensuing log-
ging boom saw a full BC Forest Service office opening on Forest Avenue and the arrival of big name forestry outfits such as MacMillan Bloedel, Crown Zellerback, BC Forest Products and ultimately, in the late 70s, Eurocan Pulp and Paper, which also included a sawmill. At its peak forestry spin-off assets in the valley included dozens of haul trucks, service yards, installed bridges and culverts. The companies even provided forestry campsites such as Enso and Wedeene and there were two busy A-frame log dumps at Minette Bay. Forestry jobs were aplenty, with close to 2,000 making a good living from valley forest lands. Those were the
heady days of logging plunder. Today the Forest Service office is long since gone, the big companies have all left and the pulp and paper mill is but a memory. We are left with just one functioning A-frame log dump at Minette Bay and a new booming area at Clio Bay handling logs that are being shipped out to the other parts of the province or exported to foreign shores. Fortunately trees keep growing, offering the prospect that in a couple of decades logging in the valley will see a rebirth. We in the valley, both native and nonnative, treasure our forests and with good stewardship they will once again provide jobs for generations to come.
Cramping Continued from page 2 “Some pressures are on the river with Radley Park being closed,” said Sgt. Morgan. “Everybody’s kind of camping on top of each other, there’s conflicts with dirtbikes, campers, fishers...” The hot weather may be making the riverbank busier with people getting out of their homes too, he said. He said they’ve observed the lower dyke has been busier than previous years. “We might be asking the District to... regulate the access to it.” Mayor Phil Germuth said the subject of riverbank camping is within the strategic planning initiatives by the council, but there hasn’t been any formal discussion about what the direction will be on the matter as of yet. He notes the familiar problems with closing off access, namely that much of
the access land to the river is private, and the municipality cannot cut off access to private land. As well he doesn’t want to see the camping opportunities taken away from the users when there’s no adequate alterna-
tive in place, such as possibly new campground sites in Kitimat. Even with the challenges, looking towards the future he does envision a time when there will be no more free camping on the river.
As for the pressure of people on the river this summer, with Radley Park open again the hope from the RCMP is that campers can start spreading themselves out more which will cut down on the number of conflicts they’re called out to.
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Forest service officials say the fire out at Cedarvale 59 kilometres east of Terrace is almost extinguished as of Friday, with a crew doing final dousing of small spots that are still smoking. The two hectare blaze, which started late afternoon on July 8 beside Hwy 16, destroyed a tractor and an outbuilding on a Cedarvale property and forced the evacuation of one residence for the night. At the height of the fire there were 30 fire fighters working on the blaze and two airplanes helped douse the flames. As of last Thursday there was a crew of 14 doing the mop up, says Northwest Fire Centre official Olivia Pojar. Hwy 16 was shut down for about an hour and a half and was since reopened. Meanwhile firefighters and aircraft from Ontario arrived in B.C. last Tuesday to help deal with the growing wildfire threat, and more reinforcements are on their way from Australia. Ontario sent 70 firefighters and specialists to Abbotsford and Cranbrook for deployment in the Coastal and Southeast fire centres, with two skimming aircraft, a “birddog” plane and an air attack officer arriving at the Kamloops fire centre. Forests Minister Steve Thomson said he expects further help to arrive from Australia, with more personnel coming from New Zealand to assist fire crews in Alberta. - Terrace Standard
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