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RTA gets approval for Terminal A Cameron Orr The provincial government has given their thumbs up to an application from Rio Tinto to extend their Terminal A. The company had been seeking the approval due to an agreement Rio Tinto has with LNG Canada for their use of Rio Tinto’s Terminal B (Eurocan’s former wharf), which means capacity has to be built up in Terminal A for the smelter’s operations.

That said, Rio Tinto spokesperson Kevin Dobbin says they’ll wait until LNG Canada proceeds before advancing the terminal project.

“While this is an important milestone, Rio Tinto would only advance to construction of the proposed Terminal A Extension Project should the LNG Canada project proceed,” he said.

The province gave their nod on Mon-

day, December 21, issuing an environmental assessment certificate which includes 12 conditions.

Among those conditions are: avoid or mitigate impacts to fish and fish habitat; monitor marine water quality from dredging and take action if thresholds are reached; monitor marine mammals during pile driving and take action to prevent injury to marine mammals; manage and monitor the dredge disposal site, including adaptive management measures in the event that the effects of contaminants are not mitigated to the extent predicted; retain the services of an environmental monitor throughout the construction phase, with the authority to stop work if necessary to prevent or reduce adverse effects; and implement measures to protect marine mammals during construction.

Extending the terminal will mean

“Rio Tinto would only advance (the project) should the LNG Canada project proceed...” adding 250 metres to the facility to accommodate bulk carriers.

The decision was made after considering a review led by British Columbia’s Environmental Assessment Office.

The ministers have issued the certificate with legally enforceable conditions that have given them the confidence to conclude that the project will be constructed and operated in a way that ensures no significant adverse effects are likely to occur from the project, says a news release from the province.

B.C. also noted in their release that the environmental assessment is not the only approval the project would need.

“The proposed Terminal A Extension project requires various other federal and provincial authorizations, such as a dredge disposal permit and a disposal at sea permit. Rio Tinto is committed to continuing to work with the Haisla Nation, community stakeholders and regulators to advance plans to obtain these authorizations,” said Dobbin.

Overall though Rio Tinto is pleased with the community input on this project, he said.

“The positive outcome would not have been possible without the involvement from the Haisla Nation, the community of Kitimat, and other stakeholders who took the time to participate in the review and share their important views.”

2015: A whole year of ups and downs

Clockwise from top left: Rio Tinto celebrated their first hot metal pour July 7. Councillor Rob Goffinet speaks to Unifor 2300 picketers outside a council meeting March 2. BC Hydro crews work to restore power February 7 after a massive snow storm shut down power to Kitimat/ Kitamaat for days. More on pages 7 and 9.

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Pre-modernization crime stats

Winter weather is the likely culprit which caused this police vehicle to slide off the road.

Police are using the incident to underscore the need to drive safe in the winter.

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RCMP cruiser gets all banged up in the snow snowing at the time. There was significant front-end damage to the vehicle.

An RCMP traffic reconstructionist was called in and the collision does remain under investigation.

Police say that they have responded to 13 collisions so far in December, five occurring on the highway and the rest within the municipality.

A Kitimat RCMP vehicle patrolling the community slid off the road and collided with a power pole December 20 at around 11:45 p.m.

The driver of the RCMP’s Chevrolet Tahoe was taken to Kitimat General Hospital but was released with minor injuries.

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Cameron Orr The Kitimat RCMP Staff Sergeant James McLaren says that the level of crime in Kitimat has levelled off to pre-Kitimat Modernization Project levels.

Common assaults themselves are notably down, with just eight cases in November this year versus 15 for the same in 2014. There would also have to be a gigantic spike in December to make up the difference from 2014 when there were 185 cases. So far there’s been just 99 for 2015.

Sexual assault investigations are slightly down with 12 for the year, or two for November specifically.

There were 18 in 2014.

Shoplifting is a crime which has seen a

dramatic drop as well.

There have been seven cases this year, one in November, compared to 2014 which say 19 in total.

Residential break and enters are fairly comparable, with 29 so far for the year. There were 31 last year.

Under drug offences, there have been just four investigations relating to cocaine possessions in 2015. In 2014 there was a total of 20.

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Vehicle files are another that are maintaining for the year. In fact Motor Vehicle Act tickets are at 451 this year, which is notably higher than 2014’s 375.

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B.C.’s population reached 4.7 million by Oct. 1, a gain of less than one per cent from the same time last year.

The province’s population growth rate was down to 0.8 per cent by the third quarter of 2015, Central 1 Credit Union reports in its latest B.C. Economic Briefing. Net international migration was the main reason for the slowdown, with 11,100 international arrivals during what is usually the highest period of the year for immigration gains.

Within Canada, interprovincial migration climbed to nearly 5,000 in the third quarter of 2015, as people returned home to a relatively buoyant B.C. economy from provinces hit by slumping oil prices, notably Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland.

While permanent international resident arrivals were slower, international tourism demand climbed to more than 400,000 people by October, due mainly to U.S. visitors taking advantage of a lower Canadian dollar.

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Application submitted to develop new home park Cameron Orr Kerkhoff Construction has decided they plan to pursue strata title lots for their proposed manufactured home park adjacent to the existing project of the Riverbrook Estates properties off Liard and Nadina Streets.

The number one concern from councillors to adding such a development in that neighbourhood is traffic concerns.

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First reading of the bylaw which would allow this development was passed and there are plans for public consultations in the near future by the company to discuss traffic concerns.

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What a year It’s the end of year. It’s always a fun time to reflect on the year we’ve had and what year we would have expected.

Basically, the start of 2015 feels like a lifetime ago. It was pre-LS, or pre-Labour Strike. The Gyro Christmas tree still stood at the old hospital site.

There was no Microtel hotel you could book into.

It was a time almost outside of memory.

Yet it was also a time of subdued hopefulness too. As much as the community was in the throes of the construction boom, the issues were beginning to settle and fingers were still crossed that an LNG company would break ground.

Expectations were tempered going in to the new year though. No one believed it was a given, and those people must be congratulating themselves on not getting too swept into the craze.

Today, the price of oil has dropped faster than the Wile E. Coyote after looking down and realizing he wasn’t standing on ground anymore. With it was dashed most expectations of LNG business for the year in Kitimat.

Even the fairly surefire bet of small-scale AltaGas’ Douglas Channel LNG project has been put on shaky ground due to a tariff issue which has slowed them down.

LNG Canada says they’re still looking toward a final investment decision the first half of the year but it’s anyone’s guess what will happen to it. I’m certain the project isn’t going anywhere but whether a full-on project is set to begin or not, only time will tell.

But I’d say 2015 was marked by the individual moments more than the issues. In 2014 I reflected that housing was the biggest issue facing the community.

This year those pressures have eased off, if just a little bit.

But then we were hit with a prolonged strike of municipal workers in the early part of the year which was a painful go for everyone.

Then there was good news too, when Rio Tinto Alcan announced they’d poured the first hot metal from their smelter, meaning all of their work was paying off.

Then other things happened, like the Gyro Christmas tree had to be cut down to allow for servicing in to the future Haisla Town Centre site. For a relatively new buck like me to the town I didn’t quite see what the big deal was but I understand it has long had a place in the community.

And oh geeze, I can’t forget Snowmageddon 2015. The snowtrastrophe was a snowpacolypse of immense snowportions.

I say 2015 is the year that wouldn’t let up. One after the other events just piled on. For better or worse, lots happened. Lets hope 2016 is busy to, for all the right reasons.

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Passages of 2015: Stephen Harper I first met Stephen Harper when he was running for the Canadian Alliance leadership in 2002.

Speaking to a group of Fraser Valley members, Harper didn’t mince words.

He explained his prediction that no matter who leads the conservative movement the national media would work against it.

“The press is owned by big-L liberals and staffed by small-L liberals,” Harper said. “Preston was too cerebral; Stock was not cerebral enough.

I’m not sure where I will be, but the media will always be on the other side.”

Harper’s cold war with national media is a theme that runs through his decade as prime minister, peaking in 2015 with the most slanted election coverage I’ve ever witnessed.

The dying tradition of owners looking up from their accounting ledgers to endorse a political party continued, with the Postmedia chain and the Globe and Mail pointing out that Trudeau’s rash promises didn’t add up.

Endorsements were a brief interruption in the media assault on Harper’s record. His government’s plan to

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welcome 10,000 refugees, unveiled way back in January 2015, was portrayed as heartless and feeble, while Trudeau’s 25,000 by Christmas represented the generous character of the true Canada.

As it turns out, the Liberals have been hard pressed to reach even the 10,000 mark.

But they’ve put out a rash new promise to make it 50,000 at some point in the future, so the media’s new-found message of sunshine, hope and change continues.

Those modest $10 billion annual deficits that Trudeau promised, and Harper warned against? Borrowing and spending will far exceed that, but we’re assured that’s because they were based on inflated Conservative financial forecasts.

In fact, independent private sector forecasts are now the key reference for government budgets at the federal

and provincial level. None of them predicted the further slump in energy prices that continued through 2015.

And that Trudeau pledge to raise taxes on the wealthiest Canadians and use the proceeds to finance a tax cut for the middle class? That one didn’t add up either.

For one thing, wealthy people have a variety of legal ways to reduce their taxable income.

Trudeau’s star turn in Paris, where he pronounced that “Canada is back” in the battle to control the world’s weather?

The official submission from his bloated delegation to the UN climate meetings was actually the existing Conservative plan, which includes phasing out coal-fired electricity.

Harper generally represented a preference for the individual over the state, a concept that at one time was known as “liberalism.”

This was illustrated by his preference for parents rather than a nanny state to administer child care.

He advocated free trade, small government and low taxes.

We’ll see how that legacy survives the new government and its media cheering section.

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Part 3: Monaghan’s public service years It’s Our

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And the next natural step was the presidency of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) where she again served two years. She remembers at the FCM working with an upstart Toronto councillor named Jack Layton who eventually went on to lead the federal New Democrat Party to Official Opposition status. They eventually became a working duo with Joanne president and Jack vice-president.

Joanne recalls that they got on famously despite their political differences.

Her position in FCM meant many long air flights, including travelling with a softwood lumber trade mission to the United States. It also meant hobnobbing with national figures like prime ministers Jean Chretien, Paul Martin and Stephen Harper.

Joanne’s connections enabled her to serve in other ways beyond the political

sphere of the Northwest. She was recognized for her leadership role as a woman and was able to work in Ecuador, Ghana, South Africa and other locales successfully mentoring women in politics, some of whom went on to become MPs in their own countries.

Joanne also served in CIDA, the Canadian International Development Agency.

Talk about travel, she was a frequent flyer in the extreme.

Joanne estimates she made about 5,000 flights over the years with only five of those being free of political commitments.

That meant being away from home a lot which she notes was not conducive to long term relationships: it just wasn’t fair on a spouse or a family to be gone so much and it wasn’t good for establishing long and lasting friendships. But this life of advocating for her community is what she had chosen.

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After 28 years as a councillor, running for mayor just seemed like what she was destined to do and in 2008 she successfully ran for the big chair and was re-elected three years later. Joanne admits being mayor had its moments, especially for one who never made her dyslexic tendencies an excuse. Over her two terms she faced the inevitable barrage of critics but through it all remained on call night and day.

And she can today look back fondly on the accolades she received and her achievements over the years: being named Northern Woman of Distinction, elected Yellowhead Association president and receiving the prestigious Order of B.C. while at home she was named Citizen of the Year and Lady of the Year. The accomplishment she is proudest of is her work to gain financial clout and status for municipalities, which was achieved in September, 1996 when the province enacted municipal protocols, providing legal status for communities.

As president of the

UBCM, Joanne helped to establish a guarantee of municipal funding throughout our province.

Then there was her work with the committee on the Highway of Tears, getting postsecondary college and university instruction in the north, getting 911 service to Kitimat, gaining superior Class A road designation for our highway and work on provincial incentives for enhancing home based businesses.

She even found time to work for the Heritage Trust and all this while providing for her elderly mother who lived with her for a decade. Locally, establishing both the Giant Spruce and Kemano parks are lasting green space accomplishments, a 15-year sponsorship of the Miss Kitimat pageant was satisfying and securing provincial grants for both the Luso and Sikh facilities was at times a challenge. She treasures the Sikh sword which was given in gratitude.

Joanne will always be proud of her town and she hopes that with

Joanne Monaghan wearing the mayoral chain of command. greater development we won’t have to rely on Terrace for everything. She also hopes that someday Kitimat will be a destination for conventions and clinics and just maybe we will have stronger salt water connections to First Nations to our south including Hartley Bay, Klemtu and Bella Bella.

Joanne’s 34-year public service career ended on November 15, 2014 when she ran for a third term at the helm. As so often hap-

pens in politics, a wind of change was blowing through the municipality and the voters decided to pass the torch on to another generation.

But her achievements during that career are a fine testimony to what women can achieve and her advice to all is if you see an opportunity, seize it.

In retirement we can bet Joanne will be busy enjoying her passtime of feeding birds and squirrels while continuing to advocate for our community.

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Continued from December 9 Northern Sentinel Taking up where we left off, Joanne Monaghan's introduction to Kitimat's local politics came when husband Paul was elected mayor. She says she attended every council meeting and, after two years of watching how council worked, decided she had something to offer Kitimatians.

After a rush course in Canadian citizenship in Vancouver she was ready to throw her hat into the ring which she did despite a former mayor warning her, "You'll never make it."

Like British PM Margaret Thatcher, whom she admired, she would just have to show him.

And she did, being elected councillor in November 1980. As Joanne says, she wasn’t meant to be a bystander so once elected she got involved beyond the basic job of councillor duties and committee work that were part of that. That included being Kitimat's representative on the Kitimat-Stikine board where she served a total of eight years as its chairman. Spreading her wings further she served as president of the Union of B.C. Municipalities for

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Interim rate hike means higher home gas prices Northwest residents and businesses will be paying more for natural gas as of Jan. 1, 2016 because of an interim rate increase approved by the BC Utilities Commission for Pacific Northern Gas (PNG).

This is an interim increase for delivering natural gas and a final decision won’t be made until the spring when formal hearings are planned.

While the interim delivery hike for residents is 1.8 per cent, from $11.755 a gigajoule to $11.987 a gigajoule, add-ons push the increase higher.

Those add-ons allow PNG to charge more to recover the overall delivery costs if not as much gas is consumed as forecasted, and to charge more for the cost of the commodity itself in the event gas is priced higher than in the forecast.

In both cases, however, those costs can be refunded should delivery revenues be higher than forecast and should the price of the commodity itself not be as much as forecasted.

PNG does not add to the cost of gas it purchases for its consumers and that cost is adjusted to meet market prices throughout the year.

In asking for increased rates, (PNG) says wage increases, increased inspections, general business costs and inflation are part of the reason its expenses are scheduled to rise by 14.5 per cent or $2.3 million.

And it’s also not adding in any option payments made to it to hold space in its northwestern pipeline, as has been the practice in past years, to feed a planned small liquefied natural gas plant near Kitimat.

But the utility also has some good news for its balance sheet – an additional estimated $2.4 million from natural gas sales to Rio Tinto Alcan now that it has completed its Kitimat smelter modernization project and is shifting to full production.

When increased income is weighed against additional expenses and loss of other income, the utility is projecting a revenue deficit of nearly $600,000 if it can’t implement the rate increase.

Northwestern B.C. natural gas consumers pay more to have gas delivered here than elsewhere in the province because they shoulder more expenses to maintain the delivery system.

That dates back to the loss to PNG of large industrial customers beginning in the last decade.

Without those large customers and their revenue, the cost of maintaining the PNG pipeline has fallen to residents and remaining business and industrial customers.

In past years delivery costs to PNG customers had been buffered by income from the sale of its interest in the planned Pacific Trails Pipeline which would provide natural gas to the

proposed Kitimat LNG project at Kitimat. Those payments have now concluded.

PNG customers had also benefitted from option payments paid to the utility to hold space in its pipeline for the planned Douglas Channel LNG project, also at Kitimat, in which PNG’s owner, AltaGas of Calgary, is a partner. But for 2016 PNG is holding off on applying option payments until, as it states in its rate increase application to the utilities commission, “there is greater clarity and certainty that the project will proceed.”

That’s because Douglas Channel LNG’s partners had been expected to make a final decision by the end of 2015.

When that is to be now made is not known, something made more complicated by a decision by federal customs officials to charge a duty of $100 million for the Asian-built floating platform on which the plant to liquefy natural gas would be placed.

That decision is being appealed.

The Douglas Channel LNG project is also the one great hope for reduced delivery charges for PNG’s other northwest customers.

The plant would take up the remaining capacity in PNG’s pipeline, adding substantial operating revenues to the utility’s bottom line.

Unified for a cause Unifor 2301 President Sean O’Driscoll and 2301 Business Agent Martin McIlwrath present Kitimat Food Bank President Marjorie Phelps over $14,000 from union members and retirees, including matching funds from Rio Tinto as well.

Coming Events January 9 The January Community Fun Run will start at 9:30 a.m. from the Riverlodge. Distances are one, three, or five kilometres. Event is free and everyone is welcome. Bring your whole family and the neighbours.

Dogs are welcome too. Join for a jog or stroll through the Kildala neighbourhood. Free refreshments after.

Ongoing ROYAL CANADIAN Legion Branch 250 in Kitimat holds membership meetings the third Tuesday of each month.. Meat draws every Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m. Members and bona fide guests are welcome.

PRAYER CANADA. We meet each week on Tuesdays 12 noon to 1 p.m. For location and further information please call 250-6324554. Or e-mail lesleykitimat@hotmail.com.

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HOSPICE: Do you have a couple of hours a month to make phone calls, plant flowers, share memories, play cards, etc.? Hospice can provide you with excellent training.

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BRANCH 250 OF THE KITIMAT LADIES AUXILIARY hold regular meetings every second Thursday of the month. More information by calling Nancy at 250-632-4051, or Lyn at 250-632-2351.

Consider joining the Friends of the Public Library. To do so contact Luce Gauthier at lucegauthier10@ gmail.com or Virginia Charron @ vcharron@kitimatpubliclibrary.org or call 250-632-8985.

KITIMAT QUILTERS GUILD: If you are interested in joining the Kitimat Quilters Guild please contact Aileen Ponter at 250-632-6225 or Janet Malnis at 250-632-7387 for further information.

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Curl power The high school girls curling team received plaques from the District of Kitimat’s Leisure Services department to recognize their status as provincial champions for 2014-2015. Mayor Phil Germuth poses with the team and its representatives which includes coach Laurel deGoeij, skip Taylor Reese-Hansen’s mom Sussi (standing in while Taylor is away for her studies) and the team Micaela Stevenson, Leah Anthony, Emma Baker and Jordan Zanella.

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The year in Photos - January to April Visually it’s been an exciting year.

Starting below, Spirit of Kitlope Dancers perform in the Haisla Recreation Centre during a celebration of the Haisla’s acquisition of the MK Bay Marina. The Haisla purchased the facility from the Regional District of Kitimat Stikine and the deal was made formal in January.

At left, Kitimat’s Public Works had their work cut out for them after a huge drop of snow in February. The weekend snow storm, from February 6-7, knocked out power and triggered an evacuation of Kitamaat Village due to the road closure.

Bottom right, Unifor 2300 workers at the picket lines. The strike of municipal employees would eventually last over 100 days.

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Pacific Northern Gas Ltd. Application for Approval of 2016-2017 Revenue Requirements for the PNG West Service Area On November 30, 2015, Pacific Northern Gas Ltd. (PNG) filed its 2016-2017 Revenue Requirements Application (Application) with the British Columbia Utilities Commission (Commission), pursuant to sections 58 to 61, 89 and 90 of the Utilities Commission Act (UCA) seeking Commission approval to, among other things, increase the 2016 delivery rates. The Application also seeks relief to allow PNG to amend its rates on an interim and refundable basis, effective January 1, 2016, pending the regulatory process for the review of the Application and orders subsequent to that process.

PNG is requesting a delivery rate increase on an interim and refundable basis of 1.8 percent from $11.775/GJ to $11.987/GJ for residential service, a 1.7 percent increase from $9.941/GJ to $10.109/GJ for small commercial service, and a 2.2 percent increase from $6.678/GJ to $6.822/GJ for Granisle propane service.

Based on the gas cost recovery and Gas Cost Variance Account (GCVA) rate riders effective April 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015, the overall average bundled rate increase for a typical residential customer consuming 70.5 GJ per year is 4.3 percent, an increase of $56 per year. Similarly, the overall bundled rate increase for a typical small commercial customer consuming 316.4 GJ per year is 4.7 percent or $235 per year and for Granisle residential propane customers consuming 38.8 GJ per year the overall average bundled rate increase is 0.7 percent, an increase of $6 per year.

For the food bank DL Baker Construction Canada’s Wendy Hagen-Dennill presents Kitimat Food Bank President Marjorie Phelps with a $2,000 donation, a contribution which will help maintain the food supplies as the Food Bank wraps up its Christmas Hamper program.

Reflecting on a hamper success A big thank you to all the volunteers who donated time sorting and wrapping gifts, sorting out food and packing hampers, setting up and taking down tables at the hall, driving and delivering the hampers.

We had lots of drivers this year so deliveries were completed very quickly – “many hands make light work”. Fortunately the weather cooperated quite well for delivering hampers.

We have had some hefty donations come in this past week boosting our total dramatically. Donations include Anonymous $20; L. Meeds $100; N. Snyder $50; Kati’s Knook $100; D. Kelly $200; L. Kelly $100; G. Kastoris $100; Anonymous $20; Gareen Ball “Sharing Tree” on location at City Centre Mall $715; R. Brady $50; Dr. ECA Feldhoff Inc. $150; Anonymous $100; Catholic Women’s League $250; Kitimat Pentecostal Fellowship $969.70; LNG Canada Kitimat Food Bank Challenge $10, $350; Anonymous $20; A. Harris $40; Royal Canadian Legion Ladies Auxiliary $250; H&C Borralho $100; Loblaw's (Kyle’s No Frills) $1000; J. Pilkington $75; Northern Gateway Pipelines $750; Canadian Tire – J. Bryan Gascon In-

vestments $1500; RTA Gate Collection $7121.85; RTA Company Contribution $7,200; Civeo $500; Santa Visits Collection $175; Envision Financial (Full Cupboard) $910 and Lander General Power $200. Our total to date is $43,172.85 – thank you so much to all who donated.

I would like to thank the Hamper Committee core group who, with their host of volunteers, make the annual Kitimat Christmas Hamper Appeal such a success, Marjorie Phelps, Pearl and Brian Lennox, Lois Godfrey, Sally Rigoni, Sandra Knowles, Sheila Reeves, Liz and Woody Waddell, Janet and John Scrivens and anyone I may have missed who worked extra hard during “hamper week”. Thank you.

Last but not least our thanks to all the media who supported our appeal and gave us the much needed publicity to bring this to fruition.

Thank you all again for “Caring and Sharing” and making Kitimat and Kitamaat Village wonderful communities to live in.

We wish you all a blessed Christmas.

Sincerely Luella Froess Publicity Chair

PNG is also requesting an increase in the Revenue Stabilization Adjustment Mechanism (RSAM) rate rider on an interim and refundable basis applicable to residential and small commercial customers of $0.608/GJ from $0.243/GJ to $0.851/GJ. REGULATORY PROCESS The Commission wishes to hear from affected parties before determining the public process necessary for the disposition of the Application. Commission Order G-207-15 establishes a preliminary Regulatory Timetable and a Procedural Conference on Friday, January 29, 2016.

HOW TO GET INVOLVED Persons wishing to actively participate in the proceeding must register as an intervener through the Commission’s website at www.bcuc.com or in writing by Friday, January 15, 2016. Registrants must identify the issues they intend to pursue and indicate the extent of their anticipated involvement in the review process. Interveners will each receive a copy of all non-confidential correspondence and filed documentation, and must provide an email address if available.

Persons not expecting to actively participate, but who have an interest in the proceeding, should register as an interested party through the Commission’s website or in writing, by Friday, January 15, 2016, identifying their interest in the proceeding. Interested parties receive a copy of the decision when it is released. Please note that only those parties who register on the Commission’s website will receive electronic notice of submissions.

Letters of comment may also be submitted. All submissions and/or correspondence received relating to the Application are provided to the panel and all participants in the proceeding. Submissions are placed on the public record and posted to the Commission’s website. By participating and/or providing comment on the application, you agree that all submissions will be placed on the public record and posted on the Commission’s website.

If you wish to attend the Procedural Conference please register with the Commission Secretary using the contact information provided at the end of this notice.

Procedural Conference The Commission will consider the regulatory process to be followed, the scope of the review and the contents of the Updated Application.

Date: Time: Location:

Friday, January 29, 2016 9:00 a.m.

Commission Hearing Room, 12th Floor, 1125 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC

VIEW THE APPLICATION The Application and all supporting documentation are available on the Commission’s website on the “Current Applications” page. If you would like to review the material in hard copy, it is available to be viewed at the locations below: Pacific Northern Gas Ltd. British Columbia Utilities Commission Suite 950, 1185 West Georgia Street Sixth Floor, 900 Howe Street Vancouver, BC V6E 4E6 Vancouver, BC V6Z 2N3 Phone: 604-691-5680 Phone: 604-660-4700 Toll Free: 1-800-667-2297 Toll Free: 1-800-663-1385 www.png.ca www.bcuc.com PUBLIC LIBRARIES Prince Rupert, Terrace, Kitimat, Houston, Smithers, Burns Lake, Vanderhoof and Fort St. James FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER For more information or to register please visit www.bcuc.com or contact the Commission Secretary at commission.secretary@bcuc.com or Philip Nakoneshny, Director, Rates, as listed above.

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Year in News - January to April

The spring all about the strike

Marina sale the January highlight Cameron Orr It was no secret the Haisla had ambitions to purchase MK Bay Marina but the sale was made formal January 14 when a celebration was held in Kitamaat Village.

There will be changes and upgrades planned for the future, and while the Haisla Nation Council has committed money to seeing it done Chief Councillor Ellis Ross at the time said the finalized plans aren’t ready, but early diagrams of the future facility show an expanded breakwater, an extension to the store and restaurant, and there may be more berths as well.

Even the name is on the table.

“We haven’t really had time to take a breath yet, but I think that’s probably one of the next things we’ll have to do with our business partner and our community,” he said about the possibility of changing the name of the marina.

Speaking to all who attended the event, he said that while LNG may provide a big opportunities, he said there are side opportunities the Haisla also need to get a handle on, and acquiring the marina is a major step for the community’s economic independence.

- From the January 21 Northern Sentinel

White washed memory of February After a January of rain, rain and more rain, Old Man Winter unleashed a ferocious snow storm the likes of which had not been seen here for many a year.

After a gorgeous sunny day Wednesday, February 4, heavy powder snow began falling overnight and continued to come down throughout the day February 5.

Even then it wasn’t anything we wouldn’t see in any normal winter storm.

But as darkness fell the full fury of the storm was unleashed and increased through Friday, February 6 as a fully fledged blizzard.

The first power outages started Thursday night and their number grew on Friday as the snow load brought down trees and power lines, especially on the Kitamaat Village Road as the village lost all power.

At 10:21 a.m. Friday the city’s public works operations manager Brian Krause, in a release, said, “Our employees are

doing the best they can and we ask all Kitimatians to bear with us as the snow continues to fall.”

By then the city’s recreation facilities had already closed.

They were to be followed by the City Centre Mall, other businesses and even the bus service.

At 7:40 p.m mayor Phil Germuth issued a statement the city was doing the best it could in the circumstances.

“Our employees have been working around the clock to get streets cleared but the extremely heavy snowfall, combined with power outage, has made these efforts challenging.”

The Fire Department says 29 calls for service came in over the weekend including three fire calls.

The event also caused lots of damage at MK Bay Marina, including a boat which sunk under the weight of the snow and resurfaced taking much of the marina dock with it.

- From the February 11 and 18 Northern Sentinel

Fake oxy leads to overdoses in March Kitimat discovered it was not immune to a rising prevalance in fake oxycodone pills in the province.

Then-Kitimat Staff Sergeant Phil Harrison said there were two incidents of people overdosing on the pills in Kitimat in one week.

On March 11, the second of the two incidents, the RCMP detail that officers found 45 bluish pills near the victim while paramedics conducted first aid.

The pills were identified by the let-

ters CDN pressed on one side and the number 80 on the other. That branding is how RCMP determined what the drugs likely were.

Around this same town Lower Mainland police forces made a major drug bust which included the fake oxy.

A spokesperson for the Combined Special Enforcement Unit in B.C. (CSEUBC) said the drugs confiscated by them were known to be supplying communities up to Dawson Creek, but were

not known to be sent Northwest, including to Kitimat.

“The connections that we know of start at Williams Lake and work their way up to Prince George and then go in the direction of Fort St. John and Dawson Creek, which were the terminus of the drug lines for this group,” said Sergeant Lindsey Houghton, a media spokesperson for the CSEUBC. - From the March 25 Northern Sentinel

Cameron Orr Strike notice was issued in late February so the municipal labour issue was top news throughout March and in to June.

Unifor 2300 members voted 95 per cent in favour of strike action, but Unifor 2300 at the time was waiting for an essential services hearing before issuing a strike notice.

Even then the union was hoping for a peaceful resolution.

“We’re still trying to avoid a labour dispute, for sure,” said Unifor 2301 business agent Martin McIlwrath.

McIlwrath says it had been a struggle getting the city’s negotiators to the table to bargain but assured that no snow clearing efforts were compromised due to collective agreement negotiations.

The situation got tense at the March 2 council meeting when Unifor members picketed the muncipal Council meeting.

Several council members opted to respect the line, and later in the meeting the union members filled the gallery and presented their concerns to the mayor and council.

A later council meeting with Unifor representatives also got heated when the mayor issued a statement, continuing to stand by the town’s offer which through its wording seemed to set the town’s heels in the sand on any potential wiggle room.

Later efforts of mediation were initially unsuccessful too.

It wouldn’t be until June 9 that the District and the union would announce they had reached an agreement which would end the strike.

In all the strike, by its end, would have lasted 102 days.

- From various Northern Sentinels from February to June

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Marlins leave competition in their wake Jason Cathers The Kitimat Marlins competed at the Terrace regional swim December 13.

With strong results from all Kitimat swimmers the Marlins were able to win the swim meet taking the team aggregate award for highest team point total.

Zachary Dumas, 16, broke five Terrace pool records in the 15 and over boys division on his way to a gold medal in the category. In the 1500 meter freestyle Dumas broke the 17 year record by a whopping 51 seconds. Dumas also reached the 17-18 year old boys qualifying time for Canadian age group nationals in the event.

If Dumas reaches two more times this season he can attend the age group nationals in Calgary in July. Dumas also broke another 17 year record in the 400 freestyle breaking Terrace Bluebacks swimmer Garth Coxford’s record by four seconds. He also broke former teammate’s Brander Pacheco record in the 200 meter butterfly by two seconds from January of this year. Finishing off his record breaking Dumas low-

ered his own pool records in the 800 free by 18 seconds and the 400 IM by 4 seconds.

Also breaking pool records Kleanza Cathers, 16, competing in the 15 and over girls division broke two pool records. She broke the 15 and over girls pool record in the 50 meter backstroke.

The old record was held by Bulkley Valley Otters swimmer Gabrielle Correia from last January. Kleanza shaved off 4/10th of a second off the old record.

Kleanza also lowered her own record in the 50 free by 2/10th of a second. Cathers took the gold medal for overall points in the division.

Three Marlins swimmers achieved new provincial qualifying standards. Olivia Pearson, 11, achieved her first AAA qualifying time in the 11 and under girls 200 meter backstroke.

Pearson is fully qualified to attend the AA Provincial champs this season and now may attend the AAA provincials if she reaches two more AAA qualifying times. Pearson took the bronze medal for overall points in the 11-12 girls division. Also

in the 11-12 girls division Emilie Krabes, 11, fully qualified for the AA provincial championships by meeting the time standard in six events. Krabes took the silver medal for overall points in the division and was one of only two Marlins at the meet to swim to personal best times in all seven of her races.

Also achieving his first AA provincial qualifying time was Ewan Thomopoulos, 11. Ewan qualified in the 11 and under boys 200 meter backstroke. Unfortunately Ewan will age up to the next age category before the AA Champs in Penticton in February.

Other medalist for overall points for the Marlins were Annika Desousa, 10, her first gold.

Gavin Thomopoulos, 9, took gold in the 10 and under boys.

Jadyn Johnston, 11, took silver, Leah Desousa, 13, took gold, Hannah Pearson, 13, earned bronze. Laurence Boucher, 15, took silver in the 15 and over girls.

Joshua Reis, 11, joined Emilie Krabes in earning personal best times in all seven of their races.

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• Driving unreasonably fast, slow or at • Overshooting or stopping well before an inconsistent speed stop signs or stop lights • Drifting in and out of lanes • Disregarding signals and lights • Tailgating and changing lanes • Approaching signals or leaving frequently intersections too quickly or slowly • Changing lanes or passing without ~ all info from MADD Awareness Campaign 911 sufficient clearance You can hand over your keys or Visit www.madd.ca for more information your life. Make the right choice.

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