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Promising AltaGas LNG project shelved By Rod Link For the Northern Sentinel What has been one of the more promising planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in the northwest has been shelved. AltaGas of Calgary, the lead Canadian partner in the Douglas Channel LNG project planned for Kitimat, announced February 25 that it and its partners could not find anyone willing to buy the product. “Globally, there is reduced demand for LNG and with a surplus of LNG in the market and the consortium members were unable to secure offtake agreements,” AltaGas said in a corporate statement. Prices now for LNG are around onequarter of what they were just two years ago when LNG development fervour was at a peak in the region. Although at the small end of LNG projects at a projected 2.4 billion cubic metres of
natural gas per year to be exported, Douglas Channel LNG was regarded as one of the more feasible. It was not only less expensive, at a projected $500 million, in comparison to the larger planned projects worth more than $10 billion, it would not have required the construction of a natural gas pipeline because it would have been fed by the existing Pacific Northern Gas line. The project would have seen natural gas super-cooled and liquefied for export on an Asian-built floating platform moored near Kitimat and connected to facilities on land owned by the Haisla Nation and leased to the project. AltaGas had first formed a joint venture with Idemitsu, a leading Japanese energy company, and then added partners EDF Trading, an energy provider, and Exmar NV, an international shipper of petroleum
and other products, in developing Douglas Channel LNG. Its projected market had been Japanese
provided it with an existing natural gas pipeline. It then took part in buying a first con-
“Globally, there is reduced demand for LNG and with a surplus of LNG in the market and the consortium members were unable to secure offtake agreements” customers. The entry point for AltaGas into B.C.’s potential LNG industry began with its purchase of Pacific Northern Gas in late 2011 which
cept for a floating LNG platform near Kitimat out of bankruptcy nearly two years ago, using that as a base to revive the Douglas Channel LNG project.
Project economics aside, the project ran into a roadblock last fall when federal customs officials decided the imported LNH floating platform was a ship and tacked on an import duty which would have added $100 million to the project cost. AltaGas then appealed the decision and learned in early February it was successful. But that was not enough to salvage the project, said AltaGas in a statement. “While this decision is positive, and bodes well for de-
ployment of a similar floating liquefaction facilities in the future, the consortium had assumed a 0 percent duty when it began developing the project,” the statement indicated. The company did express satisfaction with what had been achieved, despite the decision to shelve the project. “The milestones achieved by the consortium, including the permits and duty relief, help prove out the feasibility of developing a floating liquefaction facility in British Co-
lumbia,” it said. “Individual consortium members can work with other stakeholders if they so choose to determine whether a similar project can be developed. AltaGas is very interested in working together or individually with Haisla and others to develop an LNG project.” To date, AltaGas has spent $24 million on the project. Skeena NDP MLA Robin Austin expressed disappointment at the news. Continued on page 3
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Hannah Langegger, pictured here, Mount Elizabeth Middle and Secondary School student earned a bronze medal in carpentry at the Skills Canada BC Northwest Regional competition for trades students in the Northwest, which was hosted by Northwest Community College. Justin Hickman, also a MEMSS’s student, received a bronze medal in the Welding category. See story on page 3.
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AltaGas shelved continued from page 1 “There was an expectation in Kitimat, now that Rio Tinto has finished its smelter, that this would go ahead,” he said. Austin added that AltaGas and its partners may not have had the kind of deep pockets needed for a long-term investment. “In all fairness to AltaGas, it is not one of the largest of the [energy] companies and just may not have had the capability to look at an investment which is 25, 30 or 40 years down the road,” he said. “They just may have not been in a position to make such an investment.” Austin was more confident that Shell, the leading partner in the much larger LNG Canada project planned at Kitimat, has the kind of capital base required. “Shell may have postponed its [final investment] decision but it is still spending money,” said Austin of site preparation and other work underway for LNG Canada. Skeena NDP MP Nathan Cullen, like Austin, was also disappointed. “I know we had lobbied hard for customs relief from the CBSA (the Canadian Border Services Agency) and had hoped that would help,” he said. “We had really hoped one of these smaller projects would go ahead but with the markets the way they are, when there is going to be a turnaround is anybody’s guess,” Cullen said. The Haisla Nation would be have been a direct beneficiary of Douglas Channel LNG and its chief councillor Ellis Ross was not surprised given current market conditions. “We will continue to work closely with other project proponents such as LNG Canada as they continue towards making their own final investment decision,” said Ross of the larger Shell-lead project planned for Kitimat. “Despite this particular setback, the Haisla Nation still believes in the benefits for the economy and for our people in liquefied natural gas projects, and will continue to encourage the British Columbian and Canadian governments to move quickly to capture this opportunity for the region.” The shelving of Douglas Channel LNG also affects a second floating platform project envisioned by AltaGas and its partners. This is called Triton LNG and it would also have been placed in the Kitimat area. It would have been fed by a 24-inch pipeline which would have been built by PNG and commonly called the “looping project” or “twinning project” because its intended route from outside of Prince George to Kitimat would have closely paralleled the route of PNG’s existing 10-inch line. “Triton was a phase two of Douglas Channel LNG. This project is on hold to be re-evaluated,” said AltaGas
Correction We inadvertently missed publishing one Kitimat Chamber of Commerce Director in the special feature published in the February 17 Northern Sentinel. The corrected list follows, with the addition of Tracey Hittel. Derick Stinson, Chair, Wendy Kraft, Vice Chair, Jas Pannu, Secretary Treasurer, Tony Brady, Past Chair, and Directors Bill Hickman, Jessica Stinson, Dusan Jankovics, Mark Gravel, Greg Poznikoff, Ron Burnett, Thom Meier and Tracey Hittel.
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Douglas Channel LNG impacts economy Submitted Terrace Standard While the cancellation of the Douglas Channel LNG project will have an economic impact on its partners and on the overall prospect of a B.C. energy industry, northwest natural gas consumers will take the biggest hit, says Skeena NDP MLA Robin Austin. That is because there is now no relief in sight to the high prices being charged to deliver the commodity to businesses and homes. Those delivery prices would have come down once Douglas Channel LNG began operations as it would have used all of the large surplus capacity of the Pacific Northern Gas (PNG) natural gas pipeline which serves the region. Douglas Channel LNG’s payments to PNG would have then reduced the prices the natural gas utility now charges its current business and residential customers to maintain its pipeline. “We now pay very, very, very high
prices for natural gas relative to anywhere else,” said Austin. “And that really began when Methanex pulled out [of Kitimat],” Austin said of the company which produced methanol at a plant in Kitimat until 2006 using
natural gas delivered by PNG. “When I tell people down here in Victoria what we pay for gas, for the delivery, they just can’t believe it.” The MLA added he can see no solution to high natural gas prices simply because PNG must pass along its maintenance and other costs to its business and residential customers. PNG’s natural gas northwestern delivery rates in this region are more than three times higher than anywhere else. The most current residential delivery rate here is $12.91 a gigajoule while it is $3.921 a gigajoule in Fort St. John, which is also served by PNG. On the lower mainland, Fortis, that region’s natural gas utility charges residents $4.939 a gigajoule for delivery, storage and transport. Natural gas utilities in B.C. are regulated by the B.C. Utilities Commission which reviews prices and costs quarterly as well as approves rate applications made annually. Utilities cannot add on anything to the cost of natural gas itself.
Bronze medals for Kitimat in Skilled Trades competition Training (ACE-IT), and postsecondary levels. “It was my first competition and a great experience,” said Paige Petuh-Bowman, silver medalist in the postsecondary hairdressing competition. “I learned a lot about staying focused and blocking out everything that was going on around me.” The majority of the gold medal winners qualify to compete at the provincial level
Submitted Terrace Standard Two Kitimat students were among those placing among the finalists at the regional annual Skills Canada competition held at Northwest Community College in Terrace February 26. Hannah Lanegger from Mount Elizabeth Secondary took a bronze in the carpentry category while Justin Hickman, also from Mount Elizabeth Secondary, took a bronze in the welding category. Competitors were at the high school, Accelerated Credit Enrolment in Industry
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Ooops One of the things opponents of proposed projects do to boost their cause is bring in speakers from elsewhere to warn us of the dire consequences there have been in their countries from pursuing the same kind of development we are considering. That is not only completely valid, it should also be welcomed because what they have to say is based on what actually happened rather than what theoretically might happen. But sometimes the best laid plans can go awry. Two weeks ago the Terrace-based SkeenaWild Conservation Trust brought in a group of Russian scientists/conservasionists which included conservationist Dmitry Lisitsyn. Lisitsyn is a resident of Sakhalin Island on the east coast of Russia where an LNG plant was built and went into operation six years ago. So the adverse impacts that he cited happened literally in his back yard. In a pre-public meeting interview with the Terrace Standard he outlined just how dire they had been, as in a collapse of the pink salmon runs and adverse impacts on other sea life. And Lisitsyn emphasized, in referring to the environmental plan that was contained in giving the project the governmental go ahead, “There was a very big difference between what they predicted and what occurred,” So the evidence is clear: despite the promises offered by the environmental plan, bad things happened. So there was good reason to be worried about the proposed Petronas-led Pacific Northwest LNG plant to be located near the mouth of the Skeena River. But he then blew up his own testimony by pointing out that in building the plant the proponents ignored many of the conditions laid down by the Russian environmental authority. (It should be noted that Gazprom, a state owned company, is a partner in that project so it is hardly surprising they got a free pass on some of the regs from the government that owned it and badly needed the revenue it would provide.) So all Lisitsyn was really offering was that if you ignore the environmental protection conditions, bad things happen. That, I would have thought, was a gimme. It is also a gimme that Pacific Northwest LNG will not be able to play the same game. Malcolm Baxter
Canadian or not...the social future What kind of world are our children inheriting? For most of us - especially right now, in 2016 - it very much simply depends who you ask or how much you value their views. Your personal opinion is equally critical and open minds face an incredibly complicated range of options -- most of them not under our control. But few answers, other than those recently from Canadian Liberal members of Pariament, suggest any kind of sunny, bright and positive future for us to look forward to. More likely are increasingly bleak responses, almost across the board, on economic uncertainties, climate change debate, severely challenging international relations, shortages of jobs, health care, educational opportunity, equality or almost anything. Guaranteed is endless controversy, division, expansions of bigotry, increased worldwide violence, danger and death at the hands of both man and nature. For that reason it often becomes
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irritating to watch the ongoing dayto-day furore associated with so many apparent trivialities, celebrity issues, gossip, differences of opinion on what most people perceive to be unimportant in the light of the gamut of serious problems facing so many parts of the world. Triviality examples? Well, there’s a bunch of young girls in - where else - California, knocking at the Boy Scouts’ door in Santa Rosa, demanding to be Boy Scouts. They face difficult legal obstacles. Among others, there is Title 1X, a US federal law that prohibits discrimination by sex, which (however) specifically carves out an excep-
tion for the Boy Scouts, allowing them to exclude members based on gender. Now, even as the Boy Scouts have accepted gay members, the organization has zealously guarded its boys-only status. Now personally, I don’t care. There are more important things going on. But in Google you can read over 10-million stories on that one subject. Ten million, yes! On the other side of the same ledger, St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson, has issued a letter calling on his parishioners to “seek alternatives to Girl Scouts,” arguing the organization conflicts with Roman Catholic teaching. The Archbishop wonders if they and their cookies should be welcome in the fold. “Can I still buy Girl Scout Cookies?” is among questions posted on the archdiocesan website. Bland answer - “each person must act in accord with their conscience.,” Aha! Still among the trivial and irritating...Twitter drives me nuts. Continued on page 5
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Take control and protect yourself from fraud It seems every day there is another story of online fraud or identity theft. It can leave you feeling the only way to stay safe is to permanently say goodbye to your laptop and smart phone. Luckily, there are some simple things you can do to protect yourself from fraudsters. Whether you browse the web to watch the latest cat videos, visit your favourite online store to shop, or use the internet for online banking here are some tips to keep you and your personal information safe. Because internet fraud can strike at anytime, it is a wise first step to protect the information on your home computer. To
safeguard your personal information you can: Install and use a quality antivirus and a quality antispyware program. You will need to ensure these programs are updated regularly. You may also consider installing and using a firewall program, again ensuring it is regularly updated. Never leave your computer unattended while using online banking. Always log off and close the browser when you leave your computer. Another important tip is to avoid using a public computer to conduct financial transactions. This substantially increases your risk of
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reported in 2014 was scams offering a service, prize or merchandise. When you hear or read an offer you can’t quite believe, that’s usually the first clue that something is fishy, that you need to slow down, think and avoid making an emotional response. Acting emotionally can result in you becoming a victim. Much of today’s fraud uses what security experts call “social engineering.” Essentially, fraudsters craft messages in a way that’s intended to persuade or pressure you to do something, like clicking a link in an email that will infect your computer with malware or providing
your credit card information over the phone. This is why stopping to think and not feel pressured is so critical. When you realize you don’t have to act immediately, the pressure is off and the power rests with you. While a full twothirds of reported financial losses originate online, through email or malicious websites, don’t forget your regular mail and confidential documents are at risk as well. Identity fraud still occurs through mail theft or confidential documents that are not disposed of properly. You should keep tabs on your mail to make sure those bills or statements are arriving consistently and invest
in a home office shredder to shred confidential documents. It is a good idea to consider electronic billing and statements and to use mobile alerts to monitor your bank account activity. A good resource to learn more about common scams is the Little Black Book of Scams available on the Canadian Competition Bureau’s website. The good news in all of this is you don’t need to be afraid. Once you become informed, you’re in control of the situation. You can evaluate the message, you can delete that email or hang up the phone. Preventing fraud is something you can control.
Social future minally ill to access doctor-assisted dying, and it should be available to those with mental illness or psychiatric conditions, says a new parliamentary report. Ka-boom. This is not trivial with most people. I suspect it’ll take months to get around to a resolution on this one ... and there will still be about 40 per cent naysayers, led by the churches. It seems to me the Liberal government is more intent on simply overturning existing and recent Conservative legislation than even in pursuing their own strategic objectives. Like most of the actions taken so far, the moves to overturn Tory citizenship legislation (Bill C-24)
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Three vehicles found ablaze by Shannon Lough The Northern View Three vehicles that were parked at the Metlakatla Ferry Dock were found ablaze at 3 a.m. on Thursday morning. The Prince Rupert RCMP and fire department were called to the scene and found “two vehicles sustained damage beyond repair while the third sustained extensive heat damage,” stated a press release from Sergeant Dave Uppal. Police are treating the fire as suspicious. The Metlakatla First Nation is offering a $1,000 reward for information that could lead to the arrest of the person or people responsible for the fire. One of the irreparable vehicles was a van that belonged to a Metlakatla elder. “The Metlakatla First Nation takes this and other acts of vandalism around the Metlakata Ferry Dock very seriously,” stated a press release from the Metlakatla First Nation. This isn’t the first time there was mischief at the Metlakatla Ferry dock. On Oct. 24, 2015 there were six vehicles vandalized between the hours of 4:30 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. The damage was estimated to be over $10,000. “It is reported that four males and two females were in the area at the time and are considered to be of interest,” the RCMP press release stated. Anyone with information about this fire is asked to contact the Prince Rupert RCMP at 250-627-0700 or Crimestoppers toll free at 1-800-2228477.
High risk takedown Submitted by Smithers RCMP Smithers Interior News On Feb. 19 Smithers RCMP received a complaint of three males in a car with a handgun. The complainant was able to provide a description of the vehicle, which led to police locating the car traveling westbound on Highway 97 near Trout Creek. Smithers RCMP members performed a high risk takedown of the vehicle’s occupants: a 37-year-old male and two 27-yearold males. The men were taken into custody without incident. A search of the vehicle located three AirSoft BB guns, one replicating a Colt .45-style pistol and one replicating a carbine assault rifle. No actual firearms were located in the vehicle. The men were released without charges.
Ani-Bully Day was marked at Haisla Community School in the Kitamaat Village with pink t-shirts, group activities highlighting bullying awareness and presentations, at least one of which was given by RCMP constables. Submitted photos
Anti-Bullying Day in Kitamaat Village On February 24 the Kitimat RCMP participated in Anti-Bully Day at the Haisla Community School in the Kitamaat Village. Kitimat RCMP Constables Rebeckah Draht and Constable Jordan Chaplin, along with RCMP victim services liason Leisl Kaberry, participated in multiple group activities with students that highlighted bully awareness. Constable Chaplin and Kaberry also gave a presention to the school that focused on cyber bullying and how social mediums such as Facebook can be used. The presentation was interactive and allowed the students to use their cell phones to connect with a “Bully Text” in which a student was sent a bullying scenario via text.
Students were then required to come up with a solution to the scenario, allowing them to learn about this topic in a dynamic way.
For further information about bullying please feel free to visit http://www. rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cycp-cpcj/bull-inti/indexeng.htm.
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Kitimat kids recall what it was like: Part I of III As the 1950s dawned the new community of Kitimat was becoming a hive of activity as construction of the Aluminum Company of Canada's giant smelter steadily ramped up. At that time everything was concentrated at the Smeltersite where landmarks included the beached Delta King which served as accommodation for many of the workers, the first hospital (also on the beach), the Hudson Bay Company store/ cafeteria/recreation complex, the dock area and a seaplane ramp. What housing there was climbed the hillside opposite the smelter/beach. People were arriving almost daily and it wasn't long before they included families joining their husband/ father. Malcolm Baxter, then four-years-old, likes to say he, mother Cathy and younger brother Michael waded ashore on August 14, 1952. The reality was somewhat less dramatic - they had actually arrived on the Northland Navigation Company’s Northland Prince, a freighter-like ferry which plied the waters between Kitimat and Vancouver. On Halloween Day that same year Ron Burnett, mother Iona and brother Gary disembarked that same
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there are kids there has to be a school and the Smeltersite School was an amazing three-room hillside structure complete with flagpole but no school grounds. Designed to take 60 students, it was built by Kitimat Constructors in just 26 days and opened a little late on September 15, 1952. At opening it enrolled 26 students who were instructed by three teachers. P.E. classes were conducted at the nearby Rec Hall, which wasn’t so busy during the day. Before the end of its first year it was bursting at the seams with 110 students. Parents in the 50s and 60s used to describe Kitimat as a great place to raise kids. But how did the kids feel about the community in the wilderness? Not all the young new arrivals were too thrilled with their new home. Lois Richards (Godfrey) was 15 when she arrived in 1956 and admits she resented being uprooted from her comfortable existence in the North Okanagan town of Salmon Arm. Ten-year-old Ruth
Stockman (Brady) also arrived with her family that same year from the big city of Edmonton. But while little Kitimat may have been a let-down, having big brother Gordie looking out for you made a difference. Others who arrived in the 50s included 14-year-old Geoff McFarlane who was also not happy to leave life in Vancouver behind. The feisty teenager must have been a challenge for his mom and step-dad, Walter Gurrie, who had taken on work at Alcan. A nightmare unfolded months later when Geoff took
off, hitchhiking back to Vancouver. However Ron Burnett found life at the Smeltersite anything but boring. He quickly got involved in school and sports at the Rec Hall were a big part of his life. Ron recalls going to school at the Smeltersite was certainly interesting. "Change was the only constant. There were always new students arriving." Ron remembers teachers Frank Bower, Mrs. Hopkins and Miss Cavill. Ingrun Haggemann's favourite was Mrs. Pousette who helped instill Ingrun’s
passion for music. Mrs. Pousette eventually settled in Terrace. Ron's schools included the Smeltersite, the temporary school in Nechako Centre - it was a bit weird to find yourself being watched by people through the full length windows and eventually the new Mount Elizabeth Senior Secondary, opened by Social Credit education minister Lesley Peterson. Ron claims to be the first grad from MESS to have done all his high schooling in Kitimat. The fact you were far from your original
home didn't mean everyone in Kitimat was a stranger. Bud Powell found that out when he discovered it was Dave Chow from his grandparents town of Trail who was operating popular Helen’s Café at the Smeltersite. Bud knew Dave from his connection to the Bluebird Café in Trail. Another surprise was his former Vancouver Art teacher ended up being his instructor again in Kitimat. In those days the community was a magnet to people from many walks of life. (To be continued)
The Delta King served double duty as accommodation for early workers while its boilers provided power for the Smeltersite.
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tin Trudeau intent on legalizing recreational marijuana use, Kirk Tousaw, a lawyer for the four, says the latest ruling should “once and for all end the stigmatization and criminalization” for medical users and their providers. “And in addition, all pending criminal cases against medical cannabis producers, patients, growers and dispensaries should be immediately terminated,” Tousaw told CTV Wednesday. “There is absolutely no reason in this day and age to continue to prosecute people for helping people improve their quality of life with medical cannabis.” Federal Court Judge Michael Phelan ruled that preventing people from growing marijuana for medical purposes violates section seven of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms,
which guarantees “the right to life, liberty and security of the person.” The court challenge was brought by: • Neil Allard, 61, of Nanaimo, a former counsellor for Veterans Affairs Canada until he was granted medical retirement in 1999 due to “chronic fatigue syndrome.” He started growing his own marijuana after finding he was “sensitive to pharmaceutical medication,” according to court documents. • Tanya Beemish and David Hebert, a couple from Surrey aged 29 and 34. Beemish suffers from type one diabetes and gastroparesis, and smokes or vaporizes two to 10 grams of marijuana a day to relieve nausea, pain, lack of appetite and insomnia. Hebert received a Health Canada license to be her
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A new approach to an old problem By Gwynne Dyer Independant Journalist It was a typically anodyne statement by the World Health Organisation: “Given the magnitude of the Zika crisis, WHO encourages affected countries and their partners to boost the use of both old and new approaches to mosquito control.” Anodyne, that is, until you realise what they mean by “new approaches”. Zika is a mosquito-borne virus that is spreading panic around the world. It was first linked to hydrocephaly – a developmental defect in infants that results in abnormally small heads, severe learning difficulties, and often early death – only last year in Brazil. WHO estimates that it may infect 3 to 4 million people in the Americas alone this year – and the “new approach” is to exterminate the mosquitoes. Literally. An alternative approach would be to develop a vaccine for the Zika virus – but that would take up to ten years, and the crisis is now. Zika has already been detected in 30 countries, and Brazil is investigating more than 4,300 suspected cases of microcephaly. The pressure is on to do something fast. By the wildest of coincidences, something fast is available. It’s only twelve years since Austin Burt, an evolutionary geneticist at Imperial College in London, raised the idea of a “gene drive” that would spread some desirable quality (like immunity to malaria) through an entire population in a relatively short time. With a population of mosquitoes, whose generations are only a month long, you could do it in only a year or two. Scientists immediately set to work on mosquito genes, and by last year they had a genetically modified (GM) mosquito whose offspring die as larvae, before they can breed. By an even wilder coincidence, the species of mosquito whose genes they edited
was Aedes aegypti, best known as a vector ologist and champion of biodiversity E.O. spreads malaria in Africa. “Keep their DNA for dengue fever. But Aedes aegyti is also Wilson gets the last word on this. In his for research,” he writes, “and let them go.” The same goes for Aedes aegypti. We the main transmitter of the Zika virus, and book “The Creation: An Appeal to Save Oxitec, the British-based company that was Life on Earth”, he makes an exception are going to commit insecticide. And we created to exploit this new technology, is for Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito that should. already field-testing the GM version of the insect in Brazil. In the town of Piracicaba, Oxitec has a “factory” that produces 800,000 mosquitoes each week that carry the The Skeena District of the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure is creating OX513A gene. In theory they its list of registered Equipment for Hire in the Skeena Service Area for the fiscal year should mate with the local 2016/2017 which begins April 1, 2016. females of the same species, All individuals or companies registered this past year through the District Office whose children will die as in Terrace will have received invitations by mail to re-register their equipment for the larvae, so the local population coming fiscal year. If you have new equipment to be added to your profile, you can should go into steep decline. register online or contact the District Office at the address listed below. And in practice, it works. Obviously, the enterprise Any individuals or companies who were not registered in 2015, but wish to have their could be scaled up to cover equipment listed, are hereby invited to contact the District Office, either in person or by phone, to obtain the appropriate registration forms. all of Brazil, or even the whole world. The question is: Note that while you do not need to have Commercial (Comprehensive) should it be? General Liability Insurance, or up-to-date WorkSafeBC coverage to register, you will Some environmentalhave to meet these requirements prior to working on any ministry projects. ists have already attacked All owners of dump trucks or belly dump trucks must provide a current the idea, ostensibly on the weight scale slip to the District Office which will be used to calculate hourly rates. grounds that removing an entire species of mosquito Only owned or lease-to-own equipment is eligible for registration. Equipment can only would upset the ecological be registered in one area in any given year. Seniority is not transferable from area to area. balance and possibly cause The deadline for new registrations is 4:30 p.m. on Friday, March 18, 2016. further extinctions among the Late registrations will be accepted, but may appear at the bottom of the open list. animals that feed on them. Note that there is no charge for registering new equipment or for changing or But there are some 3,000 removing equipment information already listed. species of mosquitoes (only 200 of which bite human beRegister through the Skeena District Office at: ings), so some other species 4825 Keith Avenue, Terrace, B.C. will just fill the niche left You can also phone 250 615-3970 or send a fax to 250 615-3963 empty by Aedes aegypti and to have the forms mailed, e-mailed or faxed to you, no other bird, fish or insect or register on-line at www.bcbid.ca. will go hungry. And you can always keep a small breeding population of Aedes aegypti alive in captivity so you can repopulate the planet with them if you need to. The great American bi-
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Afro Peruvian sounds of soul The Kitimat Concert Association is proud to present Patricia Cano at 8:00 pm, Friday, March 4, 2015 at the Mount Elizabeth Theatre. Cano brings to Kitimat her particular blend of Afro Peruvian rhythms driven by the groove of jazz and the soul of folk and the blues! Cano was born in Sudbury, Ontario where she grew up in a Peruvian household. After graduating from University of Toronto with a degree in Theatre and Spanish Literature, she spent five years working in Paris (France) with the world-renowned
theatre company Le Théâtre du Soleil, during which time she was sent to Seoul (South Korea) for three months to study traditional South Korean folk singing and drumming. After leaving the French company, Cano spent seven months in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) listening, playing, singing and feeling her way through the exceptional Carioca music scene! In 2009, Cano launched her singing career here at home in Canada with her debut album called, This is the New World. Co-created in four
languages with her Brazilian musical partner, Carlos Bernardo. The album won “Best Album, Solo Artist” at the 2011 North Ontario Music & Film Award Conference. Cano has also had a long and important artistic collaboration with Tomson Highway, Canada’s premiere Cree playwright and composer. Since 2001, Patricia has toured the world alongside Tomson Highway, singing and performing his songs and stories in a one-woman cabaret. From Montreal to Rio de Janeiro to Prague and
beyond, this collaboration has brought Tomson’s work to thousands of delighted fans. In 2010/11, Cano was invited to join the National Arts Centre’s English Theatre Company and in 2012, she starred in both a Peterborough production, as well as a French National Arts Centre co-production, of Tomson Highway’s newest one-woman musical, The (Post) Mistress. In May 2013, Cano closed the Montreal festival and most recently performed at Luminato Festival in Toronto. She is currently working on her second album.
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Dynamics Gymnastics Club strikes gold at competition By Jackie Lieuwen For the Northern Sentinel Young and budding gymnasts from Kitimat set the bar high at a gymnastics meet in Terrace on February 20. The competition had 57 athletes from Kitimat, Terrace and Smithers competing in eight categories. Looking at the results, athletes from the Kitimat Dynamics Gymnastics Club made the following achievements: In the Junior Olympic level 6 category, Brooklyn Wojciechowshi got first overall with 34 points: She finished first in bars, tied for first in beam, and got second in vault and floor. Second overall was Camryn Oliveira with 33 points: She got third in bars, tied for first in beam, and first in vault and floor.
Andria Van Horne got third overall with 31 points. She finished second in bars, fourth in beam and third in vault and floor. Mya Anthony got fourth with 30 points, fourth in bars, third in beam, and fourth in vault and floor. In the Junior Olympic level 2 category, Lily Sherman and Maggie Baker both won gold overall for top points and red ribbons in all four categories of vault, bars, beam and floor. Taylor Gibson also finished with gold overall, with three red ribbons and one blue. Brooke Gray finished silver overall, with one red and three blue ribbons. Savannah Boudreau finished silver overall with four blue ribbons. In Junior Olympic level 1, Gabriella Michaluk got gold for
overall points, with three red and one blue ribbon. Mila Dobbin got silver overall with two red and two blue ribbons. Jaime Loucks also got silver overall with one red and three blue ribbons. Madelyn Vilness was silver, with three blue and one white ribbon. Davie-Lou Gibson was silver, with one red, one blue and two white ribbons. Addison Pitzel was silver with three blue and one white. Hannah Van Horne was bronze with one red, two blue and one white. In the Junior category, Charles Gagnon finished with all around silver, with gold in parallel bars, silver in horizontal bar, vault, and floor, and bronze in pommel horse and rings.
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an excellent meet and was one of the top swimmers in the division. His best result came in the 400 meter individual medley making the A FINAL in the event ( top 8) and placing 6th overall. Dumas also placed 8th in the 1500 meter freestyle. He made the B final (placing 9-16) in two more events placing 11th in the 400 meter freestyle and 12th in the 200 meter butterfly. Along the way Dumas broke 5 northwest BC regional records in the 15 and over boys division. He lowered his own records in the 400 im (by three seconds) and 1500 freestyle by (20 seconds) and broke other swimmers northwest BC records in the 200 meter freestyle by 1 second, the 800 freestyle by 3 seconds and the 400 freestyle by 6 seconds. The 400 meter freestyle was also the oldest record he broke. The old record was held by Kyle Nartz of Terrace from 1999. Kleanza Cathers (16) competed in the girls open division. Unfortunately for Cathers she caught a sickness one week before nationals and lost 7 pounds of mostly muscle. Her best result came in the 200 meter 2016 northwest BC western national qualifiers. From left to right Zachary Dumas backstroke where she was under her per- (Kitimat) Tanner Espersen (Smithers) Bailey Espersen (Smithers) Kleanza Cathers (Kitimat). sonal best time in the event.
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