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yards from my art studio, has been approved to have a concentration of high pressure sour gas, quadrupled, and you know, if that ever had a leak or an earthquake happened DAWSON CREEK - Karl Mattson, and busted the pipe, I am living in a low Rolla-based artist who has been outspoken area here,” Mattson told Northeast News. in the past about oil and gas activity near “I just sort of worry about what sort of his farm, had a showing of his “Life Pods” plan there is for rural residents who have and other artwork at a gallery exhibition always been here and are just kind of forced in Winnipeg last to deal with the weekend. that are There should be more changes Mattson’s happening.” work, sculpture Mattson’s Life public awareness of constructed and Pods are selfwhat’s actually welded from contained breathfound objects such happening under the ing apparatus, like as oil and aviation portable bomb ground ... fuel tanks, is a dishelters: one to rect statement in hold a small famopposition to what ily, one—which he thinks is inadequate emergency response also happens to be Mattson’s own future preparedness measures for rural residents coffin—to hold one person, and a third, in oil and gas industry-affected areas. which is still under construction. “The pipeline right across the road, 34 “I’m not totally anti-industry,” Mattson said, “but I do think there needs to be better safety, better transparency with the infrastructure that’s put in—with the companies, with the community. I think “The The Crack Stops S Here” there should be more public awareness of what’s actually ALL ICBC COURTESY happening under the ground, PAPERWORK CAR what things are made of, DONE ON SITE AVAILABLE and regular updates, not just farmer-to-farmer. I think
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Photo Credit Stacy Thomas Karl Mattson with one of his Life Pods, which was exhibited at a Winnipeg contemporary art gallery last weekend.
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Applicant: Encana Corporation 37 Vic Turner Airport Road Dawson Creek, BC V1G 0G1 Attention: Jennifer Critcher jennifer.critcher@encana.com 250-719-6829 ext: 1120 The purpose of the proposed Pest Management Plan (PMP) is to manage vegetation, including noxious weeds and invasive plants on all land owned, leased, and/or controlled by Encana for oil and gas production, transmission, distribution and storage within the plan area, including oil and gas wells and associated production facilities (and their access roads), several pipelines and gas processing plants. These sites are located in proximity to the communities of Fort Nelson, Fort St. John, Dawson Creek, Tumbler Ridge, Hudson’s Hope, Pouce Coupe and Chetwynd. All sites are within the geographic boundaries of the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality and the Peace River Regional District. Using the principles of integrated vegetation management (IPM), the pest management methods proposed include seeding, hand-pulling, mowing, whipping, deep ripping, caping, brushing (selective slashing), biological control agents, and the use of pesticides. The use of pesticides is intended within the area to which the PMP applies. The common name and some example(s) of trade names of the pesticides proposed for use under this plan include: aminocyclopyrachlor (Navius, Truvist), aminopyralid (Milestone, Restore, Sightline, ClearView), amitrole (Amitrole T), bromacil (Krovar, Hyvar, Calmix Pellets), chlorsulfuron (Telar, Truvist), clopyralid (Transline, Lontrel 360), dicamba (Dyvel, Killex, Banvel, Vanquish, Oracle), diuron (Karmex), flumioxazin (Payload, Torpedo), glyphosate (Roundup, Roundup Weathermax, Glyphos, Vantage XRT, Credit, Touchdown), hexazinone (Velpar), imazapyr (Esplanade, Arsenal), indaziflam (Esplanade SC), metsulfuron-methyl (Escort, Ally, Sightline, ClearView), MCPA (MCPA Esther and Amine), picloram (Aspect, Tordon 101, Tordon 22k), propyzamide (Kerb SC), quizalofop (Assure II, Yuma), sodium diflufenzopyr (Overdrive), simazine (Precep Nine T, Simazine), triclopyr (Garlon RTU, Garlon XRT), 2,4-D (2,4-D Amine 500, 2,4-D Amine 600). Application methods includes: cut surface, basal bark, injection and foliar. The proposed duration of the PMP is from March 2016 to March 2021. A copy of the proposed PMP and maps of the treatment areas may be examined at the above address. A person wishing to contribute information about a proposed treatment site, relevant to the development of the pest management plan, may send copies of the information to the applicant at the address above within 30 days of the publication of this notice.
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help them decide where they use the language and where tutoring time. they want to use it. From there, she uses that information to “Basically what it is anyone in the community that rebuild the lessons. quires any kind of support in terms of literacy, be it reading Continued from Front Page. "You get sort of everybody's needs skills, math skills, computer skills…we could match them and then you find a way to navigate, up with a tutor,” she said. prioritizing what will help," said MacHarkness explained that because of the ever-changing Donald, noting that banking, money and nature of the community, there is a higher rate of illiteracy. shopping are all things they go through While a majority is quite capable of performing their duduring the classes. ties, they struggle with day-to-day tasks, such as filling out The program is funded by the govern- forms or reading prescriptions on a medicine bottle. She ment and therefore they have regulations went on to say that sometimes, children drop out of school on them. Refugees, permanent residents to go to work. and care aides are the only ones allowed “The cost of living up here is a big factor so, people need to take part in the program. to provide for their families so that’s the main thing, that’s The class only has room for 12 spots why the drop out of school,” she said. and at the moment, there is room for For Alrifai and Kia, however, they enjoy what they are people in the country who are either have learning so far and in the meantime, enjoy the classroom work visas or permits are allowed to be time and making new friends. Photo Credit Julia Lovett in the class but once the spots fill up, “I feel happy, because I am speak, I am understand peoFrom left: Nour Alrifai, Teacher, Kara MacDonald and Azad those who don't qualify must leave. ple when they talk to me,” Alrifai said. Kia talked about what it was like to be new in the country According to Kia, the class has given and enjoyed learning a new language him the freedom to learn about a new culture but also to give him a fresh start Check us out on in doing what he loves to do - graphic Facebook & Twitter design and photography. MacDonald said she agreed with desire to make everybody standardized in the way they him, noting that only learning the theory behind the lanspeak English," she said. guage can only take a student so far. MacDonald explained that they teach the students how to "I think it is a useful approach, because you can conjucommunicate and be understood. It isn't just about learning gate verbs all day but it doesn't necessarily help you comverbs and conjugating them. municate," Two students, Azad Kia from Iran and Nour Alrifai from Alrifai said that when she first came to the country, she Lebanon moved to Fort St. John less than a year ago and couldn't speak or understand a word of English. Now that since coming into the program approximately three months she has had about three months of practice, she said she is picking up on conversation skills and it's changed her outlook on what she can accomplish. Kia agreed. "Learning any language is good because when you learn a language, you learn culture..so it's very good to me," he said. Kia was a graphic designer in Iran before `leaving to come to B.C. Both will stay in the country, although Alrifai and her husband will be moving to Alberta in the coming months to live with Call for Nominations for her sister. According to Sonja HarkLake View Credit Union ago, are now able to converse back and forth with each ness, the executive director Board of Directors other. They said learning English has given them a way to and literacy outreach cocommunicate on equal footing as one speaks Arabic and ordinator for the society, the the other, Farsi. group sees about 60 students The nomination period will be January If you are interested in seeking a seat on "Canadian culture and Canadian themes are a huge part go through the program a of it, it's pretty much the dominant focus," she said, noting year. 11th - February 9th, 2016. Nomination our Board, please request a nomination that they are required to speak only English in the classAlong with LINC, another forms are available online at our website package. This is available upon request at room. program, Community Adult or pick them up from any of our branches. any of our 3 branches. During the year, which runs during a traditional school Learning Program (CALP) Lake View Credit Union is governed by 7 You can also print a nomination package year, the students will fill out a 'needs questionnaire' to gives the learner one-on-one directors whom set the strategic direction online at our website: and ensure the long term success of our www.lakeviewcreditunion.com. credit union for our 12,000 members. Alternatively please feel free to contact any of the Nominating Committee NOTICE OF AGM members:
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Dawson Creek RCMP search for missing youth STACY THOMAS news@northeastnews.ca DAWSON CREEK - Dawson Creek RCMP are asking for the public’s help in their search for 15-year-old Madelyn White, who has been missing from Dawson Creek since Jan. 15. Whyte is 5’3” tall, 130 pounds, Indigenous, with a small to medium build, brown eyes and long black hair. It is possible that she has her hair dyed blonde.
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Art studio helps Rotary Manor seniors achieve sense of accomplishment STACY THOMAS news@northeastnews.ca DAWSON CREEK - Rotary Manor residents have been spending the last year and a half honing their artistic skills, and the results were exhibited at a show at the Manor on Jan. 15. Subjects ranged from still-lifes to objects, people and places from the artists’ memories, which they say gives them a relaxing way to remember. One such artist, Fred Richter, worked in the resoration of vintage cars for 44 years in Pouce Coupe, including airbrushing murals and embellishments onto classic vehicles. That stopped when he had a stroke and lost the use of his right hand, and through the “art studio” program at Rotary Manor, has been learning to draw again with his left hand. “It was pretty hard, at first I couldn’t even write my name with my left hand,” said Richter. “I love it, I used to do airbrushing on cars, flame jobs and murals, before the stroke, but now I can only do on paper with my left hand.” Richter draws purely from his own memory: cars, tractors, even a snowmobile which he owned while on his farm. Eleanor Belfour also paints and draws from memory, and from her imagination, and said that the art classes have given her a feeling of satisfaction, at getting a job done. “It’s pretty good, actually,” she told Northeast News. Agatha Lillico, Rotary Manor’s Recreation Aide, who organizes the art classes (herself a trained artist) says she sees the therapeutic effects that artistic expression brings to her students. “It feels great for them to achieve something which they didn’t think they were able to do,” said Lillico.
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A group of artists learn the finer points of floral and wax encaustics artist came in and taught a beginner this,” he said, referring to the reason he keeps coming back group about her favorite form of art. to help. Suarez said that when he first began studying with "What fascinates me about it is..it's the co- Folk, he would develop any sort of artistic skill and now he lours. They are in a unique shine and brightness said that when he paints, it gives him peace. and they mix and they never fade," she said. “[It] gives you more time to forget about stresses in your "It's a medium I just fell in love with," she life and just do painting,” he said. added. For more information on Folk’s art classes and guest inGut explained that she got involved with the structors, go to: Donnafolk.com art form after she received a card from her cousin and thought the card was so beautiful, she immediately began working on educating herself on the art, which dates back to the Egyptian era. 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Photo Credit Julia Lovett Defendent Ken Boon speaks with David Suzuki during the high profile visit to Rocky Mountain Fort camp weeks before the claim was filed.
JULIA LOVETT reporter@northeastnews.ca FORT ST. JOHN - On Tuesday, Jan. 19, BC Hydro submitted a civil claim to the Supreme Court of British Columbia, seeking an injunction against the campers at the Rocky Mountain Fort camp. "I think there's still like a sense of shock, like it just seems like a really heavy handed move," said Helen Knott, Treaty 8 member and one of the defendants named in the claim. According to the 13 page document, the utility is seeking the injunction for "relief and damages for nuisance, including break of contract, interference with economic relations by unlawful means, intimation and conspiracy." "The encampment is holding up the clearing activities on the south bank, just upstream of the confluence of the Peace and the Moberly River," said Dave Conway, community relations manager. He explained that the utility decided to move forward
with the claim due to their commitment to the rate payers to keep the project on schedule and on budget. For Knott, however, the claim only strengthens her resolve and she feels as though this is another intimidation tactic. "Ultimately, our top priority is for the safety of the Site C workers and the protestors," said Conway. According to the claim, which was filed in Vancouver, states that on December. 31, the defendants placed a survival shack on the heritage site known as Rocky Mountain Fort and had done so without the authorization of the Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. "We're everyday people, like all of us are law abiding citizens - community members, volunteers," she said. Knott explained that campers have maintained a peaceful presence at the camp and will continue to do so despite the civil claim. In the document, under section 38E, states that on January, 2, Verena Hofmann and Yvonne Tupper, both Treaty 8 members, blocked off heavy machinery that is either owned or leased by the utility. The rope they used to block off the machines was attached to signs that read, "No Trespassing, Treaty 8 Territory" and "No cutting permitted, Treaty 8 Territory." After which, they told the workers that if they crossed the line, they would be trespassing. “I fully believe that I as a Treaty 8 member, have a right to access those lands as well,” she said. Conway explained that that all other construction on the site is moving full steam ahead, the claim is for the particular location of the historic fort. “The other thing that we’d like to remind people is that BC Hydro has all the environmental approvals, the provin-
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South Peace artist Continued from Page 2. it should be [public meetings]. … regulations are set by government but, I think it’s just not transparent enough for the rural resident. … I’ve actually asked for why can’t we have basic survival equipment here on my farm, and an alarm system for certain percentages of H2S that waft through, or if there’s a leak, so we can take care of ourselves. Because there are safety checks along the lines but they don’t always work, we know that from South of Pouce, there was a big incident there. A quarter of a mile from here there was a leak of a surface casing, that was very serious, an H2S monitor went off in my house.” The two completed Life Pods were displayed at LANTERN gallery in Winnipeg over the weekend of Jan. 23. Paul Zacharias, curator of LANTERN, said that Mattson’s work will be of interest to Manitobans as the province is experiencing it’s own issues with fracking activity and transparency. “A lot of environmentally-minded people are really excited to get to meet him,” said Zacharias. “There is some fracking that occurs in the south-west of the province, it’s not very well known that it actually happens, and how much is going on, and whether there’s been any water table damage that’s occurring. It’s very unknown, so people are thirsty for this kind of dialogue, cause they can see that it’s been cut out of our mainstream media.” Mattson said that while he is not normally an outspoken activist, verbally, his art is his way of making a statement that will be seen and heard. In his experience, rural residents tend to be brushed by by industry. “I guess [since] we’re rural residents, because we’re not a concentrated group, like in a city, it’s easy just to push by, and it makes you feel a bit expendable, they just have to deal with you and keep marching on,” said Mattson. “When I ask questions, I get responses, but I’m just not happy with the responses, and then where do you go from there? Like, I don’t want them to increase the concentration of sour gas next to my home. “I’m not really great with keeping documents or speaking publicly or anything like that, but I am concerned about these things, so my artwork is my way of speaking that, and getting invited to go to Winnipeg is pretty exciting.” Mattson’s first Life Pod was featured in a the 2013 feature-length documentary Trouble in the Peace, and the Pod was on the roof of the two rivers gallery in Prince George for a year, where it was an interactive installation. There are two more exhibitions coming up for Mattson’s work: a show in Grande Prairie in March 2016, and another in Williams Lake in October.
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BC Hydro South Peace power line complete STACY THOMAS news@northeastnews.ca DAWSON CREEK - The Dawson Creek-Chetwynd Area Transmission Line has been completed, and the 230-kilovolt line will be providing clean electricity to new industrial customers in the South Peace, according to a BC Hydro press release. “That means customers do not need to burn fossil fuel to power their facilities – which means lower greenhouse gas emissions in B.C.” states the Jan. 20 release. There are two portions of the new power line, one a 12-kilometre line from Dawson Creek’s exisiting station to the Bear Mountain Terminal. The second portion stretches from the Bear Mountain Terminal for 60-kilometres to the Sundance Lakes substation—a newly built substation 19-kilometres east of Chetwynd. “BC Hydro is projecting unprecedented levels of electricity demand in the south region over the next 10 years. In fact, growth in this region is expected to be ten times higher than the rest of the province,” said Mike Bernier, Peace River South MLA. “This is good news for our region. It means a growing economy and more jobs. In fact, construction of the line created 100 jobs.” In addition to the construction of the lines, upgrades to the Dawson Creek substation and the building of the new substation, as well as the Bear Mountain Terminal, were included in the overall construction of this project. “This line doubles the amount of power we can provide to the region. We know it’s a growing region and BC Hydro needs to be one step ahead and ensure we can get power to where it is needed most,” said Jessica McDonald, BC Hydro president and CEO. “We want industry in B.C. to use clean power that comes from BC Hydro’s hydroelectric facilities.” According to the BC Hydro press release, the new growth and power demands are being created by natural gas exploration and development in Montney shale gas deposits. The new power line infrastructure will allow these industries to connect to the BC Hydro power system, as well as supporting “future expansion of the transmission system in the south Peace.” The construction of the Dawson Creek-Chetwynd Area Transmission Line was begun in 2013, and the cost of the project is $296-million, with approximately 11,000 industrial, residential and commercial customers. Site clearing, substation work and foundation installation work was performed by First Nation and B.C.-based companies, such as the Saulteau First Nations-owned company 4 Evergreen Resources, which did access road construction and right-of-way clearing. BC Hydro states that over the next ten years, BC Hydro will be investing approximately $2.4-billion per year into B.C.’s electricity system.
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Watt’s Happening #73: Let’s Get Serious By Don Pettit
erything: increased wild fires around the world, increases in storm frequency and severity, the death of coral reefs, GOVERNMENT’S ROLE massive and persistent droughts and heat waves . . . it’s That’s where the government is supposed to come in, It’s a new year. Time to get serious. and on that front Canada has fallen far, far behind. RememIf you are a regular reader of Watt’s Happening, you’ve happening. Now. World governments have now reluctantly agreed: to save ber, we ‘ve just had a decade when government refused to probably noticed that I am pretty optimistic and excited our economies and ourselves we must de-carbonize imme- talk about climate change, and clamped down on any talk about the opportunities that our switch to renewable energy diately. Carbon dioxide and methane, mostly released by about it by anyone, period. promises. If, instead, we have leaders who put forward a clear and You may also have noticed that I think solar panels that the burning of fossil fuels, must quickly be reduced and then practically rational agenda and actually LEAD us into a clean, smart eliminated by 1) energy future, we will follow. Soon renewable energy will becoming much be cheaper, cleaner and more reliable than conventional more efficient in energy, and the transition to clean energy will boost the how we use ener- economy, create jobs and make us more competitive. gy and 2) rapidly And it could save our butts. What, exactly, are we waitswitching to non- ing for? carbon energy sources like solar and wind power. OPTIMISM BIAS A recent survey found that about 80 percent of Canadians agree that the climate is changing, but about half of those were unsure as to why it was happening. One in six outright denied that humans had anything to do with it. Eighty percent new nothThe backbone of any business includes ing about carthe efficient and effective movement bon trading, and Photo Credit Submitted of information. almost nothing Soon renewable energy will be cheaper, cleaner and more reliable than conventional energy, and the transition about renewable There’s a lot of things that need to get done to clean energy will boost the economy, create a cleaner and healthier environment, create more jobs per dollar to make that happen. energy. invested and make us more competitive. What, exactly, are we waiting for? Only 14 perOne thing you shouldn’t have to worry about cent thought that is your copier or document management climate change make electricity from sunlight, giant wind turbines that software. 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