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TERRACE - The Terrace Churches Food Bank has received a substantial lift from the Knights of Columbus group. On the far left is Giannino Pretto, a food bank volunteer and on the far right is Manuel Favela, a food bank volunteer. Right beside Pretto is food bank president John Wiebenga and beside Favela is Knights of Columbus treasurer Erik Hernes making the official donation which is two cheques totaling $12,000. This donation was made possible through BC gaming funds.
Feasibility study is next step for refinery By Cameron Orr
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KITIMAT- David Black’s first public appearance at a Kitimat council meeting overviewed his project for councillors and set an outline of where he hopes to take the project in the coming months. Namely, as he’s still hoping to submit for an environmental review of the proposal this fall, he wants to get financing to meanwhile create a feasibility study on the project — a $200 million comprehensive look at the engineering of the whole 10 square kilometre facility where the refinery could go — and seeks a memorandum of underPlay uck Shoot-the-P to WINrin!!g ! Played du n 2nd intermissio
standing with the government of Canada to for them to guarantee $8 billion in loans. Such guarantees he said have precedent in the country and he was encouraged by ministers at the federal level to submit applications. The guarantees are needed because Black had to seek Canadian-based investment after the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China decided not to debtfund the entire project but 75 per cent of it. Black said the project is estimated to cost $28 billion, with a $3 billion increase to the refinery itself due to the introduction of Fischer-Tropsch technol-
ogy, which will mean a reduction of CO2 emissions to 3.5 million tonnes a year. Black’s hour-long presentation, which included questions, covered a number of topics including his desire to have a new pipeline constructed, since he was not successful in convincing Enbridge’s partners to divert the Northern Gateway proposed pipeline to his refinery rather than to the coast for raw export. He said rail transport is also not off the table. He was questioned by Phil Germuth about selling refined product locally, but Black suggested the pursuit of doing so would be bad for business.
“We could provide it cheaper, but of course you’re entering into a price war to do it because there’s already a current supplier, and you’re not going to do very well at the end of that because some of these suppliers are enormous companies, they can wait you out,” he said, saying sending it to growing economies in Asia means you’ll get full price. David Black, as well as being president of Kitimat Clean, is the chairman of Black Press, the company which owns, among others, this paper. Kitimat readers will have a chance to read more in the next issue of The Northern Sentinel, Nov. 13, 2013.
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