106th Year - Week 51
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
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Muzzy Van Hossemere, played by Hannah Trampuh, performs Only in New York on Saturday afternoon during the matinee performance of Thoroughly Modern Millie. The Smithers Secondary School music and drama department students played to near-full audiences for all four shows at the Della Herman Theatre. Ryan Jensen photo
OLD IS NEW AGAIN Saint Mary Magdalene renos nearly done.
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JRP set to release recomendations Panel must decide on pipeline’s merits before Dec. 31
By Ryan Jensen Smithers/Interior News
Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline should not be moving forward, said ForestEthics Advocacy in their newly-released report, Case Closed. The Joint Review Panel’s recommendations on the project will be
released before Dec. 31, in Calgary. The ForestEthics report summarizes evidence heard at the JRP hearings and discusses Enbridge’s failure to prove benefits and address the negative environmental impact through the process, said ForestEthics Advocacy senior energy campaigner Nikki Skuce.
“We hope that the JRP will conclude, as most participants in the process did, that Enbridge Northern Gateway is not in Canada’s national interest and must be rejected,” Skuce said. “Overwhelmingly in the process, Enbridge proved that their project would be a disaster for the environment and existing economies,
that they do not have the competence to build it safely, and that they have no social license to operate in Northern B.C.” According to their website, ForestEthics Advocacy Association’s mission is to, “conserve and protect the natural environments of Canada while allowing for their
sustainable use.” During the JRP hearings, held over 18 months ending in June 2013, more than 1,200 people made oral statements and more than 220 intervenors registered in the process to submit their own evidence and question the project. Additionally, about 9,000 individuals and
groups submitted letters of comment to the panel. Stikine MLA Doug Donaldson, who addressed the JRP as an intervenor, said the fact the announcement will be made in Alberta and not in B.C. shows the process is titled toward business interests, not the will of the people. See JRP on A3
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