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Clockwise from top left, that’s an Idle No More rally on Haisla Boulevard; Premier Christy Clark speaking at Kitimat Valley Insitute; Joanne Monaghan officially opening Kitimat’s first electric vehicle charging station; and two boys who were recognized by the fire hall for their quick action during a house fire.

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Haisla feel JRP didn’t address their concerns Cameron Orr As news of the Joint Review Panel’s recommendation to the government of the Northern Gateway Pipelines approval sinks in, reaction continued to come out following the announcement. (Sentinel, December 25.)

The panel, to summarize portions, said there would be significant effect on some populations of woodland caribou and grizzly bear, and uncertainty remains over the effectiveness of Enbridge’s plans to minimize the disruption the pipeline would cause.

“It is our view that, after mitigation, the likelihood of significant adverse environmental effects resulting from project malfunctions or accidents is very low,” the report stated.

Conditions include protection plans for whales and other ma-

rine mammals, measures to protect caribou and other land animals and development of methods to track and deal with diluted bitumen spills.

Ahead of speaking to us directly, the Haisla Nation issued their official response, saying that they were disappointed with the JRP, but like many lacked surprise at the decision.

“The Haisla Nation did not have faith that this Panel or the process would take our rights and title interests seriously in the face of big oil money,” they wrote. “We will be reviewing the report in detail in the coming days to try to understand how the Panel could reach its conclusions, and to determine what our next course of action will be.”

Speaking to the Sentinel, Haisla Chief Councillor Ellis Ross said that the JRP’s recommendations seemed

aware of any technology that could properly remediate an oil spill.

“We’ve been through mitigation clauses more than once in more than one project and we understand the objective in terms of mitigation attempt, but that doesn’t mean anything when you’re talking about an oil spill,” he said. “You can mitigate all you want. Once an oil spill hits, all that mitigation doesn’t mean anything.”

He said the Haisla have always been careful to approach the project scientifically to avoid tying up their position in politics.

“We took the scientific approach. We spent approximately $2.5 million... to actually ensure that technical, professional reports were submitted on our behalf, and I don’t know that it actually made any impact at all,” he said. “We

“You can mitigate all you want. Once an oil spill hits all that mitigation doesn’t mean anything.” to be more preoccupied with mitigation for potential spills rather than remediation, which was the focus of the Haisla’s presentations.

He said the Haisla have spent months preparing for what could be in the JRP report.

“We were hoping for something more positive in terms of the evidence we put forward, in terms of the possible spill response,” he said. “But this is exactly what we expected unfortunately.”

He said the interest in remediation was crucial for them because he has never been

didn’t go with rhetoric, we didn’t go with political statements. We said lets bring in the professionals to look at what happens when a spill actually happens with this product.”

He added there’s an understanding that comes through the recommendations that he doesn’t like.

“To me it sounds like ‘yeah, it might be in the interest of Canada to actually sacrifice our territory in the event of a spill,’ and that’s just not acceptable to me or to the Haisla people.”

Ross also took issue with a lack of attention to rights and title. He said the JRP report may have referenced and mentioned rights and title but it was never effectively addressed. And as for the 180 day limit for the federal cabinet to respond to the JRP report, Ross suggested that too is a violation.

“We’re going to see an interesting six months in relation to this arbitrary time limit imposed on our rights and title which is basically an arbitrary time-

line on consulting and accommodating rights and title. That goes against case law and in fact I question whether or not that has to be abided,” he said.

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CityWest CityWest has closed down the customer service portion of their office in Kitimat as of December 24.

The company says it was a difficult decision but the store didn’t reach the levels of foot traffic and exposure they were looking for.

“The decision to make the closure ultimately came down to the storefront’s location, which just wasn’t giving us the exposure in the residential and business community as we anticipated,” said Sean Carberry, Director of Customer Service at CityWest.

“We have also found in our customer surveys that people prefer to contact us by phone, so we expect minimal customer impact when the storefront closes.”

There will be no job losses as a result of the closure.

The closure allows CityWest to re-organize its Kitimat workforce, which will result in a better customer experience for installations and troubleshooting.

And the CityWest presence won’t be disappearing from the community of Kitimat. The company said they are planning a variety of events for 2014, when it will set up temporary selling booths in more central locations in Kitimat.

In other CityWest news, the company announced that it will transition out of the cellular business and has partnered with Telus to deliver the service instead.

CityWest said that switching their cell customers to Telus will allow them to focus on their other products.

CityWest’s cellular service has only been available in Prince Rupert.

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KITIMAT UNDERSTANDING THE ENVIRONMENT

A view of the Rio Tinto Alcan work site in August 2013. The company is currently handling an appeal of their emissions permit. Rio Tinto Alcan photo

What was Kitimat’s biggest 2013 story?

It’s crazy to think 365 days have passed since the calendar turned to 2013.

In the news world a remarkable amount of things can happen through the course of 52 editions of your weekly paper.

The editor at the Sentinel has compiled a short

list of what he thinks were the biggest local stories of the year.

(Local trends are another matter, and you can see his pick for the biggest news issue on page 9.)

So, in no particular order, here’s the most significant things we followed throughout the year:

1. Panel says ‘yay’ to Enbridge (Northern Sentinel, December 25) After what seems like an eternity, the joint review panel, an appointed panel of people set with the task of hearing arguments for and against the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines proposal, have made their recommendations to the federal cabinet.

In recommending the project is approved — so long as they adhere to a strict set of conditions — the federal government effectively now has to decide whether or not to actually issue the environmental permit to the project.

In terms of time, the National Energy Board Act sets that there are

180 days for the government to decide on that, although they can extend that for basically any amount of time they want.

Naturally the decision set off a firestorm of reaction. The company itself said they’ll be looking at building trust from here, during a press release after the JRP announcment on December 19.

However environmental groups who have long been critical of the project, including Kitimat’s own Douglas Channel Watch, were naturally disappointed with the recommendations.

However for the most part people seemed unsurprised.

Like we say, the JRP’s recommendation doesn’t automatically give the company the environmental certificate they are seeking.

The government will now, either shortly or months from now, decide if they agree with the JRP’s final report.

The Enbridge story is definitely far from over, however. Even if ap-

proved, many groups have promised fights right to the end, and the company may likely find themselves tied up in legal challenges if they try to proceed, which could hold up the project.

So in short you’re unlikely to see any oil moving in pipes tomorrow, but the JRP recommendation clears a regulatory hurdle.

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Public Hearing January 6 c5 Zoning amendment, 633 Dadook ave. bylaw no. 1838, 2013 WHat: A public hearing will be held on Monday, January 6 at 7:30 pm at council chambers, 606 Mountainview Square to consider the ‘C5 Zoning Amendment, 633 Dadook Ave. Bylaw No. 1838, 2013.’

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WHat cHangeS? Council is considering an application to amend the C5 Zone to enable redevelopment of 633 Dadook Ave. The applicant is seeking to make three amendments to the C5 Zone: add ‘hotel’ as a permitted use; increase permitted height from 9 metres to 17 metres; and increase maximum allowable density from 0.5 to 0.8 Floor Area Ratio (FAR). These changes would apply to all properties in the C5 Zone. a map showing the affected property is below:

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Bigger, higher, stronger It’s January 1st, so you all know what that means.

Well for me at least that means I’m well into battling myself to keep on my new year’s resolutions which is typically eat less and exercise more. (Sometimes I think I might as well take up smoking just so I can quit right away and claim one victory.)

Of course it also means I’m closing in on 700 days since returning to work at the Northern Sentinel, after a departure to Smithers for a few years.

Time in Kitimat is a conundrum of sorts. It doesn’t feel like anywhere near 700 days, yet there’s been so much that has happened in that time, both personal and professional.

But like each year-end I get the chance to look back at the year that was. In part to compile the big stories of the year for this issue — and hopefully you’ve liked the slightly different way we’ve compiled them this year — and to also do what all papers do in this season, submit works to the award programs.

Of course I don’t come to work each day with the mindset to do anything just for awards (although for any judges reading this, it’d be nice!) but it’s a good moment for myself to reflect on any good work I did and see where I could do better.

If you’re reading this right now it means you already value local news and supporting us both as a news gathering organization and — as it’s sometimes easy to overlook — an actual local business. Reading us is easily part of any new year’s resolution to buy local.

But, just as with any operation we have to earn your business, and that’s why this moment of reflection is important to me and to us.

So as I look back at the year, I hope that we earned your attention through 2013.

The year saw mail interruptions, air-shed emission concerns, and, most recently, a regulatory hurdle overcome by a controversial pipeline company.

It’s been a busy year, and unmercifully didn’t slow down as we approached the end of it.

Even so, we’re all happy to make sure you have a newspaper in your mailbox each Wednesday and hopefully we’ve done at least a little bit to connect you even more strongly to your community.

And while I’m on that subject, if you really wanted to prove your attention to detail, look to pages eight and nine in today’s paper. There you’ll find two news quizzes. One a provincial quiz, assembled

by Black Press provincial reporters, and another local quiz, assembled by us here from stories which have run in the Sentinel.

Fill them out and get them back to us for a chance to win a year’s subscription.

Meanwhile, Happy New Year and all the best for 2014.

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Fletcher’s big idea for 2013 One of Canada’s great entrepreneurial success stories in recent years is WestJet, the Calgary-based airline that is expanding across the country and taking on European routes.

Clive Beddoe, the founding CEO of Westjet, was famous for helping the cabin crew tidy up the plane before getting off a flight.

And the company is also known for its profit-sharing program, with all employees referred to as “owners” who have a stake in the success of the operation.

I thought of this management approach when news emerged that the B.C. government was offering public service unions a new kind of contract, with a five-year term and wage increases tied to improved economic growth.

The surprising thing is that unions are accepting the idea, even though provincial growth must exceed the government’s independent economic forecast council projections before it can take effect in a given year.

The generally non-militant Health Sciences Association was the first to recommend acceptance of a five-year agreement with only 5.5 per cent raises guaranteed. Then they were joined by negotiators for 51,000 health and

From the Legislature Tom Fletcher social services employees, represented by the B.C. Government Employees’ Union and other unions that have long been adversaries of the B.C. Liberals.

John Fryer, negotiator for the BCGEU going back to the epic battles with Social Credit governments and now a professor at University of Victoria, wasn’t impressed when he heard the news.

“These deals reflect what happens when public sector unions back the losing party in a provincial election,” he said. “Union bargaining power takes a trip down the pooper.”

I think there’s more than that going on. Perhaps today’s union leadership is beginning to accept that its wage, benefit and pension arrangements look pretty good compared to the harsh reality of private businesses competing in a global economy.

I asked Premier Christy Clark if this new approach is inspired by pri-

vate-sector profit sharing. She agreed that is the model.

“I think that’s a great principle for all of us to work from,” Clark said. “Until now, the growth of public sector wages has been completely insulated from changes in the private sector. And this is the first time we’ve ever been able to successfully link those two things. At this point it’s still a small increment wage growth, but it’s a big change, and I hope we can continue to build on it.”

From an employee perspective, it is indeed modest. If real gross domestic product increases one per cent beyond the independent forecast used in the provincial budget, employees get an additional half of one per cent raise for that year.

Contrast this labour relations development with what’s happening on the federal scene. A classic confrontation is brewing between the Harper government and the Public Service Alliance of Canada.

Looking through my files each December for the B.C. story of the year, I consider what is likely to matter five or 10 years from now.

This partnership approach to building the provincial economy is my pick for 2013.

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The Spanish connection Hidden within historical documents world-wide, are numerous unsung heroes.

These ancestors paved the way for those who followed. Some have been overlooked. One forgotten hero was the Spanish navigator Captain Jacinto Caamaño.

(No connection to Kemano, southeast of Kitimat.)

One of Caamaño’s spheres of operation in 1792 was right in our back yard at the approaches to Douglas and Whale Channels near Campania Island.

Those are familiar waters to Kitimat fishermen and the oil and gas industry as they plan their tanker routes.

The area has also been a concern to the Coast Guard as they scramble to update soundings and data there. Caamaño’s expedition was the second European expedition to our area.

It came just three years after the Colnett and Duncan expeditions of 1789. Caamaño’s expedition was just one season ahead of George Vancouver’s.

Caamaño was a contrast to his British opponent and acclaimed successor, George Vancouver.

Caamaño was a nobleman of high birth from Madrid, in central Spain. His was a name of great status and success in his homeland.

Vancouver, although unquestionably talented, was a man of common birth who had made his way up the ranks on merit alone.

Caamaño was also a mariner of skills and success who left a legacy of names on our maps. He was meticulous with charting, cau-

tious with his ship and crew, and considerate of First Nations people.

Not all navigators possessed these attributes.

In 1792, 33 year old Capitan Jacinto Caamaño took command of a large, multisailed frigate, Aránzazu. From Spain’s colony in the Philippines, where it had been built, they sailed the Aránzazu to San Blas in New Spain (now Mexico). San Blas is 160 kms north of Puerto Vallarta.

From there he was instructed to sail north seeking the elusive Northwest Passage. He and his Spanish crew started their summer search and charting in Alaskan waters. As the summer waned they drifted south. By August they had reached our north coast waters at the entrance to Douglas Channel. Caamaño successfully navigated and named Principe Channel, between Banks and Pitt islands, before arriving in the vicinity of Calamity Harbour, which had proven so disastrous to British Captains Colnett and Duncan. Caamaño was particularly wary of the submerged rocks and reefs. He had been warned of these

by Captain Duncan who had had to surrender his ship Princess Royal to the Spanish at Nootka a few seasons previously. Even with double lookouts and constant sounding of fathoms, he too narrowly averted disaster on Betton Rocks in Squally Channel.

Within his ship’s log and reports, he admitted that his large three-masted frigate was unsuited to con-

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Being alone, without a consort, made him vulnerable, but, like Vancouver, he had life-boat sized vessels aboard, which could be sailed and manned by oars. No doubt, he would have preferred Vancouver’s arrangement of sailing with two smaller vessels.

Vancouver’s ships Discovery and Chatham were certainly more appropriate.

After his near catastrophe on Betton Rocks, Caamaño securely anchored his frigate and assessed his surroundings. He dispatched marines and sailors in the smaller lifeboats, where they navigated by wind and oar. He spent a month at anchor, from where he confirmed the existence of a large First Nations settlement.

This Tsimshian village was on Pitt Island not far from Calamity Harbour. Caamaño described the large village as “Havitacion de Indes Bravos”. This village was known as Citeyats. Apparently, Caamaño traded fairly, and avoided the violence which characterized the British expedition led by Colnett and Duncan.

Throughout months of travel Caamaño charted positions. Author Richard Wells compared a few of Caamaño’s 221 year old maps and modern

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day charts. He found them to be remarkably correct.

Caamaño was a skilled navigator who paved the way for those who followed.

Vancouver used Caamaño’s charts and notes extensively, and he further honoured his Spanish opponent by retaining many of the names he had placed on the marine charts.

The Spanish legacy includes Principe Channel, Caamaño, Nepean, Estevan, and Laredo Sounds, Campania Island, Aristazabal Island, Aránzazu Bank and Estevan Rocks all in our area. Also Zayas Island in Alaska and Caamaño Island near Seattle are all named for the great Spanish navigator.

In later life, Caamaño was rewarded with various promotions, including the title Pacific Viceroy. In this position he served

Caamaño’s ship the Aranzazu, by painter Mark Myers. Photo submitted by Walter Thorne, sourced from the Internet from headquarters in San Blas. Clearly, Capitan Jacinto Caamaño was a navigator overlooked by history. Perhaps someday, when his journals

are readily available in English, his full accomplishments will be recognized. Certainly he made an impact on the north coast waters which we call home.

His findings helped to ensure the success of subsequent expeditions like Vancouver’s.

Aránzazu, Caamaño’s ship, has been immortalized in a painting by

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Post changes could cost seniors highly Welcome to the new Canada Post.

That’s the upbeat message at the end of the corporation’s recently announced Five Point Action Plan.

But I am certain that a segment of our society is not going to welcome one of the main planks of that plan - getting rid of home mail delivery.

As in people who have mobility problems.

Now Canada Post

might argue that they can simply drive to their community post box and pick up their mail.

Sounds lovely, but the reality is that many of these people, seniors in particular, either cannot afford to run a car or are unable/not allowed to drive for medical reasons. Never fear, says Canada Post, those community mailboxes will be “close to home”.

So how close is close?

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Canada Post offers assurances that it will abide by the charter under which it operates and make sure they are within 2.5 kilometres (about 1.5 miles} for 78 per cent of its customers.

So picture this: a

senior on a walker has to trundle their way as much as one and a half miles to pick up their mail and one and a half miles back.

With no guarantee when they set out there will even be any mail there.

Further in the event they are not part of that 78 per cent.

I suppose they could always take the Handy-DART but I am not sure whether running people back and forth to the mailbox falls within its mandate.

And even if it does the walker-bound senior is possibly going to have to pay a minimum of $5.50 - $2.75 there and $2.75 back - for the privilege of picking up their mail.

Absurd, and insulting.

Now it is entirely possible that Canada Post could provide statistics showing how few people in Kitimat would be adversely affected by this change.

Fine. So if it is so few, why can’t it create a registry, just as Kitimat’s HandyDART does, of those with mobility problems and provide them with home delivery?

Its vehicles are

going to be running around town every day filling community mail boxes so what’s it hurt to make a detour or two?

Heck, just piggy back on the HandyDART registry if it’s worried about the cost of setting up its own.

Ah, the cost word - that’s the justification for the planned demise of home mail delivery and rocketing charges for stamps.

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Public Hearing January 13 crossroads residential Dormitory OcP and Zoning amendement bylaw no. 1836, 2013 WHat: A public hearing will be held on Monday, January 13, 2014 at 7:30 pm at council chambers, 606 Mountainview Square to consider the following Official Community Plan (OCP) and zoning amendment: WHat iS it?

The Bryton Group has submitted an application for Council to consider a proposed development consisting of (1) commercial development featuring a hotel on land adjacent to Highway 37; and (2) a 1,000 bed temporary worker housing facility on the eastern aspect of the land.

WHat cHangeS? The western aspect of the property would be rezoned to C11 - Highway Commercial Zone to include hotel and service station as permitted uses and to increase the maximum allowable height from 9 metres to 18 metres.

A new Development Permit Area will govern form, siting and character of development on the western aspect of the property.

The eastern aspect of the property would be rezoned to a newly created zone: C12 – Commercial Transition and Interim Residential Dormitory Zone. This would allow low intensity commercial uses on the property, and a 1,000 bed temporary worker accommodation facility until August 31, 2035. a map showing the affected property is below:

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A milestone year for DoK The end of 2013 marks the closing of Kitimat’s 60th birthday.

In our March 27 edition of the Sentinel we took a look back at the community’s 60 years, from its start to where it may be going from here.

One thing that really stuck out for the early pioneers of the community was how incredibly muddy the town was.

And the intial reactions were typically of a sort of dread of moving to this frontier town, only accessible by boat or float plane.

But from the people we spoke to the town bonded with them and many remained in Kitimat entirely, even if their plans were to move on after

a few years had passed.

The milestone for the District didn’t go unnoticed, and the Kitimat Council called for a celebration committee to be formed to organize events throughout the year.

Notably, March 31, the anniversary of incorporation, was celebrated with free admission to town facilities and other activities, while later in the summer an outdoor movie screen was brought in for two-nights of movies. (The first night done inside Tamitik Arena due to the weather.)

The fireworks display on Canada Day was also just slightly more explosive this year as well, in commemoration of the town’s birthday.

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Throughout the year we occasionally take really neat photos and put those neat photos onto our Facebook page.

Of course as you see, these photos don’t often fit in the criteria of a ‘news’ photo and therefore rarely sees print in your weekly.

So this week, as we begin our journey into the new year, we wanted to give these photos a chance to see the light of day away from a computer screen.

At top, the clouds over the Douglas Channel reveal some interesting colours following a lightning and thunderstorm in

June. Below left, we used a photography trick to take three exposures, and combine them into one in Photoshop. (And admittedly we added a special colour filter.)

The result is a stylized look at the rock wall along the walkway leading into the Service Centre.

Below right: Leading up to Halloween, a foggy morning made the Haisla Bridge a little spooky. Below left center, Minette Bay Marina provides some spectacular views, and this sunset was no exception. Bottom, Mount Elizabeth on a cloudy morning.

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2. RTA emissions permit appealed (Northern Sentinel, November 6) Rio Tinto Alcan is heading into the final stages of its multibillion dollar project to modernize their aluminum smelter.

The company boasts that the new facility will see an overall 50 per cent reduction in emissions, leaving cleaner air than their old technology allowed.

However, while most emissions are indeed going down, Sulfer Dioxide (SO2) is the sin-

gle area where there is a significant — or any — increase.

Specifically SO2 is rising by 56 per cent, to 42 tonnes a year. Other emissions are going down, like Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons which is being reduced by 98 per cent.

The rise on SO2 has some concerned, and the application has been appealed by a handful of people.

SkeenaWild Conservation Trust, and Lakelse Watershed

Society are also joining the appeal with individuals, which includes Kitimat and Terrace residents. The appellants believe SO2 scrubbers should be installed by the company to reduce their emissions.

The company had responded that the only proven scrubbing technology would use sea water and would mean that SO2 just gets deposited into the ocean along with all the water they had to process.

RTA’s environmental permit is now going through the Environmental Appeal Board.

There are appeal hearings scheduled for January 27 and into early February.

As of this date a hearing lo-

cation was not yet listed.

A decision is expected within a reasonable amount of time once hearings are concluded.

It’s unsure what RTA will do if the board does uphold the appeal, however the company

did say that there is room in the engineering of the smelter to install scrubbers. It was to remain an option as they said they would continually monitor their emissions once the rebuild was complete.

What’s next?

3. Mail delivery resumes to residents on Farrow St. (Northern Sentinel, November 27) An issue that had been ongoing since November 2012 — and earlier, in a sense — had regular door-to-door mail delivery suspended on Farrow Street.

The cause was a particular dog on the street which had acted aggressively towards mail carriers.

To protect their employees, Canada Post suspended mail delivery to the street until a resolution could be worked out.

A solution took a long time however, as mail didn’t return until November 18, 2013.

The District of Kitimat and the Humane So-

ciety had worked to provide assurances to Canada Post that the street would be safe again.

The town even beefed up its animal control bylaws to better be able to respond to dangerous dogs.

Finally the town, on Council’s approval, offered to install a temporary community mailbox if the dog became a problem again.

That’d mean mail could still get to the street, if not door-to-door, and regular service could resume at a later date once the dog was no longer on the street.

Canada Post ultimately rejected that proposal, but agreed to return mail delivery to the street.

Another moment from 2013, firefighters outside a burning home in Cablecar from August.

What’s next?

Canada Post hasn’t forgotten what started the issue in the first place. They told the District that if that particular dog caused them further problems and menaced their employees, they’d install a

permanent community mail box on the street.

That means the street would not get door-to-door service back. Canada Post spokesperson Eugene Knapik said that decision was made to elim-

inate any further possible service disruptions in the future. So if the dog caused more trouble, they’d just find a new way to get people their mail but without door-to-door service.

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Part 1: Sea Cadets & Birthday Cakes - Kitimat TRIVIA WINNER WILL BE DRAWN JANUARY 10, 2014 1) In January, the Kitimat LNG project underwent some changes in its corporate structure. Today, who are the two main proponents of the Kitimat LNG project?

A) Korea Gas, Nintendo B) Shell Canada, Mitsubishi C) Chevron, Apache D) Methanex, Rio Tinto Alcan 2) Since we’re on the subject, who is the major proponent behind another natural gas project in Kitimat, Canada LNG? A) Black Press B) Shell Canada C) Petronas D) Pacific Northern Gas 3) The Research Universities’ Council of BC released a report saying, based on government figures and other statistics, how many jobs would go unfilled in B.C. by 2020. How many jobs did they say?

A) 12 B) None, we’re floating to a golden age of employment C) 18,800 D) 500,000 4) PTI Group has proposed building a housing facility in the Strawberry Meadows subdivision to house workers for the area’s projects. Once fully built, how many people, approximately, will the facility support?

A) 1,000 B) 2,000 C) 10,000 D) The sky’s the limit 5) 2013 was a milestone year for the District of Kitimat. How many candles were on the town’s birthday cake this year?

A) 55 B) 75 C) 60 D) 80 6) With Kitimat’s wading pools getting older, the town has considered alternate plans for them. What might the District do with them instead?

A) Ice rinks for cats and dogs B) Sandboxes C) Spray parks

D) Emergency supplies caches in case of earthquake 7) It was a provincial election year with candidates vying for a seat in the provincial legislature. Who were the candidates?

A) Robin Austin, Carol Leclerc, Mike Brousseau, Trevor Hendry B) Nathan Cullen, Tom Mulcair, Adrian Dix C) Joanne Monaghan, Todd Stone, Coralee Oakes, Doug Donaldson D) Stephen Harper, Pamela Wallin, Mike Duffy, Patrick Brazeau 8) Which candidate won the election in the Skeena riding?

A) Nathan Cullen B) Robin Austin C) Joanne Monaghan D) Pamela Wallin 9) Thanks to a grant, the District of Kitimat installed two electric car charging stations. Where are they located?

A) Upper City Centre Mall, Nechako Centre B) Overwaitea parking lot, Kitimat General Hospital C) Envision Financial, Riverlodge D) Kitimat Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Centre, RTA Construction Village 10) It was an election year as well in Kitamaat Village. Following the election, who is the Haisla’s Chief Councillor?

A) Taylor Cross B) Ellis Ross C) Gerald Amos D) Dolores Pollard 11) The proponents behind the Kitimat LNG project have a plan for Clio Bay. What do they want to do with it?

A) Build a liquefied natural gas export terminal there B) Store marine spill response equipment in the bay C) Dump marine clay into it D) Dump surplus Miley Cyrus CDs into it 12) Mail delivery was an issue all year for a particular street in Kitimat, due to a specific dog. Which street had service interruptions?

A) Finch Street B) Fulmar Street C) Margetts Street D) Farrow Street 13) After the Sea Cadets returned from hiatus, it was eventually discovered there may be more interest in a different kind of Cadets unit. What have they tried instead now?

A) Air Cadets B) Army Cadets C) Space Cadets D) Mouseketeers 14) Turns out there’s a growing population of this out by Gil Island.

A) Chinook salmon B) Humpback whales C) Oolichan D) Alberta tourists 15) The Kitimat Economic Development Association hosted a forum in October for the public. It even brought out country singer Aaron Pritchett. What was the forum focus?

A) Housing B) Climate change C) Energy D) Jobs 16) The Rio Tinto Alcan smelter rebuild will mean a reduction of most of their emissions save for one. Which one is it?

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Low vacancy a top issue in 2013 Cameron Orr Even with our selection for individual news story highlights starting from page three, news trends, as we noted, is slightly different.

There’s no single story to point to on housing, but as far as community conversations and concerns go, living arrangements is certainly the biggest issue in our community today.

The year 2013 certainly saw the matter come to the forefront. It has been decades since Kitimat has faced such low vacancies, and the community seems unprepared to handle this sudden surge of residents.

And this is before any project — save for the Kitimat Modernization Project — has any greenlights.

For us at the Sentinel the idea that people could be homeless in Kitimat really came to the forefront through our February 27 edition.

“It’s actually a growing need and it’s almost a hidden need,” Don Read of the Kitimat Ministerial Association told us in that February issue.

Funds set aside to help people without homes which most if not all churches have were running out, he added.

The situation has seemingly gotten dire enough that Kitimat, as winter set in, established a cold weather emergency shelter.

It’s a stop gap measure being as there are no dedicated homeless shelters in Kitimat, and even Terrace’s is too full to accept many more people.

The cold weather shelter was formed with $15,000 in assistance from BC Housing, and is set up in the former council chambers, which is upstairs in the Public Safety Building (the fire hall).

A nearly non-existent vacancy rate has spiked market values for rentals, creating a wave of ‘renovictions’ and cost restrictive rents.

Of course a cold weather shelter is a reactionary bit of preparedness, but it doesn’t solve the long term issues.

There are future concerns, such as the one from the Kitimat housing resource worker Anne Moyls who told the Sentinel in a December 18 story that even as people in the current two buildings deal with evictions and find new homes, there are still other apartment blocks in Kitimat looking towards renovations in the near future.

Mayor Joanne Monaghan, who years ago helped formed the Kitimat Housing Commitee, said she has worked closely on the issue of evictions from the Kuldo Apartments — the latest affected by what is being dubbed “renovictions” in the community — and together with Moyls, said they believe to have found alternate homes for everyone who had been affected.

Meanwhile there are some housing projects on the horizon, including a townhouse complex at the site of the former Baxter Apartments, which burned down years ago.

And Don Read is heading a project to create a housing project for 12 duplexes, or 24 units.

He reported on that project to the November 27 Housing Committee.

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Submitted Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School has always supported the annual Hamper Appeal through donations of non-perishable food items and unwrapped toys.

This year, however, the grade nine team of teachers wanted the middle school to add a different element to this event.

Each class was provided with a shopping cart that was to be filled with their contributions.

It was expected that classes would come up with a theme and decorate their shopping cart accordingly. Ranging from “ugly Christmas” to a reindeer to a present, shopping carts were colourful and creative.

On December 9, students held a shopping cart parade around the school with classes watching in the hallway and singing Christmas carols.

By collection day 100s of items were donated for this worthy cause.

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C. Provide cars and trucks for people he considered needy.

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A. A system of scrapers and brushes along each cable to remove ice B. Aerial drones that spray the cables with de-icing solution C. A flock of seagulls trained to peck loose ice chunks D. Closing the bridge and waiting for ice to melt 10. What did Metro Vancouver mayors propose in 2013 as a new way to raise money for cashstrapped TransLink?

A. $5 toll at the border on all vehicles heading south to the USA B. Regional sales tax of up to 0.5 per cent C. Adding magnets to new SkyTrain fare gates to suck loose change out of pockets D. Forcing SeaBus passengers to row to help save on fuel costs E. Installing slot machines in SkyTrain stations A

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A. Asking who won the hockey game B. Broken TV set C. Big spider in living room D. Politician breaking election promise 13. B.C. pharmacies were ordered by their regulating body to stop doing what?

A: Offering wine tastings at the pharmacy counter B: Issuing reward points or other “kickbacks” to customers buying prescription drugs C: Refusing to sell prescribed medical marijuana D: Refusing to act as supervised injection sites 14. In 2013, the B.C. government approved: A: Enbridge’s Northern Gateway oil pipeline to Kitimat B: Twinning Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain oil pipeline to Burnaby C: A pipeline to carry fuel from tankers on the Fraser River to Vancouver airport D: A pipeline to transport glacial water from Garibaldi Park to Squamish for export 15. The poaching of what prompted Vancouver Island aboriginal groups to post a $25,000 reward?

A: Roosevelt elk B: Abalone C: Seals D: Easter eggs 16. Which B.C. municipal council fended off a court challenge (and death threats) over its deer cull program?

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A semi-truck clipped the overpass near Rio Tinto Alcan on Haisla Boulevard on December 20, spilling some material onto the roadways. Traffic controllers were alternating one-way traffic while crews dealt with the incident.

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Continued from page 6 Canada Post reports that it lost $109 million dollars (pretax) in the quarter ending September 28 and says those losses won’t go away unless it follows its plan.

It says the big problem is the evil Internet. “Steady growth in mail volumes quickly turned to dramatic declines as people shifted to digital alternatives to mail.

Canada was no different than the rest of the world,” it says.

So let’s take a look at the rest of the world, or at least one country.

Britain privatised the Royal Mail last year. So how is it doing?

Well, its half-year figures to September 29 this year showed

a profit of $233 pounds sterling - that’s just shy of $400 million.

Now I fully recognise that the Royal Mail doesn’t have to cover the vast area Canada Post does so its costs will be lower per address.

But it also has about double the addresses to deliver to so on that side its costs would be higher.

Bottom line is that there is a rather startling contrast between the financial performance of the two entities.

Obviously, being a wicked private company, the Royal Mail must be charging an arm and a leg for their services.

Not really. True the cost of first class stamps is $1.04, but you can get second class, threeday delivery - which I would happily accept - for 85 cents, the

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same as the price proposed by Canada Post for its regular mail (it does not offer a cheaper version as far as I can see).

Well then they must have gutted delivery service.

Nope. Their charter specifies that basic postal service must be delivery to “any address (not a community mail box) throughout the United Kingdom six times a week.”

And in case you might think they must be oppressing the workers, Royal Mail and the union just signed a contract that provides for an increase of 9.06 per cent over three years.

And employees have shares in the company so benefit from its financial performance.

Maybe we should ask Royal Mail Group to take over our postal system.

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Cameron Orr Murray Minchin speaking for the Douglas Channel Watch following the JRP’s ruling on the Northern Gateway project emphasizes the project is far from a done deal.

And he says the 209 conditions shouldn’t reassure anyone.

“It sounds impressive...but a lot of those conditions are, ‘well, if you’re going to change a valve station you have to give us 90 days,’ or different policy things.

So there aren’t that many conditions that actually have meat on them.”

One condition that did grab his attention though was one that stipulated conditions for Enbridge or its contractors to hire temporary foreign workers.

“So much for jobs for Canadians,” he said.

But the whole document provided some inconsistencies for him, including a portion in the report that claims affects to First Nations’ use of the land in the event of an oil spill would be temporary.

“How can they make the claim it’s just going to be a temporary thing and it will recover?” he asked.

“And they still haven’t done the studies yet.”

The DCW’s plans now will be them stepping back to allow First Nations groups to figure out their course of action, as First Nations have the best legal ground, said Minchin.

But they will continue to keep the issue alive and will continue to ask questions.

“People really appreciate the honest, straightforward questions we’ve been asking [Enbridge],” he said.

As for the District of Kitimat’s forthcoming survey in January, Minchin said he’ll be watching writing, math, communication, and information technology skills.

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“I actually have hope for council to come around and take a position against this because it’s hardly any bang for the bucks for risks.” to make sure it’s done properly, in terms of asking informed questions.

“My first concern is the survey itself because I believe the last poll that Enbridge and it’s supporters were trotting around were actually sponsored by the Chambers of Commerce for B.C. and I think they may have only asked their membership,” he said.

“On top of that they didn’t include anything on the marine aspect on marine spills or supertankers in the poll, so my concern is if they do a survey for the people of Kitimat they give crystal clear description of the probability of spills on land and also the dangers to supertankers in the Hecate Strait and that section from Kemano Sound to Whale Channel which is zig-zag turns...it’s a lot more dangerous than even the Douglas Channel is.”

But even with those concerns that it’s done properly, he hasn’t lost hope that the District of Kitimat Council may decide to take a position against the project in the future.

“I actually have hope for council to come around and take a position against this because it’s hardly any bang for the bucks for risks,” he said.

Meanwhile, DCW is hunkering down for the long haul.

“We are prepared for the long haul. We know this is going to be years and years down the road and we’re looking forward to it becoming a political issue during elections.”

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What kind of year will we have next?

A quick peek at the issues and challenges for 2014

Mayor Joanne Monaghan

Chief Councillor Ellis Ross

MLA Robin Austin

MP Nathan Cullen

There’s a lot on the horizon for Kitimat in the new year and Mayor Joanne Monaghan is hopeful the community will continue to grow into a good place to live and work.

To that end she hopes to see solutions to Kitimat’s housing shortage.

“We’re getting affordable housing, I hope as quickly as we want it before too many people get ‘renovicted.’”

She also says that all-types of housing are needed too, not just affordable.

In other areas, she’s optimistic there will be at least one final investment decision from an LNG company as there is a lot of development hinged on those announcements.

She’s also looking ahead to a possible 24/7 clinic opening in Kitimat and a trauma centre.

Meanwhile the council will still be putting efforts into developing the West Side Road, as well as looking for improvements to the Haisla Bridge.

The very relationship of the Government of Canada and First Nations could hang in the balance over the next six months.

When Ross spoke to us on the issue of the Joint Review Panel recommendations, he had mentioned how the Haisla have refused to speak to Enbridge about economic accommodation because the JRP process wasn’t the time, but that said he doesn’t expect either side to pick up the phone in the future either.

It’s the Crown, he explained, that has the duty to consult and accommodate and he’ll see what they do during the 180 period following the JRP report.

“We’re going to base our future relationship with Canada...on how they conduct themselves in the next six months and this has nothing to do with Enbridge, it’s got nothing to do with any private company. It’s been a long time coming where us as a First Nation start to be treated fairly and openly by the federal government.”

Our provincial representative looks forward to a full plate of issues that will have direct impacts on Kitimat, from economy to environment.

“This biggest issue coming for the community of Kitimat in 2014 will obviously be where we go with LNG,” he said, adding he’s expecting the provincial budget coming in February to set the taxation and royalty structures.

“We would assume if everything goes well and they can find some longterm sales contracts that we might see a decision being made from one of these proponents, either here or in Prince Rupert.”

Housing issues in Kitimat are huge and he said Kitimat does need more social housing and he said the province will have to step up to prevent Kitimat from having housing “chaos” like in Fort MacMurray.

It’s a busy time for our member of parliament Nathan Cullen, who is also the official opposition’s House Leader in Ottawa.

We tried to reach him to get his forward-looking thoughts but were not able to reach him by our early deadlines for this issue.

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