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Chiefs name new head coach, GM New hire finished second at Royal Bank Cup in 2012 Eric Welsh The Progress
The Chilliwack Chiefs have found the man who will replace Harvey Smyl as the head coach and general manager. His name is Jason Tatarnic. Those who follow the national junior A scene closely may recognize that name. For eight years Tatarnic was the hockey boss with the Woodstock Slammers of the Maritime Junior Hockey League. During his tenure, the team won three Kent Cups as league champion. Tatarnic led the Slammers to the Royal Bank Cup during the 2011-12 season, finishing as runner-up to the juggernaut Penticton Vees. He took last year off after the Slammers ownership changed hands. “He has a vast network of contacts within junior hockey, and the university and collegiate system throughout the United States and Canada,” said team president Glen Ringdal. “Virtually every level of hockey in North America, really. He’s well equipped for the teaching function, and he has a high reputation for community involvement, which is vital.” Ringdal started with 40 candidates to sift through, quickly whittling the list down to 12. “We were looking for people with relevant coaching experience, and some proven record as a coach,” Ringdal noted. “We were also looking for some evidence that the candidate was a teacher capable of not only developing hockey players but also young men. After we got the list down to 12 the entire ownership group got involved and honed it down to the final three.” The last candidates standing were interviewed Thursday morning — Tatarnic in person and the other two via Skype. When Ringdal sat down one final time with the ownership group, he was confident he’d found the right guy. “I asked them all what their team would look like, what words they’d use to describe Continued: CHIEFS/ p10
From top, a female common merganser, a male mallard, and a female mallard glide through the Cheam Wetlands on Thursday afternoon. The park is one of the key regions both the City of Chilliwack and the FVRD want protected from any future expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline through the region. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
Critics say NEB muzzling most oil pipeline speakers Jeff Nagel Black Press
The National Energy Board will let more than three quarters of the 2,100 individuals and organizations that applied participate to some degree in upcoming hearings into the proposed twinning of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain oil pipeline. But critics say most participants will be limited to a written statement and denied the chance to speak directly to the board when oral hearings begin in early 2015. Several municipalities are among the 400 applicants granted intervenor status, including the
Fraser Valley Regional District. The City of Chilliwack chose not to apply. It opted instead for commenter status from the outset, saying it did not what to duplicate the work or costs undertaken by the FVRD. Chilliwack joins about 1,250 applicants approved by the NEB for commenter status, which limits them to a written statement. Another 450 were excluded altogether. The Conservative federal government altered the NEB hearing process after the lengthy Northern Gateway pipeline hearings, eliminating the option for commenters to speak and requiring applicants demonstrate they’re
directly impacted by the project or hold relevant expertise. “It’s a sad day for democracy in Canada, when nearly a thousand people who stepped up to take part in a complex regulatory process to have their say about a project of national significance are shut out of the hearings,” said Christianne Wilhelmson of the Georgia Strait Alliance, which was granted intervenor status. The $5.4-billion project would twin the 60-year-old oil pipeline that runs from northern Alberta to Burnaby, nearly tripling capacity to 890,000 barrels per day, and resulting in a five-fold jump in the number of oil tankers passing through Vancouver harbour. The
second 1,150-kilometre line would carry mainly diluted bitumen for export to Asia. The municipalities of Victoria, Vancouver, West Vancouver, North Vancouver, Burnaby, Port Moody, Belcarra, Coquitlam, New Westminster, Richmond, Surrey, White Rock, Langley Township, Abbotsford and Hope were all approved as intervenors, along with the Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley regional districts. Other intervenors include the federal NDP, Green Party MLA Andrew Weaver, numerous First Nations and environmental groups, oil companies, Enbridge’s Northern Gateway project, Continued: FVRD/ p5
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