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49th Year No. 19
May 8, 2014
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Kuterra fish farm nets BC Hydro Power Smart cheque. Page 4
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Icebreaker debuts 2014 slo-pitch tourney season in skins format. Page 10
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Port Hardy chamber hands out annual business awards. Page 11 Opinion Page 6 Sports Page 10 Classifieds Page 12-14
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Kokish project powers up
Gazette staff BEAVER COVE—The North Island’s status as a producer of renewable energy got a boost this week when the Kokish River Hydroelectric Project began producing power for B.C.’s electrical grid. The project has under-
gone thorough initial testing, and has met all requirements necessary to commence commercial operation under its Energy Purchase Agreement with BC Hydro, the project partners announced Monday. It becomes the second major North Island power
project to go on line within the last year, following completion and connection of Phase I of the Cape Scott Wind Farm. The $200 million Kokish River project, a run-of-river independent power project (IPP), is owned and managed by Kwagis Power,
a limited partnership of Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners and the ‘Namgis First Nation. It is located on northeastern Vancouver Island near Telegraph Cove, within ‘Namgis core territory. With an installed capacity of 45 megawatts, the proj-
See page 3 ‘Fish habitat’
Johnny “too drunk” for murder Paul Rudan Campbell River Mirror CAMPBELL RIVER—A Port Hardy teenager was too drunk to form the intent for murder according to a B.C. Supreme Court judge who found him guilty of a lesser charge on Monday in Campbell River. “I find you guilty of manslaughter,” said Justice Miriam Maisonville. Dakota Johnny was 19 years old when he bludgeoned Cindy Scow with a wooden dowling inside a dark and abandoned house on the Tsulquate First Nation Reserve on Sept. 9, 2012. The 28-year-old mother of seven young children was found by friends and relatives dying on the floor of a bedroom inside house #155. She was wearing nothing but a T-shirt and was covered in blood. After hearing the case earlier this year, Justice Maisonville took just over a month to hand down her verdict. She rejected defence arguments that Johnny acted in self-defence or may have been provoked after
See page 3 ‘Sentence is pending’
Firefighters and paramedics work to extricate two victims from the wreckage of a pickup that struck a parked dump truck on Highway 19 in Port Hardy Monday Port Hardy Fire Rescue
Three injured in crash Gazette staff PORT HARDY—Three people were hospitalized and Highway 19 was closed for four hours Monday afternoon following a collision just north of the Holberg Road junction. A Dodge pickup traveling south on Hwy. 19 with a driver and passenger struck a District of Port
Hardy dump truck that was parked on the shoulder of the road. The impact pushed the dump truck into the ditch and left the pickup a mangled wreck lying on its side. Port Hardy RCMP, Port Hardy Fire Rescue and BC Ambulance personnel attended the accident.
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ect will generate enough clean renewable energy annually to power close to 13,000 homes. “Brookfield is delighted to announce the completion of the Kokish River
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The driver and passenger had to be cut from the wreck in a procedure that took nearly an hour and a half, fire chief Schell Nickerson said. “It was a very challenging call,” he added. The driver of the District truck was also treated for non-life threatening injuries.
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