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Owners seek protections from forced evictions Cameron Orr Delegates from the Jed Stumps Manufactured Homeowners Association and the Vista Village Homeowners Association, with the support of the Kitimat Housing Resource Project, are pressing council to adopt new, stringent bylaws to protect the owners of mobile homes. The representatives, Ray Hepting, the chair of the Jed Stumps association, and a long-term resident of Vista Village speaking as proxy for Chair Mike Anthony, have been growing more concerned in recent months with rumours of potential redevelopment of the trailer parks. Such a change, said Hepting, would drastically alter their quality of life, given the affordable living they enjoy now. If they had to relocate in today’s market in Kitimat, it would simply cause trouble. Mike Anthony through his proxy also alluded to the troubles with evictions from landlords, saying the feeling at the trailer park is stressful and residents need more protections. Housing Resource Worker Paul Lagace presented a nine-pronged list of possible regulations which would protect the manufactured home owners. Among the recommendations is an extensive resident consultation process for pad renters prior to and during any rezoning application for the land. Also, Lagace proposes that any mobile home park owner must submit a “detailed Tenant Financial Assistance and Relocation Plan,” for all residents, and which addresses individual tenant needs. Such a plan could include payments for relocating trailers to another park, and paying for the expenses of such a move. Hepting points out that at the moment the only requirements from a park owner is to pay 12 months of pad rental to the resident. For people paying $300 a month, $3,600 doesn’t go very far in dealing with the fallout of being displaced. Councillors added the submission to their December 15 agenda and moved for the recommendations be forwarded to the District of Kitimat planning department for review. The planning department at the same meeting had compiled a Housing Action Work plan which set an outline of tasks for the planning department to work on and later present to council, to address housing needs in Kitimat. More on that plan on page 3

Naturally, Elsa and Olaf were on stage with the Mount Elizabeth Middle School Band during a musical production inspired by the Disney film Frozen. This particular photo was taken during a Tuesday rehearsal, while the main show went live Thursday night.

Apache finds buyer for Kitimat LNG stake Cameron Orr The Apache Corporation, which had been seeking an exit from Kitimat LNG as well as Wheatstone LNG in Australia, is getting their wish with a confirmed deal between them and Woodside Petroleum. Woodside has agreed to buy the projects for $2.75 billion. Woodside will also pick up the tab for spending on the projects between June 30, 2014 and the closing date, which was not specified. Apache does say it is expected in the first quarter of 2015, and is subject to government and regulatory approvals. The estimate for those costs is $1 billion. Apache’s share of the Kitimat LNG

project is 50 per cent. “Today’s announcement marks the successful completion of one of our primary strategic goals of exiting the Wheatstone and Kitimat LNG projects,” said Apache Chairman and CEO G. Steven Farris in a news release. “I am proud of Apache’s legacy in advancing the Wheatstone and Kitimat LNG projects, and I am confident that Woodside’s participation will have a positive impact in seeing these world-class LNG facilities through to first production.” The sale of the stake in the Kitimat LNG project, the company adds, is subject to “certain operator consents.” Apache indicated back in July they wanted to secure an exit from their stake

in the companies. Kitimat LNG has all of its required permits and licences but has been undergoing a lengthy front-end engineering and design study which would finalize a price tag and move the company towards making a final investment decision. Media reports over the summer indicated Apache was under pressure by investors to leave Kitimat LNG. Financial reports for the company in July showed Apache had spent $339 million on Kitimat LNG so far in the year, $183 million in the first quarter and $155 million in the second. Between Kitimat LNG and Wheatstone the company has spent $894 million up to that point in the year.

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Council endorses LNG Canada project Cameron Orr It wasn’t a unanimous decision but council is officially endorsing the Shell-led LNG Canada project in a letter submission to the environmental assessment office (EAO). The letter, to be signed by Mayor Phil Germuth, begins with “On behalf of Kitimat Council, I wish to extend our formal support for the proposed LNG Canada Export Terminal Project.” Perhaps ironically, Germuth would have been the only person who didn’t vote on the matter, as he was away sick for the December 15 meeting. The endorsement didn’t reach universal appeal. Councillor Larry Walker said he couldn’t see a benefit of writing a letter, given that the EAO is in a technical review process. Rob Goffinet agreed, said the EAO is not the place to be giving blanket support of projects. That isn’t to say he wouldn’t support the project, said Goffinet, but that this is not the place to do so. An amendment was proposed for the letter, which softened the approach and included wording that would have given council’s support provisional on successful completion of the EAO process. Mario Feldhoff was against the idea, saying it would be a given that the EAO process continues. Economic Development Officer Rose Klukas also noted for council’s benefit that through her role on the environmental assessment working group, the District does continually add technical feedback to the application as well. The motion to draft and send the letter approved, with Goffinet and Walker remaining opposed at a vote.

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RDKS At the new Kitimat Council’s first real meeting the council, as is required, voted for its representative on the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine. By acclamation, Phil Germuth returns to the role. Mary Murphy was also acclaimed as the alternate representative to the regional board.

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A financial review of B.C. Lottery Corp. put a sunny face on an organization that continues to waste money and have significant gaps in control of illegal activities, NDP gambling critic David Eby says. Among the findings of the review were that BCLC costs have been rising faster than revenues from casinos and lotteries, four departing executives received 18 months severance pay regardless of their length of service, and a test of retailers found that 40 per cent of them sold lottery tickets to minors. Finance Minister Mike de Jong released the report last Wednesday in Kamloops, with BCLC board chair Bud Smith describing an overhaul of the corporation’s human resources department after a staff buyout program that was designed to save $6.6 million, but ended up costing $25 million.

Nechako Elementary held their annual Christmas concert on December 18, with the children earnestly singing holiday songs to an audience of proud parents.

Town outlines housing action plan An action plan leading in to 2016 regarding Kitimat’s housing has been outlined. The District of Kitimat planning department took the recommendations from October’s Kitimat Housing Action Plan and has crafted possible actions in sections where the District has responsibilities. For the most part council supported the outlines, in a motion that directs staff to re-

turn with recommendations regarding the housing plan in the future. Already ongoing from the District of Kitimat, from prior to the report’s publishing, is support for an extreme weather shelter, access to rent supplements and overall monitoring of Kitimat’s housing. The District supports access to rent supplements by offering information on BC Housing assis-

tance programs on the District’s website and newsletter. Council did divide the question to further discuss two specific items, one relating to living out allowances (LOA) and another regarding standards of maintenance for multifamily buildings, such as apartment buildings. On the matter of LOAs, Larry Walker was concerned that the District doesn’t have authority over whether LOAs are offered.

LOAs are better left to free enterprise, he said. Later, councillors debated maintenance standards for multifamily rental buildings. Mario Feldhoff was concerned with that proposal which he feared could create more problems than it solves. The proposed plan could see minimum standards for water, health, light and ventilation for such buildings.

B.C. oil refinery backers move ahead Tom Fletcher Backers of a third large oil refinery proposal for B.C.’s North Coast made some highprofile appointments last week, naming former Assembly of First Nations national chiefs Shawn Atleo and Ovide Mercredi as advisors to their team. Pacific Future Energy, proposing what it calls the world’s greenest refinery near Prince Rupert, announced the appointments at a Vancouver Board of Trade event hosted by Stockwell Day, the former Conservative trade minister who has been the group’s public face since August. Pacific Future’s proposal is similar to Kitimat Clean, a refinery bid launched in 2012 by David Black, chairman of Black Press. Both would be constructed from modules manufactured offshore to produce diesel, gasoline and other fuels for sale, avoiding the transport of heavy oil by tankers to reach export markets. The third proposal is called Eagle Spirit Energy, headed

by aboriginal author and lawyer Calvin Helin with financial backing from the Aquilini Group, the Vancouver family business that owns the Vancouver Canucks and extensive real estate and farm holdings. Eagle Spirit is proposing a pipeline from the Alberta oil sands to an upgrader that would produce synthetic crude oil for export by tankers, likely from the Prince Rupert area. Black recently announced that engineering firm Hatch Ltd. has completed a design and feasibility study for a refinery at an estimated cost of $22 billion, making it one of the 10 biggest in the world. He said in an interview that he sees obvious similarities with the Pacific Future proposal, which describes new technology and carbon capture to reduce its environmental impact. Kitimat Clean proposes a new refining process that avoids production of petroleum coke, a coal-like byproduct of conventional heavy oil refining that is used in steel making.

Black added that the entry of Pacific Future, headed by an executive of Mexican conglomerate Grupo Salinas, shows the business case for a B.C. refinery is sound and there is capacity for more than one plant. All proposals for B.C. North Coast refining require oil transport to the coast, either by rail or in some version of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project, which received a federal environmental certificate this year and awaits approval by the federal cabinet. The proposals also face opposition to transport of heavy oil. Pacific Future has appointed Atleo as a senior advisor for partnerships, months after Premier Christy Clark appointed him as an advisor for dialogue between First Nations, government and industry. Black said his next steps include negotiating “acceptable compensation” for his project with the Kitselas and Haisla First Nations for use of their traditional territory.

Claire Rattée indicated hope that the town could push forward on standards only after existing renters in Kitimat can find places to live, if they live in a place which would be impacted by such rules. Director of Community Planning and Development Gwen Sewell said the plan would not come to council for discussion and specific direction until the first quarter of 2015, by which time the department is anticipating that community vacancy rates

will have risen enough to give some breathing room to the community, given that the Kitimat Modernization Project will be nearly concluded. In the long term, that is through to 2016, District staff will also be looking at the potential for vacant land to be developed in to additional housing. The housing report, according to the District’s report to council, calls for 740 new housing units needed under some growth scenarios for the town.

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If you’re looking forward to new housing in Kitimat with the Haisla Town Centre developments you might be out of luck. Haisla Town Centre is the development where Kitimat General Hospital used to be. Now owned by the Haisla, it’s being developed with Kerkhoff Construction to build three apartment buildings, with longer term plans to build an office space, restaurant, and a hotel. Except you may have noticed a few weeks back in a report on the development in the Sentinel, or if you were listening to a question from Larry Walker at last week’s council meeting, that the first apartment building being proposed is not a market-unit building. Is it a rental apartment building or an ownerbased apartment building? None of the above. Kerkhoff has been silent on who they are marketing the units to but one can only presume it’s to house temporary residents attached to Kitimat’s project proposals. Taking a gander through the District’s proposed bylaws and OCP amendments to allow the project to go forward, I saw no reference to things like density bonuses. Density bonuses are the price temporary worker housing have to pay to build in Kitimat. Civeo (formerly PTI), for instance, has to pay a dollar amount per bed in their facility which goes in to an affordable housing fund. There is another perspective to this though. Namely the apartment building will be permanent — and nice looking, I admit, based on the early renderings, even if they don’t mesh with Kitimat’s existing melting pot of architecture. With a permanent building we’ll, I’m sure, see it transformed in the future to actual market housing. But given its current status, people who thought the buildings might help alleviate Kitimat’s tough housing market, well it’s not really going to in the short term. I’m not necessarily saying these units need density bonuses, given that it’s not exactly the same construction as something like Civeo, but it seems a little mis-directed to be calling the zoning for them ‘residential’. As for potential solutions to ease this matter, council could always look to the example of the Crossroads. They anticipate building a 1,000 or so bed camp facility, but they’ve been obligated to build a permanent hotel as well — part of the company’s plans anyway— if they want to be allowed to build the camp. I don’t see anything wrong with exploring building the Town Centre’s commercial together too.

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Climate talks end 2014 in disarray In case you missed the outcome of the latest United Nations climate change conference in Lima, Peru, it was another costly, embarrassing failure. This one is likely to be remembered mostly for a staggeringly stupid stunt by Greenpeace employees, who were threatened with prosecution for defacing the Nazca Lines, a world heritage site in the Peruvian desert. These vast 1,500-year-old petroglyphs, visible from space, are among the great mysteries of archaeology. “Time for a change!” blared huge yellow letters dragged across the sacred site by paid protesters trampling the delicate terrain. I’ll say it’s time for a change, starting with scratching Greenpeace off your Christmas card list. Earlier there was the spectacle of Canada’s national media, reflexively denouncing Ottawa’s supposed inaction on greenhouse gases after U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled a surprise climate agreement with China in advance of Peru. “Over to you, Mr. Prime Minister,” chirped CBC anchor Wendy Mesley, joining other TV networks in falsely

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portraying the U.S. deal as a breakthrough. This non-binding gesture soon produced many cartoons, one of which shows Obama stripped to his underwear in a poker game with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is surrounded by a pile of chips and an American flag. The U.S.-China announcement served as a preview of Peru, where developing countries would again refuse any substantive restrictions on their fuel use. China graciously agreed to continue ramping up its world-leading greenhouse gas emissions until 2030, while lame-duck Obama pretended he could commit the U.S. to further reductions. Between them, the U.S. and China account for about half of global human-caused carbon emissions. Due mostly to the surge from China and

India, Canada’s share has fallen from two per cent to 1.5, which should help put all those “tar sands” protests into perspective. Days later, Environment Canada released its latest national emission statistics, an event ignored by most media. “Between 2005 and 2012, total Canadian GHG emissions decreased by 5.1 per cent, while the economy grew by 10.6 per cent over the same period,” the report states. B.C. Environment Minister Mary Polak joined the throngs who jetted to Lima. There she met officials from California and other U.S. states to re-announce their modest efforts to put a price on carbon emissions. TV anchors and other wide-eyed innocents might have been left with the mistaken impression that the huge U.S. petroleum industry is cutting back, when in fact it has grown enormously. And California continues to produce, by its own state government measure, the most carbon-intensive heavy crude in North America. Continued on page 7

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Year end with Clark Tom Fletcher A year-end interview with Premier Christy Clark. An extended version at opinion section of www. northernsentinel.com. Tom Fletcher: Are you still confident that we’re going to see a major LNG project approved by the end of 2014? Premier Christy Clark: We’re still in negotiations with Petronas and Shell, so I don’t know if it will be by the end of 2014, but I’m hoping in the next few months. [Days after this interview, Petronas announced a delay in their investment decision until 2015.] TF: I talked to a couple of SFU climate mitigation specialists, and they agreed that it’s unlikely to the point of impossible to have a major LNG industry and still meet Gordon Campbell’s ambitious greenhouse gas target of a 33 per cent reduction by 2020. What do you think? PCC: I think that

we may prove them wrong. Many of these facilities, not all of them, will be partly or fully electrically powered up, so that reduces those impacts, and there’s going to be a real incentive to invest in new technology to minimize that as well. I think the bigger picture is what really matters, which is that in shipping 82 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas to Asia, we help them get off coal and other dirtier sources of oil, and that is the biggest contribution that we’ve ever made to reducing climate change. TF: Ontario and Quebec have taken a page from your book. They have seven conditions for an oil pipeline, Energy East, which involves conversion of gas pipelines and taking Alberta oil to the East Coast. What do you think? PCC: I think they took our five conditions and elaborated on them. So you’ve got British Columbia, Al-

berta, now Ontario and Quebec, all signed on to some version of the five conditions. And of course Enbridge and Kinder Morgan as well. TF: What about the conditions they have added? PCC: One of the things they say they want to protect against is a shortage of natural gas coming to Ontario and Quebec. These are the same two provinces that have put a moratorium on extracting natural gas. They want to make sure that we do it here, good enough for us to do, and send it to them, but they won’t do that themselves. I look at their last two conditions, and I roll my eyes a little bit. TF: All the way to New Brunswick, they’ve basically bought the anti-hydraulic fracturing myth? PCC: Yes. Somehow they all watched an American mockumentary or whatever you call it, and believed it. Here in British Columbia we do fracking better than anywhere in

History to RTA appeal Cameron Orr using content, with permission, from submitted piece Two Kitimatians will have to wait until the spring to say their peace in an appeal of an environmental permit for Rio Tinto Alcan. An appeal process had been scheduled to start early January but the Environmental Appeals Board has postponed the hearings until undetermined times in the spring. The hearings are still to take place in Kitimat and in Victoria. With RTA’s smelter rebuild, they’ve been granted a permit that allows them to increase their SO2 emissions. From 27 tonnes per day, they will rise to a maximum of 42 tonnes a day, which reflects a larger output of aluminum. The smelter’s remaining emissions are seeing a dramatic decrease, most notably with their Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons which are going from 212 tonnes a year to three tonnes a year, a 98 per cent drop. Greenhouse gas emissions are also dropping 36 per cent. Four people and two conservation groups sought to appeal the permit on concerns regarding the increase in SO2, which can lead to

things such as acid rain. Those would-be appelants were from Kitimat and Terrace. The courts decided that only the two from Kitimat could have standing and Lis Stannus and Emily Toews were on their own on this outing. Toews grew up in Kitimat and returned here after university and a few years teaching in Williams Lake. Her own health matters has inspired her to seek out lower emissions in Kitimat. Emily is currently on maternity leave from her teaching job at Kildala Elementary School. She is a dancer, and considers a healthy environment an essential aspect of any community. Now that she is a new mother, it has become even more important. Stannus came here 17 years ago with her husband and young son. Like many, they came for only a few years and have since settled here for good. She enjoys the outdoors and her large garden. Stannus said she’s noticed that small neighbourhood changes in Kitimat seems to get more scrutiny than the permit process from RTA. Stannus, like Toews, is a school teacher in Kitimat.

the world. It is the gold standard. TF: Finance Minister Mike de Jong says we have a surplus estimated at more than $400 million for this fiscal year, and he suggested that much of that would have to go to pay off deficits from previous years. Of course the opposition is interested in welfare rates and in particular ending child support clawbacks. What’s your view? PCC: Like any family that’s been through tough times, the first thing you need to do when you get back to finding a job and making an income again, is to pay off your credit cards. And that’s what we’re going to do. We are going to see if we can find ways to improve some of the programs over time, but can’t do that until we can afford it. It’s typical, the NDP want us to spend the money before we have it. An interview with opposition leader John Horgan will run in next week’s issue.

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Red Chris mine gets delayed Josh Massey The opening of the Imperial Metals Red Chris copper and gold mine has been delayed until the new year as the company continues to seek a final provincial environmental permit and negotiates with the Tahltan Central Council over recommendations contained in a review of the facility’s tailings pond. Speaking in Terrace Dec. 12, Tahltan Central Council president Chad Day said the next few months will be critical for agreements with Imperial which had originally anticipated starting up its $643 million mine on Tahltan traditional territory by the end of this year.

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Donations room offers up household items for those in need Cameron Orr A donations room has been opened to those in need in the community by the Tamitik Status of Women. A collection of donations had always been available to people at Kitimat’s transition house, however it could only be opened for a

few hours on Fridays. Dunmore Place House Coordinator Dorothy Miller says funding from the B.C. Gaming Commission means they could move it closer to the TSW offices — on the third floor of the Donaldson Building (where the RBC and BMO banks are) — and it can be open longer.

The room is open on Wednesdays, Thursday and Fridays from noon to 3 p.m. Miller said the room has been well used and includes clothing items and housewares for people to take if they need. It’s a publicly available place, and is all free.

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30+ years of a political pillar Cameron Orr Joanne Monaghan remembers landing at night at an airport in Rankin Inlet, the northwest corner of Hudson Bay, which is to say, far away from everything. She was there for business with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, where she served as president for two years. On the flight was a couple with a baby. She asked the couple where they were going and they pointed off in the distance. Their home was still another 70 miles away. When they landed, the whole family got on a snowmobile and took off in to the night. Monaghan was amazed, and remembers that moment as a lesson in always trying to see life through other people’s eyes. Every one lives a unique circumstance, such as night-time snowmobiling being a commute for a young family Today Monaghan, for the first time in three decades, has time. After the November local election campaign, she steps away from local government with a legacy of accomplishments. Her entry in to local government wasn’t necessarily easy, though. She first got the taste for political life via her then-husband Paul Monaghan, who was Kitimat’s mayor in the 1970s. (She says her parents were very political as well when she was growing up.) She never missed a Kitimat council meeting — where she was always guaranteed to be in the gallery, hooking pillows and other crafts — and as the 1980 election neared, she realized it was her time to run. There was a problem though: she wasn’t yet a Canadian citizen.

Joanne Monaghan and husband Simon Cammish. The November 6, 1980 Northern Sentinel describes her ordeal, saying Monaghan had to fly to Vancouver to obtain her citizenship papers which were delayed, forcing her to appeal to a judge to get herself on the ballot. She won her appeal, and subsequently won her seat on the council. Perhaps in comparison to the career to come those initial challenges were easy, as she stepped in to what she calls an old-boys club. In terms of productivity she was a hard person to match, with extensive efforts in promoting Kitimat and local government rights. In fact one of the top achievements she recalls from being on council was work she did with the Union of B.C. Municipalities, getting municipalities considered a third tier of government, which meant better support and funding for local governments. She said it’s an arrangement that’s benefited all governments, not just Kitimat, ever since. She doesn’t hide the fact that gender was a challenge — albeit not an insurmount-

able one — at points in her political life. Even today she thinks there’s still work to do on that front, but she credits a long line of very supportive people who helped evenout any speed bumps. She even trail blazed some firsts; first female president of the Yellowhead Highway Association, for instance. She was later the first female president for what is now the North Central Local Government Association. In the mid-90s she was president of the Union of B.C. Municipalities as well, although she can’t claim to be their first female president. Monaghan also took a shot at running for MLA for the Social Credit party in the 80s. Her time as a councillor was certainly fruitful, yet when Mayor Richard Wozney decided to leave his mayor’s seat in 2008, Monaghan decided it was time to set her sights on that. Another milestone; Kitimat’s first woman mayor. As her 34 years on council came to a close, she still prides over the work she was able to

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Kitimat Atoms were in their element Submitted On November 29 and 30 the Kitimat Atoms White house team went to Smithers for a house tournament and were successful, coming in first place with a 4 and 0 record beating Smithers Drillers in the final 8-1 and capturing the gold medal. In game one Kitimat beat Prince Rupert 5-1, goal scorers were: Hayden Calkins with two, Chad Silva with two and Chase Pacheco with one. MVP for the game was Hayden Calkins. Game two was against Smithers ProTech with Kitimat winning 14-2, goal scorers were: Chase Pacheco with four, Chad Silva with four,

Oliver Plamondon with three and singles to Madi Leduc, Caleb Slanina and Ayden Baldo. MVP for the game was Chase Pacheco. Game three was against Houston with Kitimat winning again 10-1, goal scorers were: Chase Pacheco with four , Cory Mertin with two, singles to Mathias Luis, Olivier Plamondon, Caleb Slanina, and Ayden Baldo. MVP for the game was Olivier Plamondon. Game four, with a 3 and 0 record, Kitimat went to the finals and played the Smithers Drillers, Kitimat would end up winning the gold medal with an

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