Wednesday, May 27, 2015
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Volume 95 - No. 21
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BURNS LAKE
LAKES DISTRICT NEWS
Lake Babine Nation’s chief points out benefits of LNG $100 million over 40 year agreement is a long-term benefit for band FLAVIO NIENOW In the story ‘Babine Lake hereditary chiefs disapprove LNG agreements’ published in the Lakes District News’ May 20, 2015, some of the Babine Lake hereditary chiefs expressed their disapproval of the LNG agreements made by Lake Babine Nation’s chief and council. On May 1, 2015, Lake Babine Nation’s chief and four councillors voted to proceed with two liquefied natural gas (LNG) agreements. One of these agreements was with TransCanada, and the other was with the province regarding the proposed Prince Rupert Gas Transmission project. Some of the hereditary chiefs said they had not been consulted prior to a decision being made. Chief Wilf Adam told Lakes District News that negotiations regarding these LNG deals started late 2013. Since that time, Lake Babine Nation held community meetings in Burns Lake, Topley Landing, Tachet, Fort Babine, Smithers, Prince George and Vancouver. During all those meetings, Chief Adam said no members or hereditary chiefs expressed any disapproval. “At no time during this process people said ‘we should stop this’ or ‘we oppose this,’” said Chief Adam. “If fact, we’ve been getting a lot of ...see LNG AGREEMENT ▼ P3
Making a splash Nicole Hamp makes a big splash at the kids mountain bike camp recently as she biked through this big mud puddle on one of the trails. Thanks to Chris Paulson for this photo.
Millions of dollars in unclaimed benefits
LAKES DISTRICT NEWS STAFF REPORTER The Harper government is looking for hundreds of thousands of families not currently registered for the enhanced child care benefit An enormous amount of families with children are eligible to receive money under the Harper Government’s proposed enhanced Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB), but are at risk of not receiving the benefit unless they apply. The majority of families with children, approximately 3.8 million, are known and will automatically receive the enhanced UCCB or be contacted by the government to confirm their information. However, many eligible families are not currently captured by the Government’s UCCB system and
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may miss out on receiving money that is owed to them unless they apply. In British Columbia, an estimated 23,500 families with approximately 41,000 children are not registered. This represents potentially millions of dollars in unclaimed benefits in this year alone. Under the proposed enhancements to the UCCB, families would receive almost $2000 per year for each child under six and $720 per year for each child aged sixthrough 17. The new benefit amounts would be retroactive to Jan. 1, 2015 and be reflected in monthly payments to families in July 2015. The proposed enhancements to the UCCB are expected to more than double the number of families that benefit from 1.6 million to more than 4 million. ...see MONEY ▼ P5
Adult Education Centre .............Sept. 8, 2015 Administrative Assistant ...........Sept. 8, 2015 Industrial Mechanic/Machinist (Millwright) Foundation ............Feb. 15, 2016
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Great, except they’ve changed the Millwright start date to Feb. 15. Not your fault but if you could change that I’d appreciate it.