THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2015
Volume 41, Issue 48
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$20 million to reduce wait for MRI in B.C. ..... page 3
Schools join with Simpcw in promoting Addictions Awareness Submitted photo: BSS
911 Emergency Services Golf Tournament coordinators; Dana Napier, Al Kirkwood, Darin Underhill and Deb Young.
911 Emergency Services Golf Tournament gives back ..... page 9
Barriere Secondary staff and students came together with grade 6 and 7 teachers and students from Barriere Elementary along with members of the Simpcw First Nation on Nov. 18 in support of ‘Addictions Awareness Week’. The group were led on a walk through the community by local RCMP, and on completion of the walk participants enjoyed hotdogs and hot chocolate served up by Simpcw representatives.
Black touts ‘safer’ oil-by-rail plan for Northern B.C. refinery ‘Dead’ pipeline prompts plan B to move bitumen
BSS girls going to Provincials ..... page 12
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By Jeff Nagel Black Press
B.C. oil refinery proponent David Black says his $22-billion proposal won’t die with the apparently thwarted Northern Gateway pipeline – he aims to bring oil sands bitumen across northern B.C. by train instead. The Victoria businessman, who is majority owner of Black Press and this newspaper, spoke Nov. 18 at a Ro-
tary Club meeting in South Surrey. Black’s Kitimat Clean proposal calls for a refinery between Terrace and Kitimat that would process bitumen into gasoline, diesel and other refined fuels for Asian markets. He said the federal Liberal government’s move to formally ban crude oil tankers from B.C.’s north coast means the Northern Gateway pipeline plan is “pretty much dead” but that shouldn’t block tanker exports of refined fuel,
which would be less damaging than a spill of crude or bitumen at sea. Black said his plan to carry oil by rail will be far safer than the crude oil trains that have been vulnerable to fiery disasters elsewhere. He said he’s in talks with CN Rail to load rail cars with undiluted bitumen, which would be much thicker – virtually solid – compared to the diluted bitumen that moves through pipelines or the light oil that’s often
carried by train. The bitumen would be heated at the beginning and end of each rail trip to make it flow for loading and unloading from tanker cars. Black argues it would be unlikely to leak or burn if a train derailed. “It’s safer and way easier,” he said, estimating six trains a day would run every four hours. Black continues to pursue envi...continued on page 6
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An annual fundraiser for the North Thompson Agriplex & The Farm Kids Scholarship Fund December 31, 2015 at the North Thompson Agriplex, Barriere, B.C. Bullarama & New Year’s Party (19+): $50 • Bullarama only: $30 • 12 & under (Bullarama only): Free Doors open at 6pm • Bullarama 7pm •New Year’s Eve Dance to follow Tickets available at: The Star/Journal, Barriere Country Feeds, or the Horse Barn (Kamloops) online tickets will be available soon at: www.fallfair-rodeo.com