Royal City Record November 20 2013

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A much-anticipated environmental impact assessment about a proposed coal transfer facility at Fraser Surrey Docks concludes the project will not cause significant adverse environmental or health effects. In August, Fraser Surrey Docks hired SNC-Lavalin to conduct an environmental impact assessment of its proposed coal transfer project at the site located on the banks of the Fraser River. The assessment was to include a review of the risk mitigation strategies, and all of the analysis, reports and feedback that had been compiled in the past 15 months. According to a press release from Fraser Surrey Docks, it specifically asked SNCLavalin to assess the potential for the proposed facility to adversely impact the environment and human health. In addition to reviewing material that had been previously compiled, Fraser Surrey Docks said the environmental impact assessment contains new information about the effects of the project on human and ecological health, as well as additional measures that had been required by Port Metro Vancouver. “We take our obligation to the community very seriously, as we have for over 50 years, and we recognize the importance of thoroughly reviewing all aspects of the proposed project,” stated a Fraser Surrey Docks press release.” In this regard, we sought out industry experts in the fields of toxicology, health, dust exposure, particulate matter, environment and other areas, and had

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Hop to it: Jorden Foss, left, Peter Schulz and James Garbutt are opening a new brewery in New Westminster, Steel & Oak Brewing Co., next spring. They have a location on Third Avenue, near Stewardson Way.

Taking a leap on hops BY NIKI HOPE REPORTER

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The craft beer buzz is coming to New West. Jorden Foss and James Garbutt, both 30, are set to open a local addition to the microbrewery craze – Steel & Oak Brewing Co. – by next spring. “We’d always been craft beer enthusiasts,” Foss says, explaining what’s drawn the ambitious pair to the hip world of craft beer. They insist their brewery will distinguish itself from the masses by focusing on quality over the bottom line. Producing a good product will ensure survival in a saturated market, in their view. “All three of us are completely aware

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beers and four seasonals. Foss and Garbutt quenched their thirst for a brewery business during a 2012 trip to Tofino. “We went to Tofino Brewing Company, and they mentioned to us that they were running out of beer, and we looked at their operation, and thought, ‘Oh, this actually works. It could work,’” Foss says. Garbutt, a local Realtor, started crunching the numbers. “We had no past experiences with this, so it started really with reading books. I don’t read many books,” Garbutt says, laughing. “I doubled my life’s book total to four. You read these books, (they) give you a little info. We went to beer events.” ◗Hops Page 4

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of that,” Foss says, referring to himself and Garbutt, as well as brewmaster Peter Schulz. Schulz apprenticed in Germany at a world-leader in specialty malts and did his master’s degree in Berlin. He is trained in the German style, which is a bottom-fermenting beer. There are two types of yeast: One (German) is bottom fermenting, one (English) is top fermenting, Schulz says. The various styles produce different flavour: bottom fermenting is cleaner and crisper; top fermenting is more aromatic, a lot more fruit, he explains. “The most commonly sold beer in the world is lager, and that’s a German style,” says Schulz, who previously worked at Russell Brewing Company in Surrey. The plan is to produce two staple

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