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City of Opportunity Wednesday, April 27, 20113

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MAYOR DAN ROGERS

On behalf of my colleagues on Council, it is my pleasure towelcome you and tell you a bit about our City, the dynamicpeople who live here, and our deep connection to the envi-ronment that surrounds us. We are proud of our fantasticvolunteer spirit and we’ve been ranked as one of the bestplaces in the Pacific Northwest to do business. As aUniversity city, Prince George is a community that is knownfor opening its doors and showcasing our best to any whovisit our city, whether they are from across the region or fromacross the globe. Prince George also features a beautifullandscape that is home to some of the most creative andenergetic people in the world and as the largest city innorthern British Columbia, we are the educational, adminis-trative, and business centre for this vast, resource rich region.

Acknowledged as B.C.’s Northern Capital, Prince George is avibrant, active, and diverse community with a thriving econo-my that supports a great quality of life for those that livehere. We enjoy world class facilities that allow families topursue whatever they may be interested in whether it’s com-petitive athletic endeavors, visual and performing arts, ormulticultural and historical awareness. Our parks and trailsallow for active family living and our size has allowed us toconceive and build major urban amenities that include amodern international airport and world-class health care andeducational facilities.

As the official host City for the 2015 Canada Winter Games,we are ecstatic to not only be welcoming the nation toPrince George and the region in 2015, but to have the oppor-tunity to promote and showcase our talented people andour beautiful city leading up to this national event.

DAN ROGERS

MAYOR, CITY OF PRINCE GEORGE

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Initiatives Prince George, the City of PrinceGeorge’s economic development authority,has an overarching goal to build PrinceGeorge, in synergy with its vast service baseover the northern two-thirds of British

Columbia, as a sustainable, knowledge-based,resource economy connected to the world.

Our city and region have been greatly enhanced by twodecades of growth and diversification, making Prince Georgea preferred place to invest, work, live and play.

Prince George is the most cost-competitive location of 13surveyed in the Pacific Northwest US/Canada category on 26location-sensitive cost factors examined in KPMG’s 2010Competitive Alternatives Study.

As a smaller urban centre of 80,000, Prince George alsooffers many partnership opportunities and collaborativeworking relationships in health care and post-secondary insti-tutions, resource, and supply and service industries. Quietly,

yet deliberately, Prince George has set itself up for success.A recent BC Northern Real Estate Board study shows that

while home ownership in BC’s Lower Mainland consumes onaverage 69 per cent of pre-tax income, the figure is a mere30.4 per cent for Prince George. The average residentialhouse price in Prince George for 2010 was $240,667. And as acity with full urban amenities, a terrific work/life balance, andgreat community spirit, it is an outstanding place to raise afamily. The city is poised for further growth; in 2007, the pop-ulation grew by 0.6 per cent and by 2010 growth hadreached a pace of 1.2 per cent, for an annual average of 0.9per cent over the past four years. In March 2011, PrinceGeorge is near full employment with an unemployment rateof 5.7 per cent.

Prince George is a knowledge-based economy. PrinceGeorge can rightfully claim to be a University and Collegetown, with over 10 per cent of its population enrolled in post-secondary institutions. Prince George is also attracting atten-tion as a preferred place for knowledge based industries.Recent announcements by Fortis BC and TELUS Corp. toexpand their presence in Prince George are driven by a num-ber of factors including: cost of living factors, low businesslocation costs, high-quality post-secondary graduates, high-quality fibre optics, higher employee engagement, and lowerstaff turnover.

Prince George is a resource-based economy. The forestindustry is flourishing with market diversification into theAsia Pacific, led by China. Dimension lumber and pulp millsare reopening, and new value streams in forest-based bioen-ergy are creating new jobs and further diversification. Miningis experiencing a true renaissance, and Prince George, as thelargest city in the north, is a service hub. Gas industry expan-sion and the Site C Clean Energy project in the Northeast ,and the building of the Northwest Transmission Line alongHighway 37 will provide billions of dollars worth of additionaleconomic activity for Prince George businesses. PrinceGeorge is also investment-ready with an abundance of low-priced light industrial and heavy industrial land that is marketready for investors.

Prince George is connected to the world. Prince GeorgeInternational Airport boasts the third longest commercialrunway in Canada, ideally situated on a circumpolar routebetween China and the US heartland markets for air cargoactivity. Prince George is at the intersection of Highways 16(east-west) and Highway 97 (north-south), and boasts CN Railservice in four directions tied to the Port of Prince Rupert andPort Metro Vancouver.

Prince George is an ideal, family-friendly city to invest, work,live and play in – a place where opportunities are boundlessand you can truly have “life in perfect balance”.


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Northland Dodge sold the most heavy duty trucks among Chrysler dealers in Canada in 2010.

Going up against dealerships with as many as 60 salespeople, Northland’s staff of 18 sales reps and managers sold 368 units, eclipsing second-place Derrick Dodge of Edmonton by about 30 sales, Northland owner Brent Marshall said Saturday.

Northland has been a perennial top- volume dealership among Chrysler’s outlets in B.C. but it’s the first time they’ve won a national category. It became a goal when Chrysler told Marshall about half-way through the year Northland was in the running against Derrick but also had a lot of catching up to do.

“They told us you’d have to not only sell as many as those guys, you’d have to gain 10 or 20 a month on them,” Marshall said. “So we just put a focus on

it and every day we got the results.” Marshall said they didn’t let things

like the distance from the Alberta oil patch and a struggling local economy get in their way, nor did they let shorter working hours impede their progress.

Between not being open on Sundays and closing three hours sooner each day it is open, Northland operates on about 140 days less per year than many other dealerships by Marshall’s calculation.

“It’s the mentality of, when we’re here, let’s be productive and when the doors close, go home to your families, take all the holidays,” Marshall said.

And rather than paying commissions based on the sale price, reps are paid on the number of units sold. It means less time dickering and more time closing deals.

Northland even goes so far as to sell vehicles at a loss to meet Chrysler’s sales quotas and earn significant

bonuses from head office, according to Marshall.

Marshall credited the success in part to such word-of-mouth strategies as giving past customers $500 for referring a new buyer to the dealership.

“We’ve got over 25,000 customers now,” he said. “The spinoff has been just huge.”

Marshall’s next goal is to relocate

to the corner of Highway 16 and Highway 97 as part of the pending redevelopment of the Prince George Golf and Curling Club lands and build a more expansive dealership.

“If we can be the number one truck dealer, there’s no reason we couldn’t be the number one dealer overall, other than we’re so space limited here,” he said.

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An entrepreneur’shell would surely beto find themselvesfull of ambition,willing to commit

resources, and ready to worktheir butt off, but located in acommunity where the gener-al perception or attitude isthat “We have everything weneed and want.” “How terri-ble for an aspiring entrepre-neur to invoke the oldmaxim”“Find a need and fillit” only to find that nothing isneeded and no more is want-ed, and worse, nobody cares.

Hopefully all those eagerentrepreneurs will quicklyfind their way from whateverhell they live in to the City ofPrince George. Even moredesirable is that the goodlynumber of individuals, cou-ples, or partners residing inour city who would rather beworking for themselves, call-ing the shots, and keepingthe profits, take the next steptowards opening a businessof their own. All they need isa little encouragement orassistance to get started.

Prince George has much ofwhat a growing, knowledge-based resource communitycould ever want. However, itdoes not have everything.What businesses does PrinceGeorge need next? The bestway, for a person of ambition,to identify an opportunity isto ask the next dozen people:family, neighbours, co-work-ers or co-recreationalists, thatthey chat with, one simple

question,“What store, busi-ness, service, or product doyou wish we had available, ora broader selection of, inPrince George?” In doing so,you will quickly, and withoutprompting, identify a busi-ness opportunity that hasgeneral support of potentialcustomers. In other words,“Find a need and fill it,” thendo your due diligence, addi-tional market research, devel-op a business plan, risk yourmoney, and make it happen.Take the risk that every singleone of the business ownersalready operating in the cityhas taken and carpe diem –seize the day, make yourdream a reality. You don’tneed to have a great idea ofyour own, in fact, it may bebetter that you don’t. Juststart asking questions, dosome research, get somegood advice, and developyour plan to give potentialcustomers what they said

they want.I love our city, and I also

recognize that PrinceGeorge’s potential is far frombeing fully realized. The factthat it is a wonderful commu-nity to live, work, and play in,also makes it a fabulousplace to pursue your ownpotential business. The exist-ing amenities, the low cost ofhousing and business space,the rich academic environ-

ment, our high quality ofhealth care, and the amazingsurrounding natural environ-ment all meet the well-known criteria for successfulinvestment which is “location,location, location”!

Prince George’s potential isnot a secret and outsideinvestors are beginning tolook in our direction. If timingis critical then the time isnow, before someone comesto town and acts before youdo.

Opportunity is there to berealized, especially in ourgreat City of Prince Georgeand it doesn’t matterwhether you are male,female, young, old, or some-where in between. As some-one famous once said “youare never too young or tooold to set another goal, ordream a new dream.”

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A Prince George engineering firm wona provincial award for innovation, thispast year, and they are surging in everydirection even though their name isAllnorth.

Allnorth Consultants is still locally owned and operated,founded by Darby Kreitz about 30 years ago, but they havegrown to more than a dozen branches, and more than 320employees, from coast to coast.

The award was a citation from the provincial Ministry ofTransportation and Infrastructure for innovative project man-agement of the Fort Fraser Overhead. Allnorth oversaw theproject, which featured the splitting of the bridge up the mid-dle, keeping one lane in use while work was done on the other,and vice versa, so traffic flow could continue even in the thickof construction.

Allnorth won the Construction Management andSupervision Services category in the Deputy Minister’s seventhAnnual Awards for Consulting Engineers.

"This award highlights the expert supervisory skills ofAllnorth Consultants in overseeing the design that improved arail overhead on a busy highway," said Prince George MLAShirley Bond, who was minister responsible for the project."Through every step of the project, the company kept the linesof communication open with the ministry about its progressand possible challenges, which helped ensure the project'ssuccess in the eyes of the ministry and the community."

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"We have to tip our hat to Steve Periera, he was the civilconstruction manager on the site, and his crew," saidAllnorth's division manager Glen Wonders.

Wonders said there are many projects in the pipe on boththe industrial and civil sides of the engineering sector. He wasexcited about the prospects, but this is the bidding season formost major new projects so it won't be known for awhilewhich projects they have won.

"Both the industrial and the civil sides are very busy. It is a

good time to be an engineer," he said, and even without newcontracts, they have a heavy slate now of projects underway.

"Some are long-term projects and one example of that isthe Canfor Pulp Partnership, the low-odour work being donethere. We are part of that in a big way, and because of theenvironment signature on that, we feel a lot of pride aboutthat project. Also, FMC is doing a massive re-investment intotheir facility and we have done a lot of work on that, and thebuilding of the mine at Mt. Milligan we are quite involved in."

Wonders said Allnorth was "on a fairly aggressive growthstrategy, both in terms of the numbers of people we have onboard and the services we are going to do."

He suggested those interested in industries like oil and gas,pulp and paper, road construction, mining, surveying, etc. goto their website and examine the jobs available now for work-ers with those skills. He also had encouraging words for thosenot yet in these professions, and a development happeningin Prince George's college and university that give him asmuch excitement as winning awards.

"UNBC's strides towards an engineering school is absolutelywonderful news," he said. "We are very supportive of this ini-tiative,as well as CNC's choices to refocus on their program-ming towards the engineering field. It means a lot for north-ern kids, northern families, and it helps us a lot to be able tosee kids study here and all the more likely stay on here topursue the engineering field."

Strong sentiments from the company tapped as the best inthat field from the past year.

PG BUSINESS BEST IN BC

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Prince George Mount Robson MLA Shirley Bond presentsAllnorth with one of the Deputy Minister’s seventh annualawards for consulting engineering.

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The employment opportunities in PrinceGorge are as diverse as the companies.

It takes a whole lot of people to run a health carefacility, said Bev Boyd, HR Recruiter for NorthernHealth. Not just doctors and nurses but accoun-tants, engineers, care aides, dieticians, therapists,social workers, cooks, and housekeepers to name afew. And with the new Cancer Centre there willmore job opportunities. Northern Health likes tohire local talent, Boyd said. People who love thenorth want to stay in the north.

In Northern B.C. LYNX Aboriginal Student Careerand Employment Program helps AboriginalStudents connect with potential employers. LYNXprovides opportunities with companies such asBMO who is a LYNX sponsor and TD Bank FinancialGroup who has made diversity a strategic businesspriority.

There are three TD branches in Prince Georgeand “we are constantly hiring,” said Shyna Mason,TDCanada Trust customer service manager, especiallynow with the new extended hours and weekends.

“At one branch, we hired five people within twomonths,” she said.“There is plenty of opportunity.”In the province of B.C. TD hired over 650 employ-ees in 2010.

When we are hiring, it is not only about experi-ence “it’s about the person,” said Jeanne Reid,Janzen TBJ Terlesky Braithwaite LLP senior manag-er. Looking for people who want to grow upthrough the company from “student to manager tosenior manager to partner.”

They also like to hire local accounting students,she said.“We want people who want to stay in thenorth.”

Prince George has shown growth in employ-ment opportunities for the 20 and under agegroup and entrepreneurs are doing very well inPG, said Karen Hall, Employment Action cus-tomized job developer. But the major employer inPrince George remains Northern Health, employ-ing more than 3,600 employees and physicians.Over 7,000 people are employed within the threehealth service areas, Northwest, Northern Interiorand Northeast B.C.em

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KATHERINE SCOUTEN

VICE PRESIDENT, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT,INITIATIVES PRINCE GEORGE

Initiatives Prince George in collaboration with theDowntown Partnership has launched a new CityCentre marketing program, a major componentof the implementation plan developed by theDowntown Partnership to accelerate downtown

development.

The program is aimed at attracting interest from real estatedevelopers and property owners in downtown, and the invita-tion framed within the visionary words of Daniel Burnham,“Make no little plans.”Burnham was the founder of the CityBeautiful movement nearly 100 years ago, upon which PrinceGeorge’s original downtown was designed.This same design re-ignited the imagination and will of the city through the SmartGrowth on the Ground Planning Process of 2009.

A feature component of the marketing program is a 16 pagefull-colour prospectus.The prospectus affirms economic growthstimulus to the city overall, stemming from Prince George’s suc-cessful bid to host the 2015 Canada Winter Games; expansion ofregional resource development and its impact on the city as asupply and services centre; the growth of Prince George as aninternational transportation hub; Prince George being ranked#1 as having the most cost-competitive business locationamongst cities profiled in Pacific US and Canada by KPMG; and,the city’s position as a regional health and education centre.

The focus is on projects at all stages - ongoing, planned andconceptualized - in catalyst districts of the downtown. Over $50million in public projects like the RCMP Detachment,Downtown District Energy System, Spirit Square, and 100 capitalworks projects in the past five years are identified. The prospec-tus also destroys the myth that there is an absence of privatesector investment in the downtown, by confirming that over$30 million and 100 building permits have been issued in theC1 zone over the past five years. Larger private sector projectssuch as The Commonwealth Health Centre, Ramada Hotel,Terasen Gas,TELUS expansion, and The Keg Steakhouse & Barupgrade are included as evidence.

With Prince George’s current revitalization tax exemption(RTE) by-law expiring in 2011, a new program is in developmentto provide more robust incentives to accelerate new construc-tion and renovations in the city centre. Priorities are for higherdensity mixed-use, residential and commercial projects, façadeimprovements, and projects that meet standards for sustainableconstruction.The incentive program is expected to influencemarginal business cases in order to incent new constructionand upgrades in the downtown and will be in place by

September 2011.The anticipated results over the next five years will be an

increase in assessed values, building permits, residential units,business licenses and jobs in the City Centre. More publicspace, tree canopy cover, parks and plazas will also improve theexperience of living, working, and playing in the downtown.

The Downtown Partnership, Chaired by Mayor Rogersincludes as members City of Prince George, Initiatives PrinceGeorge, Downtown Prince George, Lheidli T’enneh, RCMP, PrinceGeorge Chamber of Commerce, Beyond Homelesness StandingCommittee, Prince George Native Friendship Centre, andNorthern Health.The Partnership provides quarterly releases onits progress.

For more information on the Downtown Partnership or the CityCentre marketing program contact [email protected] or call 250-649-3201(Katherine), 250-561-7784 (Ian).The prospectus can be down-loaded at www.pgcitycentre.ca.

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New city centre marketingprogram launch

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A northern company'sunwavering gaze is catchingthe eye of industrial andcommercial interests.

When Eagle Vision Video and T.R.U. Securityof Fort St. John and Prince George tech-designer Ben Knutson joined forces to invent

a security surveillance system, it didn't takelong for the outside world to take a long lookat their innovations. Encana bought into theirtechnology and put it to use on their oil andgas sites in Northeastern B.C., and the wholesystem won a Business & Technology Awardat the eighth annual B.C. Natural ResourcesForum.

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Eagle Vision eyesEncana

pipelineBenjamin Haab, left,

and Cole Buschefrom Eagle VisioinVideo Production

and their T.R.U.Security remote

stand alone security system.

FRANK PEEBLES

CITIZEN STAFF

[email protected]

Citizen photo by Brent Braaten

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"The components [a surveillancecamera, a solar panel for remotepower, a piece of worksite equipmentin which to secret the lens, etc.] arecommon, that's not the inventive part,"said company co-owner Cole Busche.

"What's unique is the operating sys-tem. We have our own technology inthe form of control panels we builtourselves and software that takes thepictures - we can do stills or video -and if anything is alarming to the sys-tem it sends an alert to your smart-phone. It sends you a text that tellsyou something is wrong, and it sendsthe pictures."

So if your assistant manager forgot alunch box and just had to get it fromthe vacant worksite, you'd be able torecognize that from the photo, but ifyou saw images of someone stealingor vandalizing your place, you couldthen alert the police.

"I thought of the original basic idea,but Cole knew that [crooks] often tar-get the cameras themselves so we

wanted to solve that, too," said co-owner, Benjamin Haab. "We can hidethe cameras inside all kinds of com-mon worksite spots and if someonedoes notice it, by then it is too late, thepicture is taken."

They have been building each sys-tem one by one, and selling them tocustomers as they come forward. Overthe winter they ramped up. Theyinvested in mass production.

"We are getting it where we canpush out up to 1,000 units a month inanticipation of the demand weexpect," said Haab. "We have alsotaken the camera and upped our reso-lution to 12 megapixels, and the physi-cal size is now half what it was. We canaccess the Rogers cell network as well,now, not just the Telus and Bell sys-tems."

Haab said their client companies arefinding it useful even if crime is notdetected, but some other activity.Innocuous activities can also be help-ful when seen by the property surveil-lance eyes, and the new system hasbeen good at providing that informa-

tion as well, according to the compa-nies.

Encana is the flagship client due inpart to the bombings that targetedthe company's field sites in northeast-ern B.C. But the advantages of the sys-tem are getting a lot of attention fromall kinds of industries that have sprawl-ing sites in need of constant vigilance.

"We saw a real gap in the market:something affordable, somethingstealthy," said Busche. "We couldn'tfind anything out there in the market-place to do that, so we went aheadand built it ourselves. The incident isrecorded and a notification is sentimmediately to the people who needto know, no matter where or when."

The images are higher resolutionthan most common surveillance sys-tems, and have night-vision capabili-ties, so they have a better chance ofboth providing recognition of a sus-pect and stand up to the scrutiny of acourtroom.

It can operate anywhere with cellservice or, for a necessarily higher cost,to satellite phone service.

EAGLE VISION

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Training qualified professionalsHealth Sciences Programs at the College of New Caledonia

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FRANK PEEBLES

CITIZEN STAFF

[email protected]

One of the region's most acclaimed manufacturers, PacificWestern Brewery (PWB), announced this weekend that theywill pour $1 million into renovations at their Prince Georgeheadquarters.

The renovations and upgrades will refresh the building’sexterior, create a renewed hospitality area, and includes thepurchase and installation of new brewing and packagingequipment.

“I am very proud of the ongoing consistent quality of ourbeer and the passion and loyalty of our team,” said KazukoKomatsu, President and CEO of the beer company.“BritishColumbians have been very enthusiastic about our beers andwe would also like to thank all our customers and partners fortheir support and loyalty which has enabled us to make thissignificant re-investment.”

The renovations were started earlier this month and are dueto be complete in spring, with the other improvements sched-uled for completion within a year.

"The interior upgrades will incorporate local pine beetlewood to demonstrate support for the

region’s forest industry and to supplement the brewery’songoing reforestation commitment," said Komatsu. "[We] willsource services and equipment from local suppliers whereverpossible."

The upgrades coincide with the 20th anniversary ofKomatsu's ownership of the storied brewery. It was launched asCaribou Brewing in 1957 by the late Ben Ginter, one of Prince

George's most colourful characters in its modern history.It has gone on to be one of the city's most successful manu-

facturing companies outside of the forest industry, with exportinroads to China and Russia among other international mar-kets.Today it employs 60 local people during peak seasons,and also has facilities in the Lower Mainland.

According to a PWB statement, the company stands as"Western Canada's largest and longest established indepen-dent, Canadian-owned brewery." Among its accomplishmentsare...

• 2005 - First Canadian Gold Medal Winner, Industry International Awards in Munich

• 2003 - First ISO 9001 Certified Brewery in North America• 1997 - First Certified Organic Lager Beer in Canada• 1996 - First North American Brewery Certified to ISO 9002• 1996 - First Lager and Lime Beer• 1995 - First Malted Herb Beer• 1993 - First Ice Beer in Canada• 1988 - First Dry Beer in Canada• 1983 - First Brewery Operated Beer Store in BC• 1982 - First Dark Mild Beer in Canada• 1969 - First Malt Liquor in Canada• 1965 - First Canned Beer in BC

The brewery is, according to written statements, planning anumber of events and initiatives to celebrate Komatsu's owner-ship milestone, including their ongoing reforestation commit-ment (planting a minimum of 150,000 trees over three years), awater program to be introduced this spring, the grand openingof the renovated brewery, customer appreciation events "and afew other surprises brewing" for 2011.

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The province’s approval of the $404-million Northwest Transmission Linecould set the stage for a modern-daygold rush of sorts.

The 335-kilometre power line, slated to be complete by theend of 2013, is not an end in itself. Rather, the power line ismeant to act as a catalyst for large industrial development.

The 287-kilovolt line will deliver power to a largelyuntouched area which is expected to result in new mines andhydro power projects being constructed.

A 2008 report commissioned by the Mining Association ofB.C. and the Northern Development Initiative Trust hasalready highlighted the power line has the potential toattract more than $15 billion in investment and create 10,700jobs from 10 mines.

The construction and operation of the mines is expected toprovide benefits throughout the North. Even though the min-ing region is 600 kilometres to the northwest of PrinceGeorge, the city will benefit as a supply and service centre.

Prince George-based WolfTek Industries has been a backerof the project for several years, eager to tap into the benefitsthe development of new mines offer.

The industrial manufacturer had turned to the mining sec-tor during an extended forestry downturn.

The company has already done work for the Endakomolybdenum mine west of Prince George and the Gibraltarcopper mine south of the city.

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CITIZEN STAFF

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And while the forest sector is showing signs of reboundingwith a new market emerging in China, the company absolute-ly embraced the approval granted by the province last week,said WolfTek general manager Jamie Hull.“Any new majorindustry in our region is vital for all of us. Mining is a big partof our business. It’s definitely taken up the downturn inforestry and more.”

Global-heavyweight Finning, a heavy-equipment manufac-turer, is also looking forward to the potential business thepower line will create in the Northern B.C. mining sector.“It’sgoing to have a real positive impact not just on our PrinceGeorge operation, but Terrace and Houston,” said Finningspokesperson Jeff Howard.

Three years ago, Finning added a mining division to itsPrince George location, which had traditionally been focusedon the forestry sector. Its Prince George site now servicesseven mines including Endako and three coal mines in north-eastern B.C., overhauling equipment that includes its behe-moth CAT 793 rock truck.

The workforce grew 15 per cent to 110 people last year inPrince George. Similar growth is expected this year, saidHoward.

It is unlikely that all 10 mines examined in the 2008 reportwill be built, but the potential is not insignificant.

Mining Association of B.C. president Pierre Gratton says it’scertain, at least, that all of the mines will not be built at the

same time. But on the other hand, there could also be morediscoveries, he said.

“Once the power line is built, it opens up a whole part ofthe province that has largely not received attention. That’shuge long-term for British Columbia,” said Gratton.

The benefits to Northern B.C., and communities like PrinceGeorge cannot be underestimated, he argued.

For example, there are 100 suppliers from Prince George forEndako’s $500-million expansion and upgrade. And, on aver-age, a major metal mine will spend $100 million annually onoperations, a significant portion of that spent in local andregional economies, said Gratton.

That money is spent on everything from helicopters andheavy equipment to paper clips, bedding and food. Money isalso spent on hotels, restaurants, road work, skilled mainte-nance and parts.“The economic multiplier is huge,” saidGratton.

Initiatives Prince George, the city’s economic developmentagency has also welcomed the provincial approval, stressingthe power line’s importance as a catalyst for mining andpower projects.“That’s obviously where the excitement hasbeen,” said Kathie Scouten, a senior official with InitiativesPrince George.

The Northern Initiative Development Trust also sees signifi-cant economic benefits from providing electricity to theuntapped region in the northwest.

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It was clear development would nottake place without the transmissioninfrastructure, said Northern Trust CEOJanine North.

The project benefits will flowthroughout Northern B.C., includingPrince George, she said.“The sourcinggoes well beyond the northwest.”

‘The minute they are finished’

The provincial approval - following anenvironmental assessment and consul-tations with First Nations - is a majorstep in getting the northern power lineunderway.

The federal government still has tosign off, but that is considered a given asOttawa agreed to delegate its assess-ment to British Columbia.

B.C. Hydro has already received bidsfrom contractors and wants to start con-struction this year.

It is now in the midst of its evaluationprocess.

The province had put the power lineon hold in 2007 after NovaGold’s GaloreCreek gold and copper mine was halted.The line had originally been proposed asa partnership with NovaGold, which wasgoing to contribute $158 million.

In September 2008, the project wasresurrected when B.C. Premier GordonCampbell said the province would putup $10 million to put the power linethrough an environmental assessment.

Communities in Northern B.C., includ-ing Prince George, had been calling onthe provincial government to keep theproject moving forward, at a minimum,carrying out the environmental assess-ment.

The project received a further boost inSeptember 2009 when Prime MinisterStephen Harper set aside an $130-millionfederal contribution for the power line.

A further capital injection was provid-ed in the spring of 2010, when AltaGasreached an agreement with B.C. Hydro toprovide $180 million for the project.Thedeal included an electricity purchaseagreement for AltaGas’ $700-millionForest Kerr clean energy project near Bob

Quinn Lake.The lake is the end point of the power

line that starts near Terrace and follows aportion of Highway 37.

At least one mining company isalready readying itself for the completionof the power line.

Imperial Metals’ $443-million Red Chrisgold-copper project has provincial andfederal regulatory approval, putting itahead of other potential projects.Thecompany hopes to start production atthe same time the power line is com-plete at end of 2013.“The minute theyare finished, we want to hook up,” saidImperial Metals president and CEO BryanKynoch.

The Red Chris project lies about 115kilometres beyond the end point of thetransmission line, but Kynoch does notsee that as a problem for developing theproject.

He pointed out the company built a120-kilometre transmission line to pro-vide power to its Huckleberry gold andcopper mine south of Houston in north-central B.C.

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‘We decide as a people’The power line is also favoured by

support from First Nations.Agreements that accommodate First

Nations’ interest along the 335-kilome-tre power line are considered critical togetting the project off the ground, inpart, because most of the First Nationshave not settled treaties.

Two First Nations have already provid-ed endorsements of the power linethrough impact-benefit agreements:the Kitselas and the Metlakala.

The Nisga’a Nation legislature will bevoting on another impact-benefitagreement. Its leadership is calling foracceptance of the agreement, whichallows the B.C. Hydro to use a preferredroute through the Nisga’a MemorialLava Bed Park. The Nisga’a, unlike otherFirst Nations, have settled a moderntreaty that gives them rights over 2,000square kilometres of land.

Other consultations continue, includ-ing with the Tahltan Nation, whose terri-tory covers the northern portion of thepower line and also the area where themajority of mining and power-projectwill be located.

Tahltan Central Council chair AnnitaMcPhee said their support hinges on aratification vote set for April. It’s why thefocus now is helping the nation’s 5,000members become as informed as possi-ble on the project potential benefitsand impacts.“It’s our choice, and wedecide as a people,” said McPhee.

Reimer, the B.C. Hydro official, said theCrown agency remains hopeful they willcome to an agreement with the remain-ing First Nations.“Our view is the FirstNations in the area are folks that have akind of legitimate interest.

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And we have not only legal,but moral, obligations in termsof our relationship with them.And we’d like to conclude pos-itive agreements prior to mov-ing forward,”said Reimer.

The Gitanyow hereditarychiefs are raising concernswith the NorthernTransmission Line, saying BCHydro is refusing to addressoutstanding issues with theproject as it pertains to thefirst nation's territory.

In a statement issued April12, the group said they arenow seeking a meeting withPremier Christy Clark and the

Minister Responsible for BCHydro Rich Coleman after theCrown corporation rebuffedthe request.

The chiefs say 47 per centof the proposed corridor willpass through GitanyowTerritory and estimates theywill lose a total area ofbetween 440 and 550hectares of land, estimated atbetween $1.6 and $2.1 mil-lion.

Remier has said BC Hydroremains committed to stay-ing at the negotiating table.

"We share the goal ofreaching an agreement thatis fair and meaningful for all,"he said.

Some of the projects tied to completion of the$404-million Northwest Transmission Line

Imperial Metals’ Red Chris gold-copper mine: A $443 millionopen-pit mine with a 30,000-tonne-per day capacity, employing300 people during a 28-year life. The cost of the mine includesextending the power from the end of the Northwest TransmissionLine at Bob Quinn to the mine, a distance of 115 kilometres. Themine project already has federal and provincial environmentalapproval.

NovaGold/Teck Resources’ Galore Creek gold-copper-silvermine: The project was put on hold in late 2007 when constructioncosts more than doubled to $5 billion. The company is expectedto release a new pre-feasibility study this year. The project waspermitted earlier by the federal and provincial governments, butproject changes would require new permitting.

Fox Creek Metals’ Schaft Creek gold-copper mine: The $1.43billion open pit mine has an estimated life of 15 to 22 years,employing 500 to 700 people. The mine is within 90 kilometres ofthe end of the Northwest Transmission Line at Bob Quinn. Theproject is in the midst of a joint B.C.-Canada environmentalassessment.

Capstone Mining Corp.’s Kutcho copper-zinc mine: The $187.3million mine would be largely underground, with a small open pitoperation. An earlier assessment pegged full-time jobs at 150.The project is in the preliminary stage of its environmentalassessment. The project is beyond the end of the transmissionline at Bob Quinn.

AltaGas’ Forest Kerr hydro-electric project: The $700-millionproject will produce enough electricity to power 70,000 homesannually by diverting a portion of the Iskut River through a tunnelto an underground power house. Alta Gas has already signed a60-year power purchase deal with B.C. Hydro, and a benefitsagreement with the Tahltan Nation. The company expects the pro-ject to be complete in 2014.

Sources: Company documents, B.C. Environmental Assessment Office andthe 2008 Report on the Electrification of the Highway 37 Corridor.

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LAURA ALLGROVE

Local Canadian furniture designer, ShawnPlace, didn’t pick Prince George it picked him.

Shawn Place Designs is a small furniture company based inPrince George and Shawn Place is the sole designer andcraftsman who produces exceptionally designed, high quali-ty, handcrafted modern furniture.

“I moved to P.G. somewhat randomly,” he said. Originallyfrom southern Ontario, Place moved to Prince George in 2005with someone he was dating at the time. Place rememberslanding at the Prince George airport during the expansionand being impressed with the architecture. Prince Georgewas off to a good start.

Starting out in the bicycle industry designing components,longboards and skateboards, Place wanted to try somethingdifferent. In 2008, he designed his first piece of furniture. Hecalled his new enterprise, Shawn Place Designs. A few yearslater he got his first deal with a high-end furniture dealer,Inform Interiors based out of Vancouver.

Place gets inspiration for his designs where he finds it,sketching ideas in his ringed artists pad before making a pro-totype. Many prototypes, he laughed. As many as twelve pro-totypes of a single chair once filled his living room.

At his second showing at the Interior Design Show 2011 inToronto, Place revealed his latest designs, the Owl chair andBird chair. His expanding reputation gained him a featurestory in the Style section of the Globe and Mail.

Place said he’s not planning to move out of Prince Georgeeven as his popularity grows. Place enjoys living here. Unlikethe big cities there are not a lot, if any, contacts to be madehere, he said, but Prince George makes up for it with commu-nity.

The affordability of life here allows Place to concentrate histime on the business without having the constant financialoverhead of a place like the lower mainland, said the 41-year-old craftsman.“I can take my time designing furniture; I don’thave to rush anything to market.”

“Living in P.G. has given me financial freedom first and fore-most,” Place said.

That original relationship that brought him to PrinceGeorge ended soon after arriving but he is happy to say themove led him to meet his present wife. They got married,bought a house and are now celebrating the birth of theirfirst child.

ResidentdesignerShawn Place

Submitted photo

Shawn Place’sfurniture designs

are catching on across the

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Thompson Creek MetalsCo. Inc. continued to spendmoney on two key projects innorth-central B.C. as it posteda profit of $113.7 million for2010.

The company spent $149.9million in 2010 on its upgradeand expansion of its Endakomolybdenum mine nearFraser Lake, east of PrinceGeorge. Another $15.4 millionwas spent on its recentlyacquired Mount Milligan goldand copper project north-west of Prince George.Thompson Creek, which pur-chased the Mount Milliganproject with the buyout ofTerrane Metals, plans toswing into full-scale construc-tion on the $900-million minethis year.

The company -- which hasoffices in Denver, Colo. andVancouver -- was helped byhigher molybdenum prices,up 39 per cent from the pre-vious year.

The company produced arecord 32.6 million pounds ofmolybdenum in 2010, andsold a record 29.1 millionpounds.

"Thompson Creek's 2010financial performance wasgreatly improved from a yearearlier mainly as a result ofincreased production, salesvolumes and molybdenumprices," said Thompson Creekchairman and CEO KevinLoughrey.

"We anticipate that overthe balance of 2011 the pricefor molybdenum oxide willcontinue to be volatile, butwill gradually increase withthe expected improvement in

worldwide molybdenumbearing steel production,"added Loughrey.

The upgrade to the Endakomine is expected to helpsecure the approximately 260jobs at the mine.The mod-ernization also has spinoffbenefits for Prince George,considered a supply and ser-vice centre for mines in theregion.

The modernization projectincludes construction of anew mill to replace a 45-yearold plant.The upgrade willalso increase the mill capacityto 50,000 tonnes per dayfrom 28,000 tonnes per day.

The Mount Milligan minepromises some of the firstnew heavy-industry jobs inthe Prince George region inmore than a decade. Suchjobs, which are normallyhigher paying than those inthe service sector, are consid-ered important for the econ-omy because they bringwealth-creating export dol-lars to the region.

As part of its purchase ofMount Milligan,ThompsonCreek also secured financingof $311.5 million with RoyalGold Inc., which earned theright to purchase 25 per centof the future mine's gold pro-duction.

Some preliminary develop-ment - including roadupgrades - has started at theMount Milligan gold and cop-per project.

The project is the closestnew mine development tothe city.

The mine, with a forecastlife of 15 years, is expected tocreate 400 jobs. Between 200to 600 workers will also beneeded during the mine'stwo-year construction period.

$160 million-plus spent on northern

mine projects

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When UNBC President George Iwamastood on a stage in front of 2400 of thetop university and college sustainabilityspecialists in Denver late last year, it prob-ably represented the first time many ofthem had even heard of UNBC or PrinceGeorge.They sure know about us now.One reason is the University’s bioenergyproject, the recipient of the top campussustainability award in North America.

The attention didn’t stop there: inMarch, new Premier Christy Clark partici-pated in the official opening of the newBioenergy Plant. It was her first officialfunction as Premier outside of Victoria.

Most recently, the University’s bioener-gy project is a finalist for a national envi-ronmental award from Scotiabank.Theaward winners will be announced inToronto in June.

In short, the bioenergy project is shin-ing a spotlight on UNBC and PrinceGeorge.

And why not? The project is uniqueamong Canadian universities and show-cases the resources and ingenuity of

British Columbians and north-erners.The gasification technol-ogy has been provided byNexterra Systems and the fuel issawmill residue provided byLakeland Mills of Prince George.The spectacular design of thebuilding is the work of HughesCondon Marler of Vancouverand was built by IDL Projects ofPrince George.The new plantjoins a wood pellet facility thathas been operating at the I.K.Barber Enhanced Forestry Labsince mid-2009.

Bioenergy is expected to reduceUNBC’s consumption of fossil fuel byabout 85% and reduce the carbon foot-print of the campus by more than 3500tonnes per year. Perhaps most signifi-cantly, it will serve as a platform forapplied research and education, support-ing the sustainability and diversificationof communities like Prince George thatare reliant on forests and the forestindustry.That’s the best reward.

Bioenergybrings thespotlight

to Prince George

The University’s new Bioenergy Plant wasbuilt by IDL Projects of Prince George andfeatures biomass gasification technology

developed by BC-based Nexterra Systems.Emissions from the Plant are at or below

natural gas levels.

TheBioenergyplant uses

sawmillresidue

provided byLakelandMills ofPrince

George.

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This is a book about people from many walks of lifewith varied skills. There are traditional healers, com-munity health workers, nurses, and family and spe-cialist physicians who not only care for others butpass their wisdom and skills to the next generation.

The stories told by caregivers in the North become legends.With those words, Dr. David Snadden presents the foreword

in a new book produced by the Northern Medical Program.Called Front Lines: Portraits of Caregivers in Northern BritishColumbia, the book captures the legendary stories of 40

health care workers in northern BC. The practitioners includeDr Tracy Morton, who kayaks to work each day on HaidaGwaii; Julie Ephrom, who left California nearly 40 years ago tobe a nurse in Vanderhoof; Charles Helm, who is passionatebeliever in health and people’s connection to nature; and LisaSam of Nak’azdli, who won the top national award last yearfor nurses working on reserves.

Lisa is one of five UNBC grads featured in the book. In addi-tion, the articles about each person were written by anotherUNBC graduate – Sarah de Leeuw – a two-time winner of aCBC literary award and a Northern Medical Program facultymember. Each person profiled in the book was also pho-tographed by Tim Swanky, who has been a photographer atUNBC for more than 20 years.

“A special feature of this book is that the proceeds from thesale of each copy will go to the Northern Medical ProgramsTrust,” says Dr. Snadden, who is the head of the NorthernMedical Program.“In this way, this book will help to educateand produce the next generation of amazing health carepractitioners who will be shaped by this magnificent landand the remarkable people who live here.”

Published by Creekstone Press of Smithers, the book isavailable in bookstores around northern BC, including theUNBC Bookstore. The cost is $32.

Local oncologist Dr. WinstonBishop is one of the health

care practitioners profiled inFront Lines, a new book pro-

duced by the NorthernMedical Program.

Lisa Sam, a UNBCgrad who is working asa nurse in Nak’azdli, isprofiled in Front Lines.

She received a nationalaward of excellencelast year among allnurses working on

reserves.

CelebratingNorthern BC’s

health care practitioners

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Construction on the BCCancer Agency Centrefor the North in PrinceGeorge is well under-way. Groundbreaking

for the project took place inJuly 2010 with the centreexpected to open in late 2012.

“The Centre for the North will help toimprove the quality of cancer care for patientsliving in the North through the co-ordination

of new treatment and support services, as wellas research activities,” said Brian Schmidt, inter-im president of the BC Cancer Agency, anagency of the Provincial Health ServicesAuthority.

The 5,000-square-metre Centre for the Northwill be located next to the University Hospitalof Northern British Columbia (UHNBC). When itopens, it will bring radiation therapy service tothe North for the first time, and will alsoinclude a computerized-tomography (CT) sim-ulator; a chemotherapy treatment unit; andgeneral outpatient clinics.

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BC CANCER AGENCY CENTRE FOR THE NORTH

construction underway

One of BC CancerAgency Centre for the

North’s key design features will be a green,‘living’ roof - the first of

its kind in PrinceGeorge. The green roof

will be comprised oflocal plants that will

provide several benefitsto the building including

capturing rainwater,providing insulation

and offering patients,staff and visitors a view of indigenous

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The facility is being built toachieve LEED Gold certifica-tion. LEED (Leadership inEnergy & EnvironmentalDesign) is an internationallyrecognized green buildingcertification system. As partof this certification, a notabledesign feature of the centrewill be a green,“living” roof.

In addition to construction,recruitment is also underway.Dr. Robert Olson is the Centrefor the North’s first radiationoncologist and has also beenappointed as an assistantprofessor with the NorthernMedical Program at theUniversity of Northern BritishColumbia. Dr. Suresh Katakkarhas been hired as the centre’sfirst medical oncologist.Other positions requiredinclude additional radiationand medical oncologists, radi-ation therapists, social work-ers and pharmacists.

To support the new centre,UHNBC has undertaken vari-ous renovations. Changes inits lab and medical imagingdepartments will help thehospital to more fully meetthe centre’s needs in suchareas as blood collection,diagnostic testing, and speci-men analysis.

The Centre for the Northand the UHNBC renovationsare key components of theNorthern Cancer ControlStrategy, a joint partnershipof the BC Cancer Agency,Northern Health and theProvincial Health ServicesAuthority.The strategy isfocused on enhancing the fullcontinuum of cancer servicesacross the North, includingprevention, screening, diag-nosis, treatment, supportiveand palliative care.

For more information aboutthe Northern Cancer ControlStrategy, visit www.northern-cancerstrategy.ca

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