Kitimat Northern Sentinel, April 01, 2015

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Group effort finds lost kidsCameron Orr

It was a harrowing ordeal when three kids went missing on the Coho Flats Trail, last seen at 1 p.m. and not recovered until shortly after 10 p.m. on March 21.

With an immense show of community sup-port to � nd them the families are also keen to get word out that they are so thankful to have had the support they did.

Elizabeth Stone, 11, Kali Graham, 9, and brother Parker, 7, had gone for a trail walk with trusty pitbull Blue, but the trail, in rough shape from the winter, resulted in the hikers getting dis-oriented and wandering off.

It was an emotional reunion for them and their families that evening but speaking days later the children say they had plans if they weren’t dis-covered.

“I was the one who was the bravest,” inter-jects Parker as the three describe their night. Elizabeth said they could hear cars at one point and followed creeks to work their way to the river from where they could likely � nd their way.

Parker Graham, Elizabeth Stone, and Kali Graham, and of course Blue at the front, were found safe after many hours of searching when they went missing March 21. Cameron Orr

War of words reignite between DoK and UnionCameron Orr

A letter released through Unifor 2300’s Facebook page slams the District of Kiti-mat administration and the council for be-ing “negligent” as the strike continues.

The union’s March 24 letter details the bargaining process to date, saying that the mayor and council’s strategy has seemingly been to “try and starve our members out.”

However Mayor Phil Germuth � nds

the union’s categorization highly unfair.“It’s one of the � rst mayor and council

in history that’s met with the union. We met with them so we could hear their concerns and take those back to our negotiating com-mittee to give them direction on issues that we wanted to see � x as much as we can,” said Germuth, referring to a sit-down meet-ing prior to the formal start of negotiations on the contract. “I think we still have a very

fair offer on the table.”Germuth also noted to the union’s con-

cerns regarding the “poisonous workplace” that has been referred to in the past that the number of grievances at the District doesn’t re� ect that at all, and that if working con-ditions were bad he would have expected higher turnover over the past few years.

In their letter the union says they’re “willing to resolve our issues amicably

through meaningful dialogue, but make no mistake we are in a WAR (emphasis theirs) and we will do everything within the con-text of the law to � x this broken work-place.”

Continuing in their letter the union says that beginning on March 16 they began making headway on the issues of health and safety, training and seniority language.

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Eli sentenced for 2011 murderMargaret Speirs

A Terrace man convicted of the second-degree murder of a Kitimat woman has been sentenced to life in prison and will not have the chance to get out of jail until he’s in his 30s.

Tyler Scott Eli, 22, was sentenced to life in prison without chance of parole for 12 years for the murder of Maria Rego as ordered by Mister Justice Robert Punnett in Terrace Supreme Court March 25.

“I do not � nd that he is not remorseful but I am of the view that he requires counselling and assistance to properly under-stand what he has done,” said Punnett in sentencing Eli.

The murder and attempted murder were particularly egre-gious with no motive, understanding or reasoning and were against two innocent people asleep in their home, said Punnett.

On October 9, 2011, around 7 a.m., Kitimat RCMP were called to a residence in the Whitesail area for an alleged break and enter with assault, whereby of� cers found a man and wom-an, who had been assaulted and were in need of immediate medical help, said police in a release at that time.

Both went to hospital in Kitimat where the woman died

from her injuries and the man had surgery and was listed in stable condition, reported police.

A 19-year-old man was arrested nearby without incident, said police.

Kitimat RCMP, North District Major Crimes, Forensic Identi� cation, Regional GIS (major cases) and E Division Seri-ous Crime Unit were brought in to investigate.

Eli’s trial took place over periods of time in May, June and August, 2014.

On November 5, 2014, Punnett found Eli guilty of second degree murder, attempted murder and to break and enter. A charge of aggravated assault was stayed by the court.

This past January saw a two-day sentencing hearing for Eli at which time Gualter Rego read an emotional victim impact statement to the court.

Crown had asked for no chance of parole for 12 to 15 years, while defence had asked that Eli’s rehabilitation be taken into consideration because of his young age, said Punnett.

Punnett was satis� ed that a period of parole ineligibility must be more than 10 years.

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Noise complaint results in hit to the headMarch 16A vehicle was seen

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old male has been ar-rested for assault with a weapon and released on promise to appear in court.

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Warehouse needs parking adjustmentsA planned new warehouse in the

Service Centre will require a bit of re-zoning and a variance to cut down the required number of parking spots.

Inland Industrial plans to build a warehouse at the corner of Enterprise Avenue and 7th Street.

The bylaws as it is would require the building to have 622 square metres of parking, but the maximum avail-able parking spaces as calculated by McElhanney for the company says they’d come 471 square metres short of

the requirement.So the proposed plan is three-fold:

amend the zoning to M2 would mean less parking requirements. While still a shortfall, it’d only be 223 sq. metres.

Second, is to offer a development variance permit using standards from the Institute of Transportation Engi-neers, which in practice would set park-ing requirements to just 10 spaces.

Finally, by offering five physical spaces, the company can provide a pay-ment to the municipality in lieu of actual

parking spots.It’s estimated that the cash payment

to the town would be $43,060 for those five spaces.

The money for the parking spots must go to a reserve made for the pur-pose of providing off-street parking, or infrastructure that would support walk-ing, cycling, transit or other “alternative forms of transportation.”

At this point council has received this proposal for consideration but is not yet actually adopted.

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Kitimat Council will press ahead in an effort to resolve a tax-write off issue in the Vista Village Trailer Park.

Last month council opted to hold off deciding on issuing a tax write-off to a dilapidated trailer on encouragement from the Housing Resource Proj-ect that arrangements could be worked out that could make all parties happy, including those who have gone through the re-volving door of ownership of the trailer.

The owner of the park, Lee Ann Wolfin, has wanted the tax write off because without it she can’t have the trailer demol-ished.

The District treasurer also supported the write off, saying the effort to recoup the approxi-mately $1,300 tax bill could be

more costly than washing their hands of the whole thing.

When council held off al-lowing a tax write off last month they hoped the one month time buffer would give the Housing Resource the chance to reach the owner and work out a solu-tion.

A report from housing worker Paul Lagace to council shows attempts were made but did not prove fruitful in resolv-ing the issue.

Even so there is a detailed proposal on how to handle the trailer that won’t require a tax write off.

Council approved for their staff to write to Wolfin to pres-ent the plan.

The Sentinel has reached out to Wolfin for comment and has not so far received com-

ment.The proposed plan comes

in several steps, which does in-clude repayment of the taxes to the District.

The plan has the current owner offering to pay the tax-es, even as the taxes are owed under the name of a previous owner, while allowing the cur-rent owner to sell the trailer, at an asking price of $5,000.

On sale of the trailer, the new owner would have to com-mit to fixing the stairs to the union and fix the leaks on the roof within six weeks.

The report says those ac-tions would address concerns on the trailer’s condition while also showing there are no ten-ancy transfer issues at the park with the owner.

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Cameron OrrPrime Minister Stephen Harp-

er’s government has ambitions to remove parole from the most serious of offenders, but Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen said it’s just a thinly veiled attempt at politics and does nothing to improve public safety.

The Conservatives’ plan is to eliminated parole for serious crimes, including terrorism, and first degree murder.

Convicts could voluntarily apply for parole after 35 years in prison.

“The examples they use...are already in jail forever,” said Cullen in slamming the proposal. “They’re our with a solution looking for a problem.”

The bill, he said, is illegal and wouldn’t survive court challenges.

“This is electioneering and poli-ticking more than it is keeping any-one safe.”

Cullen also points to evidence from prison guards who themselves say removing hope from inmates re-sults in higher incidents of violence and puts them at risk.

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There is a May 1 deadline for sub-missions for the 2015 Cedric Liter-ary Awards.

The program was created specifi-cally to recognize and celebrate un-published English and French-speak-ing writers of fic-tion, creative non-fiction, poetry, and First Nations sto-rytellers, age 50 or more.

The award is se-lected by a jury and a prize of $3,000 will be given to each of the category win-ners, and another $3,000 prize given to a First Nations storyteller, the orga-nization says.

Authors inter-ested in taking part can go online to www.thecedrics.ca or e-mail Veronica Osborn at [email protected].

Enbridge has just released their 2014 cor-porate social responsi-bility (CSR) report.

“Our annual CSR report helps us hold ourselves accountable for our performance and for how we are re-sponding to the social, economic and environ-mental factors driving our business. It also outlines areas where we have more work to do and the approach we’re taking to get better, such as deepening our engagement with stake-holders and communi-ties where we operate,” said Enbridge President and CEO Al Monaco in a news release.

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Twenty youth from Mount Elizabeth along with five chaperones left for a two week ed-ucational, cultural and historical tour of Italy and Greece.

Departed March 14 for Italy, students were set to visit Florence, Rome, and Pompeii before leaving Italy for Greece.

In Greece students will see a variety of archeological sites and museums in Olympia, Epidaurus, Mycenae and Athens before de-parting on a four day Greek Island cruise. Stops on the cruise will include Myko-nos, Kusadasi, Patmos, Rhodes, Heraklion and Santorini.

Tour group leader Reid Nelson has added a number of additional features to the standard

The group of MEMSS students who left for an educational and cultural tour of Italy and Greece. Submitted

EF Educational Tour "from Rome to Athens" including a visit to the Duomo, the Baptistry and the Academia in Florence so students can see first hand some examples of Renais-sance Art and sculp-tures of Michelangelo. While in Rome stops will include the Roman Forum and Colosseum

along with a guided tour of the catacombs.

After an overnight ferry crossing of the Adriatic and Ionian Seas students had an opportunity to tour the site of the ancient Olympic games at Olympia.

The last stop on the Peloponnesus was the ancient city of My-

cenae excavated by Heinrich Schliemann who claimed to have gazed upon the "face of Agamemnon" when he discovered a golden death mask in one of the pit tombs.

Students move on to Athens and board a cruise ship for four days with stops to ex-plore the volcanic cal-

dera at Santorini and the resulting destruc-tion of Knossos on Crete.

Once the group re-turned to Athens there was one last day of touring including mod-ern and ancient Athens and a Greek cultural dinner evening.

The tour group was provided with

items and keepsakes to hand out during their trip from Mayor Phil Germuth, MLA Robin Austin, MP Nathan Cullen, and even the Lt. Governor Judith Guichon.

The group returned to Kitimat March 28, and Nelson will begin planning the next tour to Europe in 2017.

Trailer taxes tabled

Crime plan all politicking


This is not an April Fools’ joke. It may be April 1, but frankly, I am not yet ready to get into a Tesla car, press a few buttons and let it drive myself from San Francisco to Seattle.

But, Tesla CEO Elon Musk says in about three months, give or take, Tesla will be one step closer to mak-ing driverless cars a commercial prod-uct. In fact, he insists the next upgrade to the electric automaker’s software system would allow Model S sedans equipped with the latest hardware to drive and steer themselves on major roadways.

“We can basically go between San Francisco and Seattle without the driver doing anything,” Musk told reporters on a recent conference call. When I read that, I thought as much as I would love to take a beau-tiful coastal drive from California to Washington, doing so as a passenger in a driverless car made in India ranks up there somewhere on my bucket list very close to my desire to take a sight-seeing tour in Iraq or Syria.

While it doesn’t happen every day, even my nice 2010 Ford 150 truck sometimes gives me the odd untrue electronic messages like, “oil change required,” when a glance at the sticker over my head says it’s not due an oil change for another 2,000 km or more.

So, I don’t trust the electronics in my car any more than I trust the messages under Spam on my computer that sug-gests I have been left $3.2 million by a deceased Kenyan multi-millionaire.

There are a great many things I never thought I’d live to see, some that surprised me when they became realities.

So, just as I said, there it is, Tesla says it is nearly ready to start selling driverless cars. I shouldn’t say they won’t. After all I chuckled when I heard that Amazon wanted to deliver parcels to your home by drone. No one would ever allow that.

The answer is that the FAA has now actually issued a special “ex-perimental airworthiness certi� cate” to Amazon allowing the company to conduct outdoor research, testing, and training of its Prime Air delivery drones. Wrong again.

Amazon announced its seemingly far-seeing drone delivery plans back in December of 2013. Still, it � lmed

a highlight reel video for just that outside of the USA to avoid running afoul of FAA regulations.

A year later it threatened to take its operations overseas if the FAA didn’t allow it to begin performing outdoor testing. Threats appear to work although there are strict limits to the permit.

The FAA will insist that the drones remain within line of sight of the pilot at all times.

In Amazon’s case the operator must also have “at least a private pi-lot’s certi� cate and current medical certi� cation.” That would seemingly prevent this from becoming commer-cial, unless the drone can be parked on top of a Tesla car.

Tesla’s new auto-steering func-tion is limited to cars sold after last October. They don’t plan to enable this in the hardware suite “because we don’t think it’ll be safe on suburban streets,” Musk said.

It’s nice to know that fully auto-mated vehicles, such as the ones be-ing tested by Tesla, Mercedes-Benz and even Google still have a long way to go.

Come to think of it, a Tesla car is one thing; riding in a Google driver-less car in a big city adds a completely new dimension to the possibilities.

Are we steered in the right direction?

Life or something like it

There’s no true justice when it comes to a taken life. A natural justice would return life to us, undoing an act of tragedy.

Of course we can’t undo anything. We can’t op-erate under a natural justice, we only have our sys-tem, man made but imperfect.

The frustration was notable and understandable when news broke last week that Tyler Scott Eli would only have to serve 12 years before being eligible for a parole for the killing of Maria Rego in Kitimat in 2011.

The sentencing offers conclusion — but perhaps not total satisfaction — to a dark moment in Kiti-mat’s history.

It’s perhaps one of the main events which shook Kitimat from it’s sense of golden age security, out of the mindset that doors could remain unlocked on your home and the only people who’d enter uninvit-ed were friends checking up on you.

The crime itself was senseless. The judge even called it “egregious with no motive, understanding or reasoning.”

From that it seems the crime was committed just for the sake of committing a crime, which of course is intolerable.

So life in prison is the reasonable punishment, however life doesn’t equal permanent in the criminal code of our country.

The eligibility for parole for a crime like this, second degree murder, is 10 years, or up to a mini-mum of 25.

The judge ruled the parole would have to be more than 10 years, and settled on 12, which is the low end of what Crown had been requesting. (They wanted 12 to 15 years.)

That sets the potential that a man only in his 30s could be released from prison, with his whole life effectively in front of him.

There’s only one possible solace for the commu-nity with that news, and that’s the hope that our cor-rections system does as it’s billed: correct.

We’re a system that does not subscribe to capital punishment. The alternative to that then is rehabilita-tion.

There’s no sense, generally, keeping people locked up inde� nitely at our cost. We can only cross our � ngers that systems established through prisons give people a chance to go from unproductive to pro-ductive to communities.

Can Eli become productive? I have no clue. I do know it’s not right that in only 12 years the events will be dug up as a family � ghts against parole for this person.

Yet for any horrible crime we can only hope something good comes out of it.

For better or worse we’ll have to hope our cor-rections system does what it’s supposed to.

Cameron Orr

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Open letter to Prime Minister Ste-phen Harper:Dear Sir,

Douglas Channel Watch was organized six years ago by a group of like-minded citizens of Kitimat, BC to oppose the Northern Gateway Pipeline. We realize that you do not sympathize with our position but please hear us out. It is every citi-zen’s right and responsibility to in-volve themselves in the governance of their country even if that only means voting once every four years. However, it would be a sad country where citizens could not legitimately organize, for example, to support the climate change views of the United Nations, 98 per cent of climate sci-entists, James Hansen of NASA, an increasing number of religious organizations, First Nations, Mark Carney of the Bank of England, and the IPCC, without being suspected of terrorism. Yes, the issue is political but we repeat: In a democracy, it is every citizen’s right and responsibil-ity to involve themselves in the gov-ernance of their country.

Members of Douglas Channel Watch worked incredibly hard to de-velop expertise on the subjects of di-luted bitumen, pipelines, ocean ship-ping and many other topics. We took time away from our jobs, friends and families so that we could oppose a project that we felt would be ex-tremely harmful to our country while benefitting only a few large corpo-rations with head offices outside of

Canada. We are ordinary people from all walks of life. We are parents and grandparents, we work in indus-try, health, education, public service and run our own businesses. We are tradesmen and artists. And we have exercised our right and responsibil-ity to involve ourselves in the gover-nance of our country. And we have never been afraid.

Until Bill C-51 was introduced. According to Professor Kent

Roach of the University of Toronto commenting on C-51, “The same dual concern about unintended ad-verse effects on both rights and se-curity are in play with the advocacy offence proposed to be added to the Criminal Code. It contains an over-broad reference to “terrorism of-fences in general” and no defences for legitimate expression of politi-cal or religious thought. This harms and chills freedom of expression…” (Italics ours.) No competently writ-ten law should have unintended ef-fects, adverse or otherwise. This bill would have benefited from the dis-allowed testimony to the Commons Standing Committee from the Fed-eral Privacy Commissioner, the Ca-nadian Civil Liberties Association, the Canadian Bar Association, four former Prime Ministers, and five former Supreme Court Judges for rigour and fairness. Nothing should harm or chill freedom of expression. This freedom is what differentiates us from the terrorists.

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RTA emissions worrying

DCW unsettled by Bill C-51Readers Write

Dear Sir,According to a re-

cent article in the Van-couver Sun, the Min-istry of Environment's (MoE) list of top pol-luters in BC states that Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA) emits the second most (highest) pollution in the province. Can this be so? Should I trust the government? What does Rio Tinto say in response to this infor-mation? Is this histori-cal data that does not reflect concerns about the future of our air shed?

What I do under-stand is that RTA has been given approval to emit 42 tonnes of SO

2

per day, an increase of 56 per cent from its previous permitted al-lowance. The Vancou-ver Sun article cites emissions from 2013 and they were only 1/3 of this future amount while at least half of the smelter was down and not operating. There-fore under this new permit RTA will move to the number one po-sition of highest pollut-ers in BC with 15,300 tonnes of SO

2 per year.

In 2015 the upgraded

smelter will produce 50 per cent more alu-minum than previously and because the smelter emissions are directly related to production, SO

2 emissions will in-

crease significantly as well. SO

2 emissions are

caused by the burning of sulphur-laden fuels to produce aluminum By permitting this sig-nificant increase in SO

2

emissions the Ministry of Environment is not protecting Kitimat resi-dents' best interests - namely our health.

My parents came to Kitimat in 1954 and my own children and grandchildren, born, fledged and rooted here make us four proud Kit-imat generations, grate-ful to what we used to call Uncle Al. Many in my family have ben-efited from stable jobs and great salaries and we thought the price we had to pay was two days of driving to get out on vacation and suf-fering deluges of rain year round. Somehow, though, we still call Kitimat home sweet home, a great place to live and raise a fam-ily, a marvel of nature

and industry.However, the word

marvel does not come to mind when I see a map of B.C., produced by Environment Cana-da, showing Kitimat as the most polluted place in B.C. in the future.

We do not know the specific human health costs our community has suffered as the re-sult of prior pollution but just because I am not a scientist or brain-surgeon smart, doesn't mean it isn't obvious that in the future our people, my grandchil-dren included, should be entitled, as citizens, to the best industrial practices for human health. Prosperity de-fined includes good health!

Why should Rio Tinto Alcan put in bet-ter pollution controls for our community? It is not beholden to any-one but its sharehold-ers and government regulation, and it pays its employees well. It has made huge contri-butions to our people. What would it take for RTA to put in a world class technology that, at least, meets current

government standards? Would walking around with a protest sign make a difference or should I forget about it and carry on, trusting the sincere employees of MoE to take care of me?

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Yunnan 13. ___ Lanka 21. Once around a track 22. Grains for flour and whiskey 25. Extreme confusion and disorder 26. “Mr. Moto” actor Peter 27. Elaborate opera solos 28. Circular ceiling vaults

29. Tears 30. Woolly indris genus 31. Spiritual teachers 32. Eliminate from the body 34. Pabir 37. Parts of a TV series 40. Dolmen 43. Afresh 46. A bank employee 47. Runs away to marry 48. Voltaic (linguistic) 50. Expect or anticipate 52. Employee stock ownership plan 53. Any loose flowing garment 54. Roy Rogers’ wife 55. Founder of Babism 56. Decorate a cake with frosting 57. Supplement with difficulty 60. Hall of Famer ___ Ripken 61. Health Maintenance Org.

Giddy-upStacie Nunes, at left, is all smiles after winning the Northern Sentinel draw from the Beautiful Babies submissions printed in our March 18, 2015 edition. The prize was this ride-on horse toy, donated by Kathy at Caprice Trading Post, located in Kitimat City Centre Mall. Stacie is shown here with her cousin Micah Rutsatz (another Beautiful Babies entrant, in fact), with whom she is clearly happy to share her new toy.

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“I’m willing to give the cat one last kick to see if something works,” said Larry Walker, noting there was no urgency to get the matter off

the table.Lagace’s report said he left a

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I do not envy the task facing the LNG proponent majors in deciding whether to green light their plans for large scale plants on the BC coast.

Let's have a look at some of the factors I mentioned last time.Supply and demand

On the supply side there is no question it is going to increase, but by how much?

Platts, an oil prod-uct pricing service, pegs new production in Australia at 32.4 million tonnes per an-num (mtpa) of LNG just this year.

And BG Group, a Brit oil and gas com-pany, says another 58 mtpa of Aussie pro-duction will hit the market by 2019.

Assuming both are correct, that's a total of 90 mtpa.

To put that into perspective, that's equal to total LNG imports by Japan last year, which was a re-cord.

BG is also bullish about United States output, predicting 21 mtpa will start up there this year with more to come. And still others wax lyrical about the possibilities in Africa. Heck some analysts even throw BC into the mix.

Now increased supply is not of itself a bad thing. After all, if increased demand matches increased supply, LNG prices will theoretically hold steady.

So will the in-crease in demand match that of supply?

A year ago every-one was predicting it would not only do that, but would actually ex-ceed new supply.

Today they're singing a very differ-ent song, citing slow-ing economies in Chi-na and South Korea (never mind both are still growing at a rate that most other coun-tries would envy), Ja-pan firing up its nucle-ar power plants (don't hold your breath on that one) and continu-ing depressed prices for oil to which most long term LNG con-tract prices are linked (can we believe that analysts who never saw the oil price crash coming have got it right this time?)

Base your final

investment decision (FID) on the bearish forecasts of today and you'd quite rightly have severe doubts about the wisdom of proceeding with multi-billion dollar projects.

But shave a few points off supply ex-pectations, add a few to demand side and maybe it looks like a reasonable gamble.

And remember, these companies will base their decisions on what they believe will happen over the next 30-40 years, a signifi-cantly longer period than many analysts look at.Construction costs

So, you've cal-culated what average price you'll get over the life-time of the project and the revenue looks good enough to justify proceeding.

But you also have to look at the other side of the coin, ex-penditures.

You have enough experience running LNG plants so it is pretty straightforward

coming up with a de-pendable operational costs number.

But what about construction costs?

The Australian projects were plagued by huge cost over-runs - as much as 50 per cent in one case - so will the experience be the same here?

Northwest BC at the moment seems to offer excellent con-ditions in that with the Rio Tinto Kitimat smelter project set to pour first metal within the next few months, more than 3,000 work-ers will soon be look-ing for work.

Given the ready

availability of workers generally translates to keeping labour costs under control, that's a good thing, right?

However, if you look at what the smelter project cost Rio Tinto, you have to wonder.

RTA was realisti-cally the only game in

town during its con-striction period and yet the latest project cost of closing on $5 bil-lion is near double the figure being thrown around when it got its FID.

As I said, I don't envy the decision-makers.

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Two Vancouver-based journalists have produced a documen-tary on the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project, and the film is seeing a premier in the Northern region of B.C.

Tomas Borsa told the Sentinel that re-leasing the film in the North was done as a kind of respect, where other times it seems journalists may de-scend on a location and leave without ever catching up with their local supporters after-wards.

He said it’s also a form of peer review.

“We thought of it almost as peer review,” he said. “It only makes sense to us to premier it in the north because we’re bound to have gotten something wrong.”

The film was co-made with Borsa and

Jean-Philippe Mar-quis.

“It’s largely inter-views with people who are affected by [Gate-way], who live in the immediate path of it,” said Borsa.

There is extensive use of historical ar-chives, and covers per-spectives from the oil source in Alberta right to the coast.

He said the film does touch on the pleb-iscite in Kitimat, and the 1976 Kitimat pipe-line proposal called Pacific Link.

Borsa said four people are featured in Kitimat-segments in the film, while around 20 people were inter-viewed through the filming process.

“The film also ac-tually opens with this scene in Kitimat, and looks at this 1976 Kiti-mat pipeline propos-al,” he said, and noted Kitimat gets another

10 minutes dedicated later in the film.

As for the themes of the film, Borsa says it’s a look back at past proposals and how residents and compa-nies can learn for the future.

“It seems that his-tory has a funny way of repeating itself,” he said. “Even if the Northern Gateway doesn’t go ahead...I pretty much guarantee that within five years there will be another project.”

He adds, “Learn-ing from the mistakes of the past will be very important.

“They [compa-nies] need to look back on these public hear-ings...and be a little more proactive in en-gaging with people,” he said.

The film in Kiti-mat will be shown at the Legion hall on April 7.

As the week drew to a close, the District of Kitimat issued another news release, highlighting how they feel they’ve been addressing union’s concerns through the bar-gaining and the elusive Collective Agreement.

The news release read like a Q&A, and started off with the sub-ject of job security.

“The Union has proposed that a letter of agreement be attached to the collective agreement listing job titles and the specific number of positions that must be maintained. This erodes management rights and limits the ability for the municipal-ity to make workforce decisions in changing economic climates. While we hope for a positive economic fu-ture, LNG projects have not made final investment decisions,” read the District’s release.

“The District of Kitimat has agreed to re-sign a letter of agree-

ment attached to the collective agreement which lists every full-time and regular part-time employ-ee currently working with the mu-nicipality. This letter provides job security as it states that these em-ployees will not be laid off.”

The second topic dealt with the union feeling that Kitimat “has too many part-time jobs,” and the fact that most of those are occupied by them.

The District emphasized its po-sition as an equal opportunity em-ployer and that the collective agree-ment does not separate pay rates for men and women.

“The District of Kitimat Leisure Services department has reviewed its number of part-time employees. As a result, the District has agreed to convert part-time positions in the Leisure Services into 10 full-time jobs over the next two years. This doubles the number of full-time

jobs in the department. It’s impor-tant to remember jobs in Leisure Services often include students who are seeking part-time or casual em-ployment. As well, it is common for Leisure Service departments in many communities to have a higher percentage of female workers.”

Part time employees can, the re-lease continues, pick up more hours in other departments as long as they meet qualifications.

As for if council negotiates the contract, “as elected officials, Coun-cil sets the bargaining mandate for a District of Kitimat negotiating team comprised of exempt staff. Council is aware of all the issues on the ta-ble and provides feedback through-out the process...Council does not participate in direct negotiations but this year, for the first time in Kitimat’s history, Council did meet with the Union and listened to their concerns. No managers attended

this meeting.”As for workplace grievances,

the District says there is an open of-fer for the union to meet with coun-cil up to twice a year which the Dis-trict says is an opportunity to talk about concerns, but according to the District the union has not taken the council up on that offer, except for the one meeting with them regard-ing negotiations.

“The District of Kitimat would like to resolve this strike as soon as possible with an agreement that is fair to our employees and taxpay-ers of Kitimat,” the news release concludes. “This labour dispute is a hardship on our employees and an inconvenience to the community. Council has adjusted its mandate several times in an effort to resolve this strike. The District of Kitimat has tabled its offer, reaching its fi-nancial threshold while retaining its ability to effectively manage.”

The District’s latest details on the bargainingCon’t from page 1

“This recent ac-complishment moves us in the right direc-tion but we are still very far apart on the rest of our issues,” the letter continues.

On March 21 the union says the Dis-trict walked away from bargaining after they wouldn’t address the union’s other de-mands.

Chief Administra-tive Officer Ron Poole says the District hadn’t walked away but that there was simply not more to talk about at the time.

“We’ve come to the point where we’ve given you as much as we can. It’s as gener-ous as we can get, we think it’s in the best in-terest of the members, who are our work-force, and at the same time it’s got to be pal-atable to the guys who are paying the taxes on this offer,” said Poole.

The letter con-cludes saying that it appears that mayor, council and the town managers are using the union members as part of a “cost sav-ings scheme for their almighty budget and for that they should be ashamed and resign immediately.”

Germuth says it’s unfair to say the town’s administrators aren’t doing a good job given their career record.

“It’s obvious they can deal with unions,” he said, referring to the fact that neither the CAO or the Deputy CAO have had to deal with a strike. “They have had relations with unions. So maybe the problem isn’t may-or and council and our administration. Maybe there’s another prob-lem here to why this isn’t getting solved.”

Strike

LostContinued from page 1

Kali says if they could make it to the Haisla Bridge then they’d know where to find help.

Blue opted not to com-ment.

Parker and Kali’s mom

Shari says she is very thank-ful to the tons of strangers and friends who heeded the call on Facebook for help tracking down the kids, which resulted in an amaz-ing turnout.

In particular she named

Chris Rosemeyer, Conner Hodes, and Tony Boraso for their work in the rescue, along with Jon Chisholm who drifted down the Kiti-mat River to collect the kids from the beach in the dark.

She only adds that she

hopes future searches in the community can be done or-derly to keep the searchers themselves safe.

Dad Doug Graham said the incident showed him that as much as the town is changing and growing, it’s

still a small town with a small town feel given how many people turned out to help.

Police say Search and Rescue was activated but the kids were found before they mobilized.

Dogs for dogsTommie Davis has recently opened his own hot dog-ery, Tommie Dog, in the Service Centre. Not only does he provide some delicious ‘dogs but his business venture comes with a good cause: he’s giving approximately five per cent of his proceeds to the Kitimat Community Humane Society. This is Davis’ side venture, he has lived in Kitimat for two years and works at the KMP project. (Although he likes it here enough that he plans to stay once his work is over.)


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Day-in-and-day-out Maryann Ouellet comes to work and hears the chorus of her wards, bel-lows of barks and meows and occasional chirps.

Her day is, to put it simply, full of paws but never of pause.

Oullet has worked for 18 years tending to Kitimat’s animals, as the manager of the Kitimat Humane Society shelter on Eurocan Way.

It’s a job which follows her passion for ani-mals and for justice, maintaining the rights for fuzzy friends.

It’s not a job which she seeks for glory — nor should anyone get in to such work for that pur-pose — but Oullet nonetheless will be receiving a distinction for her years of service, through the B.C. Community Achievers award.

Her success in earning the award was an-nounced March 17.

It’s an honour one must be nominated for, and her win is clear evidence she’s made an impact on more than just the animals.

Oullet’s journey to her job began years ago when she pursued her ambition to be a police of-ficer.

“Animals have always been something I’ve had a connection with. I always wanted to be an RCMP officer and at the time I had applied there was height stipulations,” she notes, which would have limited her ability to join, of course, the

K-9 unit.She continued to be involved with animals

and took up an assistant manager job with what was then an SPCA shelter.

“I was able to do police work but as an animal officer, basically,” she said.

Among the highlights from her career is one of the shelter’s former dogs, Chief, who came to the shelter from out of town. Chief was a timid dog but wasn’t afraid of wandering away, some-times for days.

“One day he showed up sleeping on his back, sun tanning by Chop Suey Kitchen,” she said. They kept him at the front office area from there and he became a sort of mascot for the shelter un-til his health deteriorated.

Ouellet says she can work long hours — at times up to 16 hours in a day — but it’s all from how much she enjoys her work.

“There’s been lots of time I want to quit be-cause the stress is overwhelming,” she said. “But you come down and look at these guys and you think ‘I can’t walk away from you.’ I need them as much as they need me.”

As for her award, she’s happy but she also notes that “I’m not the type of person that wants the limelight in recognition.”

“This has always been my passion. I just feel odd being receiving an award for doing what I love to do.”

Humane Society Manager Maryann Ouellet dodges the slobbery affection of one of the shelter’s boarders, Sawyer.

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Continued from page 6FOOTNOTE: Back in February I wrote about

a Canadian-based outfit called Pacific Rubiales Energy (PRE) that had put plans for a barge-based LNG export plant in Colombia on hold given the crash in prices.

Things have gone from bad to worse since then.

A couple of weeks later a report came out from the Colombian oil chamber that predicted

growing domestic demand and depleting reserves meant the country would actually have to import LNG by 2018, if not sooner. So what sense did exporting make?

The final blow came last month when state-owned Ecopetrol told PRE its contract to operate the Rubiales gas field - from which it gets 30 per cent of its supply - would not be renewed.

Add another body to the it-seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time LNG graveyard.

LNG

Continued from page 6Herein lies the dilemma;

the MoE has already approved RTA’s brand new modernized plant, thank you again RTA for building it, to pollute SO

2 at a

higher rate than allowable under current regulations. Hmm, this is not right.

This unacceptable permit-ting process almost went under the radar in Kitimat, but two lo-cal teachers, with serious con-cerns about the implications of raised limits of SO

2 on human

health, are appealing the deci-sion of the government. These courageous women are doing something for all of us: hero-ically taking on the battle for what is right for the future of

our town, our families and our grandchildren. They are mak-ing a difference, as examples to all of us that we do have the re-sponsibility to question industry and government, through due process, the right to good health without compromise.

If Uncle Al sat around smoking cigars in the new fully provisioned house he had built for us, we know, and he knows too, that he would be exposing us to cancer from second hand smoke.

Please Uncle Al, take the best care of your family and yourself, quit smoking now. In-stall the scrubbers to clean our air.

I urge you to join the “Kiti-

mat for Clean Air” Facebook group to follow along with this important issue, and to sup-port these brave Appellants by donating to the Go Fund Me campaign started together with SkeenaWild Conservation Trust to aid them in their appeal that will now begin in April in Vic-toria.

See the campaign at www.gofundme.com/clean-air.

You can also attend the hearing when it sits in Kitimat at the Rod & Gun Club from June 1 – 12, 2015.

Please consider your voice to a petition at the Unifor 2301 Hall in Kitimat.

Sincerely,Patricia Lange

Continued from page 6There is no politi-

cal and/or civilian over sight for C-51 either. You are giving CSIS a free ticket to do what-ever they want and not even have to check in

with a judge on all oc-casions. This is an invitation for abuse. C-51 should mandate an oversight commit-tee of knowledgeable politicians and aca-demics who will know

how to provide proper governance to a secret service. It is ridiculous to simply rely on the infallible judgement of CSIS employees.

Mr. Harper, chilled we might be but si-

lenced we are not. C-51 will turn CSIS into a de facto secret police and it is uncon-stitutional and contrary to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It has received a failing grade

from the two top secu-rity law experts in the country. You should drop it or rewrite it

altogether. It seems that once again, it is our right and our re-sponsibility to involve

ourselves in the gover-nance of our country.

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Marlins’ Cathers earns spot in nationals in Quebec CityJason Cathers

The Kitimat Marlins had three swimmers attend the 2015 AAA provincial short course (25 meter pool) swim championships in Surrey.

The championships saw 560 of the best swimmers from around B.C. and Yukon aged 11 to 15 competing.

Kleanza Cathers, 15, scored the most points for the Marlins while competing in the 14/15 girls division.

At the competition she reached her second, third and fourth Canadian age group national times in the 200, 400 and 800meter freestyle.

With it Cathers punched her ticket to this summer’s Canadian age group national competition which will be

held in Quebec City in late July.

Her best placing came in the 200 meter freestyle where she placed � fth just half-a-second off a medal. Her time also broke the regional record in the event for 15-and-over girls.

The old record was set in the 50 freestyle by Stephanie Nichols more than a decade ago. Cathers also placed eighth in the 400 freestyle, and 12th in the 800 freestyle breaking her own regional record by 10 seconds. She won the B � nal placing ninth in the 50 meter freestyle and placed 16th in the 100 meter freestyle. She also helped the girl’s regional relays to three top eight � nishes.

Zachary Dumas, 15, com-

peting in the 14-15 boys divi-sion continued his skyrock-eting improvement scoring second most points for the Marlins.

In the 400 individual medley Dumas was just half-a-second off the bronze medal with a � fth place � nish. His time reached his second Ca-nadian age group national time for 15 year old boys and western national qualifying time.

Dumas also reached those two standards as well in the 1500 meter freestyle with a personal best of more than 45 seconds.

His time placed him sixth for the event.

The Canadian age group national qualifying time was Dumas’s third which usually

quali� es a swimmer for the Canadian age group nation-als, Canada’s highest level age group swim meet. Unfor-tunately Dumas turns 16 one week before the competition so he will need to qualify for that age group to attend. Du-mas also placed eighth in the 200 meter butter� y and 16th in the 200 meter breaststroke.

Alivia Soares, 14, had a tough competition as she still has a full year left in the 14-15 girls age group. She had her best individual result in the 400 IM with a 22nd place � nish.

She also had solid swims in both regional relays she helped out in. The 4x50 free relay placed � fth in the prov-ince and the 4x100 free relay sixth.

The Marlins’ three swimmers at the Surrey short course championship on the weekend of March 7.

A former Kitimatian is now honing his lacrosse skills south of the border.

Connor Buick of Kitimat joins a number of other B.C. athletes in their junior season with the Bryn Athyn College Lions’ � eld lacrosse team. Bryn Athyn is an NCAA Div. 3 small, private Christian liberal arts college located 20 miles northeast of Philadelphia.

Buick joins Vernon’s Ryan Landels and four other Okanagan lacross players, Nolan Frame (Cold-stream), brothers Quintin and Col-ten Harrish (Vernon) and Marlon Forrest (Armstrong). Buick and the latter four are all freshmen with the Lions, who kicked off their 2015 season with a 12-8 win over the Re-gis College (Mass.) Pride in cold and rainy conditions.

The Lions are coached by Ca-nadian Lacrosse Hall of Famer, and Vernon summer resident, Johnny Mouradian.

The Lions have many new faces on the roster, but no one larger than the new head coach.

Mouradian was hired at the end of the 2014 season and quickly overhauled the Lions. Mouradian

came to Bryn Athyn with a long coaching resume in the professional indoor game and a successful career coaching the Canadian National Field Team.

Buick ensured Mouradian had a winning debut, scoring four times and adding one assist. Frame added three goals while Landels had 1+1.

The Harrishes and Forrest were kept off the score sheet for the Li-ons.

“I’m very proud of our players for playing with the drive and deter-mination necessary to be success-ful,” said Mouradian. “They battled through the rain and cold. They stuck to the game plan and we were true to our principles.”

The Lions played their home opener Wednesday, overcoming a shaky start to handle the Immacu-lata (Pa.) Mighty Macs 17-11 to im-prove to 2-0.

Bryn Athyn outscored the Macs 16-4 over the � nal three quarters af-ter falling behind 5-1 in the opening 15 minutes.

Landels and Buick each had three goals for the Lions, and Frame added 2+2.

- Vernon Morning Star

Kitimat’s Buick strong addition to lacrosse team

Connor Buick, number 13, playing for the Bryn Athyn College Lions’ � eld lacrosse team.Photo provided by Bryn Athyn College

Connor Buick, number 13, playing for the Bryn Athyn College Lions’ � eld lacrosse team.

Kitimat Northern Sentinel, April 01, 2015

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