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7-day shelter opens in KitimatCameron Orr

Following from last winter’s extreme weath-er shelter, the Mountainview Alliance Church is hosting a seven-day a week overnight homeless shelter.

The shelter is being operated by the Kitimat Child Development Centre, with support from the Kitimat Housing Resource Project, and is co-managed by Birgit Manninen and Michelle Mar-tins.

The shelter only opened for the � rst night on November 17 and the managers, along with their cur-rent crop of volunteers, were busy to make sure everything was set be-fore the likely peak season begins when the weather will really take a turn with cold and snow.

Unlike last year, this shelter will operate re-gardless of whether extreme weather has been declared.

“There’s no stipulation what the weather is, we’re just open,” said Manninen.

She said that they do hope that they can even-tually secure space at the Kitimat First Baptist Church, only to provide a more central location for potential users.

Since opening on the 17th, she said they hadn’t had any users yet, but it will be a wait-and-see approach to how well used it is ultimately.

“There’s so many dynamics to this that at any point you don’t know how many you’re going to have,” she said. “It will be at the end that we’ll know.”

She said people who need shelter may have found some but it’s very possible people may feel “closed in” after awhile, or the people they’re staying with could get evicted themselves, which rapidly changes a person’s situation.

Martins says anybody can be admitted, the rules though are to be sober and drug free, and vi-tal statistics are taken as well to ensure the person doesn’t need medical treatment.

The shelter opens at 8 p.m. and closes at 8 a.m. daily.

“It is more so directed to men because there are no supports for men in the community,” added Martins. “For women and children we’re going to try to get them in to the transition house � rst.”

The managers are still seeking more volun-teers to add to the dozen or so they have on their roster.

People can call the CDC at 250-632-3144 for information about the shelter.

“Don’t I know you from the naughty list?” Paula Keech shared this photo from the November 22 Light Up Kitimat Festival at Mountainview Square. The festive event was visited by Santa Claus himself who mingled with the children, and shared a look or two with some.

Haisla LNG plans may bump into Northern Gateway’sCameron Orr

A Haisla-owned LNG proposal called Cedar LNG (Senti-nel, Sept. 10, 2014) has eyes to land which had been dog-eared for the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines project.

Cedar LNG would call for six jetties for LNG export for � oating production facilities along the west side of the Douglas Channel.

One such location puts the Haisla proposal within the pro-posed footprint of Northern Gateway’s marine terminal.

Haisla Chief Councillor Ellis Ross knows that their plans will impact the Gateway proposal.

“It’s not land sharing,” he said, adding, “We’re still going ahead on the judicial review on the NEB’s recommendation...We’re still going through with the court case on Canada’s deci-sion to approve Enbridge so that, without a doubt, will have to keep going.”

The land they have plans for have been in the Haisla’s eye for a long time.

“The land in question...long before anybody came to town,

was always part of the Haisla’s treaty land offer,” said Ross. He said if a treaty ever came close to a reality the Haisla wanted to be assured that land was included.

“Even before anybody came along, including Enbridge, the Haisla knew they wanted that land back,” he said. “We haven’t given up our rights and title on any of our territory.”

Enbridge spokesperson Ivan Giesbrecht said that their pro-posed site is “part of the project as approved by the federal government,” and is held in a “Map Reserve” established in the B.C. Land Act in 2006.

“In 2012 Northern Gateway worked with [B.C.] to reduce the site from approximately 467 hectares to approximately 390 hectares to provide additional room for proposed adjacent LNG sites,” he added.

He also said that Northern Gateway “has always been sup-portive of LNG projects on the west coast,” and that the com-pany would be “happy to have conversations with Chief Ellis Ross regarding Haisla-supported LNG projects in relation to our marine terminal.”

“There’s so many dynamics to this that at any point you

don’t know how many you’re

going to have.”

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hicle driving erratically southbound on High-way 37S couldn’t track it down, after the vehi-cle was reported driv-ing 50km/h and was constantly braking.

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cence to officers. Final-ly a 24-year-old man from Quebec received an impoundment and prohibition after failing the screening test.

November 23A 21-year-old

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At 3:13 a.m. police returned to the Kiti-mat Hotel on a report of an assault. Police were told three to four people were fighting outside the hotel. Wit-nesses did report some aggression but no one allegedly involved wished to speak to po-lice.

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Rio Tinto Alcan donated $30,000 towards the operation of Kitimat’s cold weather homeless shelter, running at the Mountainview Alliance Church. The sizeable cheque also represents the first donation under RTA’s re-established Northern BC Community Investment Fund program. From RTA is Colleen Nyce, Michel Charron at the far left, and Gaby Poirier (fourth from left), along with housing resource volunteers and workers Paul Lagace, Margaret Warcup, Trish Parsons, Michelle Martins, Birgit Manninen and Rob Goffinet.

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Geothermal en-ergy can help power the B.C. electri-cal grid around the province, and B.C. should assess that option before decid-ing to proceed with a third dam on the Peace River, an in-dustry association says.

The Canadian Geothermal Energy Association (Can-GEA) issued a report detailing its latest work on geothermal sites. In addition to hot springs and volcanic sites that could be tapped to provide power, the study examines “hot sedimentary aqui-fers” that have been stumbled upon by oil and gas drilling.

“At the risk of offending my own mother, this ain’t your grandma’s geo-thermal,” said Can-GEA chair Alison Thompson at a Vic-toria news confer-ence.

T h o m p s o n pointed to the re-cent joint federal-provincial review of BC Hydro’s Site C dam project, which noted that little re-search into geother-mal energy has been conducted in B.C., meanwhile energy minister Bill Bennett said geothermal isn’t an alternative to the dam.

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Town historian researches the boom/bust cycleCameron Orr

Kitimat has been a boomtown since be-fore there was a town.

The Northern Sen-tinel’s resident his-torian Walter Thorne sent an audience at the Kitimat Museum & Archives through a visual history of Kiti-mat’s boom-bust cycle from the 50s to now.

But it’s a struggle the town had seen even before.

“Things just about happened a number of times,” said Thorne, saying it goes back to 1906 with specula-tion Kitimat might get picked as the terminus to the Grand Truck Pa-

cific railroad. “They even carved up lots on Minette Bay.”

Prince Rupert, however, won that fight, keeping Kitimat a quiet place, for an-other four-and-a-half decades.

“Of course, every-thing happened and changed in 1951.”

By April, said Thorne, there was heavy machinery ar-riving off the boats, leading to Alcan’s first metal pour in 1954.

Throughout the ‘50s he said he’s es-timated about 4,000-5,000 people living in camps.

Cut to today, the

current camp capacity for workers in Kitimat for today’s construc-tion is about 4,000.

It’s beginning to become clear why they’re called ‘cycles’.

“We are booming right now,” he said, adding that work has definitely levelled off.

But that all leads to the question of after the boom.

“You can’t look at boomtown without the bust,” he said, and the 1950s even had its own share.

In 1955, a major avalanche in the Kil-dala Pass wiped out power to the smelter and to Kitimat for sev-en straight days.

“What that did was harden the metal and actually ruined mil-

lions of dollars worth of equipment,” he said.

There was also a crash in the aluminum market in the 1950s and many workers re-ceived sudden lay-off notices.

Kitimat continued to has ‘busts’ in its fu-ture, between the can-cellation of Kemano Completion, and the closure of Eurocan’s

pulp and paper mill.Thorne smartly

avoids casting and predictions to any po-tential future ‘busts’ in town.

He told his audi-ence at the museum last Wednesday that the potential in Kitimat right now is for a boom larger than seen in the 1950s, but that is all speculation.

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Enrolment downAnna Killen

The Coast Mountains School District (CMSD) says it lost a number of students to the private school system at the beginning of the school year, something it says could be a fallout from the labour dispute between the province and its teachers union.

And that, combined with the continuing trend of families moving away from the district because of increased living costs, means student enrolment numbers are down dramatically this year, according to CMSD officials.

Full-time enrolment for kindergarten through Grade 12, excluding home-school stu-dents, is 4,484 as of Sept. 30, according to docu-ments provided at last week’s regular school board meeting. That’s a loss of 233 students from the 4,714 enrolled at the end of September last year – or roughly five per cent of the district, which includes Terrace, Kitimat, Stewart, and Hazelton.

“We are down,” said CMSD secretary trea-surer Alanna Cameron on Nov. 21. “We’ve become a higher cost area. I think a lot of our lower income families have moved out...we have workers moving in and families moving out that can’t afford to live here anymore.”


When the B.C. government an-nounced its latest changes to liquor distribution, the reaction was not what I expected.

Private store representatives com-plained bitterly that the government is allowing further expansion of fridges and “cold rooms” in selected govern-ment liquor stores, and longer operat-ing hours that include more Sunday openings. Those hours, along with non-union staff, are the private stores’ big advantages.

The B.C. Government Employees’ Union didn’t seem at all perturbed that state-run stores’ key advantage was also going to be gone effective April 1. That would be preferential wholesale pricing, in which the government’s monopoly wholesaler sells to them at cost and to private stores at higher rates.

How much higher? Liquor Distri-bution Branch of� cials were carefully vague on that, and it varies depending on which of the 22 wholesale catego-ries you look at. They released a graph that suggests the average wholesale cost to government stores might be going up 10 to 15 per cent to create

a “level playing � eld” with private stores.

That wholesale price difference is the main reason private stores have generally higher retail prices. And the majority of the province’s revenue of nearly $1 billion a year comes from this monopoly wholesale business, where the hidden tax is coyly termed a “mark-up.”

When the new, simpli� ed system comes in next spring, a bottle of hard liquor will have a “mark-up” of 124 per cent. That’s right, LDB more than doubles the price with its wholesale li-quor tax. And if it’s premium booze, anything valued at more than $21 a li-tre will get an extra luxury tax on top of that.

Coolers and ciders will see a 73 per cent mark-up. Wines are taxed at 89 per cent, with extra luxury tax on

premium wines. Beer gets a per-litre tax with ascending rates for small, me-dium and large breweries.

Premier Christy Clark acknowl-edged that the � rst guiding principle of this overhaul is to keep that govern-ment revenue coming.

The new BCGEU president, Stephanie Smith, doesn’t sound like your bullhorn-toting socialist of yore. She insists she’s gung-ho to compete head to head with those private inter-lopers and get back some lost market share, particularly on the high-volume cold beer sales.

The union has another ace in the hole. Its current contract stipulates that LDB can’t close stores.

In some small towns there are gov-ernment stores that lose money, partic-ularly since they’ve had more private competition.

But at least for the duration of this BCGEU contract, the government retail arm will continue to operate in some places as a perverse social pro-gram subsidizing retail clerk jobs that pay nearly twice what private retail pays.

Continued on page 9

Liquor changes could push up prices

Community prideI had said to someone early in my days of return-

ing to Kitimat from my two years in Smithers that it’d be nice if there was a sort of organized light up event in Kitimat relating to the holidays.

I think it tied in to talk of the large Christmas tree over on the former-hospital site, which one day, while I drive by I realized was, simply, on.

This after enjoying the Christmas in the Valley events in Smithers where their main street is lit up like, well, you know, a Christmas tree.

Anyway, so it goes, and I sure as heck didn’t make any traction to seeing this happen. (I was busy, and so forth. Totally meant to, really guys...)

Meanwhile, you know who did make it a reality? The Rotary Club, with some help, including from the unionized members at the � re hall, who are seeing to it that their Christmas tree is re-lit, and will in the future withstand the elements.

So all this to say, really, that it’s great to see a rise in community-spirit events such as the Kitimat Light Up Festival.

There’s always that hope that if the town is buzz-ing at all, that people are employed and money is be-ing spent, that hopefully community spirit can grow too.

The United Way held their � rst � re truck pull in Kitimat in the summer which was a lot of fun (For me it was a lot of fun watching people pulling a fully-equipped � re truck, perhaps would be less so if I were doing the pulling).

The second annual Trev Amos’ organized Kita-maat/Kitimat Polar Bear Swim (taking over from the Hospital Beach tradition) will be in the new year.

Kitimat, for me, has always been a town of its people. I don’t hide the fact when people ask that I had no burning desire to ever move to “Kiti-a-what’s it?” before I had a chance to know the town.

In my � rst year as a reporter here I met really great people. (I mean, of course I’ve continued to meet great people, but you see my point...)

When I had the chance to move back to Kitimat I obviously didn’t do it to be closer to big shopping and retail centres. (“Future Shop is how far?” said me, seven years ago.)

We (I better stop using ‘I’ before my wife starts asking questions) had a good foundation of friends, not to mention family here.

When you live in a wild frontier like Kitimat, you sometimes come to a choice; wonder who you made angry to � nd yourself in Kitimat, or what you did right to � nd yourself here. It’s the latter group which knows that to make a community worthwhile, it starts with doing a little community building yourself.

Lights on, thumbs up.Cameron Orr

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Channel Watch endorses youth letterDear Sir,

With our community so focused on the details of oil and gas pipelines, permit applications and appeals, housing crises and many more issues, Douglas Channel Watch thought it might help to take a step back and look at the big picture.

Several weeks ago the UN Intergov-ernmental Panel on Climate Change re-leased it’s fifth and final report. (Count ‘em, 5!) This report states that Earth’s temperature has risen 1C degree and will climb another full degree in 15–20 years.

Consequences of this increase will be melted glaciers (so no more water to

irrigate our prairies); continuing drought in California and Texas (where most of our fruit and vegetables come from but maybe not for much longer); rising sea levels (don’t worry, LNG Canada is building its new plant to withstand this); and unprecedented storms (force 4 hur-ricanes in Baja, 0 degrees in Hawaii, six feet of snow in Buffalo).

Next year there will be another UN

climate change conference. Canada will send a youth delegation but no high level politicians will attend if past practice is followed.

This is the letter (below) that our youth have written to the Prime Minister and which we (DCW) along with other environmental and citizen’s groups have endorsed.

There are good reasons why we have taken on the work of fighting with huge corporations.

These are some of them.Sincerely,

Liz Thorne

ReadeR’s WRite

Youth to Harper: we deserve betterTo the Government of Canada:

We are the Cana-dian Youth Delegation, supported by Douglas Channel Watch among other signatories. We are youth from across Canada who are at-tending the upcom-ing UN international climate change nego-tiations (COP 20) in Lima, Peru. As we pre-pare for our participa-tion at the negotiations, we realize how impor-tant it is for us to in-troduce ourselves and tell you that we refuse to tolerate the inaction of the Canadian Gov-ernment when it comes to climate change. We intend to hold you ac-countable for the deci-sions you make at COP 20.

We have grown up in a world threat-ened by the impacts of a changing climate. For our entire lives, world leaders have been aware of the ir-reversible damage that humans are in-flicting on our planet, but have done almost nothing to reverse it. You, the Government of Canada, have made it clear that you are more interested in the profit and power you gain from a fossil fuel based economy than you are in ensuring a sustainable and livable planet for generations to come. Since assum-ing power you have:

* withdrawn from the Kyoto Protocol in 2012 and continually blocked progress at international climate negotiations;

* refused to put meaningful effort into supporting climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts;

* lowered and re-neged on emissions re-ductions commitments and zealously lobbied other governments to do the same;

* pushed back re-lentlessly on the Cli-mate Change Account-ability Act (Bill C-311) and silenced the young people who protested its failure in October 2009 by dragging them from the House of Commons, where you laughed at them for demanding collective and ambitious climate action and policy;

* championed an omnibus bill in 2012 that stripped federal environmental protec-tions and muzzled cli-mate scientists;

* systematically audited and threatened organizations that aim to shed light on the dis-graceful actions of the government;

* and denied the treaty rights of Indig-enous peoples in this country.

We, the Cana-dian Youth Delega-tion, stand alongside the millions of young people worldwide who

refuse to inherit a plan-et in crisis. We stand beside Indigenous peoples, frontline com-munities, people of co-lour and low income populations who are living the frightening realities and injustices of climate change, and who will continue to be disproportionately im-pacted in the absence of sufficient action.

From coast to coast to coast First Nations, Inuit, and Metis, indus-try workers, new immi-grants, parents, farm-ers, fishermen, unions, students and many more are demanding climate justice. Yet the Government of Canada continues to lead us down a highway of rapid industrializa-tion, resource exploi-tation, and unwieldy trade agreements, with a complete lack of re-spect for Indigenous land and treaty rights. We reject the notion that the environment and the economy are mutually exclusive or pitted against each other.

There is no price tag on forests, rivers, wetlands, air, culture, communities, or our lives and livelihoods. We know that it is not for lack of technologi-cal advancement, pub-lic opinion, or financial resources that we have not stopped climate change in its tracks; the culprit is lack of

political will. Along with action on climate change, we demand that the Government of Canada honour the treaties and land rights of Indigenous people in this country.

You have the op-portunity to be a leader in creating a just tran-sition to a clean energy future, but you consis-tently fail to rise to the challenge.

By now, any ex-cuses for delay have long expired, yet we anticipate with heavy hearts that you will continue to stall nego-tiations at COP 20 and promote carbon-inten-sive projects at home. If this is the case, we will continue to resist

extractive projects, and we will not give up until you acknowl-edge and take urgent and ambitious action to demonstrate that our future is more im-portant to you than the money in your pockets, the oil on your hands, or the power you hold. To us, our future is ev-erything, and we will do all that we can to protect it.

Let it echo through the halls and board-rooms of every legis-lating body and cor-porate headquarters in this country: we de-serve better.

Sincerely,The Canadian

Youth Delegation to COP 20

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During this time of change for our Kitimat Operations, we wish to once again solicit new member organizations who may wish to participate, contribute and become more informed on matters related to Rio Tinto Alcan’s environmental stewardship in BC.

This Rio Tinto Alcan committee typically meets on a quarterly basis in Kitimat and is open to representatives of local community organizations, agencies and not-for-profit associations.

If your organization is interested in this opportunity, please submit an expression of interest to [email protected].

Invitation for new membersRio Tinto Alcan wishes to expand the membership of its Public Advisory Committee.

Season’s Greetings from Kitimat LNG

Our Community Offi ce will be closed for the winter

holidays from December 15 – January 5. On behalf of all

us at Kitimat LNG, we wish you a safe and happy holiday

season, and look forward to seeing you in the New Year.

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Appeal starts in 2 weeksCameron Orr

The arguments in an appeal as to whether Rio Tinto Alcan should have received their current, updated emissions permit from the Ministry of Environment starts December 15 in Victoria.

Hearings will be held until December 19, then will resume with hearings in Kitimat January 5.

Hearings will ultimately conclude in Victoria January 30.

While all other RTA emissions will drop once the new smelter goes in to operation, sulphur di-oxide, SO2, receives a substantial bump, rising from 9,855 tonnes a year to 15,330.

SO2 contributes to acid rain.The Ministry of Environment, meanwhile,

had representatives at Kitimat Council, speaking on the recent Kitimat Airshed Assessment study.

It was essentially an overview of the study, which concluded that Kitimat’s airshed did have room for more industrial development, but pri-marily focused on SO2, and nitrogen oxides, but has been criticized for not giving adequate atten-tion to particulates.

The Ministry’s Edward Hoffman said particu-lates are an issue for the overall airshed but it’s combustion which is its primary source. He said that the public will likely be seeing more analy-sis, country-wide, on particulates in the coming months and years.

Phil Germuth elicited applause from those in the gallery of the council meeting when he pressed the representatives on the SO2 scrubber question.

“Why would you not require the best pos-sible technology to be installed right off the bat,” referring to the potential for RTA’s new smelter to have SO2 scrubbers installed to reduce those emissions.

Speaking for ESSA Technologies via phone (ESSA led the government commissioned study), Dave Marmorek said there are 220 smelters in the world and only 12 of those apply SO2 scrubbers.

Hoffman followed saying they’d have to un-derstand what happened at those particular places.

“One would have to look in to each of the in-stances where scrubbing was required and deter-mine what circumstances were at play,” he said.

He also added that it would be worth it to see why scrubbing was not used in the majority of those smelters. Emissions can also be reduced noticeably in ways other than scrubbing, he said.

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The B.C. govern-ment has launched a website it says will help spread the ben-efits of liquefied natu-ral gas development to businesses around the province.

Jobs Minister Shirley Bond unveiled the website at www.LNGBuyBC.ca last Tuesday, with 300 B.C. businesses signed up with details of their goods and services. Representatives of two of those businesses vis-ited the B.C. legislature to endorse the effort.

Derick Stinson, Chair for the Kitimat Chamber of Com-merce, said the web-site “is a great tool for businesses not only in the north, but all busi-nesses in B.C.”

“The LNGBuyBC tool is like LinkedIn for any business inter-ested in being a sup-plier partner with the LNG industry in B.C.,” he added.

He said that the website also works the other way around, and gives the LNG pro-ponents themselves a window to see what can be offered by local-area businesses.

“As many of these relationships between the LNG industry may span construction, commissioning and into the service life of the LNG plants, creat-ing these relationships early in the develop-ment of the LNG in-dustry is key to deriv-ing maximum benefit,” he said.

Janice Shaben, the president of the Terrace Chamber of Commerce, said, “I’m going to encourage all my businesses in town to make sure they get

connected, because by registering your com-pany on the website, it allows you to showcase what you’re capable of doing, what services you’re able to provide,”

Shaben said.Bond said the liq-

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website enter details of their goods and ser-vices and the system matches them up with needs listed by energy and construction com-panies.

The government hired former NDP cabinet minister Gor-don Wilson to tour the province promoting B.C. business partici-pation in LNG proj-

ects. Wilson stressed that aboriginal commu-nities and companies will be at the front of the line.

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Environmental Assessment of the Proposed

Terminal A Extension Project

Open House and Invitation to Comment

Rio Tinto Alcan (Proponent) is proposing an extension to the existing marine terminal and construction of a barge ramp, tug dock and laydown facility. The proposed Terminal A Extension Project (proposed Project) is to be located at the Port of Kitimat and within proximity to the District of Kitimat and the Haisla Nation Kitamaat Village. The proposed Project is subject to review under British Columbia’s Environmental Assessment Act. The Proponent must obtain an environmental assessment certificate before any work can be undertaken on the proposed Project. However, prior to submission of an application (Application) for an environmental assessment certificate by the Proponent, Environmental Assessment Office of British Columbia (EAO) must first approve the Application Information Requirements. Key to the Application Information Requirements is the identification of Valued Components to be studied and the areas within which the studies would occur. The selected Valued Components are presented in the draft Valued Components document which the Proponent has prepared and EAO invites the public to submit comments on. In order to provide information about the Valued Component selection, EAO invites the public to attend an Open House, to be held as follows:

at: Kitimat Valley Institute 1352 Alexander Ave., Kitimat, BC on: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 from: 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

There are 35 days for the submission of comments by the public in relation to the draft Valued Components document. The comment period will begin on December 4, 2014 and end on January 8, 2015. All comments received during this comment period in relation to the draft Valued Components document will be considered.

The intention of seeking public comments is to ensure that all potential effects – environmental, economic, social, heritage and health – that might result from the proposed Project are identified for consideration as part of the assessment process. At this stage of the process, the primary intent is to receive feedback about the studies or information required for a comprehensive environmental assessment. EAO accepts public comments through the following ways:

• By Online Form at http://www.eao.gov.bc.ca/pcp/index.html

• By Mail: Teresa Morris Project Assessment Manager Environmental Assessment Office PO Box 9426 Stn Prov Govt Victoria BC V8W 9V1

• By Fax: Fax: 250-387-2208

An electronic copy of the Valued Components document will be available at www.eao.gov.bc.ca by the start of the public comment period. Copies of the Valued Components document will also be available for viewing at these locations:

Rio Tinto Alcan’s Community Office 254 City Centre Mall Kitimat, BC

and Kitimat Community Library 940 Wakashan Ave. Kitimat, BC

If you are unable to participate at this time, there will be an additional comment period during the Application Review stage when you will also be able to provide comments to EAO on the proposed Project.

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Alice Holmes and Pearl Lennox work a craft table at City Centre Mall on November 21, for the City Centre’s craft fair and ‘ugly Christmas sweater’ evening.

December 4ART CLUB of Kitimat meets at 7 p.m. in Room 113 at MESS. Relief Painting Part II – Paint-ing the modeling paste canvas from Nov. 20’s session. Bring acrylic supplies. No supplies? We have some and we share! This is the last session of 2014; club resumes Jan 2015. For more information con-tact Katherine Johnsen 250-632-6888December 16Bladder Cancer Can-ada will be having a meeting. The meetings will be at the UNIFOR Union hall on Enter-prise Avenue at 2:00 p.m. This is a great way to meet and connect and to learn about blad-der cancer from people

who have experienced bladder cancer. For more information call Glen at 250-632-3486.OngoingKITIMAT QUILTERS GUILD: If you are in-terested in joining the Kitimat Quilters Guild please contact Aileen Ponter at 250-632-6223 or Janet Malnis at 250-632-7387 for fur-ther information.EVERY THURSDAY, the Kitimat Pottery Guild meets in the Riv-erlodge arts wing, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Interested in playing with clay? All experi-ence levels welcome. For more information call Anne at 250-632-3318.WANT A GARDEN bed next year at the

Kitimat Community Garden? Call Denise at 250-632-9107 for more information.PRAYER Canada Kiti-mat meets weekly on Tuesday at noon at Northwest Community College. All are wel-come to pray for our town, province, and country. Contact Les-ley for info at 250-632-4554.HEALTHY BABIES drop in is held every Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Kitimat Child Devel-opment Center. They welcome families throughout pregnancy and up to one year (older siblings wel-come). Come meet other parents and in-fants over light refresh-ments with support from the CDC staff and a Public Health Nurse. For more information call 250-632-3144.

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About the Project

LNG Canada, a joint venture between Shell Canada Ltd., Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS), Mitsubishi Corporation and PetroChina Company, is proposing to build an LNG export terminal in Kitimat. LNG Canada’s vision is to work collaboratively with the local community, First Nations and stakeholders, to deliver a project that is safe, reliable and reflective of community interests.

For more information about the project, please visit lngcanada.ca, call us toll free at 1-855-248-3631 or email us at [email protected]

LNG Canada submitted its Application for an Environmental Assessment Certificate to the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office. The Application Review phase of the environmental assessment is now underway, and includes a 45-day public comment period hosted by the B.C. EAO to seek comments on the application.

The public comment period closes on December 22, 2014 at midnight and we encourage you to submit your comments on our application to the B.C. EAO.

There are a number of ways you can learn more and provide your comments:

Environmental Assessment: Submit your comments before December 22

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View consultation materials and learn more

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View the Application and provide your comments

View the complete application and provide your comment online at: eao.gov.bc.ca

Copies can also be found at the District of Kitimat, Kitimat Public Library, LNG Canada Community Information Centre in Kitimat and Prince Rupert, City of Terrace City Hall and the Terrace Public Library.

Comments must be submitted to the B.C. EAO by December 22 at midnight

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Kitimat Marlin swimmers following an invitational swim meet in Prince George. Submitted

Marlins took no dive, returned with 7 medalsSubmitted

The Kitimat Marlins swim club had 21 swimmers attend the Prince George invitation-al swim meet over the November 22 weekend.

There were over 200 swimmers from teams in Prince George, Williams lake, Ques-nel, Chetwyn, Fort Saint John, Smithers and Terrace.

The Marlins had some great swims with many personal best times. A whopping seven marlins took home medals.

Zachary Dumas (15) quali� ed for his � rst national level swim meet, Western Canadian Nationals, by reaching the 16 and under time standard for it in the 200 Meter butter� y. He is now welcome to attend Western Nationals in Edmonton in February. Dumas took the gold medal in overall points for the 14-15 boys cat-egory at the meet.

Kleanza Cathers (15) broke the Points North team’s (Northwest B.C.) record in the 15 and over girls 800 meter freestyle. Her time of 9:31 for the event shaved one second off the old mark set by former UBC alumni and B.C. record holder Stephanie Nichols from Prince Rupert in 2001. Cathers made her third West-ern National qualifying standard in the event and her fourth standard in the 200 meter free-

style on her way to a silver medal in the 14-15 girls division.

Hayden Dobbin (15) reached his � rst two AA provincial qualifying times in the 200 me-ter backstroke and 1500 meter freestyle. Dob-bin is now welcome to attend the AA Provincial championships in Chilliwack this February.

Dobbin took the silver medal for overall points in the 14-15 boys division.

In the 10 and under division there were no medals given for overall points but instead for two of the events, 200 meter freestyle and 200 meter individual medley.

Olivia Pearson (10) took the gold medal in the 200 freestyle and silver medal in the 200 IM,

Adrianna Florit (10) took the silver medal in the 200 meter freestyle.

Ethan Velho (13) took the gold medal in the 12-13 boys for overall points.

Brander Pacheco (16) took the bronze medal in the 16 and over boys division for overall points.

Four swimmers accomplished the tough task of swimming personal best times in all eight of their races. They were Kevin Bae, Kemper Weightman, Hayden Dobbin and Marianne Trembley.

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Kitimat Northern Sentinel, December 03, 2014