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Northern Sentinel K I T I M A T Volume 61 No. 19 www.northernsentinel.com Wednesday, May 13, 2015 $ 1.30 INCLUDES TAX A look at how to plan for growth. /page 8 KUTE calls in waste disposal experts. /page 9 PM477761 Temperaments calm as sides look again to mediation Cameron Orr When Martin McIlwrath and Jeremy Dos Santos presented the results of a community peti- tion to Kitimat Council, the presentation did not come with any of the usual high tempers which had marked past encounters. The moment was in fact very low key, with McIlwrath reading a few comments — namely the words from a recent Unifor 2300 letter, which we reported on last week — before getting to the peti- tion, circulated by the union. He said that as soon as a new collective agree- ment can be made, “we can start to rebuild our community.” For the petition, the question had signatories asking the mayor and council to return to the table any agreements or offers already reached in the bargaining process, and to leave only outstanding issues left to be negotiated. McIlwrath said that anything previously agreed to should not have to be re-bargained. As of Friday the sides were expected to re- sume mediation on Monday, which, if needed, could run to today. There was no council response at the May 4 meeting as the mayor said they are still bound by terms of mediation which provides strict confi- dentiality requirements. Speaking later in the week Mayor Phil Ger- muth did say that there has been no direction to the negotiating team to return any previous offers to the union, as requested through the petition. Germuth said to leave just the outstanding issues of the contract to be negotiated still wouldn’t put the sides any closer to an agreement. Continued on page 2 Haisla thank you Massive pots of beef stew are dished out in the Kitamaat Village Recreation Centre during a special thank- you dinner hosted by the Haisla in honour of the people who provided assistance during the madness that was the February snow storm, which even led to an evacuation of the Village. Numerous volunteers offered help in those days, while the Riverlodge was opened up as well as a warming centre. Housing society gets their grant After a recent request for support, Kitimat Council has come back with up to $20,000 towards the development of an affordable housing project in the Whitesail neighbourhood. Mountainview Housing Society will continue to work with industries and will potentially develop up to eight units out of 30 that will be used, on five year leases, towards industrial companies who may need the rooms in the future, if projects go ahead. The development, if it proceeds, would be built next to the Mountainview Alliance Church. Through debate, Claire Rattée did express some concern that town grant policies may not quite cover contributions to projects like this, and expressed some concern over the fact that some units would go towards industrial proponents. But Pastor Don Read with the housing society notes that creative partnerships such as with industry means they can build affordable housing units without breaking the bank. For instance he said to not lease out eight units would be the dif- ference of the society asking Kitimat council for $1.25 million rather than $20,000. “We’re helping them meet a need but what they’re actually doing is funding up to one-third of the housing because that’s the amount of revenue that would be created,” said Read. As for the general policy implications, he said that housing units like these aren’t just an issue for the non-profits but for the community at large. A community, he said, is gauged on how well it takes care of its vulnerable. “If it always lands to charities and non-profits, then as a community we should reflect on what it means to be a com- munity.” Ultimately councillors decided that $20,000 was not a large amount of money given the potential return on providing affordable units. Read said at a later time they may come back during the construction phase for support — the money right now is to get through site engineering and evaluation — but that would come after a capital plan is developed and other partnerships are established. In the event the land proves unable to support a develop- ment the church said they’ll recommend to their head office in Surrey to sell the land, and the proceeds will go back to re- paying the grants given, such as to the District. Rob Goffinet in moving the approval for up to $20,000 said the price would be a low cost against the possible need, while Mario Feldhoff added that this sort of housing has been identi- fied as a need already. “I think it’s our job to help them, as opposed to hinder them,” he said. “Lets help keep the momentum going.”
Temperaments calm as sides look again to mediationCameron Orr
When Martin McIlwrath and Jeremy Dos Santos presented the results of a community peti-tion to Kitimat Council, the presentation did not come with any of the usual high tempers which had marked past encounters.
The moment was in fact very low key, with McIlwrath reading a few comments — namely the words from a recent Unifor 2300 letter, which we reported on last week — before getting to the peti-tion, circulated by the union.
He said that as soon as a new collective agree-ment can be made, “we can start to rebuild our community.”
For the petition, the question had signatories asking the mayor and council to return to the table any agreements or offers already reached in the bargaining process, and to leave only outstanding issues left to be negotiated.
McIlwrath said that anything previously agreed to should not have to be re-bargained.
As of Friday the sides were expected to re-sume mediation on Monday, which, if needed, could run to today.
There was no council response at the May 4 meeting as the mayor said they are still bound by terms of mediation which provides strict con� -dentiality requirements.
Speaking later in the week Mayor Phil Ger-muth did say that there has been no direction to the negotiating team to return any previous offers to the union, as requested through the petition. Germuth said to leave just the outstanding issues of the contract to be negotiated still wouldn’t put the sides any closer to an agreement.
Continued on page 2
Haisla thank youMassive pots of beef stew are dished out in the Kitamaat Village Recreation Centre during a special thank-you dinner hosted by the Haisla in honour of the people who provided assistance during the madness that was the February snow storm, which even led to an evacuation of the Village. Numerous volunteers offered help in those days, while the Riverlodge was opened up as well as a warming centre.
Housing society gets their grantAfter a recent request for support, Kitimat Council has
come back with up to $20,000 towards the development of an affordable housing project in the Whitesail neighbourhood.
Mountainview Housing Society will continue to work with industries and will potentially develop up to eight units out of 30 that will be used, on � ve year leases, towards industrial companies who may need the rooms in the future, if projects go ahead.
The development, if it proceeds, would be built next to the Mountainview Alliance Church.
Through debate, Claire Rattée did express some concern that town grant policies may not quite cover contributions to projects like this, and expressed some concern over the fact that some units would go towards industrial proponents.
But Pastor Don Read with the housing society notes that creative partnerships such as with industry means they can build affordable housing units without breaking the bank. For instance he said to not lease out eight units would be the dif-ference of the society asking Kitimat council for $1.25 million rather than $20,000.
“We’re helping them meet a need but what they’re actually doing is funding up to one-third of the housing because that’s the amount of revenue that would be created,” said Read.
As for the general policy implications, he said that housing
units like these aren’t just an issue for the non-pro� ts but for the community at large. A community, he said, is gauged on how well it takes care of its vulnerable.
“If it always lands to charities and non-pro� ts, then as a community we should re� ect on what it means to be a com-munity.”
Ultimately councillors decided that $20,000 was not a large amount of money given the potential return on providing affordable units.
Read said at a later time they may come back during the construction phase for support — the money right now is to get through site engineering and evaluation — but that would come after a capital plan is developed and other partnerships are established.
In the event the land proves unable to support a develop-ment the church said they’ll recommend to their head of� ce in Surrey to sell the land, and the proceeds will go back to re-paying the grants given, such as to the District.
Rob Gof� net in moving the approval for up to $20,000 said the price would be a low cost against the possible need, while Mario Feldhoff added that this sort of housing has been identi-� ed as a need already.
“I think it’s our job to help them, as opposed to hinder them,” he said. “Lets help keep the momentum going.”
“It doesn’t really matter if those are back on the table or not, if you can’t resolve the outstanding issues you’re still not getting anywhere,” said Ger-muth.
He added, “We’re looking forward to hopefully having a re-sult to this labour dis-pute to get our workers back and have all our facilities back open. Of course it’s also had a big effect on people be-ing able to get building permits and occupancy permits. We’re hoping that the negotiations are successful this time.”
A union presenta-
tion on May 4 was not the only conversation about the strike to be had that evening.
Council heard from two members of the public, urging an end to the strike.
The presenters were Tim Rice and Vickey Kokesch.
Kokesch in par-ticular, through her role as chair for the Snowflake Community Fairgrounds Society, notes that there is only about a week left for the strike to get sorted out before the June 13 planned Bull-O-Rama will have to be called off.
The event is held
in Tamitik Arena.Kokesch said the
event provides a lot of benefit to local busi-nesses and community groups and all will be at a loss if the event has to be cancelled.
She transitioned to a personal reflec-tion, saying that due to the strike she’s not
been able to receive an occupancy permit for renovations on her home, which is costing her a lot through insur-ance.
“If your strategy is to starve out your workers you’re starv-ing out other people too,” she said, asking to get District leader-ship back to the table and to not “outsource” the town’s leadership.
She also pointed to the disadvantage for her grandchildren not being able to access the pool.
“I want my grand-kids to learn how to swim,” she said. “I don’t want my grand-
kids to be statistics.”Rice shared a simi-
lar sentiment to the lack of leisure services.
“As you’re aware...drowning is the main cause of death for chil-dren. Kitimat kids are missing their chance at much needed swim-ming lessons to pre-pare for camping sea-son at the lake,” he said.
Rice said even in general for his family it’s harder to maintain usual levels of fitness.
“We’re all suf-fering needlessly...especially those single parents and families on single income who are
presently on strike,” he said.
He said his hope is for the District to do better getting to the bargaining table.
“Why is it that get-ting your negotiating team to the bargaining table and staying there has been like trying to
herd cats?” he asked. “I expect my tax dollars to support good, reliable jobs. Not growing the number of precarious part-time positions.”
Both Kokesch and Rice have munici-pal union employees in their immediate families.
Parking variance sorted outA zoning amendment and
a development variance permit has been approved for a planned warehouse on Enterprise Av-enue.
The planned construction of the space would see a parking
shortfall of established require-ments so under the arrangement, the land will now be zoned to require just 10 spaces, and the town will accept $43,060 in place of five of those stalls.
It’s expected that parking
requirements for the building won’t be high.
The money for the parking spots will be set aside for park-ing or transportation infrastruc-ture that will support walking, cycling or public transport.
“It doesn’t really matter if those are back on the
table or not, if you can’t resolve the
outstanding issues you’re still not
getting anywhere.”
Cameron OrrKitimat’s Chief
Administrative Of-ficer Ron Poole is moving on to the Dis-trict of Mission, while Kitimat’s deputy CAO Warren Waycheshen fills in as Kitimat’s in-terim CAO.
The District of Kit-imat announced Poole’s departure May 5.
On his departure, effective May 29, Poole said there was a mix of reasons to go, which essentially boiled down to his de-sire to spend more time with his family.
“I’m looking for-ward to a new change,” he added.
The move is bit-tersweet for Kitimat Council, especially Mayor Phil Germuth who credited Poole for
doing so much over the last four years.
“We’re sorry to see him go, but we defi-nitely appreciate Ron’s four years with the Dis-trict and we wish him all the best in his new position in Mission,” said Germuth.
“There is no doubt Kitimat is much better off for having had Ron
for these four years.”Germuth pointed
to the improved rela-tionships with the pro-vincial government, with the Haisla Nation and industry as well.
“I know that, just myself having got-ten to know Ron and learned from him these last four years...I know I can do a better job of representing Kitimat because of what I’ve
learned from [him].”Poole added that
he has thoroughly en-joyed his four years be-ing in Kitimat.
“We have loved Kitimat since we’ve been here. Regardless of a strike or anything else, we’re not leaving here with any ill feel-ings,” he said.
Germuth said that in this circumstance there is no severance
package that is to be paid out to Poole, given that it’s a voluntary de-parture by him.
As for who will be Kitimat’s next CAO, the mayor says that will be a discussion taking place in the next few weeks.
“We’ll be dis-cussing that down the road”, he said, not dis-missing the possibility of Waycheshen remain-ing in the position.
“Certainly all of council have a lot of respect for Warren,” he said, noting his work history shows he has the background to be able to be CAO.
Poole of course is leaving in the midst on the ongoing munici-pal strike which began February 28.
Poole had been heading the negotia-tions before the Dis-trict of Kitimat hired the services of a third-party negotiator to take
on that task.Germuth says
Poole leaving shouldn’t have any impact on any furthering bargaining given the use of the third-party.
“I don’t see that this is going to hinder any possible collec-tive agreement getting signed at all,” he said.
The Mission Re-cord newspaper quotes their community’s mayor’s thoughts on Poole’s hiring.
“Ron Poole’s ex-perience and expertise are perfectly aligned with many of our ma-jor projects and initia-tives,” said their mayor Randy Hawes.
“His experi-ence working with the province, fed-eral government, and local First Na-tions in northern B.C. will be invaluable here in Mission as we move our community forward.”
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While the Coast Mountains School District looks at cutting down the administrative posi-tions in the district, Kitimat is spared from any changes at the moment.
This year, due to a number of staff va-cancies, the district was able to move people around so it is not doubling up on administrators.
“In our larger schools we’re trying to get to two, and our smaller schools trying to get down to one – we’re not all the way there yet, it will be a pro-cess of about several years to get to that,” said Katherine Mc-Intosh.
The move, which will see Skeena and Cale-donia now move to one full-time vice principal instead of two part-time ones beginning in Au-gust, has been in the works for some time and will save the district about $30,000 in salary.
Taken to a mem-bership vote, Lax Kw’alaams voted against an LNG bene-fits agreement with Pa-cific NorthWest LNG.
There are three stages to the vote, and the first two have shown the members rejecting the agreement, which is worth just over $1 bil-lion.
Among the con-cerns was the impact the Lelu Island terminal would have on the way of life for people on the North Coast.
“I will never, ever give up the Skeena Riv-er. I will never, ever give up my livelihood for money. There is far too much at stake ... we are Tsimshian people, that is who we are ... we live off the ocean, we live off the seaweed and we live off what is around us,” said one attendee. “I don’t care how many jobs they promise you... it doesn’t beat what we have.”
Schools
Lax Kw’alaams
REGIONAL BRIEFS
Kitimat CAO off to Mission for new job
Ron Poole
Medal for PooleJust as news of Kitimat’s CAO’s depar-
ture was made, another bit of Poole news came out; he’s the recipient of the 2015 Lieutenant Governor’s Silver Medal for Ex-cellence in Public Administration.
The announcement was revealed on May 6. A ceremony in Victoria is set to take place June 9.
Taxes are nearly all setTax notices will soon find their way to Kitimat
home owners with council formalizing tax rates.As usual residential homes will be subject to
a flat tax — that is a single, equal payment — that is in addition to the mill rate.
This year the flat tax is set to $560.The mill rate on top of that will be $1.35 per
every $1,000 of taxable value of the property.The District collects other taxes as well, in-
cluding North West Regional Hospital and school tax, among others. Those rates are not set by the municipality.
All together residential homes will be subject to a $4.89 rate (approximate) on top of the $560 flat tax.
Major industry’s rate is set to $36.60 for 2015. Utilities will be paying $50.55, and light industry’s tax rate is set to $56.27.
The business rate is $21.20.Those rates include the school tax, which is
actually the largest tax rate among the classes (including municipal and hospital), with home-owners in Kitimat paying a $2.72 mill rate on that specifically.
The tax rate bylaws now just have to be for-mally adopted by council.
Council also worked to formalize their five-year financial plan, which is a guideline to how budgets will look years down the road, but is not a set-in-stone document. The provincial govern-ment requires the adoption of five-year plans by municipalities.
The five year plan shows various ambitions or expectations, including a total $1.2 million for phase one of covering of the landfill, and nearly $4 million over those five years for Riverlodge.
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“The administration of the town of Kitimat has been as un-necessarily as foolishly stubborn as the representatives of its union-ized workers resulting in lack of access to taxpayer-owned facili-ties over a needless nine week old strike.”
There, is that insulting enough for you? Do you see these words as insulting or threatening to the District of Kitimat? Or to the city RCMP?
It’s just to make the point that I’m still glad to live in Kitimat. Thank goodness I don’t live in Granby, Que-bec, where the town has just passed a by-law that would expose me to a court charge for insulting either the admin-istration or police of� cers in the com-munity.
In Granby — a town about 80 km east of Montreal — it was already il-legal to insult a police of� cer and other municipal of� cials. Offenders could face � nes ranging from $100 to as high as $1,000. Overboard? Yes, I think so.
What I wrote above would be a
mild insult, at least very mild com-pared, I suspect, to the ridicule now being heaped on these clearly too-sen-sitive councillors of Granby, who just extended their by-law to cover insults/threats on the internet (especially so-cial media, like Facebook.)
What could have been said to them to make them take these steps, which has led to them facing a now-endless barrage of criticism, including the con� dent suggestion of local lawyers that the charges won’t stand up, if ever brought before the courts?
It seems the move followed after town of� cials discovered a locally-based Facebook page called Les polic-iers zélé de Granby — The Zealous Po-
lice of Granby — which was hardly fully supportive of those appointed “to serve and protect.”
Adding themselves as admin-istrators to the bylaw helped carry it over the top. By the way, I tried to look at it on Facebook but they reported no such page was to be found. I’m guessing it may have been taken down.
The bylaw, unfortunately, is an attack on people’s freedom of speech. Are they really all that thin-skinned? Because, if they are they had better got out of municipal politics. Instead they prefer to legislate some form of despotic control over what can be said about them or their police force. One thing I know is that you cannot legis-late respect.
Certain levels of free speech, I be-lieve, are guaranteed under both feder-al constitution and Quebec provincial law. Outside of Islamic extremists or Kim Jung Il I’ve never heard (in Cana-da) of any such level of intolerance to what people think or say.
Continued on page 6
The thin skins of Granby, QC
Alberta’s vote applied to here
The major loss by the Progressive Conservatives in Alberta losing greatly to the new provincial party NDP, has been, if I read the news coverage right, nearly unprecedented.
I’ve been trying to quickly catch myself up be-cause as Kitimat’s news gatherer I rarely care about what happens outside our region, let alone in a to-tally different province.
(I remarked to friends recently that I’d only truly pay attention to this new royal baby if she was born in Kitimat General Hospital.)
This Alberta election though could have direct results to Kitimat’s own economy.
CBC.ca reported in the hours after the election that the impact to the stock market was already hit-ting oil companies.
Energy price stocks dipped the morning after the election, they said.
Among the changes the NDP promised on the other side of the Rockies is a review of the prov-ince’s royalty system, a process which has energy proponents seemingly nervous.
I wonder if a royalty review would affect proj-ects like the Coastal GasLink which is the pipeline to supply natural gas to LNG Canada, and which con-nects to TransCanada’s pipeline system in Alberta.
I’m just theorizing though, of course so are wor-ried energy analysts too, really, at this point.
On the subject of straight-up oil, though, North-ern Gateway could have more to fear.
As a whole that project has de� nitely seen better days, with lacking social licence and a slew of legal hurdles in the wake of their federal government ap-proval, following an equally controversial Joint Re-view Panel process.
But the Alberta provincial support that project received may be at an end, when Premier-elect told the Calgary Herald that her government would with-draw support, and that the government should stop “forcing it” regarding that project due to unresolved issues
Now-former Premier Jim Prentice, before join-ing the party in Alberta, was even a proponent of Northern Gateway, working to settle issues between the company and First Nations.
Suf� ce to say, at this point, Northern Gateway may not be dead but it’s certainly been sent to the corner.
As for how the reaction has hit in my own cir-cles, reactions have been varied from just a re� ection on how interesting it is that there’s been this change, to gung-ho celebration to end-of-the-world type la-ments.
It’s the early days, of course. Anything can hap-pen. But it seems clear that the vote in Alberta could see effects spill over in to Kitimat. I leave it to you to decide if it’s for better or worse.
Cameron Orr
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As I write this, the municipal strike has entered its third month with both sides dug in deep and showing no sign they are pre-pared to give ground.
Regardless of whether they are still stalemated as you read this or have by some miracle settled, I believe the following is still valid.
Let’s start by delving into the Sentinel archives.
Back in 1993 the Alcan union, recognizing the poor alu-minum market and in exchange for improved benefits, reluctantly settled for zero per cent wage in-creases in each of the next three years.
So when it came time soon af-ter to negotiate a new contract for city workers, the city invoked the decades old convention that wage increases for its workers followed Alcan’s lead and insisted that they had to settle for three zeroes.
The city workers reluctantly accepted the logic.
So when three years later Al-can’s new contract specified three per cent increases in each of three
years, the city union members un-derstandably expected the same in their new contract.
But incredibly the city chose that moment to reject the long standing link by offering only 2 per cent in year one and 2.25 per cent in each of the next two.
Now it wasn’t rocket science to realize the union would go ballistic and sure enough in mid-January 1997 they went on strike. It lasted 16 days and ended when the city folded and agreed to three threes.
So here we are 18 years later with the city again trying to end the convention and again we have a strike on our hands.
Those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to
repeat them.In the wake
of that 1997 strike council, in a split vote, decided they should get a con-sultant to come in and take a look at the city’s opera-tions.
Stantec was hired to do just that and in No-vember of 1998 Pat Anderson went to work, which included in-terviewing council, management and workers. His report, called the Stantec Organizational Re-view, was released early the fol-lowing year.
And there was one recurrent theme in his report.
Management staff he inter-viewed identified management-union relations as a problem area.
Staff union members said “there is a fairly strong consensus that relationships have deterio-rated since the strike (and) there is a general complaint of a lack of communication and trust.”
Code for management-
union relations.Finally council, “when
pressed”, pointed to the same problem.
Nearly three decades later and things don’t appear to have changed much. And the length and bitterness of this strike has undoubtedly worsened the prob-lem.
Fast forward to this year and this set of con-tract negotiations - what a bloody farce.
It didn’t take long for the generally accepted practice of not negotiating through the media to go out the window as a war of press releases erupted.
The city said union demands would mean a 12 per cent tax increase - but to my knowledge never produced numbers to ex-plain how they arrived at that fig-ure.
The union countered that the city claim was wrong - and pro-duced no numbers to show where it was wrong.
Responding to union state-ments, the city issued a press
release laying out what it called “facts”.
The union responded with its own release of “truths”.
Taxpayers learned little from either.
The union claimed there were a boatload of grievances against the city, the mayor in open coun-cil flatly denied that - again no numbers provided by either side.
And then there were the ver-bal slug fests between the two sides at council meetings which descended into something akin to school yard squabbles.
The Sentinel’s February 5, 1997 front page on the settle-ment of that strike noted “Neither (side) is having any difficulty finding reason to lay blame on the other.”
This time around I have no difficulty in blaming both.
FOOTNOTE: if the strike is still going on I have a suggestion - put both sides in the same room, lock the doors, deprive them of food and water and let them out only when they have reached a deal.
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Tom FletcherNDP leader John Horgan re-
members working with Alberta premier-elect Rachel Notley when she was a lawyer working for then-attorney general Ujjal Dosanjh, and he was a senior staffer in the NDP government in the 1990s.
Horgan said Wednesday he's "ecstatic" at the upset victory of the Alberta NDP, toppling the Progres-sive Conservative dynasty that ruled for 44 years. And he predicts that sea change in the politics of west-ern Canada will benefit federal NDP leader Thomas Mulcair this year and his party in 2017.
"I've known Rachel for some time," Horgan said. "She is as genu-ine as she looks. She is as competent as she sounds. I think that's good news for Canada."
The effect of of Alberta's first-ever NDP government remains to be seen, with the province in a sharp downturn due to low oil prices. Not-
ley's promises include raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and increasing corporate taxes at a time when the oil and gas industry is lay-ing people off.
Horgan remains noncommit-tal about the proposed twinning of the TransMountain oil pipeline from northern Alberta to a ship-ping terminal at Burnaby. Notley has expressed support for that proj-ect, while opposing the Northern Gateway proposal to deliver Alberta heavy oil to Kitimat.
B.C. Energy Minister Bill Ben-nett said he doesn't expect any change in relations between the two provinces. He shrugged off the Alberta vote, saying he mostly watched the Calgary Flames defeat Anaheim in the Stanley Cup play-offs Tuesday night.
"It took 44 years to elect an NDP government in Alberta," Ben-nett quipped. "We've got 30 years left."
BC NDP ‘ecstatic’
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6 Northern Sentinel, Wednesday, May 13, 2015
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Valley NDP MP Na-than Cullen says if the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline proj-ect wasn’t dead before the NDP sweep of the Alberta provincial election, it is now.
NDP leader Rachel Notley led her party to an historic victory in this week’s provincial election, overturning decades of Progressive Conservative rule, and promising her major-ity government would bring change to Al-berta.
Part of that change is her stance on En-bridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline, which as proposed would transport heavy crude from Alberta to a terminal in Kitimat where it would then be shipped to eastern mar-kets.
Notley knocked out PC premier Jim Prentice, who resigned not only the party lead-ership but also his seat.
Before becom-ing leader of the PCs, Prentice had been tasked with shoring up support for Northern Gateway. The contro-versial pipeline was approved by the fed-eral government nearly a year ago, subject to 209 conditions, and the company has been working towards meet-ing those conditions.
“Rachel Notley was elected in with a strong majority gov-ernment on a man-date to not pursue the Northern Gateway pipeline,” said Cul-len. “If this were such an important pipeline and people had great hopes and expectations that would have been very difficult for her to win.”
Enbridge North-ern Gateway released a statement to media yesterday saying that the company looks for-ward to sitting down with the new Alberta government to provide an update on the project and their partnerships with First Nations in Alberta and B.C.
“We share a vision with the new Alberta
government for world leading environmen-tal protections for en-ergy projects,” read the statement. “We believe that our vision for this project will earn the support of the new
government and we look forward to this dialogue.”
ullen said he doesn’t know what else it will take for the company to give up its pipeline plans.
“This is another nail in the coffin. En-bridge, if they don’t know that, then they’re not very bright – and we know they’re bright because they hire a lot of expensive people,”
he said.And Cullen thinks
the company should spend more time pur-suing projects that have the endorsement and support of First Nations, citing pre-
liminary plans between Enbridge and Kitselas to explore geothermal opportunities on Kit-selas territory near the Lakelse hot springs.
“Why fight against communities,” he said.
“Why not work with us?”
The election of Notley and an NDP government in Alberta “changes the conversa-tion” on energy in Can-ada, said Cullen.
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Council has approved $120,000 for the purchase of a new back-up generator for the � re hall.
The Public Safety Building’s back-up gen-erator failed during Febru-ary’s intense snow storm, but concern over how to get the most cost-effective option to replace it held up an immediate purchase.
Staff, under direction, returned to council May 4 with a report of potential replacement options, with the $120,000 purchase of a brand new generator being
the preferred.Councillors were also
presented with an $80,500
option to replaced the gen-erator with a new-to-us model, which would still
be a higher capacity unit than the one currently side-lined.
Among the issues with that is that there were no used generators on the mar-ket to the best of the town’s knowledge, and there was concern that, being used, there would be elevated maintenance costs.
A third option would have been to simply � x the existing unit. Even with a $4,000 cost, the town, in their report, said due to the generator’s age it would still be unreliable, parts are
hard to come by, and the generator would not meet all of the building’s power needs. The existing back-up generator doesn’t meet all the needs either.
Finally the fourth op-tion would be to continue leasing a back-up genera-tor. The � re chief said in his report that it would cost $25,200 a year to continue with that.
The vote was unani-mous in support for the pur-chase (minus Larry Walker who was absent for the meeting), but in one case it
was somewhat reluctantly.“I still feel I’m a little
uneasy in terms of the op-tions that’s been present-ed,” said Mario Feldhoff. “[But] it would appear that no matter what type of unit we get we’re going to be faced with similar cost in installation...I’m still not convinced we have the best option...but will vote in fa-vour of the report.”
Edwin Empinado said that $120,000 for 20 years of reliable power genera-tion at the � re hall was a worthwhile expense.
Northern Sentinel, Wednesday, May 13, 2015 7
Town camp policy pushed off again to JulyKitimat’s efforts to formalize a work
camp policy — which includes provisions for how much a camp bed will cost a com-pany to the town’s affordable housing fund — have been pushed back to July, as a pub-lic hearing in to the proposed bylaws has gone on for over a year.
The bylaw, for the M1 manufacturing zone, began in March 2014 and has gone through some revisionism, including new allowances for up to 25 people in a camp without the requirement to contribute to the affordable housing fund.
The bylaw process has attracted atten-
tion from local industry, including Chevron when representative Dave Molinski said earlier drafts of the bylaw — in this case presented at on October 6 as part of this ongoing public hearing — could have “un-intended consquences.”
“For a project like us we look at all the costs that are involved in developing our project and we would need to understand exactly how those costs may affect our de-cision making going forward,” he said at the time.
Other developments which have led to further considerations in the bylaw is
the results of a December Housing Action Plan report for Kitimat.
The report included, among other items, an emphasis to discourage living out allowances from industries — monies paid to allow workers to live in the com-munity. The impact of those is partially why house prices and vacancy in Kitimat rose and dropped, respectively, over the last few years.
The District’s Director of Planning and Community Development Gwen Sewell said that the reason that the public hearing has been requested to continue is
there is still work to sort out regarding the language within it.
“We’re going to take a look speci� -cally at the in-kind contribution language and how to secure that with housing agree-ments,” she said.
Namely the language will be looked at to formalize the way in which a company could build affordable housing themselves, and the ways the town would record those contributions.
At the moment the housing crunch is beginning to ease with a 3.6 per cent va-cancy rate as of October 2014.
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The challenges of a commu-nity facing mega projects was the forefront of discussion at a spe-cial event last week, hosted by the Kitimat Economic Develop-ment Association and the Kitimat Chamber of Commerce.
The event, called Lets Talk, brought in a panel of speakers, in-cluding Fort St. John Mayor Lori Ackerman and Gordon Wilson, who advocates for the LNG Buy-BC program.
Other speakers were UNBC researcher Greg Halseth, who has been studying many com-munities in B.C. facing industrial development, including Kitimat, and Michael Evans from Fort McMurray, a government rela-tions specialist.
Ackerman tells the Sentinel that there are many parallels be-tween Kitimat and her own com-munity, which has also seen large growth through industrial devel-opment.
At Fort St. John’s core is four guiding principles, says Acker-man: economic prosperity, envi-ronmental sustainability, social inclusion and cultural vitality.
“Every decision we make is
viewed through those lenses,” she said. “Whatever your [Offi-cial Community Plan] says you want your community to look like, you’ll have to look through those lenses, to ensure you’re on the right path to get to that moun-tain top.”
They’ve faced challenges similar to Kitimat’s own recent ones, including access to afford-able housing and they’ve had an affordable housing committee for two years to study what other communities do.
“We looked at Langford,
for instance, down on the island, keeping in mind their snow re-moval policy is wait 24 hours it will go away, ours is not,” she said.
“Our affordable housing committee determined the highest priority would be low-cost mar-ket housing...How do you achieve that?”
Her community approved zoning which makes way for sin-gle family homes with secondary suites, with stipulations such as the home owner must live in the home too.
Houses with secondary suites was a proposal for a small town-house complex on Blueberry Street last year, which ultimately didn’t get the backing of council, due to a number of concerns.
Ackerman says her own town has had issues with townhouse complexes and secondary suites and notes they don’t always work out, outside of the single-family home model.
Namely if a duplex rents out a secondary suite, that duplex sud-denly becomes a four-plex, with new parking challenges.
She also points to employ-
ment recruitment as a challenge, namely making a community at-tractive to new workers and man-agers.
“Just because you and I hap-pen to like it here doesn’t mean everyone else is going to,” she said. “How do you create that community that’s not totally in-dustrial?”
Again, Fort St. John came up with their own answer in the form of a group of under-40 mem-bers of the community, organized through their chamber of com-merce.
“Having them provide direct input in [plans]...really helps us to see what it is they’re thinking,” she said. “So make use of the kids.”
The idea of tapping the younger business generation is something that Kitimat Chamber of Commerce’s executive director agrees Kitimat should do.
“We’ve got some young, new business owners. They’ve got some new ideas,” said Trish Par-sons.
She said many people within the Chamber or in the business community at large are well es-
tablished but might not have new visions.
“I think it would be very ben-eficial for the community to get some of these younger entrepre-neurs together,” she said.
Parsons said they were hap-py to get people like Ackerman because their communities have gone through similar transitions.
Meanwhile representing a different angle, Buy-BC’s Wilson says his role is to mythbust mis-conceptions about LNG process-es, and to connect smaller local businesses to opportunities with these international companies.
To that he says Kitimat has an advantage given many local com-panies have already been trained on how to engage with large com-panies through the Kitimat Mod-ernization Project.
“I think the Rio Tinto project, I think some of the mining proj-ects out there...the skills that are required in this industry are not necessarily that unique,” he said, adding that Kitimat’s experience with industry “should give them a front row seat to the [LNG] in-dustry once this industry starts to hire local.”
8 Northern Sentinel, Wednesday, May 13, 2015
The family of a woman killed here in 1998 says they’re devastated her mur-derer has been given day parole.
“His release only serves to depreci-ate the seriousness of his crime, under-mine respect for the laws of this country and marginalize our family’s loss,” Anita Johnstone said of the National Parole Board decision regarding Christopher Alexander who was convicted of killing her sister, Linda LeFranc.
Alexander, who has been in jail for 13 years, over half of which has been spent at an aboriginal healing village in the Fraser Valley, was released to a half-way house in the Fraser Valley area this week.
He’ll be working on a farm that pro-vides work experience for people under conditional release from prison.
Alexander was 17 years old in De-cember 1998 when he broke into Le-Franc’s Terrace townhouse, stabbing her 83 times with a knife taken from the kitchen.
Now 33, he’s to report to authorities twice a week, refrain from using alcohol or illegal substances, cannot use social media and is restricted from traveling
outside of the general Fraser Valley area.But Johnstone said she has no confi-
dence that Alexander’s activities will be properly monitored.
“I’m totally petrified,” said John-stone. “He’s not capable of following the simplest of instructions.”
“My serious, serious concern is the lack of supervision when he’s out there.”
Johnstone and other family mem-bers have sat through numerous previ-ous parole board hearings through which Alexander has been granted absences of various kinds and for different lengths of time.
Other than reading a victim impact statement, family members have not been allowed to take a role in the hear-ings.
Throughout those hearings, John-stone said Alexander has never taken ac-countability for killing her sister.
“He has not dealt with the issues that have caused him to commit such a vio-lent crime,” she said. “I believe he is an untreated offender.”
Based on his conduct and activities, Alexander can apply for full parole six months after being granted day parole.
Johnstone and other family mem-bers attended the April 23 parole hearing which resulted in the day parole decision.
It marked the last time they will have an opportunity to sit through a hearing because further decisions affecting Alex-ander won’t require a formal session.
“That’s it, we’re done. We’ve lived through this 17 years now,” said John-stone.
“And this is our life sentence. The system is not about my sister or the vic-tim at all. It’s about the offender and what the offender wants. It’s just so heartbreaking.”
The family had mounted numerous petition campaigns, including ones on-line, in a bid to keep Alexander in jail.
Still, Johnstone said she and the fam-ily will continue to advocate for longer prison sentences and more rights for vic-tims and their families.
Arrested in late 1999 following an extensive RCMP undercover operation in which an officer posing as the “Mr. Big” of a criminal gang got Alexander to admit to the murder, he was sentenced following a trial in 2002.
- Terrace Standard
Linda Lefranc killer gets granted day parole
‘Lets Talk’ event taps outside expertise
Continued from page 4I have little doubt the com-
munity is “not amused” by the council’s efforts to control any backtalk from the taxpayers or the unwanted attention it is bound to bring. Presumably, the bylaw remains in place, at least until tested. A look at Facebook commentary suggests that a test
might not be long in coming. Oh, and can you imagine where this might go if Stephen Harper de-cided it was worth pursuing?
I remember when I was about 11 getting a fairly sharp boot on the backside from a grizzled police sergeant in Prestwick, Scotland, after I failed to be en-tirely polite when he asked me
to “move along.” When I com-plained to my father, he sent me to bed for being rude to a police office Circa 1950. Different era, different times.
Most of us live in a bubble. We have very little negative in-teraction with the police. Not all of us. Check around some regional pubs around 2 or 3 a.m.
when young police officers get to do their job. It’s not easy or safe.
It’s much more so when you’re facing daily near-riot situ-ations whether in the States or in Quebec. It’s “act first, ask ques-tions later.” I’m not saying this is right or wrong but it’s today in North America and police as a whole don’t come off well, when
the toll is taken.But, come on. Insulting a cop
and threatening one are two dif-ferent things. Placing yourself, as a municipal employee or council-lor, as above criticism, protected by a bylaw, is just simply ludi-crous and I hope will be found to be so if the Granby council tries taking it into court.
Granby
Lori Ackerman
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Ken Maitland with some of the hazardous products he has in his garage.
KUTE organizes hazardous waste eventCameron Orr
A household hazardous waste disposal event may not quite sound like carnival-level excitement for the family, but it’s an important way for you get rid of surplus toxic materials from your garage.
Kitimat Understanding the Environment is hosting the event in Kitimat, and will also be run in Terrace and New Ha-zelton as well.
KUTE director Ken Mai-tland said the event got off the ground with financial support from the local governments and from local businesses and in-dustries.
He said the material being collected is for things not cov-ered by the provincial Extended Producer Recycling program, and can include things like oven cleaner or Draino.
KUTE has used the finan-cial contributions to fly in spe-
cialized chemists who will take in the materials at the KUTE depot on Railway Avenue in the Service Centre, and properly store and transport them away.
“It needs to be treated and handled appropriately,” he said about the waste products being collected.
In total the event, among the three communities, costs an es-timated $74,000.
Among the various products people can bring in includes paints, used oils and flammable liquids.
Maitland said it has been 10
to 15 years since the last simi-lar event in Kitimat, and beyond this specific time, people in the community don’t have places they can properly dispose of these types of items.
While these products are not designed to go in to the landfill he says it happens, and that material can contaminate soils and water ways.
Kitimat’s event runs on May 23 from 10 am to 3 p.m. New Hazelton’s event will run the same day, at Allen Park, and Terrace’s event runs May 24, in the co-op parking lot.
There’s no immediate plans to have the same event next year so Maitland recommends either get to this event or make a plan for the chemicals you have at home.
“Don’t leave half a bottle and [then] go buy another,” he said, for ways to cut down on waste. Just use it all up.
Northwest Com-munity College has announced spending cuts of $1.4 million, primarily affecting its university course cred-it program.
While no academ-ic courses will be can-celled outright, where and how they are of-fered is to change, said college communica-tions director Sarah Zimmerman.
“With under-enrolled courses, we looked at timetables
so that instead, for example, of being of-fered several times it will be offered once,” she said. Smithers is to be affected the most as students there will take university credit cours-es via teleconferenc-ing or other electronic means.
But fewer course times means fewer in-structors and others will be needed, Zim-merman said.
“We’ve been working with our
unions offering early retirement and sever-ance packages,” she added.
The more college employees take up re-tirement or severance packages the fewer actual job losses there will be, said Zimmer-man.
And some instruc-tors are also being told they’ll be teaching less.
The employee cuts amount to the equiva-lent of 14.5 full-time
positions across all college departments.
Zimmerman said the college’s shortfall stems from receiving less money from the province and less tu-ition money because student enrolment has dropped.
“And as a col-lege, we are obligated to submit a balanced budget,” she said.
The $1.4 million cut reduces the col-lege’s base budget to just over $22 million
compared to last year’s $23.4 million.
One large finan-cial loss comes from the province cutting a grant worth $494,000 to provide tuition-free adult basic education courses.
The college will now start charging the same level of tuition for adult basic educa-tion that it does for university level aca-demic courses but stu-dents can also now ap-ply to the province for
financial assistance.The level of assis-
tance will depend on their income.
“We don’t know what the impact of charging tuition will be or the uptake of fi-nancial aid,” said Zim-merman.
Despite the spend-ing cuts and a com-pressed academic program offering, Zimmerman said the college remains a vi-
able educational in-stitution. “We con-tinue to have robust programs,” she said. “There is demand for what we offer – trades, fine arts, health, busi-ness programs, univer-sity transfer.”
The cuts are in a provisional budget being distributed for comment and the col-lege board will offi-cially vote on the doc-ument next month.
Cuts coming to Northwest Community College
Alliance won’t get requested moneyThe Northwest Resource Benefits Alliance won't be seeing
any money from the provincial government until the Province of B.C. starts seeing income from some of the major projects proposed for the region.
That was the response of Ministry of Natural Gas Develop-ment assistant deputy minister Brian Hansen and Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development assistant deputy minister Jay Schlosar to the alliance's request for $1.131 mil-lion to cover the cost of negotiations that would eventually lead to a resource benefit sharing agreement between the provincial government and the body representing various municipalities and regional districts in the Northwest.
"At this stage, major investments in the region are still de-veloping and making critical decisions on final investment.
Significant new provincial revenues will not be realized for a number of years following those final investments ... it is, in our view, premature for the province to consider entering into any agreements that would see those revenues dedicated before they are realized," the two wrote in a letter to Kitimat — Stikine Regional District chair Stacey Tyers.
"We will be unable to meet the alliance's request for fund-ing at this time.
Recognizing that all future benefits rely upon securing and enabling investments in LNG facilities, the province must continue to dedicate its primary focus on working with local governments either hosting these prospective facilities or most directly impacted by facility development."
- The Northern View
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Mary MacGregor born July 9th 1946 in Duncan, BC passed peacefully on April 3rd 2015 after a long battle with MS. Mary will be reunited with her Mother Megan, Father William and younger brother Robin. Although Mary will be missed she will live on in the fond memories of her loving husband Paul, her daughters Paula (Bill), Alanna (Mark), Patricia (Jake), Brenda (Richard), her seven grandchildren Jordan, Ben, Kody, Wade, Sage, Talina, Brekkan and her many nieces and nephews.Mary loved the ocean, and the great outdoors. She enjoyed frequent camping trips, climbing mountains and building sandcastles. After she lost her mobility Mary continued to enjoy the great outdoors through photos and treasures collected by her children and grandchildren. Mary always placed the highest value on community and went through great lengths to establish strong connections. Mary was a leader with Guides Canada, a Sunday school teacher, member of the Ocean Falls Women’s Auxiliary and Legion and was a founding member of the Kitimat MS Association. Mary’s community involvement went far beyond formal organizations- she was a regular helper at school, the back yard became a regular gathering spot for the kids in the neighbourhood and she was always involved in helping the less fortunate. Even in her last days Mary found a way to knit scarves for those in need. Her strength and compassion set an incredible example for everyone around her. Despite enduring great hardship, Mary was always the first to remind everyone that we should be thankful for what we have.
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SubmittedThe Paci� c Northwest Music Festival
2015 came to a close after a very success-ful 16 days.
Celebrating its 50th anniversary, they hosted special events, including two con-certs and workshops.
With over 1,200 entries, 4,000 per-formers and 135 locally sponsored awards, this event demonstrates the commitment the Paci� c Northwest has to the perform-ing arts world, as well as enormous support for the young people who are involved in the arts.
There are three additional scholarships available in three levels, Junior, Intermedi-ate and Senior, for most outstanding per-former.
The competitors for these scholarships will be those with the highest marks and among the top performers from each dis-cipline, representing piano, vocal, speech arts, dance, guitar, strings and woodwinds for these awards.
Kitimat performers Madison Sommer-feld (Piano) and Iris Striker (Speech Arts) were chosen to compete in the Junior cate-gory for ages 12 and under and Julia Piroso (Speech Arts) was chosen to compete in the Senior category for ages 16 - 20.
Madison Sommerfeld was the winner in the Junior Category of the Munson Fam-ily Scholarship.
Other results from the event:Award of ExcellenceIris Striker - Speech ArtsJulia Piroso - Speech ArtsIn addition to awards and scholarships,
the PNMF also offers bursaries for students to participate in a summer arts experience.
Piano Bursary Junior - Victoria Stenson Intermediate - Ben AnkerSenior - Nicole HeptingSpeech Arts Bursary Junior - Iris StrikerIntermediate - Delaney RibeiroSenior - Kevin EastmanAward winners BandMcDonalds Restaurant Trophy: Level
B200 or B300 Band - Mount Elizabeth High School Concert Band, which came with an invitation to Nationals.
Mount Elizabeth Middle school band also received an invitation to the National
Music Festival. DanceArt in Motion Award: Highest Mark
Contemporary Duet - Kendra Hall & Ma-rissa Cordeiro
VocalLorraine Johnstone Memorial Award:
Highest Mark Singer & Accompanist Team - Katherine Oscavai and Hannah Durrant
Speech ArtsMike and Joan Brady Award: Highest
Mark Spoken Poetry (Lyric) Senior - Julia Piroso
Terrace Little Theatre trophy: Highest Marks dramatic arts – Julia Piroso
On Cue Players Award - 13 and over: Highest Mark Canadian Poetry 13 and over - Kevin Eastman
Royal Bank Trophy : Highest Mark Choral Speaking (Grades 4 to Open) - St. Anthony’s School - Grade 7
WoodwindsBank of Montreal Award: Highest
Mark Woodwind Solo, Junior - Madison Sommerfeld
PianoNenninger Family Award: Highest
Mark Older Beginner - Myriam Lapierre-Goncalves
All Seasons Source for Sports Award: Highest Mark Junior Canadian Composers - Andrea Watt
Carlyle Shepherd & Co. Award: High-est Mark over 85, Senior Piano - David Leite
Eugene H. Thomas Award: Highest Mark Senior Bach - Nicole Hepting
Frank Froese Memorial Award: High-est Mark Junior Bach - Madison Sommer-feld
Jose Coosemans Award: Highest Mark Romantics - Madison Sommerfeld
Janet Felber Trophy: Highest Mark Ju-nior Piano Conservatory - Andrea Watt
Kitimat Music Scholarship Award: Highest Mark Sonatina - Ben Anker
Northern Savings Credit Union Award: Highest Mark Piano Duets - Andrea Watt & Amelie Hrynkiw
Park Avenue Medical Clinic Award: Highest Mark Chopin - Madison Sommer-feld
Pizza Hut Award: Highest Mark So-nata or Concert Group - Nicole Hepting
Royal Canadian legion Branch #13 Award: Highest Mark Intermediate Piano
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Kitimat’s Ben Anker is seen here warming up at Knox United Church where he would eventually play for an adjudicator. Knox is one of the three venues for the music festival.
Madison Sommerfeld, who won one of the main scholarship awards offered for most outstanding Junior performer in her age category (12 and under).
