y . Feline fun at There’ sno telling what a o cat can do when given a pair of boots & “tion, “it’s not recommended * .bilitation centre in Smithers ’ idences with food sources, - \COMMUNITY B1 _\NEWS A13 iv’s clicking | Inventor’s modular hose system will hit the North American market soon Tumbling down | River Kings fall victim to Steelheads in front of a home ice crowd | \SPORTS Ba $1.00 PLUS 6¢ GST ° ($1.10 plus 7¢ GST . © outside of the Terrace area) ~. - - the province... a Fortune . Minerals. believes - enough coal. could :be burned from its anthracite deposits in the Klappan to provide power for potential mining projects in the area, for settlements in the area, for-its own * plans for a mine and to feed into the B.C. Hydro system for use elsewhere. ‘Right now the B.C. Hydro grid. stops ; ' at Meziadin Junction on Hwy37_ North, ° south of major mineral deposits. . Power north of there is provided by . ' diesel generators but its far from enough ‘. lining c AN ONTARIO- BASED mining company thinks it may have ‘an answer to the lack’ of power. in the northwestern: section of © ares power plan © - would consume less than 1OMW of | pow- er, leaving a large amount of power from: ment. Fortune official Julian Kemp said the company’s confident the provincial gov-’ * ‘ernment will look favourably at any coal- fired generating plant plan | because it has ~ "already. approved the burning ‘of coal in: other parts of the province. . ‘* “We have this huge resource of ener- gy ‘in the ground and it’s a matter of how We: could utilize this resource for its eco- nomic potential,” said Kemp. Lo. . “The issue here is power. B.C. is now a net importer of power and the govern- - “ment has essentially adopted a | Pro- -coal policy.” » Kemp cautioned that Fortune by itself pcan ) 3° - velop any kind of coal-burning plant. It’s. commissioned several ‘studies, *. expected to be finished by the end of the’ - year, to provide the kind of information’ needed to attract interest from other com: would also require a main line running panies. ““So what we would say is we can pro- _Vide you with the coal at a certain price,’ “said Kemp.’ — : » Any kind of coal- burning generation plan ‘would: need government environ-. mental approval but Kemp says the kind. of technology available today is sufficient to meet emission standards. . “We believe this is a project that . makes sense from both an environmental " Spective,” said Kemp. A coal-burning project would have to : include the cost of transmission and dis- - tribution lines from the. generation site.. Connecting. to the’ B.C. Hydro. grid - south to Meziadin Junction where B.C, ; Hydro’s ‘system now. stops. Even without ‘+. the results of. the, commissioned studies, - Fortune estimates. there’s a potential to ‘generate-as muchas 300MW of power from a ‘coal-burning plant in the Klappan area. “Fortune? $s own mining plan, which it is preparing for governmental environ- -mental assessment, calls for a 1.5 million ednesday, N November 15, 2006 7 7819 7 the coal-burniing plant for other. users. As it is,.one other. mining company ~ in the area, NovaGold Resources, has answered its own demand for power by purchasing Coast Mountain Hydro, 1a company with a plan, to produce hydro- - electricity by running Iskut River water -through generators. --The plan there is for NovaGold to use hydro power from the Iskut River. during high water periods for its Galore Creek _ copper and gold project and sell any ex- cess by building ’a line‘to connect to the 7 B.C. Hydro grid at Meziadin. Cont'd Page A2. tions for -cereménial uses, ‘and killed at least one moose was shot and killed a couple » to support any kind of industrial develop- doesn’t have the resources needed to de- perspective and from an economic per- 6 tonne a year operation lasting 20 years: It Grizzly _ sow, cub > killed © A GRIZZLY sow and her ~ cub who posed a safety risk to humans for several weeks . were destroyed by a local resident Nov. 5. ‘The grizzly sow and’ her 2 1-1/2 year old cub showed up three times at a residence near the. Kleanza Creek and Bornite Mt. area Nov. 4 and 5, leading a resident to shoot both bears to save his prop- erty and his dog, who scuf- fled with the bears on their last visit, said conservation officer Darryl Struthers. Afterward, the resident | called conservation officers | to report what happened and provide a statement to them, which is required under the Wildlife Act, he said. Conservation officers arrived and recovered the bears’ paws and claws to distribute to local: first na- a common practice if a first nation requests the items and completes a permit. — While the resident’s ac- tions were declared by conservation officers to be appropriate in this situa- — because a‘wounded bear can _ pose a further threat to pub- lic safety, Struthers said. ‘What makes the situation worse is that the sow had been relocated once already, as shown by an ear tag. The sow had broken into the Northern Lights reha- — where some wild animals are rehabilitated before their release back into the wild — calf in care there three years . ago, explained Struthers. She was caught. after- ward and relocated. -“This bear was origi- nally relocated because she accessed a natural food source,” he said referring to _ the moose calf. . Building beginning | project Nov. 10. Construction on the much anticipated - and often controversial - begin this. week. Minor lacrosse and minor hockey players dressed in jerseys were among the more than 100 people who gathered i in the bitter ‘cold for the ceremony. SARAH A ZIMMERMAN PHOTO 0 79 MLAs should represent roughly 52,000 constituents. ‘ There is room to deviate from this average by 25 per cent no more or less than the average and in very. special circum- oe “stances that deviations can be. slightly higher. “ MAYOR Jack Taistra donned hockey skates for the. groundbreaking ceremony of the second sheet of ic ice project is expected to . _ For whatever reason, the sow brought her family into residential areas afterward, - found food from humans and learned that residences | are easy sources of food. “Unfortunately once they accessed human food they lost their fear of humans,” Struthers said. . Once bears associate res- A NASS Valley memorial service is being held phens.. Victoria. for those who wish to pay their last respects to Dr. Stephens. said the Greenville service will be Frank Calder but who cannot attend tomorrow's the occasion for people to witness Calder’s rega- service in Victoria. lia being passed on for safekeeping before being It’s being held 2 p.m. Sunday Nov. 19 at the. presented at a future date to the next person to Greenville Community Centre in the Nass Valley, have the Nisga’a name he had. . a facility family members hope is large enough | Calder is from the House of Wisin Xbiltkw and _ for those who wish to attend. is a Killer Whale. The Nisga’a leader and chief died i in Victoria. “This will follow the tradition where’ the blan- Nov. 4 at the age of 91. ket will be taken off,” said Stephens of one portion “We want to make sure the people from the _ of the regalia that will be a factor at the service. valley, and from elsewhee, who do attend to pay A smorgasboard will follow the Greenville their last respects will have a place to sit,” said _ service. _ nephew Cyril Stephens. Some of Calder’s ashes will also be brought: The family originally wanted to hold the ser- to Greenville for the service. They'll be scattered vice at the Anglican church in Greenville but near his birthplace at Nass Harbour Cannery at - quickly realized it was not large enough, said Ste- a latter date while other ashes will be buried in phens. even though people in an area don’t have any attrac- tants around, the bears still: come through the area. The sow had been in the company of two cubs: and had been spotted between lower Thornhill and Kleanza for several weeks. One cub bia. ” said. - of weeks ago. Tomorrow’s service at the Christ Church An- | glican Cathedral: in Victoria is, -by.Calder’s ex- | press wish, a simple Anglican service, said Ste- Calder graduated from the Anglican Theologi- . cal College at the University of British Colum- Stephens said Calder wanted a traditional An- -glican burial according to the church’s Common Book of Prayer. “He said, in a letter to his lawyer, the service would be ‘without political or cultural embellish- ment’ and his family will respect that wish,” “he The Victoria service will see a number of po- litical and other dignitaries attend. People here © can weigh in on electoral _ ‘boundaries — REQUESTS made by Skeena MLA Robin Austin, the the’ B.C. . Electoral: Boundaries Commission to hold: a 7 previously unscheduled stop in Terrace... - ~~. “The commission is charged with travelling the province change the electoral boundaries i in which ‘people vote. Last month Robin Austin appeared before the commis- sion asking it to come to the Skeena riding after the panel scheduled stops in Smithers and Prince Rupert, but not Ter- race or Kitimat. “In considering the location of consultation sessions around the province, the commission believed the broad: range of communities selected offered a good opportunity for interested people to attend. “However, in the case of the Terrace and Kitimat areas, _ the evening meetings in Smithers and Prince Rupert created ” particularly difficult challenges,” says Leo Perra, the execu- tive director of the commission. .. “Following the receipt of a letter from’ District of Kiti- , 2 mat Council, an invitation from MLA Rob ‘Austin and com- : ' District of Kitimat and some private residents has prompted _ 7 to" hear from citizens their. thoughts. on whether or notito . ments from two. Kitimat residents who traveled to.the Oct. | 17 Prince Rupert consultation session and clearly explained 7 the challenge of ‘doing, so, the commission has scheduled’ a. consultation session for Terrace on Nov. 16.” gi ‘The goal of the electoral boundary ‘ commission is-to en- “sure that each MLA in the province represents about the same - number of people. But in the north, where a sparse popula- . - tion is spread over a vast geographical locations, MLAs tend - .. to represent larger ridings. More than two million people — 51 per cent of the: B. Cy 3 . population — - live in the Greater Vancouver Regional Dis- trict. That compares to just seven per cent of the population ; living north of Williams Lake. © - ‘The commission must establish «an average nuitiber: of ‘constituents per riding to help ensure that people from: all. areas of the f province have effective representation. ’ That average is determined by dividing ‘the population os of the province by the number of MLAs and with B.C.’s «. population estimated at 4.2 million, each ‘of the province’ s- “We really. want to hear why we should make argumenis Cont'd Page A2- if we are going to keep districts outside that range — what are the special circumstances?” says commissioner Stewart La-. _ dyman, who will be overseeing the commission’s visit here. _ “The more information we have why places like: Skeena so should remain a special circumstance, the better.” °° | SIRT aa ota ES O- Coe Na, eigen