Al2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 3, 2003 Port deal enormous for northwest — MLA THE PLANNED container port at Prince Rupert, spurred by the turn over of B.C. Rail to CN, is bigger than anyone can imagine, says Skeena Liberal MLA Roger Harris. The prospect of being easily able to ship any _ Variety of goods and pro- ducts in containers to Asia from a port. that's closer than any other on the west coast could bring major. in- dustrial players up north, he said last week. “We can now go lo people in Richmond, say, and tell them to sell what they have there and come up here where land’s inex- pensive, housing’s cheap and there are lots of rentals and you're close to your market,” said Harris. “Tt’s time for communi- ties to start ‘planning now, to have those discussions now, on how they want to look.” And now that CN is ty- ing into the BC Rail line to offer quick service from Prince George into the American midwest, a con- tainer port at Prince Ru- pert has a competitive ad- “There’s too much momentum for this to be stopped. It’s time to start planning for this in 2005,” says Skeena MLA Roger Harris. vantage, Harris continued. “India and Asia are go- ing to be the biggest mar- kets in the next decade and guess what, we're the only province on the coast,” he said, The province is kicking in $17.2 million from the B.C. Rail sale to CN to- ward the overall port de- velopment cost of $62 mil- lion. CN is to spend up- ward of $15 million on tracks within the port area itself and on preparing its northern line to take dou- ble-stack container cars. The MLA noted that the need for a container port was originally pushed by Alberta government offi- cials, “They were. actually lobbying us,” said Harris. “It was an interesting sil- uation.” The combination of B.C. and Alberta support for the port hasn't been lost on Ottawa officials and Harris is convinced they’! soon follow through with the rest of the devel- opment money. “There’s too much mo- mentum for this to be stopped. It’s time to start planning for this in 2005.” Harris also expects communities and people to come up-with innovative ways to use $15 million being set aside for each region and $50 million for overall use in tapping into the container port poten- tial. “It’s a question of what do you want to put into those containers,” he said, A container port will also reduce the depend- ence of the northwest on cyclical resource indus- tries such as forestry. “This is the leveller,” said Harris, “Forestry, as’ we now know it, becomes a lot less important.” CN to raise its tunnels to handle taller cars UPWARD OF $15 million will be spent on preparing the CN Rail line between Prince George and Prince Rupert once a container port in Prince Rupert has been announced, says CN official Graham Dailas. The money will . be spent on bridgework and either raising tunnel levels « . - or lowering the track that runs through the tunnels.to provide room for double- stack container cars, he said, The project, as weil. as a $17.2 million provincial boost toward the planned $62 million container port in Prince Rupert, is part of last week’s deal in which the .province is turning over B.C. Rail to CN for $1 billion. “It’s not a huge job to enlarge a tunnel but we won't know exactly what we'll spend until the engi- neering studies are done,” said Dallas. Some of the anticipated $15 million will be spent on rail line and other facil- ities at the planned con- tainer port itself. : Those costs will be- known once a container port engineering study, now underway, is. com- plete, Dallas added. | Part of the provincial commitment for the con- lainer port, in addition to money, is to join with CN and lobby the federal gov- ernment for the rest of the construction money. Container facilities for Prince Rupert have been the focus of intensive fob- Well back running THE CITY’s water well is finally up and running after a breakdown that left Ter- race drinking creek or river water for seven months. The final cost of the re- pairs aren’t yet tabulated but are expected fo come in around $80,000, said development services di- reclor Marvin Kwialkows- ki, The Frank St. well, which failed in April, went back on line Nov. 12, he said. , The motor windings had to be replaced because water got into the assem- bly. The city has been tak- ing water from Deep Creek in recent months, although it also used the Skeena River at some points over the summer. Thal gave the water a discoloured ap: pearance. It’s‘ the second time in recent years.’ the. well failed. pS bying efforts on the part of northern politicians. The prospect of moving goods and material in con- tainer cars means less handling and less cost to transport and to load onto ships. 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