Page A&@ — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 29, 1992

RUSINESS REVIEW _

Tank farm plants crop

TERRACE —Esso Petroleum is
spending $3 million to shift its
northwest storage and distribu-
tion centre from Prince Rupert
to here. :

The move means the. com-
pany will bring the majority of
its products here by rail from‘an
Edmonton refinery. as opposed
to shipping them up the coast
from a refinery in Port Co-
quitlam. , 7

Construction is expected to

start in the spring on tanks to
increase the storage capacity of
Esso agent Cole. Petroleums
from just under one million
litres to 10 million litres, com-
pany officials said last week.

Esso spokesman Kevin Gard-
ner predicted a 80 per cent drop
in the number of ships the com-
pany will send up from Port Co-
quitlam.

The remaining shipments will
be of marine fuel because. the
company’s Edmonton refinery
doesn’t make that product.

“We've been looking at this
for a year now. It’s a matter of
where our customer base is out
there today,” said Gardner who
estimated that Esso does 80 per
cent of its business in the Ter-
race Kitimat area.

There’s room at the Coles
Petroleum site for some of the
extra tanks and the company
will lease land from CN to han-
dic the others.

“When we looked at the
number of environmental
upgrades we would have to do
in Prince Rupert, the move
made sense,’ said Gardner.

A further environmental
benefit is-an estimated reduc-
tion by 1,000 in the number of
truck trips belween Prince
Rupert and the interior, Gard-
ener added. ©

“Tt decreases

Our en-

vironmental exposure on that ~~ |

highway:-which, as you know,
isn’t the best in the world,’’ he
said, ne

Reducing. the. number . of

of the five truckers Coles now
employs but Coles. spokesman
Gerald Mitchell, who is also the
company’s carrier ‘in
tegion, - said. he expects to

counter that by increasing the

company’s business. |

And two jobs will be created
to take care of the increased
storage capacity.

Another Esso spokesman,
Keith Grant, said as many as 20
rail cars averaging 70,000 to
$0,000 litres of capacity a week
will be coming here from the
company’s Strathcona refinery
in Edmonton.

That’s equivalent to about
one per cent of that refinery’s
output, he said..

“The bottom line is the
econonic advantage to us. Now
we're shipping crude pil to Van-
couver and refining it and then
shipping it to Prince Rupert for
ihe Terrace market, But putting
it in a-rail car and bringing it
over from Edmonton, there'll
be less handling,’ Grant said.

He estimated the investment
pay back period will be two and

trucking ‘trips:could affect two.

this .

THAT COLLECTION of pe roleum storage tanks behind Coles

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Petroleum agents Laina Bittner and Gerald Mitchell will grow
by the end of the year. Esso is switching its northwest storage
point from Prince Rupert to here.

a half years although en-
vironmental upgrades would
take place regardless.

Along with the expansion

here, Esso will spend $1 million
this year on environmental
upgrades at its Prince Rupert
facility.

TERRACE .—A -; local food
store chain is sponsoring a
music show here Feb. 1.

Northwest Live! sponsored
here by Copperside Foods
wants to present four concerts a
year in the region using local
talent. :

Included in the Terrace show
is Christine Inkster, thé winner
of the 1991, Bud County 7;
Concert. here.and.a-winkeeD

the Bud Country regional’tom-

petitions.

Tickets for the show at the
R.E.M. Lee Theatre are
available at Copperside Stores
outlets.

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In other Copperside news,
owner Bob Lavoie says there are
expansion plans in Prince
Rupert and in’ Smithers.

Nothing is firm yet, but those
two communities are a natural
extension for the company
which has five outlets here and
one ir New Hazelton, he said.

In Prince Rupert, Lavoie en-
visions at least one-store offer-
ing gas, fast food and perhaps a
laundromat.and car wash.

‘Tt all depends upon the loca-
tion,’’ he said. :

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Don Diego’s restaurant has
taken over a small cafe in Prince
Rupert.

ment, is primarily a lunch place
but that could expand to dinner
servings, says Don Diego’s
spokesman Dick Davis.

It has six tables inside and
space outside overlooking the
water for six more during good
weather, he said.

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Make that three official
languages — at least if you
follow information in a recent
letter. sent out by. the federal
government’s Canadian Inter-
national Development Agency.

Under a sentence inviting a
reader to ask questions or to
make comments are listed three
phone numbers.

One was for people who
speak English, the second for
those who speak French and the

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B.C.’s first sale of oil and gas
drilling rights for 1992 brought

~ Up for sale were one permit,

’ eight licences and 40 leases. Bids

were accepted on 36 of the
parcels.

Mobil Oi] Canada and
Phillips Petroleum Canada
bought the one permit — a
9,814ha parcel south of Chet-
wynd.

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‘B.C. Hydro is replacing 50
poles and fixing up 26 spans of
wire here and in Kitimat.

The work, scheduled to be
completed the middle of March,
takes place .on Walsh Ave.,
Kalum Lake Drive, Loen Ave.
and Hwy 16 in Terrace.

The provincial utility will
trim trees and remove
dangerous ones this summer in
the city and outlying areas north
of the Skeena River,

Still with B.C. Hydro, it has
applied to the B.C. Utilities
Commission for an average 1.64
per cent rate hike effective this
month.

The increase, it’s already
been passed to consumers,
comes from a hike in the water
tax levied by the provincial
government.

_If ultitnately approved, the... .
“provilitial )¢rown:? corporation

says the average homeowner
will pay an extra 79 cents a
month while the average small
business can expect a monthly
$1.90 increase.

This application is in addition
to general rate increases wanted
by B.C. Hydro to cover its own
costs,

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Northern chartered accoun-
tants and others involved in the
business gathered here last
month for a three-day tax
course.

It was a regularly scheduled
course that is part of a com-
pulsory skills update program
on the part of the accounting
profession.

In all, 31 people from
Vanderhoof to Prince Rupert
attended.

Baby's Name: Samuel David
Bate & Time of Birlh: December 16, 1991 at 4:05 -

p.m.Welght: 7 tbs. 10 oz

Sex: Male

Parents: Hugh & Sarbara Johnson

Baby's Nama: Gail Florence Artena Smytha
Date & Time of firth; December 16, 1991 at 5:45 p.m.

Weight: 9 ths, 11%2 a2.
Parents: Terina Smytha

Sex: Female

Baby's Name: Holly Paulatt
Date & Time of Birth: Decambar 17, 1991 at 11:36 am

Weight: 6 ibs. 6 oz.

Sex: Female

Parenis: Wanda & Perry McClusky

Baby's Name: Vanessa Brittany Pallatier
Date & Time ol Birth: Dacambar 18, 1991 at 4:40 pm

Weight: 9 Ibs. 3 oz.

Sex: Female

Parents: Richard & Lisa Pelletier

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Date & Time of Birth: Dacombar 19, 1997 al 11:17 am

Weight: 7 ibs. 13 oz.

Sex: Female

Parents: Mike and Valarie Barner

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