nec aepoteeert £ ete ater | wa “ AA - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 26, 2005 TERRACE _ STANDARD ESTABLISHED APRIL 27, 1988 - PUBLISHER: ROD LINK _ ADDRESS: 3210 Clinton Street Terrace, B.C. - V8G 5R2 - TELEPHONE: (250) 638-7283 + FAX: (250) 638-8432 .WEB: www. terracestandard. com EMAIL: newsroom@terracestandard. com © - Port talk © TERRACE - THE CITY of Terrace has announced a unique partnership with the Port of Prince Ru- - pert involving. the airport lands it recently ac: - quired from the provincial government. | _ Approximately half of the property is to be ded- - jcated as the Port of Prince Rupert ( Terrace)’ in . order to. provide adequate and serviceable land | for industries and others seeking to take advan- tage oft the’ container port now under development : -. inthe coastal city. | ° | “We've been in ‘discussion with the Port of - Prince’ Rupert for several years now about. this necessary: for: a complete port offering, we’re bringing the hub and. the gateway together," said Talstra. : -Of course, ‘this i isn’t'a real news. release. But it “does contain the elements of what is possible. - Prince. Rupert | has, a world-class port offering, “one and ahalf days closer sailing to countries on ‘the other side, of the Pacific Ocean than other fa- _ cilities on the. western coast of North America. : ‘The container port development potential will. ‘tum Prince Rupert: into an burgeoning export and _ import facility fed by the CN rail line. - ~ What Prince Rupert doesn’t have is flat and ser- ~ viceable land ‘of ‘the size ‘needed by the various. ~ primary’ and secondary industries that will be re- quired or attracted to the container port. - The pipeline company Enbridge acknowledged as -much two weeks ago when it announced that ry feriHinlus f for its planted ‘pipeline: to. -bring Alberta tar sands products out to the coast for export. Kitimat, it said, had land available. Prince Rupert did not. , So enter the Terrace airport lands. The rail line ° _ is.right there, so are the roads and adapting infra- _ structure to meet needs is more than achievable. _The City of Terrace did negotiate ownership of the airport lands from the provincial government to encourage development of industries and tying that: concept to the container port. more than fits that intent. | If the. city | were to . make. a partnership an- nouncement of this type it would also get a leg up on. more interior ‘port: development plans. Prince - George i is chasing just such a proposal and a com- pany in tiny Cache Creek’down south says it has land to to give ‘the overcrowded Vancouver port ‘some breathing room. It’s not often.a city has a chance to co-opera- tively complement a development in another city for the betterment of. both. Terrace has that op- ~ portunity with Prince Rupert and it should. not let “it it slip by. _ PUBLISHER/EDITOR: . Rod Link _ ADVERTISING MANAGER: Brian Lindenbach — PRODUCTION MANAGER: Edouard Credgeur NEWS: Sarah A. 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PRESS COUNCIL (www bepresscounel org) Stories, photographs, illustrations, designs and typestyles in the Terrace Standard are the property of the copy- right holders, including Black Press Ltd., its illustration repro services and advertising agencies. ; Reproduction in whole or in part, without written permission, is specifically prohibited. Authorized as second- class mail pending the Post Office Department, for payment of postage in cash. Special thanks to all our contributors and correspondents for their time and taients - partnership,” said. Terrace mayor Jack Talstra i in ~ making thé announcement... | | | “We've long known. that Prince. Rupert i is the “gateway to the Pacific Rim. And that Terrace is _ ‘the hub of the northwest. By providing the lands’ “ws ‘ARGHHA! y oO THe’ ‘Lt come FROM MIGRATORY Bieps! NO ESCAPE! NO escape! NOT THAT long ago: I wrote © an article about the lack of vi- - ~ sion being demonstrated by the District of Kitimat (DOK) . in‘crafting a future for their . community. _ A major component of the column was the need for that community to start involving © - their neighbors in crafting a vision for the Kitimat Valley. - . It is not just the DOK that | _ has legal:and community in- terests there. Nor do they stand: alone in their desire to lay out a comprehensive , economic — ~ Strategy that will work for . their citizens. It is. why a recent “future “search” exercise by the district, is good néws for all of us. . What was really refreshing _is that invitations had been ex- ‘tended to, other communities within, the, vicinity, of, Alcan’s | smelter complex : -alled - the works” to participate: in. this = long-term strategic planning exercise. Together with council mem- _ bers and interests groups with- in the city, they collectively talked about what the future _ might look like for everyone. The process had the addi- tional value of not just look- . ing at economic development but equally dealt with social,. cultural and artistic visions for the city and region. It is some of the economic’ recommendations that are es- pecially interesting. On the ” top of the list for economic de- velopment, is a section titled . “New Industry,” followed by “excess power. used to attract | new industry.” ‘Further down the list this ‘topic comes up again as “Ex- ‘them. ~ ROGER HARRIS CeSs power for other industrial activity.” » The section lists ‘a number of specific investment propo- nents like Cascadia, Enbridge - (which last week announced that Kitimat is to be the.termi-... 1s ‘for its petroleum exporting ” - pipeline~proje ct)-and Kitimat LNG. “It goes on to list entirely new. potential investors in a wide variety of interests where - . Surplus power and other local _ assets could be used to attract their investment into: the re- _ gion. Every community that is within the vicinity of the Al-— can works from Vanderhoof to - Kitimat, aboriginal and non- ‘aboriginal alike have always agreed on the need for each to be able to benefit from the wa- ter in the Nechako. There. is: no doubt. that a number of those communities . would ‘Say. the collection. of - Alcan agreements from 1950 to 1997 have not worked for So when we look al nitude would go. along way to . bringing economic stability to " Tesource like the Nechako res- ervoir it is important that ev- |. ery community within the vi- *“cinity benefits from this public ‘| resource. The vision laid out” by the future search seems to embrace this goal.. ‘Future search equally iden- . tified the need for the goals of’ the 1997 agreement between Alcan and ‘the province to be realized, which would mean a re-investment by Alcan in a modern and. expanded alumi- num industry in Kitimat. An investment of this mag- the northwest, but not neces- . sarily growth. - In order for all of the com- ‘munities to be able to access surplus power someone has to sell it’to them, either Alcan or BC Hydro. 7 * ©"Certainly having’: ‘Alean sell’ ‘to BC Hydro and then have that utility ensure the power is used along the northwest high- way corridor is one method of disseminating the electricity. The other would be to al- low Alcan ‘to sell directly to . customers themselves. This method could generate some unique power agreements that would create an economic ad- vantage in attracting new in- dustries along the highway 16 corridor. The troubling part of this is ° that currently there is a legal ‘and marketing campaign that - starts with the phrase “stop the illegal power sales.” — . _ The Canadian Auto Work- ers union has‘been very open about its belief that the 1950 agreement is about water for aluminum not water for pow- Alean power has no boundaries _ er. for any of the future search ini- ‘tiatives. - Everyone wants to see the power from the Nechako used across the region and the fue ture ‘search exercise confirmed - that goal. The DOK has to be commended for stepping out and supporting a process that would see power made avail-’ |’: able through either BC Hydro _ -or Alcan for other industrial 6 activity. . Currently the power from Kemano: is being used: to _ power, sawmill expansions in . Houston, new pellet plants for Vanderhoof and ‘to support the _ Cheslatta’s sawmill at Ootsa Lake. AS new technology allows for an increase in aluminum —_ production ‘utilizing less ‘élec- tricity, Kemano could power even more new investments in the Terrace/Kitimat area of the kinds identified in the future search report. As the ability to sell surplus power is realized, we will see further investments by. Alcan at Kemano to generate even _ more electricity with the same volumes of water. The growth of a reliable power industry in the north- west combined with new gate- . ways to the fastest growing economies in the world can be the seed components of the next generation of economic boom for all of us. It is a future that will see growth: in. every community that borders on this reservoir. Which begs the question why are we in court? PEOPLE are just too lazy to look for things,” explains a dedicated pack rat noted for her clutter. * Few homes’ lack clutter. © We wend our way past tables . stacked ‘with outdated maga- zines, chairs serving as coat "I: racks, ‘and corners laddered | ~~ with boxes of who remembers what. Still, few of us match a Dr. Phil family where the mother couldn’t bear to toss out any- ‘thing. Three trucks and their crews spent 20 hours hauling away 25,000 pounds of her clutter and “garbage”. ; _ Magazine editors know our predicament. Glance over any magazine stand and. you’re sure to find half-a dozen mag- azines with a clutter article highlighted on the cover. As an example, a check last week revealed an October Good Housekeeping head- lined Banish Clutter: 14 quick Solutions. A November Good Housekeeping had Compa- ny’s Coming: Quick Clean Up Tricks. . Another magazine prom- CLAUDETTE SANDECKI | ised How to. Tidy Your Clos- ets while a fourth periodical offered How to Organize Your Kitchen. Read any. one of Don As- lett’s books for good advice on how to end clutter, You’ll ask yourself why you live with knickknacks that must be dusted or rooms so crowded with furniture turning THROUGH BIFO.CALS| around with a vacuum cleaner’ could wipe a shelf clear. Don Aslett lives in Idaho but owns a national janitorial chain. His books: deal specifically . with ending clutter, simplify- ing housecleaning, and clear- ing your environment to allow for a productive day. A new study reports house- work can lower blood pressure for eight hours. And sure we all know how much better we ° feel when we stand back and survey atidy room. — ' Reducing clutter makés you. feel freer, lighter. Things will be accessible and you’! know where they are. You’ll have extra space for useful things. Cleaning will be quicker and easier. To gain more time to do what you enjoy, being tidy and © organized will save you count- * less hours otherwise wasted searching for misplaced car keys or other necessary items. ‘Much clutter originates from garage sales. Who can resist buying: something we — don’t really need simply be- cause the price is so afford- able? Credit cards, too, coax us to buy stuff we don’t need but it’s so easy and convenient to acquire. Cluttered house, cluttered life . “ORGANIZED Clutter begins when we ‘save everything until there's no place for it. ' Recipes we plan to test but never do. Greetings cards, pe- riodicals we intend reading or that contain articles we want. to clip. Clutter-busters tell us to purge and pare. If we haven’t used a recipe in three months, we never will; chuck it. Photocopy a magazine page, Of crop just the article. Or look _ it up on line at the library. _ Those: of us who collect _ empty containers or jars should — stop at two or three, and jetti- ‘son the rest. More will come _ into the house. : Give away useful items _ to someone able to put them to use. For things that don’t work, set yourself a time. limit _ to repair them or heave them out. oo Take things to the recycling depot regularly rather than waiting until you have a ga-— . Tage full. . If your ‘house is muddled, what does that say about your life? If their view is considered’ .” - there will be.no surplus power ~