Aa The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 3, 2005 TERRACE STANDARD ESTABLISHED APRIL 27, 1988 PUBLISHER: ROD LINK ADDRESS: 3210 Clinton Street Terrace, B. Cc. - V8G 5R2 . TELEPHONE: (250) 638-7283. - FAX: (250) 638-8432 » WEB: www.terracestandard. com , EMAIL: newsroom@terracestandard. com - Full speed ... oe THERE’ S BEEN no better advertisement to pro- * » mote the development of a container port at Prince. . Rupert than the truckers’ strike on the lower main-— land which all but shut down imports and exports ~ out of facilities there. The claims by the independent trucker contrac- tors that rising fuel prices make it uneconomical to continue working have cost the lower main-. land, provincial and national economy hundreds’ | of millions of dollars as containers are,stacked. up - like so many children’ 'S building blocks.: ~ Aside from the economic consequences at play : se @ truckers ‘seek to. point their point across is the - “damage to the reputation of the lower mainland’. oo dock. facilities. If the lower mainland i is perceived | "as an unstable place for companies | who need a reliable. entry and exit point for their products, 7 they’ IL look elsewhere. The very real fear is that ~_» American ports will ‘ultimately profit by the events ~ on the lower mainland. _ As it-is, the lower mainland’s ‘transportation . and port infrastructure is overloaded because of » the burgeoning container industry: The truckers’ os of. the’ art equipment bolstered by an. under-used_ -*@N tail line make it an attractive proposition .. for those who, not only want their goods moved - quicker but who don’t want to have to rely on one facility. As Prince Rupert grows, so will Terrace. _~ strike puts an exclamation’ point to the situation. “Which brings us:to the container port develop- “ment at Prince Rupert. The north coast city is al- “ready closer by sailing time to the lucrative Asian shipping business than the lower mainland. State We have flat and accessible developable land for whatever may be needed, a commodity lacking in You Must INvoKE , { SECTION 4% To GET THE panlnnvaars You HAVE To po ' SOMETHING peur). ‘THiS STRIKE. | [fp L No CAN bo! wHoooce! WE'RE ON FIRE “WHOA! IS tT HOT HERE OR IT'S COSTING FS MIL. APPIN , TRUCKS mons * | OVRICE os ihe wow! 1 Just FRieD AN. ee cig, SOBS —] PROBLEM..-. STRIKE 1S EGG ON MY FOREHEAD... | ARE BEING LOST,” HEY! YA GoT 7} AFFECTING | % cece, Like To HELP You EN ANY 1ceé?2 (| CANADA, 4, BuT AS THE. FEDERAL 8 > B NOT Just ¢ POWERLESS Liquified gas holds key to future CANADA HAS’ a growing natural gas supply problem it _ must soon resolve. - Importing. liquefied natu- ral gas is an environmentally friendly: solution, one which _ offers us a plentiful and secure | supply of gas | for decades to come.’ ie Natural” gas is: - extremely important to Canadians ~ more © “than 25 per cent of our energy. - comes from this natural re- "source. _ We use it-to heat our homes, a schools and work places, and ~ to power our industries, as’ - - well as.an increasing fraction of our vehicle fleet. Gas is also making sig- nificant inroads into electri- cal generation and is used for cooking and as the raw mate- rial for plastics. It is even used © to produce oil for gasoline, _ DAVID WOJICK ' Of. these, .only LNG does “not involve radical new tech- nology or huge new gas fields and pipelines. But Canada currently has no LNG import facilities, al- though a number of terminals LNG allows “stranded gas . reserves”, natural gas associat- ed with geographically remote oil wells; that was previously flared (burned off) or just re- leased into atmosphere, to be _ collected and used where it is needed, thereby vastly reduc- ing air pollution and green-. house gas emissions. : Environmentalists who truly understand the issue, strongly — support expanded LNG usage. - Canadian’ LNG projects’. now on the drawing. board . would supply more than twice .. the daily deliveries we expect . -fuel” due to its low carbon ~ . natural gas fulfills. -many of Canada’s pollution 7 _ and greenhouse gas emission - from the Mackenzie Delta and could be available for consum- — ers three to five years sooner. than that Arctic gas. . LNG import facilities: will give us access to the enormous: pool of world gas resources, something that Japan and Eu- “cepts LNG tankers at a rate of one’a week and there have ~ been no: serious LNG-related °. accidents since shipments be- gan in 1975. So Of course one possible so-«: lution to the supply problem is - to stop using so much natural . gas, an approach advocated by many environmentalists who accuse Canadians of. being “energy hogs”. But one reason gas use is , Projected to grow so much is » precisely because of its envi- ronmental benefits. , Long touted as a. “green content, . reduction targets. LNG technology i is mature, the process is safe, and the supply is global. To take ad- Prince Rupert. 1 ‘And’ if, not directly, ‘Terrace. will | from tar sands. have been Proposed, including rope already enjoy. vantage of this sapidly- grow: profit indirectly from increased economic activity Ta But here’s the problem. near LNG is con- ing global energy currency, we ccording to a new joint re- Kitimat troversial in need to move ahead quickly spilling out of the por city. port by the governments of “py ¢ “To take advantage Canada because with construction of LNG ter- Canada, the United States and jo 7. Of this rapidly growing of safety con- minals. ar oe » _ , Mexico, Canadian consump- read global energy currency, cerns brought up To wait any longer risks a LL had « G tion of natural gas will grow 4... four we need to move ahead ‘ecently by En- losing out, both economically | ry un O ‘ by as much as'25 percentin jo. ii- quickly.” . vironment. min- and environmentally, on this _— re the next ten years. — nals and ister Stephane important solution to tomor- LARRY GUNO laughed during an interview ‘North American Natural - 64 ¢ Dion, St. Croix- row’s crucial energy needs. when he was Skeena’ S NDP candidate i in the 2000 Gas Vision’ concludes that, in de- Belleisle (New Dr. David E. Wojick, an federal election. The laugh came from a remark _-made by ‘Nisga’ a leader Rod Robinson, then in his 70s. It was time, suggested Mr. Robinson, for the “younger elders” to step forward. : At 60 years of age in 2000, Mr. Guno, a lawyer, _. already had years of public service, including a _. key role in setting up Nass Valley health services. and serving as the NDP MLA for the now-disap- peared Atlin riding in the late 1980s. Mr: Guno’s last public service act came in ad- ‘judicating a series of complaints stemming from - Jast fall’s Nisga’a governmental elections. There was a lot at stake and Mr.-Guno handled the task well. His independence and thoughtfulness will be hard to replace. . Bo. AND YUKON COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION, ; -PUBLISHER/EDITOR: Rod Link | ADVERTISING MANAGER: Brian Lindenbach . PRODUCTION MANAGER: Edouard Credgeur ‘NEWS: Sarah A. Zimmerman COMMUNITY: Dustin Quezada -NEWS/SPORTS: Margaret Speirs FRONT OFFICE: Darlene Keeping, Carolyn Anderson CIRCULATION SUPERVISOR: Alanna Bentham . 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Special thanks to all our contributors and correspondents for their time and talents _ 2005 WINNER CCNA BETTER NEWSPAPERS COMPETITION CANADIAN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION AND B.C. PRESS COUNCIL (www.bcpresscouncll.org) + due to the maturity of Cana- da’s. conventional natural gas sources, increasing supply to meet predicted demand growth _ will be “challenging.” The main options being considered to avoid potentially . severe shortages are extracting gas from shale or coal beds, bringing gas down from ’Arc- | tic Canada, and gas imports via ship-borne liquefied natu-. |. ral gas, called LNG. velopment. Experts maintain LNG could account for as much as 21 per cent of the to-. tal US -natural gas supply by 2025. : LNG is the same product we | use every day. The only differ- ence is it has been cooled (not « compressed) to -160C making ~ it 600 times more compact and so economical to transport be- ’ tween continents. Brunswick) MP Greg Thomp- son and others. ’ But. they forget that LNG tanks on board ships and in storage facilities are not under “pressure and the liquid itself does not burn or explode. Only if it leaks out is there a fire danger. and, with over 35,000 shipments during the past 40 years, safety issues are well understood and minimal. . For example, Boston ac-: ” engineer and energy policy analyst, writes for Electricity . Daily. The Kitimat ‘LNG: Project referred to by Dr. Wojick is now well into a 18-day envi- . ronmental assessment. | Pending receipt of all nec- . essary permits , Kitimat LNG | _Inc. hopes to. begin construc-— tion in January 2006 with commercial operation begin: . ning in November 2008. New. York City to attend an evening class: at Hunter Col- lege taught by Morris I. Klig- man, a veteran court reporter. Every Monday and Wednes- day night for five months 25 of. _ us practised testimony short- cuts he had invented and pub- - lished in a book titled “How to. | Write 240 Words a Minute in Pitman Shorthand.” | TI had graduated from a . business college in Saskatoon with a speed of 120 words per minute. In Kligman’s class I gained speed. THROUGH BIFOCALS ‘CLAUDETTE | SANDECKI I took the class four times — and never tired of the work, the late hours, or solitary prac- - tice between classes. But I did roll my eyes at his humour. Through the course he re- -lated anecdotes from. trials he _ had reported. Every story had a punchline. The first time we heard the joke it was hilarious. The second time the joke sounded familiar. By the fourth course, knowing where the joke fit, I could anticipate his quip. Summer TV reminds me of Kligman’s s classes. My loyalty to Dr. Phil, Oprah, and Nanny 911 -leaves me with no new episodes until mid Septernber.. I recognize every guest, know their situation, and in Many programs. recall Dr. Phil’s recommendations for cure. I also know all his Texas expressions, such as “No mat- ter how thin you bake a pan- cake, it still has two sides.” Two sides is exactly what brings litigants to Judge Judy. - She, too, deals with peoples’ stupidities, only instead of the emotional turmoil’s Dr. Phil tries to untangle, Judge Judy welcomes an endless line of childish adults who rationed their horse sense at the outset and now regret their foolhardi- . ness. These litigants agree to _ deals such as co-owning fur- ' niture or a car without a word. written down. When money changes _ hands traceable checks they use cash without receipts. They end up in court with no leg to stand. on, no ' proof. of their deal or how much they have paid or received from the other party. Most of Judge Judy’s cases are people who were friends at the start, either relatives, roommates, or engaged. They | saw.no reason to get anything in writing; they loved and ’ trusted each other. Until cir- cumstances and feelings took. a turn. . Since switching to Judge Judy for something new, I _ watch show after show, in- credulous at the immature be- haviour of her guests. Whether the show is Oprah, instead . of... The next time, write it all down . MANY MOONS ago as a medical secretary I moved to Nanny 911, Judge Judy, Jerry. Springer or the Channel 46 clutterbuster, the basic prob- lem is their failure to live by age old advice as simple as “get it in writing’. Have a place for everything and keep everything in its place. Don’t touch what isn’t yours. And on and on. - Jerry Springer’s guests have. the morals of Manitoba garter . . snakes. Families on Nanny 911 let the children rule the roost and wonder why their. household is a battleground... with all the noise, injury, and” | hurt feelings that go with it. . Then along comes Judge Judy sorting out money mud-. dies created by participants. | who can’t be bothered laying down even the faintest paper trail, Contracts, checks, and re- ceipts are too much of an ef- fort. Much easier to set up verbal arrangements with the two parties holding differ- ent understandings of what is agreed to, and nothing in print to refer back to when disagree- ments arise...or a judge must penetrate their murk.