aE hy Be Re eM he he aie eco ook aaa te ties esd i, Te, OP EE Re te te be Ae Bee Bee od Re er A ein Bees in tel i a rear ceria Nisga’a eye land oil, gas development AN AGREEMENT to in- volve the Nisga‘a in poten- tial offshore oil and gas de- velopment could be repeated for on-land oil and gas, say officials from the provincial government and the Nisga’a Lisims Government. “We're open to taking a look at-all of that. What comes to mind is the Bowser Basin and to exploring dif-.- ferent options. We'd have to go back to our people.” said Lisims government president Nelson Leeson af-" ter the Jan. 22 signing of an offshore oil and gas protocol with provincial energy min- ister Richard Neufeld. The Bowser Basin is the - name for the area reaching north to the Yukon border. Which, says experts, could contain oil and gas reserves. to rival what is said to be lo- cated underneath northcoast ~ . Waters. Neufeld said the province already has deals with eight ' bands in the oil and gas tich northeast, providing them with $12 million a year to help review exploration and drilling plans. “This could serve as a TERRACE XT CHRYSLER | blueprint of how we can move forward,” he said of the Nisga’a offshore agree- ment. “The Jan. 22. offshore agreement recognizes pro- _ Visions of the 2000 Nisga’a land claims tre: aly in which - the Nisga‘a are given W say in environmental and other | considerations surrounding potential production . off of the north coast. The agreement also says the province and the Nisga‘a will work toward including _ the latter in any regulations devel-°* regarding offshore opment and royalties and taxation should dn offshore industry be developed. “We want to work toward environmentally safe, scien- ‘tifically sound and socially responsible development.” said Neufeld of the -proto- . col’s intent. Leeson said. the protocol continues the Nisga’a phi- losophy of being involved in any economic development in the northwest. | “We want to do business. This opportunity, should it come, we intend to be meaningful participants,” he ° > Misia _www.terraceautomall. com: “TERRACE Sued info @terraceautomall.com TERRA TERRACE. advertising @terracestandard.com newsroom @terracestandard.com ‘Your website/email address could be here! Contact us at 638-7283 sessions. have taken. Terrace Crime Stoppers is is. requesting any information you may - have regarding a theft of a kidney dialysis machine that occurred on ° January 7th at approximately. 8:00 p.m. The owner of the dialysis - machine was moving from her first floor apartment to her new second floor apartment located on the 2600 block of Pear Strect and while making a trip to the second floor an unknown person or persons entered her apartment and stole.the portable dialysis machine.« The portable dialysis machine is manufactured by “BAXTER™ and is described as a beige box about 2X2X1 ft. in dimension. The owner of the machine requires it for nine hours nightly’ dialysis Terrace Crime Stoppers, Terrace RCMP and the owner of the dialysis machine would like to appeal to the person who stole this item to return it to the owner immediately. A piece of equipment like - ~ this has very little value to someone who does not need it, however, the machine has great value to the owner who is suffering for this act of selfishness from someone who may not even realize what they If you have information about this or any other crime or you know the identity of the person or person’s responsible for this, or any other crime - Crime Stoppers would like to hear from you. Crimestoppers offers a cash reward of up to $2,000.00 tor information leading to the arrest-and charges being laid against this or any other unsolved Crime. If you have any information call CRIME STOPPERS at 635- TIPS, that’s 635-8477. Callers will ‘not be required to reveal their identity or testify in court. Crimestoppers does not subscribe to cali display. 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Neufeld said the province will now negotiate payments to the Nisga’a to-fulfill the role the ‘latter will play in . developing information and ~ Special Edition! — Entry Deadline Extended To FEBRUARY 16" Don’t Miss Out! ‘We will be accepting pictures of | your babies to put into our popular pull-out supplement celebrating the ‘babies born between January 2004 Oe ‘to December 31, 2004. | being involved in environ-. “mental and other studies. _ He also said the protocol will be used as, a template for discussions with native and non-nativ and down the coast. “The intent here is to work with everybody for the benefit of all British Colum- bians,” Neufeld continued. ‘Put your se baby's p picture i in: the: Beautiful Babies Martin Pranteth ¢- groups up "All photos can be picked up after February 28); Both | the province and _the federal government have bans on offshore explora- tion. Although the federal gov-. ernment now seems to have ‘backed .off lifting its ban, the provincial government is moving ahead on plans which could sec its own ban lifted. Drilling results coming soon SHELL CANADA is about a month away from determin-, ing the results from three test wells for natural gas that were | drilled in the Klappan area north of here last year. Iv’ll then discuss the results with the Tahltan band and other stakeholders in the area. company official Jeff Mann said last week.. . . The company purchased exclusive ri ghts from the prov- ince to search for a particular kind of natural g gas known as coalbed methane in the Klappan. = It's part of the Bowser Basin which stretches north to the Yukon border, an area that has .been tagged by geologists as potentially containing large‘amounts of coalbed methane _ and more conventional ‘gas pockets, Natural gas, when found with coal se ams, is known as coalbed méthane and the Klappan area contains signific ant amounts a hard, anthracite coal, There are also significant amounts of water involved in coulbed methane requiring a different kind of drilling and extraction process compared lo conventional natural gas. pockets, | Mann said the three test wells and accompany ing seismic work provided enough raw data for the © company to deter- mine what its next steps might be. “We're working to identif’y the composition of coal-and gas and the water from the core samples and from the scis-- mic data we shot,” he said. “The initial data gathering stage went very well.” Searching for unconventional gas supplies such as coal- bed methane '‘is.a new venture for Shell and its work in the ,Klappan | is its first venture. . “The potential for coalbed, inethane and conventional re- * serves in the Bowser is*said.to-rival that which might be under the seabed off of the north coast. 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