The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 19, 2005 - A13

Airport expansion project |
should start next month —

° By ROD LINK
WORK ON the Northwest
Regional ‘Airport’s terminal
expansion should start by
the end of: November, says
its manager, Laurie Brown. |
_: Contractors interested .
in bidding on ‘the project, |
which includes space to meet _
new federal baggage screen-
ing requirements, met with
airport officials. last week
and are being ask to get their

proposals in by Oct. 28.
“We’ll’ need a_ week,
week and a half to look at
the numbers and we hope to
. have someone selected who

"can start perhaps by Nov. 15 »

-or at the latest, the end. of
November,” said Brown. *
The Canadian Air Trans-
port Security Agency. (CAT-

Miners keen
on coal port

IT’S A mistake to automati-
cally assume Fortune Miner--
vals wants to ship. anthracite
coal from its Klappan prop-

erty through a shipping ter-_
minal it is now trying to buy, °

says a company official.»

‘ Julian Kemp says its
plans ‘to develop the Klap-
pan coal fields are indepen-

dent of its bidding tobuy the . -

state-of-the-art Ridley Ter-
minals coal handling facility
in Prince’ Rupert.

“We believe in the value -

of Ridley and the value of
coal. When.we started this
[bidding] process two years
ago, nobody wanted Ridley
‘and now everybody does,”

he said.

By

' But Kemp did add the

greater the tonnage that
might.come out of the Klap-

pan, the more likely it is to:

have it exported out of. Rid-

ley.

«Its Klappan development

plan lays out two shipping
scenarios ~ one to truck the
: coal from the Klappan area
‘out to Hwy37 and then to

‘Stewart and the other to put... i.

it on-rail and have it trans-
‘ported to Prince Rupert. .

. “The. larger production
levels reached mean that at
‘some point Stewart would
‘reach a limit. And beyond
‘that limit it would -make

‘sense to put the coal on rail .

‘and ship it to Prince Rupert,”
‘said Kemp.

A rail transportation op-
‘tion would mean construct-
“ing a line from the Klappan
‘area, perhaps ona right of
way constructed by B.C.
Rail but never used, south
to join up with the east-west
CN line.

Generally speaking, any:
annual shipment plan above
three million tonnes a year
could trigger the ~ all- rail:
‘transport option.

' A feasibility study re-

‘leased Oct. 3 suggests there .

- are enough proven and prob-
able reserves to- support an
operation of anywhere from
1.5 to 3 million tonnes’ a
year.

Ridley Terminals, an un-
der utilized coal exporting

facility, has never reached ~ _

its potential of 16 million
tonnes a year.

Owned .by the federal
government and a peren-
‘nial money loser and put up
‘for sale several years ago,

Ridley has become a battle- .
-ground for western Canadian -

‘coal producers.

A group of them, some .
of whom also made bids for
Ridley, don’t want the facil-
‘ity sold to Fortune, saying
‘the burgeoning coal trade to

Asia is too important to have .

it fall into the hands of a pri-
vate operator.

They’ re also worried For-
tune and a Vancouver-based
‘partner it has lined up for the
‘Ridley deal, might limit ac-
‘cess to the facility. _

But that kind of think-
ing is completely wrong,
said Kemp, in adding. that .
‘Fortune would welcome all
‘customers as the more there
‘are, the more money it will
‘make.

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SA), i is chipping in approxi-
mately $700,000 for the new
baggage screening area.

CATSA will also review
the bids before the contrac-
tor is chosen.

‘Brown said the not-for-
profit society which runs the

‘airport is aware that rising’

construction costs may af-
fect the bids but won’t be
worrying until it views the
numbers it receives.

“We have.the capital fi-’

nancing in place so that we

_can borrow if we need to and

we have a strong passenger
base,” he said.

The’ society decided to.

expand the terminal to meet
anticipated growth at the

-Same time as renovating to

provide the space for the

new baggage screening re-'
quirements because it will
be cheaper over the long run
than by doing two separate
projects, Brown continued...

The terminal expansion
itself will see an addition
built off of the area which
once held the lounge and
it will also feature-a larger
waiting room for checked-in
passengers. Washrooms will

be located within the new”

waiting room spacé.:

‘Although the work won’t
be finished until next spring, -

the airport will introduce the
new baggage screening sys-

tem the end of November, a”

month ahead of the deadline
set by the federal govern-
ment.

“We really want to have

Laurie Brown

the system up and running,
said

before the deadline,”
Brown.

It will mean passen-

| gers will have two check-in
s, one for their .
-luggage and one for them-_

procedures,

selves.
“We had thought about

asking for an extension but.
nobody thought it was a good
idea but, us,” said Brown of:

the: baggage ‘screening re-
quirements. ”

Those, requirements are
being put in place at airports
across Canada as a follow

-on to heightened security

brought on by the terrorist
attacks of Sept. 11,2001.
‘Brown did warn that’de-

parting passengers will have —

to show up at the airport

“earlier than is the case now .

in order to have their bags
screened. 6

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