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Ottawa rejects Prosperity Bill Phillips and Tom Fletcher editor@pgfreepress.com The federal government has turned down Taseko Mines’ application for a gold mine near Williams Lake for a second time, citing “environmental effects that cannot be mitigated.” The decision comes after repeated efforts by the B.C. government to lobby for approval for the project, and a court challenge by Taseko to the federal assessment that it said did not take into account the efforts made to protect the watershed from tailings from the open-pit copper and gold project. NDP leader Adrian Dix said it was the right decision and that the province handled the issue very poorly. “It’s the right ruling,” Dix said during a stop in Prince George last week. “Premier Clark and the provincial government has been embarrassed here. When she became premier, the first thing she did was call Stephen Harper and ask for a reversal.” Dix pointed out this is the second time the project has been rejected. “You have to be pretty much on the fringe of things to be on the right of Stephen Harper on the environment,” Dix said. Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA Donna Barnett said Thursday the project would have created 1,200 construction jobs and 500 permanent jobs that would help the region recover from the decline in the forest industry from pine beetle impact. “I think the federal government has made a big mistake,” Barnett said. Federal Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq issued a statement late Wednesday saying the decision was made “based on the best available scientific evidence while balancing economic and environmental considerations.” Taseko CEO Russell Hallbauer said the company accepted the federal government’s 2010 invitation to reapply, and committed $300 million to redesign the project in response to the first rejection. In a statement issued Thursday, Hallbauer said the company “fundamentally disagrees” with the decision. The Environmental Assessment panel made its decision against the proposed mine based on a report that Taseko says was flawed. New Prosperity can be built to a high standard of environmental integrity, he said, including the full protection of Fish Lake. “We are not alone in our disappointment,” Hallbauer said. “Many others, including the Government of British
File Photo An ore truck at Taseko’s Gibraltar Mine, an open pit copper-gold mine similar to the Prosperity proposal.
Columbia and the thousands of Cariboo residents who have worked hard to support New Prosperity, will be similarly discouraged. We will continue to support the excellent work of our 700 employees at Gibraltar, Canada’s second largest open pit copper mine and the largest employer in the Cariboo region.” Hallbauer said Taseko will proceed with a judicial review applied for in December, arguing that the federal review panel used the wrong design for its updated waste rock storage facility. The panel concluded that the project was likely to cause significant adverse effects on fish and fish habitat, wetlands and aboriginal interest in the Fish Lake area. B.C. Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett made two trips to Ottawa since the decision to assure federal officials that the tailings control proposed for New Prosperity Mine is similar to other mines operating in B.C. B.C. enlisted John Meech, a mine engineering professor at the University of B.C., who said the compact soil liner proposed by Taseko has been proven effective at the company’s nearby Gibraltar Mine and Mount Polley Mine, operated by
Imperial Metals northeast of Williams Lake. Bennett said Thursday the question of the tailings pond will likely be resolved in court, and the province has a proven ability to regulate mines. “We know how to make sure that the design is such that it’s not going to contaminate surrounding groundwater, or a lake that’s two kilometres away,” Bennett said. First Nations leaders are also happy with the decision. “We are extremely pleased that the federal government accepted the conclusions of the second federal review panel and clearly recognized that the tweaking of TML’s original proposal did nothing to mitigate the potential for an environmental and cultural disaster,” said Grand Chief Edward John of the First Nations Summit (FNS) political executive. “We have seen two federal review panel processes and two strong rejections. It is undoubtedly time for TML, as well as the federal and provincial governments, to clearly recognize this is the end of the road for this proposed project once and for all.”
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Bill PHILLIPS/Big North NDP leader Adrian Dix was in Prince George last week. He is calling for an independent inquiry into the Babine Forest Products explosion and fire that killed two people two years ago.
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Snowmobile restrictions set Monica Lamb-Yorski Black Press The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources Operations has issued a reminder asking snowmobilers to respect winter habitat areas for caribou. Under B.C.’s Mountain Caribou Recovery Implementation Plan areas that have been closed for recreational snowmobile use were identified by a caribou specialist starting in 2005 through 2007, said the ministry’s manager of fish and wildlife recovery implementation Chris Ritchie. “Those are those high elevation engelmann spruce, sub-alpine fir forests and up into the alpine, not severe steep mountain conditions, but more rolling circle-bowl-like areas,” Ritchie said. Snowmobile activity can affect the animals’ behaviour, prompting them to move into less suitable
habitat where the food supply is not as plentiful or where their activity in steep terrain could create avalanche hazards, a press release from the ministry noted. If mountain caribou are forced out of an area unnecessarily, the caribous’ energy reserves can be depleted during this critical time of the year. In the Cariboo specifically, areas impacted by the closure include Yanks Peak, Mica Mountain and in the Wells-Barkerville region. “Closure areas are broadly distributed both within what we call the Cariboo Region – the Quesnel area – and also from Mackenzie down to the U.S. border.” Overall caribou numbers continue in decline in the Cariboo region, Ritchie said. The ministry was thinking it was seeing some positive conditions in the Barkerville herd, however, when they were surveyed last year, the
numbers were a lot lower. “But biologists are hoping that was an artifact of the actual survey, that the animals just weren’t there when they went looking for them,” Ritchie said. “We’re going to try and do surveys again this winter to confirm that we have a positive situation and not a blippy cycle.” Surveys are typically done in the middle to the end of March. The goal is to stabilize herds and reach a number of 2,500 caribou across the province by 2024, he added. Presently there are around 1,600. When it comes to enforcing
the closures, the ministry has worked with provincial organizations and local snowmobiling clubs to get information out and to get support when conservation officers are on patrol issuing tickets. “We’ve also worked with them on developing information packages that will work for their sector,” Ritchie said. “It doesn’t do any good to do any government talk if we can’t get our message out.” One of the things they’ve worked on are stewardship management areas in caribou habit that would otherwise be closed.
Partnerships exist with the local clubs to manage the areas. Clubs provide signage and information, to undertake patrols, to amp up the commitment to manage the “good conduct” and compliance of the sledders at what the ministry hopes is a manageable risk to caribou, Ritchie said. Enforcement patrols start late January and go until early April each year. In 2013 about 20 tickets were issued across the province, Ritchie said. Areas closed can be found at http://www.env.gov. bc.ca/fw/wildlife/snowmobileclosures/.
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Out of Alba to perform on St. Patrick’s Day in Prince George Out of Alba, Prince George’s own Celtic band, will present a St. Patrick’s Day Celebration at the Ramada Hotel, Skylight Room, at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 15.
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Unifor promotes right to work Sheri Lamb Special to Big North In an impassioned speech about workers’ rights, Jerry Dias fired up union members who showed up to hear the new Unifor president speak during his first visit to Prince George. Dias was named president of Unifor, the union formed last fall from the merger between the Canadian Auto Workers and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers, creating the largest private sector union in Canada. There are 300,000plus members of the new union across the country. The Feb. 24 meeting at the Coast Inn of the North was the second western stop of a four-day, six-city tour Dias and the Unifor leadership are on as they launch a new rights at work campaign to fight back against recent federal and provincial government challenges to union security. Dias warned the crowd of about 50 that they need to mount a unified front. “It’s not a time to be nice anymore because they are screwing with our futures,” Dias told the membership. Part of the Unifor strategy to combat the politics and apathy among its members is to educate them on the history of unions in Canada. Among the members who attended Monday’s meeting was Sylvia Leblanc, a member of the union through her employer Canfor Northwood. Leblanc said she came out so she could see what the new leadership’s vision for the future was. She liked what she heard. “There’s a lot of talk and a very enthusiastic new leader,” said Leblanc. “I hope that translates into action.” Leblanc said one issue she has witnessed first hand that needs to be addressed is training new mill workers better, especially with the high turnover rates as the baby boomers, many of whom have worked at mills up to 20 years or more, continue to retire. “They are very far behind in properly indoctrinating and training new employees,” she said. In addition to union members from several local
mills, transportation businesses and media groups, the regional manager, Twyla Hurley, for Canfor Pulp Ltd. was invited to speak at the meeting. Hurley spoke on the importance of safety and training at mills, adding she saw firsthand the importance of unions when her father was injured on the job when she was growing up in Newfoundland. The rights at work campaign, a takeoff of the United States right to work legislation which tries to limit the power of unions, is the first initiative of Unifor since the merger in September 2013. As part of the campaign the leadership group will visit 19 cities across Canada to drum up support. Unifor president Jerry Dias. Scott Doherty, western director of Unifor, said today’s fight is to try to with these bills and trying to mobiin federally regulated sectors. The maintain the labour laws that were put in place in lize our members to fight back.” Alberta government and the progresthe 20th century, including the Rand Formula, so Bill C-525, a private member’s sive conservatives in Ontario are also the young generations will be protected the same bill, is currently being debated in the talking about making it illegal for way their parents and grandparents were. House of Commons, which would workers to strike and eliminating the “Young people today are probably the most vulmake it easier to de-certify unions Rand Formula, respectively. nerable,” said Doherty. “They’re the ones who are suffering the most right now. It’s their future that we’re fighting for right now.” R U N • S K I • S W I M • A P PA R E L Doherty hesitated in saying the current mood about union membership, which has declined since its peak of more than 700,000 members after the Second World War, was apathetic. “One of the things we’re trying to do is to mobilize our members among people who are active among their communities and the labour movement itself,” said Doherty. “The idea is to get out there in the community and talk about with our members the draconian laws that are being placed
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Henry Reiser, Dean of Trades and Technology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, has been hired as President of the College of New Caledonia. Reiser, who holds a Master of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering from UBC, will bring more than 25 years of applied research experience to CNC when he takes the helm June 1. “The future at CNC is very bright and I’m excited and eager to get started,” said Reiser. “With all of the resource- Henry Reiser based projects planned in Northern B.C. in the near future, CNC is well positioned to provide skills and training across many disciplines, which will lead to good paying and long-term jobs for our graduates.” “We were delighted to have found such a knowledgeable and experienced president in Henry,” said Martin Pudlas, search committee chair and CNC board member. “Henry’s experience at several post-secondary institutions will benefit CNC going forward.” Reiser taught Industrial Automation and Control for 20 years at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops. He has 25 years of experience in applied research and was a Fellow of the British
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B.C. teachers set to take strike vote March 4-6 B.C. teachers will vote on another mandate to strike March 4-6, B.C. Teachers’ Federation president Jim Iker said Feb. 25. “Unreasonable proposals” from the province’s negotiating team include wage increases lower than what other public sector unions have received, and a continued refusal to put class size and special needs support limits back into the contract, Iker told a news conference in Vancouver. Education Minister Peter Fassbender said wage negotiations “have to start somewhere” and after a year of bargaining, the BCTF has yet to present a wage demand. He declined to provide specifics of the government offer, but said classroom conditions are on the negotiating table. “Clearly we’re at the table with class size and
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eorge Lesniewicz likes to joke that he’s a Renaissance man. Looking at his paintings, his sketches, and his artist’s studio, then hearing about his love of old buildings and historic landmarks – well, that’s an apt description. Lesniewicz is an accomplished painter who began his career as a commercial artist back in the 1960s. Fast forward to the 1990s when he had works accepted into the juried B.C. Festival of the Arts including a 1996 piece called Sleepers (Queen Charlottes). Today the artist describes himself as “an oil painter looking for my voice, as far as style goes.” He says, “I’ve worked in oils all my life so I keep my older paintings on hand to show me where I came from... and where I am going.” One of Lesniewicz’s first paintings, done in 1968 while he was a student at the Banff School of Fine Arts, graces the wall in the living room. He describes it: “It was done with a palette knife on board, I was about 18 or 19. “Ever since then, I’ve continued to learn – I think saying that you’re ‘self-taught’ is nothing to be proud of because art is a continual learning process. I’m retired, but I still go to artist workshops. Last year I went to an artist workshop in Seattle – and I learned things I didn’t know.” He’s learned how to adapt with the times. “In the 1960s I wanted to earn money so I became a commercial artist and learned to do silk screening, sign painting, photography, cartooning, illustrating – all things that a commercial artist does... Now it seems anyone with a computer is an artist,” he says, with a wry smile. His pursuit of art and learning has also taken him to CNC and studies in the Emily Carr program – his plan was to become an art instructor. Then in 1977, he got married to his wife,
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Teresa MALLAM/Free Press George Lesniewicz signs his just-completed work, an oil painting of the Husky refinery, at his home studio last week. The artist began his stellar career as a commercial artist and photographer.
a market for original work?” He found out the answer when just recently several of his smaller oil paintings were “snapped up” by people wanting unique gifts for family and friends. He also does commissioned works and portraits and enjoys painting tractors, farm machinery and “rugged” buildings as well as landscapes. This week he’d just finished an oil painting of the Husky Refinery. Now the proud grandfather of twoyear-old twin boys, Lesniewicz never lacks subjects for his artwork – Angela is in some of his paintings, so are his children when they were young. His now grown-up son, an architect who also paints, and Lesniewicz’s daughter, an archeologist, sketches for her work as well. Many of his paintings end up in the hands of well-known people. Portraits, landscapes and still life pieces have been given as gifts – one of his portraits was presented recently to (now retired Prince George-Mackenzie MLA)Pat Bell.
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Angela, and opened a sporting goods store, Northern Ski. Still, when time allowed, he continued to sketch, mostly on trips in and around B.C. “I always had a sketch book with me,” he says. Discipline and a daily regime keeps his artistic juices flowing, he says. “I paint every day when I’m on holidays,” says Lesniewicz. He and Angela are world travellers and adventurers (they are both alpine skiers). He even brought along his sketch pad and painting supplies during their honeymoon. He has the sketches to prove it. “We went to Germany and England on our honeymoon and I was sketching everywhere we went.” He pulls out an album containing sketches of famous landmarks – and some portraits of his new in-laws. On another trip, to the Far East, the couple visited Israel, Egypt, Turkey, Cyprus and Rome – all places which inspired the artist to create new pieces, partly as a keepsake of their travels. He is still influenced by painters of the past, he says, explaining why perhaps still lifes are one of his favourite things to paint. When he does landscapes, he likes to work from small, five by seven inch “quick study” paintings which are done at the scene and then taken back to his home studio to replicate on larger-sized canvas. “I’ve always been fond of impressionistic painting and I like the work of the 14th century masters. I enjoy painting outside – it’s called plein air. In summertime when I’m doing my landscapes, I take along two easels set up with different types of paint. I do a lot of my painting outside.” Lesniewicz often questions the meaning of art today, he says. “Where does original art stand [today]? People liked having original art in their homes, maybe it was a status symbol for them but then we got into photography, first black and white, then sepia, then colour photography. So people wanted photographs on their walls. Then came mass-produced prints, so that left me wondering if there was still
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Kandola’s father, Ray, got a chance to see how the first year’s Rotarian-raised money was spent when he visited Amreli a few years ago. “Dad delivered the funds himself and he said it was one of the most rewarding thing’s he’s ever done. We are creating a legacy over there. The kids had flower leis and they had prepared songs and dances for him. The local Rotarians greeted him and gave him a meal – the Rotary Club is an international organization so wherever you go, they treat you like a fellow Rotarian.” That’s where the mandate to connect with India came from, said Kandola. “Education is key, we all know that, and where there are issues of impoverishment, girls not on equal ground in society with boys or whatever, if they can go to school, that’s a good place to start [making change.]” Kandola says Yellowhead Rotary will take a break from putting on Taste of India next year when the 2015 Canada Winter Games are expected to be in full swing. Be first to add to the story or read what your neighbour thinks. Be a part of your community paper. Comment online.
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Tickets are sold out weeks before the event. Taste of India is a much anticipated amazing night out with plenty of bling and beautiful saris, delicious Indian meal, amazing auctions, fun entertainment and dance band – again this year, Delhi 2 Dublin. Sonica Kandola, who organizes Taste of India with Kim Gill, says it’s terrific that people in the community anticipate and plan ahead for the “big party.” She knows of women who shop for their saris several months in advance and chat about the event on Facebook. However, for the local Yellowhead Rotary group, the focus is not so much on the gala itself as it is on how much they raised to help local and global causes. This event has raised about $250,000 in the five years it has been operating, said Kandola. “We sold out in 21 days, we had 680 people this year, so that goes to show you how many people want to get on board. I hope they are proud of what we were able to do here in Prince George in helping with our local and international initiatives and I appreciate their part in it.” Taste of India is volunteer driven on the part of the Rotary Club members who pay for their own tickets and help out in any way they can. Previously proceeds from Taste of India have gone to support the Kordyban Cancer Lodge and on the international front, provide funds for the Rotary’s “huge” initiative which provided thousands of polio vaccinations to people in developing countries. “India reports their third year polio-free,” said Kandola. This year, funds from Taste of India are earmarked for the Prince George Big Brothers/Big Sisters organization. “With the funds we want to renovate the space down-
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beautiful Lheidli T’enneh cottonwood dugout canoe by master carver Robert Frederick is the centrepiece of a new group exhibit at Rustad Galleria. Historically, however the wooden canoe was in use as a very efficient and essential way of transportation for First Nations people. The dugout canoe is one of several works by Lheidli T’enneh artists included in the Nekoyoh/ Our Home exhibit which runs until March 30 in the Rustad Galleria at Two Rivers Gallery. There will be an opening reception on March 13 at noon. Together with CBC Radio’s Daybreak North and UNBC’s Health Arts Research Centre, Two Rivers Gallery welcomes members of the public to the reception. “We encourage the celebration of heritage and culture of the area and in giving local artists a chance to showcase their culture through art,” said Robert Doane, producer of DayBreak North, in a press release. The cottonwood dugout canoe carved by Frederick is on loan from UNBC for the exhibit and the renowned artist spoke with the Free Press about his work and gave a glimpse of what life was like many years ago when the dug out canoe was a part of his daily life. “I carved it with cottonwood because it is softer to work with, even when it’s dry. Cedar is harder,” he said. It took about 40 hours to complete his side of the canoe, which features the Legend of the Salmon in traditional colours of red and black. UNBC students in a First Nations Studies course on carving, learning from the master, painted the other side with similar motif. The carving techniques Frederick used are ones he learned from his forefathers, he uses a simple knife to create the raised design. “Back in the day, they used fresh berries to make the red colour, and burnt ash for the black. They also used salmon eggs, squished in, to make a kind of light orange. We used salmon slime to even out the cracks. The canoes were made in all sizes, this [exhibition] one is a small one.” Frederick has fond memories of the dugout canoes as part of his daily family life and as part of the history of the area. “My relatives used to ‘taxi’ around the first white surveyors in these (dugout canoes). And when I was a young kid that’s all we travelled in, we went all places by canoe, when we went fishing, to go to the store for supplies. My Dad would sit in the front, my mom and aunt opposite each other and the polers stand at each end. We’d be sitting there with salmon piled all around us. the boat and we were told ‘nobody move’. “We didn’t want to tip over. (He laughs.) The only ones moving were the polers, the rest of us had to sit perfectly still.” The polers were physically strong, he says. “Most elders in Shelley can still manoeuvre these boats all by themselves, they were expert river men. But the next generation gave that up for motor boats and cars (as means of transportation). They [youth] got so interested in the fast lane in the 60s that they left the canoes behind. But for me, I only had one foot out of the canoe, I guess, because I’m still making them now.” Frederick says he wants to see traditional First Nations and his own Lheidli T’enneh crafts and culture be part of future generations which is why he’s happy
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DIGGING THE ART Teresa MALLAM/Free Press Master carver Robert Frederick shows Two Rivers Gallery assistant curator Maeve Hanna the knife and technique he used to carve the Legend of the Salmon on a dugout canoe made of cottonwood, which is part of the Nekeyoh/Our Home exhibit. Showing at the Rustad Galleria to March 30, the new exhibit features artwork by Lheidli T’enneh artists. There is an opening reception March 13 at noon.
to show others things like carving techniques used for dug-out canoes. Frederick and fellow artist Edie Frederick also have four traditionally carved wooden masks on display, each one uniquely beautiful. Adoots’it (grandmother porcupine) and Dune Daketh (man travelling by boat) in which interesting facial expressions are
created by the wood grains; Tsibalyan Too Bedikaih (eagle head dipper), traditionally used in sweat lodge ceremonies; and Alagoo, a mythical character. The Nekoyoh exhibition of artwork by Lheidli T’enneh artists is on at Rustad Galleria until March 30. For more information phone Maeve Hanna, 250-614-7800.
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Thank you to the almost 400 students across northern BC for helping us find the 2015 Canada Winter Games’ mascot.
Merci aux presque 400 étudiants qui ont participé à travers le nord de la Colombie-Britannique de nous avoir aidé à choisir la mascotte des Jeux d’hiver 2015.
The 2015 Games’ mascot will be revealed on March 11.
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DISC DISCLAIMER: All prices and payments plus taxes and fees ON APPROVED CREDIT. Prices above include $589 Administrative Fee which is mandatory on purc purchase of New vehicles. Lowest cash prices and payments using all dealership incentives. All Vehicles available at time of selection for printing. Veh Vehicles may not be exactly as shown. File photos used on some vehicles when required. 1)2014 Ram Q/cab $19 ,888 $0 down, $111 bi-weekly, x 96 months @ 4.29%. Cost of borrowing: $3585, total obligation: $23,139 before taxes. 2) 2014 Jeep Cherokee -$21 ,888 $0 down, $123 bi-weekly, x 96 months @ 4.29%. Cost of borrowing: $3951, total obligation: $25,505 before taxes. 3) 2013 Dodge Dart $15 $15,888 $0 down, $89 bi-weekly, x 96 months @ 4.29%. Cost of borrowing: $2873, total obligation: $18,405 before taxes. 3) 2014 Dodge Journey $18 $18,888 $0 down, $106 bi-weekly, x 96 months @ 4.29%. Cost of borrowing: $3425, total obligation: $21,955 before taxes. Factory Incentives subj subject to change as new Chrysler Retail Incentive Programs are announced. See Dealer for details.
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