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Winning Spirit The College Heights Cougars hold up their trophy after defeating the Prince George Secondary School Polars 4-3 to win the 16th annual Spirit of Hockey and Community Cup game. For more photos from the game, see page 9.
Directors give final approval to Judge expands pipeline lime plant proposed for Giscome protest injunction A temporary injunction prohibiting opponents of the $6.2-billion Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline project from blockading a bridge was expanded Friday to cover two entire forest service roads. Coastal GasLink had applied for the amendment after a process server hired by the company encountered a blockade further up the Morice Forest Service Road on Tuesday while on the way to post the original order at the bridge. Members of the Unist’ot’en, a clan within the Wet’suwet’en system of hereditary chiefs, have been maintaining the blockade at the bridge as well as a camp about a kilometre away since about 2012. The injunction would not affect the camp, Coastal GasLink has stressed. The neighbouring Gitdumden clan had put up the latest blockade, according to a statement from the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs. The new order, approved by B.C. Supreme Court Justice Marguerite Church after hearing submissions from Coastal GasLink lawyer Kevin O’Callaghan
during a brief hearing at the Prince George courthouse, also applies to the Morice West Forest Service Road. The process server encountered a school bus blocking a one-lane bridge on the Morice Service Road about 45 kilometres south of Houston, O’Callaghan said in an application seeking the revised order. “Beyond the school bus, there were vehicles, a structure and several pieces of wood which had been placed at or near the Morice West Forest Service Road at its intersection with the Morice Forest Service Road. It’s the latest development in something of a cat-and-mouse game between Coastal GasLink and the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs. All five elected band councils within the Wet’suwet’en First Nation are onside with the project to construct the 670-kilometre pipeline that would deliver natural gas to the fledgling LNG Canada project near Kitimat from a station at Groundbirch west of Dawson Creek. Combined, the cost of the pipeline and LNG plant adds up to $40 billion. — see COMPANY, page 3
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Mark NIELSEN Citizen staff Mark NIELSEN Citizen staff mnielsen@pgcitizen.ca Fraser-Fort George Regional District directors voted unanimously Thursday in favour of adopting the official community plan and zoning amendments for establishment of a lime plant and quarry in the Giscome area. Electoral area F (Willow RiverUpper Fraser) director Kevin Dunphy spoke in favour of the move prior to the vote, saying the project has been a long time coming and that the so-called Eastline area needs economic activity. The proponent, Richmondbased Graymont Western Canada Inc., has secured all the permits it needs, he added, “so I don’t really see too much further that we need to take this and I think we should go through it today and carry on.” With the approval, the plant should be up and running in about two years, directors were told. The company has said the project will cost $80-$90 million and take about 18 months to build. Once completed, there will be a lime-producing plant near the southwest shore of Eaglet Lake centred on one kiln but with enough room to add two more.
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A family enjoys a campfire on the north shore of Eaglet Lake in 2014, directly across from the proposed site for Graymont’s Giscome Quarry and Lime Plant. The quarry will be located 4.3 kilometres to the southeast and feed the plant material via a conveyor, which will be covered to reduce noise and dust. A 600-metre spur line will connect the plant to the CN Rail mainline and will be used to transport most of the product. However, trucks will be used to haul lime to local pulp mills that use the product, those who attended a Nov. 29 public hearing on the matter were told.
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According to the meeting minutes, Graymont representative Rob Beleutzs said one kiln will mean seven 40-ton trucks will be traveling to and from the site each day. The company has also been talking to Coastal GasLink about getting a natural gas pipeline extended to the plant. If that falls through, the kilns will be heated with coal brought in by rail. — see PLANT, page 3
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