(First in series of reports on how the Joint Review Panel report will affect the Kitimat region) If there is a significant flaw in the Joint Review Panel report on Northern Gateway, it can be found in the panel's analysis of Enbridge Northern Gateway's plans to blast and dredge at the proposed Kitimat terminal […]
Category: Clio Bay
Commentary: The earthshaking difference between Enbridge and LNG
December 4, 2013
Buried deep in the LNG Canada environmental assessment application, a reader will find a key difference in attitude with at least one of the group of companies planning liquified natural gas development in the northwest and Enbridge Northern Gateway. It's an earthshaking difference, since it's all about earthquakes. The documents filed by LNG Canada with […]
Clio Bay: Clay capping "relatively new technique": DFO statement
October 3, 2013
Carrie Mishima, a communications advisor for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans sent this statement in response to questions from Northwest Coast Energy News: · The proposal by the Kitimat LNG project uses a relatively new technique that is expected to improve aquatic habitat in Clio Bay. The bay has been used as a log […]
Special report: Clio Bay cleanup: Controversial, complicated and costly
September 29, 2013
Special report: Clio Bay cleanup: Controversial, complicated and costly Chevron, the company operating the KM LNG project at Bish Cove and the Haisla Nation have proposed that marine clay from the Bish Cove construction site be used to cap more than 10,000 sunken and rotting logs in Clio Bay. Haisla Chief Counsellor Ellis Ross says he […]
Clio Bay: Dead or alive?
September 29, 2013
Special report: Clio Bay cleanup: Controversial, complicated and costly Updated October 3, 2013, with DFO statement One of the major concerns about Clio Bay is the possible lack of oxygen to support sealife. While some people have called Clio Bay “dead,” others have pointed to catches of crab, cod and salmon to dispute that. The experience […]
Clio Bay remediation project "killing two birds with one stone," Ross says
September 29, 2013
Special report: Clio Bay cleanup: Controversial, complicated and costly Haisla Chief Counsellor Ellis Ross says that capping the logs at Clio Bay was a Haisla idea, taking advantage of the opportunity to use the marine clay from Bish Cove to bring back the Clio ecosystem. The Haisla were told by experts who video taped the […]
Clio Bay: Ward Cove, Alaska, benchmark for log remediation
September 29, 2013
Special report: Clio Bay cleanup: Controversial, complicated and costly Ward Cove, just eight kilometres west of Ketchikan, Alaska, was so polluted by effluent from pulp and saw mills and a fish plant, and filled with 16,000 sunken lots that it qualified for a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund cleanup. The Ward Cove project is now […]
Clio Bay: What happens to sunken logs?
September 29, 2013
Special report: Clio Bay cleanup: Controversial, complicated and costly The forest industry has been operating on the Pacific coast from Oregon to Alaska for more than a century. Over that time, it is likely that millions of logs from booms and other operations have sunk to the bottom of bays, cove, estuaries and inlets along the […]
Clio Bay: DFO declines invitation to appear before Kitimat Council
September 29, 2013
Special report: Clio Bay cleanup: Controversial, complicated and costly The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has declined an invitation from District of Kitimat Council to appear at a special meeting on Monday, September 30 to discuss the Clio Bay remediation project. A representative of Chevron will be in the council chambers at the Kitimat branch of […]
Special report: Clio Bay cleanup: Controversial, complicated and costly Editorial: Hire the experts. This is not the time to be learning on the job. Everyone in the Kitimat and Kitamaat Village are facing a dilemma, a dilemma that should have been solved a year ago, when it was first known that the KM LNG project at […]