Joanne Monaghan's 35 year political career came to halt (at least for now) Saturday when she came third in Saturday’s municipal mayoralty election, behind Phil Germuth and Trish Parsons. Why? The best analogy is that of the sports star or coach who stays one season too many. Monaghan had set her sights on 40 years […]
Corinne Scott resigned from District of Kitimat Council Monday night, effective immediately. Because Scott's resignation comes so close to the fall municipal general election there will be no by-election. Council voted to accept Scott's resignation "with regret." In her letter of resignation Scott said: Please accept this letter as my resignation from Council effective immediately, […]
Could the future of northwestern British Columbia's hoped for natural gas boom depend on the outcome of this weekend's Australian general election? While the mainstream media in North America has mostly been following the personal feud between Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott or speculating whether or not Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's […]
Updated with clarification The pollsters were the biggest losers in the British Columbia provincial election on May 14—but not in the way everyone is talking about. It's clear to the Wednesday morning quarterbacks that the big issue in BC was the economy, and voters chose that economy over the environment. That's where the pollsters failed and have […]
Coastal First Nations have launched a commercial aimed at the British Columbia electorate, using the call from the Exxon Valedez to US Coast Guard Valdez traffic control saying that the tanker had run aground. The commercial makes the connection between the Exxon Valdez disaster and the possibility of a tanker disaster on the British […]
Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for president of the United States today issued his “white paper” on energy policy. It calls for an integrated energy market with Canada, the United States and Mexico. Romney also endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's environmental fast track “one project one review” policy. The PDF version of The Romney Plan […]
In an example of how nasty American politics is infecting the Alberta provincial election, an anonymous Twitter account that apparently promotes the Wildrose party has brought the American "birther" argument into the campaign. The badly written, poorly spelled,Tweet showed up on this morning's Kitimat Twitter search feed. It implies that Alison Redford will not be […]
PoliticsUpdated with official resultsJoanne Monaghan has been re-elected at mayor of Kitimat. Her chief rival, Councillor Randy Halyk was far behind. During the campaign, Halyk announced his opposition to the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline. Mongahan maintained her official position of neutrality on the pipeline, although there were repeated allegations during the campaign that she supports […]
Members of the District of Kitimat council vote on Nov. 7, 2011, in favour of releasing three internal consultants reports that had been commissioned to ease the council's dysfunction and improve relationships among members. (Robin Rowland/Northwest Coast Energy News) Apparent demands for confidentiality from the companies that plan to locate in Kitimat, or may locate […]