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— Ducks found open water in the slough beside Spruce City Stadium in Carrie Jane Gray Park Wednesday morning.
NORTHERN GATEWAY
‘Energy return’ not worth pipeline investment, panel told
Mark NIELSEN Citizen staff mnielsen@pgcitizen.ca
What was lacking in fireworks was made up for in science, when a public hearing into the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline was held in Prince George on Wednesday night.
The evening was dominated by a presentation from two Prince George engineers - Christopher Peter and Norman Jacob - who set out their calculations for an “energy
return on investment” on a barrel of bitumen extracted from the Alberta oilsands and shipped to China for processing.
The hour-long presentation took the joint review panel through a lengthy series of estimates of the amount of energy, equated to barrels of oil, it could take to extract the crude, pump it the 1,177 kilometres to Kitimat, ship it to China and refine it into various products.
Also taking into account the
energy it could take to secure the condensate needed to thin the crude enough to send it through the pipeline, they concluded that each barrel of oil consumed during the process will produce 2.41 barrels of end product.
In contrast, they said processes that involve conventional extraction end with 14 barrels of product for every barrel consumed, and, in the 1930s, the ratio was 100 to one.
— see WE, page 3
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P.G. will no longer house under-18 female prisoners
Frank PEEBLES Citizen staff fpeebles@pgcitizen.ca
Within a couple of weeks, northern B.C.’s female youth offenders will no longer be jailed in Prince George.
On Wednesday, the province announced that, starting the second week of Februrary, Burnaby will be the only location in the province housing female offenders under the age of 18.
The new plan will free up about $2.5 million, which will be focused instead on other elements of youth justice and special-needs youth.
“We have fewer and fewer youth incarcerated in B.C. - a credit to our system and our services,” said Minister of Children and Family Development Mary McNeil.
“This now allows us to enhance rehabilitation services for youth at all three centres in the province.” The move is being criticized
because it forces young girls behind bars to be cut off from their families and support systems.
“The facilities on the chopping block have allowed female youth offenders to remain in the same region as their family members,” said BC Government Employees’ Union (BCGEU)president Walker added.
“So much for the B.C. Government’s families first agenda and the BC Jobs Plan.”
— see SIX, page 3
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