Friday, September 17, 2010

Podunk Below the Masthead, Thursday, September 16, 2010

Gary Coons offers his thoughts on the HST debate, questions of response in a Terrace area fire and Kitimat sees some progress on the Alcan modernization project, some of the items for Thursday's news review.

The Northern View
No new items were posted to the Northern View website on Thursday

CFTK News
HST will remain a hot topic..even next year says MLA-- The MLA for the North coast, Gary Coons outlines his thoughts on the HST debate, which he says will still resonate with province residents next year when it comes up for referendum (see article here) (Sahar Nassimdoost provided this report on Coons thoughts for the TV 7 newscast of Thursday.)

Terrace Standard
Log truck fire threatened forest areas on Nisga'a Hwy-- Concerns over a logging truck which caught fire on the Nisga'a highway, highlight the curious nature of responding to requests for help outside of fire protection areas in the northwest (see article here)

Terrace Standard
It's full speed ahead for new Kitimat smelter-- The Kitimat economy which has been hard hit of late with the closure of the Eurocan mill, received a bit of positive news this week with the latest developments on the Kitimat smelter modernization project (see article here)

CBC News Northern BC Daybreak North 
Daybreak North is only posting selected items on their website now. 

 The most recently posted items can be found on the archive page for Daybreak North click here

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