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September 22nd

Canpotex plays to full house at PAC

Presentations and questions

An important meeting at several levels of significance

Here I will just give preliminary overview

1)       BC Construction rep

2)       Lonny Kubas CN

3)       Shaun Stevenson Port

4)       Jon Somers Canpotex

5)        D Van Rensburg engineering(?)

6)       Prystay Env consultant

 

 

 

Who is Canpotex (their web site note Mosaic once Cargill, etc --- The potash Market seen as expanding & global --- More to PR interests are the Handling & Storage especially the CFR aspect

Easily 500 people fill Lester Center to listen and ask questions --- if enthusiastic applause would help tip decision makers than Rupert may have a lead among 3 other options – decision by year end (but we have heard this before as ‘decided in 2008 also

 

 

Also significant was what not stated but hinted at: ‘we’ve got some (significant) announcements down the road’ --- implying Canpotex was nothte only game in town with port expansion etc

In longer term this intro speech might be most significant event of meeting

James Bryant (left) and Eugene Bryant(?) gave welcoming and context--- a few years ago this would have been a short prayer in Sm’algyax, but times have changed and instead the millennium long occupancy of Tsimshian peoples in PR harbour was made clear – and thus seeing this forum as harbinger of things to come where we all meet as equals and discuss ‘development’ within context of children and grandchildren’s occupancy of these lands --- an aside : there remains some debate on who has deepest roots in Rupert Harbour—the Nine Tribes used it as a wintering site, but Kitkatla claims year round occupancy --- and I saw Kitkatla reps in front row taking notes

 

 

On announcements, Greenfields and transportation

It was only last year that Canpotex was announcing Ridley chosen for 300M$ expansion of capacity with remaining 200M$ to go to Neptune in Vancouver --- thus presumably triggering the geotec studies and EA---- Note here CN’s Kubas given an award for ‘securing’ the PR potash export site for CN

Note the special RR cars and freighters required to transport potash --- this page stating because coated with special oils etc 

 

 

Jon Somers Saskatoon Vice President, Planning & Development

I will return to this later – see Shaun Thomas Northern View article for good (and timely—posted only an hour after meeting closed

 

From their slides ---- pure upward slope

 

 

Overlay of site for what terminal will look like

Here is the Environmental Assessment pages for Ridley Canpotex site

 

More later

Created by LG on 23/9/2009

Last updated on Wednesday, September 23, 2009