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10 Wednesday November 18 2015 Please leave a message at 872-5543 for details. WESCLEAN NORTHERN SALES LTD. Ph 867 875-5100 Fax 867 875-5155 Avalon Cat Hair - long Size - medium Gender - female Avalon is a very loving and beautiful cat. She is spayed and is up-to-date with all her shots.If you think you have a home for a Avalon please call the shelter at 872-5543. Please leave a message at 872-5543 for details. WESCLEAN NORTHERN SALES LTD. Ph 867 875-5100 Fax 867 875-5155 E-mail infowescleannwt.com web www.wescleannwt.com Avalon Cat Hair - long Size - medium Gender - female Avalon is a very loving and beautiful cat. She is spayed and is up-to-date with all her shots.If you think you have a home for a Avalon please call the shelter at 872-5543. Please leave a message at 872-5543 for details. WESCLEAN NORTHERN SALES LTD. Ph 867 875-5100 Fax 867 875-5155 E-mail infowescleannwt.com web www.wescleannwt.com Avalon Cat Hair - long Size - medium Gender - female Avalon is a very loving and beautiful cat. She is spayed and is up-to-date with all her shots.If you think you have a home for a Avalon please call the shelter at 872-5543. SpayedNeutered Up-to-datewithroutineshots House trained KitkatMaleAdult Brown tabby Looking for a new home Kitkat is soft and friendly and needs a new home. So give him a break for goodness sake. Please stop by and make Kitkat your new pet. INTERIOR HEAVY EQUIPMENT Operator School www.IHESCHOOL.com Call Now 1-866-399-3853 Housing Transportation Packages Available NO SIMULATORS JOB ASSISTANCE FOR LIFE NEVER SHARE MACHINES START ANY MONDAY GET TRAINED. GET WORKING. Continued from page 1. With the annual election of half of the six seats on council and his own coming in De- cember Leskiw is not sure whether he will be mayor at Christmas let alone when the pel- let mill res up. Mapes on the other hand received a four-year mandate on Oct. 19. He said the project has little or no chance of cre- ating a conict of interest for him at the Hay River council table. The agreement was a huge step for us he said on Nov. 12. We still have a few things to work out with our harvest communities on our bre agreements and legacy agreements but were going to have a public signing in the next couple of weeks and move on to the next steps. Those steps include site preparation for construction of the mill located on the rail line and near the centre of AWPs har- vest area. The mill would provide a use for wood burned in the record wildfire seasons of the past two summers. Burned wood be- comes uneconomical to harvest after three or four years as the surrounding foliage grows back in. Live trees will also be har- vested initially in Fort Simpson and Fort Providence. Wood will come from Fort Resolution Deninu Kue First Nation and the Fort Prov- idence Mtis Council which have signed 25-year fibre management agreements FMAs with the territorial government and will receive a per cubic-metre royalty for trees removed. Mapes hopes other communities includ- ing Hay River and Jean Marie River will come on board as well the level of produc- tion and physical size of the mill which has room to expand will depend on how much wood is coming in. The plan is to use experienced harvesters at rst then to hire and train locals. It will be around a 120000 tonne per- year operation depending on how we tie the harvest agreements together Mapes said. Each harvest community will have the nal say on how much wood will be taken and from where but there is no question the harvest- ing practices will be sustainable. Its a great boost to the community. Mapes said AWP has the full support of the former GNWT premier and cabinet. The governments 2012-2015 Biomass Energy Strategy shows residents still rely on non- renewable resources including diesel and natural gas for 89 per cent of space heating demand with just ve and six per cent of demand lled by cordwood and wood pel- lets respectively. The same data sourced from 2010-11 indicate biomass heating systems offset the equivalent of 16 per cent of the GN- WTs heating fuel consumption or 2.4 million litres of oil avoiding the release of 6500 tonnes of greenhouse gas emis- sions each year. The GNWT also promotes the use of bio- mass systems like wood pellet stoves by in- dividual residents and larger boilers and furnace systems with its Energy Efciency Incentive and Alternative Energy Technol- ogy rebate programs. Environment and Natural Resources Min- ister Michael Miltenberger said in Fort Smith Nov. 12 the AWP mill represents a major step in the GNWT biomass strategy. Biomass is part of our plan to cut the cost of living and cut our greenhouse gases he said. The price of oil drove people to pel- lets and the second stage of the plan is to build an industry. The land transfer was one of the last pieces of a process Miltenberger said Mapes has been patient in working through. He has invested a lot of his own money he has his customers lined up including a 10-year agreement to supply the GNWT Miltenberger said. This is a really impor- tant piece for us that creates employment in two small communities and hopefully Jean Marie River soon. Mapes could buy logs from Alberta if the supply runs out but he has stayed committed to the North and he deserves credit for that. INDUSTRY BIOMASS Brad Mapes president of Aurora Wood Pellets Ltd. and now mayor of Hay River is pictured with delegates from South Korean industrial company Hyosung Corp. in Yellowknife last April. PhotocourtesyofBradMapes Mill will source wood in Forts Simpson Providence