Tag: smoke

Kitimat celebrates Canada Day 2015

  The winning float in the 2015 Kitimat Canada parade from the Community Supper Club. (Robin Rowland) Staff Sergeant Phil Harrison who is retiring from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police leads the Canada Day parade.  (Robin Rowland) Kitimat Fire and Rescue. (Robin Rowland) Kitimat Marine Rescue Society (Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue SAR 63) […]

Sun set on smoky day in Kitimat

Sunset and smoke in Kitimat

For the past few days, a cold weather inversion has kept a layer of smoke over Kitimat, BC, the Kitimat harbour and Douglas Channel, and according to the Environment Canada weather alert, as far into the interior as Vanderhoof. This image from the park on Albatross Avenue looking out toward Douglas Channel on Friday, November […]

A rainy evening at Bish Cove, site of the KM LNG project

Bish Cove, down Douglas Channel from Kitimat, is the site of the $3 billion liquified natural gas terminal, the KM LNG (Kitimat LNG facility) project, which could see LNG exported from the proposed giant terminal on tankers to Asia. At the moment, Bish Cove is only accessible by boat and helicopter.   The stormy evening of […]

Firefighters battle house fire in Kitimat, BC

On the sunny afternoon of  Sunday, October 24, 2010, I just happened to look out my front window when suddenly white smoke began to appear in the valley below in the Kildala neighborhood of Kitimat, smoke which quickly added dark gray and spread out horizontally over a wide area of the neighborhood. There had been […]