millions of board feet of prime timber, and the disruption of prime fish habitat on the Nechako River. In the late 1980s, the company began work on the Kemano Completion Project which would have doubled the generating capacity of the Kemano plant. After Alcan had already bored a second tunnel through the mountain and extended the generating station within the mountain, the provincial government of the day called a halt to the project for a variety of reasons. Having invested over $500 million into the project, Alcan took the provincial government to court. This controversy was settled when Alcan and the provincial government signed the 1997 KCP agreement. Most of the first decade of the twenty-first century saw the District of Kitimat in court with the Provincial Government over the electricity rights granted to Alcan and its obligations to the Province and to the District. Rio Tinto Alcan plans to increase the output of its Kitimat smelter from 250,000 MT/Yr to 400,000 MT/Yr and initially committed $300 million to this effort. Since late 2008, relations between Rio Tinto Alcan and the District appear to have become more cordial, with the two parties working to achieve modernization of the aluminum facilities. In December 2011, Rio Tinto Alcan announced its investment of $2.7 billion to complete the modernization of the smelter. Media Newspapers Kitimat Northern Sentinel Radio FM 92.1 – CFNR-FM, First Nations community/ classic rock (Terrace) FM 92.9 – CJFW-FM-1, country (repeats CJFW-FM, Terrace) FM 97.7 – CKTK-FM, hot adult contemporary FM 100.3 – CFKI-FM, CBC Radio 2 (repeats CBU-FM, Vancouver) FM 101.1 – CBUK-FM, CBC Radio One (repeats CFPR, Prince Rupert) FM 105.1 – CBUF-FM-5, Première Chaîne (repeats CBUF-FM, Vancouver) Television Channel 3 – CFTK-TV, CTV 2 affiliate (Terrace) DTBS cable channel 10 Notable people Benjamin Arthur - actor Mark Fitzpatrick - professional ice hockey goaltender Wayne Kelly - Swimmer. 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. 5th - 4 x 200m freestyle relay. Jon Kelly - Swimmer. 1988 Seoul Olympics. 7th 200m butterfly, 12th 400m Individual Medley. Bill Leeb – musician and record producer Alison Redford - lawyer, Canadian politician, Alberta Progressive Conservative Leader and MLA (2011 - 2014), first female Premier of Alberta Eden Robinson – author See also List of Panamax ports Kitlope Indian Reserve No. 16 References External links www.kitimat.ca Company towns in Canada District municipalities in British Columbia Populated places in the Regional District of Kitimat–Stikine North Coast