42_Castlegar News October 27, 1990 LOCAL/PROVINCIAL NEWS LOCAL/PROVINCIAL NEWS Ministry continued trom tront pege panies that break laws ‘and wifl-impose the new, higher Penalties for non-compliance, he said. The new penalities can go as high as $1 million for an infraction and a company will be fined for each repeat in- fraction — which could mean a new fine every day, Mc- Donald said. Speaking before the panel, McDonald said the ministry may be asking for a ‘leap of faith’’ on the part of the public in believing that, after years of negotiating with Celgar over discharge standards, the ministry will now strictly enforce regulations. But the ministry is committed to its new policies, he assured the panel. As well, Johnson said that up until about five years ago Celgar did not always report spills or other incidences where recent experience has been much better.”” However, whether Ceigar is given the go-ahead for its project or not, the ministry will be providing the com- Donald said. pany with time to comply with the new standards, Mc- If the expansion does not go ahead, the ministry will give Ceigar an interim permit that will stipulate a time when the mill must be in full compliance with the new regulations, he told reporters. If the company receives approval for the expansion, the ministry will amend Ceigar’s existing permit to allow the mill to continue operating with pollution levels above the ministry’s new during the Phase, Johnson said. approximat: “fully debug’’ but “our more Another interim permit will then be issued for the imately one-year period the company will need to the new systems during a start-up phase, Johnson told the panel. After that, the company will be expected to comply fully with the new standards, he said. Noting the existing mill meets some of the ministry's current pollution regulations, Johnson said the ministry still has some concerns about whether the modernized mill will meet all the new standards. Celgar officials say the upgraded mill will meet or exceed all new pollution stan- dards. River effluent and air emis#ions will comply with the new regulations but “‘ambient Sir quality’ may not, he said. Ambient air quality refer#ito the general quality of he explained. formation about the issue before deciding whether am- bient air standards will be met by the modernized mill. Celgar will be expected to monitor its air and water discharges and report the data to the ministry, Johnson said. The ministry will conduct its own tests periodically and check the findings against the data Celgar provides, McDonald said Celgar can comply with all the ministry's regulations if the company chooses an “‘ap- of ies for the moder- nization. air in the area, rather than the from the mill. Ministry officials are studying the ambient air quality and will have more to say on the sub- ject during the air quality hearing Nov. 1, Johnson said. Browne said the ministry appears to want more in- 's data on the needed to meet all ministry guidelines may increase the cost of Celgar’: he said. Celgar’s consultants justify increases in co discharge levels as the necessary ‘‘trade off”’ for achievi significant cuts in other areas. Study__ continued trom front pege industry is looking at.’” A study to be conducted by an in- dependent researcher which will con- sider the issue is now being prepared for and will have national im- plications, Browne said. Browne said he understands the mills that will be used in the study have already been chosen. Celgar would make a “"lousy candidate””’ for the project since the sites of the test must be mills where no major changes, such as Celgar’s proposed modernization and expansion, are planned during the testing period, he explained. The study will consider both the work histories of pulp mill employees who have died of cancer and the health of present mill workers, Browne said. During the hearing Thursday into pulp mill processes and fisheries and water quality, Celgar consultants disputed the conclusions union of- ficials drew from the findings of a number of studies concerning a possible link between pulp mills and cancer. No consistent or conclusive eviden- ce has been provided to support the conclusion that pulp mill workers and pulp mill communities suffer from greater incidence of cancer, the con- sultants said. Speaking before the panel conduc- ting the hearings, PPWC represen- tatives also called for Celgar to com- mit to completely eliminating chlorine from the pulping process by a specific date. Him suggested the year 2000 as a realistic target date for a chlorine-free mill. That date is based on a target set by mills in Sweden and “*if it seemed reasonable in Sweden it should seem reasonable here,’” he said during an interview. Students_ continued from front page challenge program, Bondaroff said. Both teachers noted the school board agreed to pay for a number of students from each school to attend the event. Two of the Stanley Hum- phries students paid their own way. More than 200 people from across B.C. as well as from Yellowknife, Whitehorse, Alberta, Washington State and one person from Quebec took part in this year’s conference, Nelson superintendent of schools Bill Masiechko said. The numbers were about the same as last year but people came from far- ther away this time, he said. No specific plan is yet being con- sidered for the event to be held again next year but the school board is “‘giving quiet encouragement”’ for a third conference, he said. Central Foods (Prices effective October 29-Nov. 3) Fields (Prices effective October 31-Nov 1) Overwaitea (Prices effective October 28-Nov. 3) Shoppers (Prices effective October 30-Nov. 3) SuperValu (Prices effective October 30-Nov. 3) Woolco (Prices effective October 29-Nov. 3) Zellers (Prices effective October 31-Nov. 4) Not all flyers receive tull distribution. W you did not receive one of these flyers ond would like to do so. please our Circulation Deportment ot 365-7266 City works foreman Nelson Newlove had a nic: on the bridge in downtown Castlegar. NICE baka FOR — Comtews photo 2 sunny dey Thursday tw do some work Hunters continued from front page Feeling hunters were getting a bad rap in the deal, Davis went to bat for the rights of hunters and sportsmen to have access to land coveted by recreational users and house builders. His stance going in was clear. “We're not a buncli of guys sitting behind bushes shooting the shit out of anything that walks,’’ said Davis. “The land is there for everyone to use. It shouldn’t be singled out for one specific purpose.’” Now, after two meetings with ministry representatives and regional district directors John Voykin and Ken Wyllie, Davis is satisfied with a tentative proposal to restrict shooting in areas with certain ion den- of firearms around the golf course (and) specific proposals will be forth- coming when we meet with them (the ministry and Davis),"’ Wyllie said. Other recommendations made by Area I director Voykin were adopted, which will mean areas around Rob- son, Raspberry, Lower Pass Creek and Brilliant will be off-limits to shooting next year, Wyllie said. Voykin, who wasn’t at the second meeting last week, said from what he’s heard, things are progressing in the direction he wanted to go. “I’m quite pleased that they have taken positive steps to resolve the problem of safety for the people of Brilliant and Robson,"’ Voykin said. Now, said Voykin, unless he gets more ints from area residents, sities, while leaving traditional non- areas legally i to hunters. “We have no problem with that type of suggestion. I mean, hunters aren’t going to shoot in those areas anyway,”’ Davis sai “It’s (the recommendation) more I guess to ap- pease the people that are there (in residential areas) and the regional district.’* But Wyllie, director of Area J, said a final recommendation hasn’t been drafted yet and there are still some concerns he’d like to see addressed before he'll be happy. One of those concerns is the area around Castlegar and District Golf Course which has been the most con- tentious issue in the talks. Davis said the Ministry of En- vironment rejected Wyllie’s proposal to restrict land around the course. But Wyllie said some agreement will have to be worked out to address the concerns of i users of he’s prepared to leave the issue ‘‘as it is.”” Davis said another meeting is set for Nov. 5, to work out final details for the new no-hunting zones proposal. Once completed, the proposals go to the minister of en- vironment for final approval, he said. In related news, the Castlegar Con- servation Officer Service sent out an advisory last month of changes to hunting regulations for the 1990 season. Those changes are: © It is illegal to discharge a firearm within 15 metres of the travelled por- tions of Highways 3, 3A, 3B, 6, 22, and 22A. © After killing a bear, the hunter must remove either the hide or no less than a quarter of the meat to his home, a taxidermist, or to a fur trader. © It is illegal to hunt wildlife by the use or with the aid of a light or an i ing device. that land, and in other specific instan- ces where he has received complaints. “Certainly steps are going to have to be taken against indiscriminate use © A person cannot hunt game within six hours after being airborne in an aircraft, other than a_ regularly scheduled commercial flight. Natives standing firm on claims VANCOUVER (CP) — The B.C. government must protect natural FOR THE RECORD Ernie Berger, the owner of the Castlegar Bicycle Shop, says a story in the Oct. 17 Castlegar News about West Kootenay Power’s new main substation for Castlegar the utility is building on 13th Street deals with only a secondary concern of residents in the area — the landscaping of complaint of the residents, the sub- WKP’s lot — rather than the major Station itself. People living around 13th Street have always been unhappy about the old in their noise than the old one, which was noisy enough to bother the people living beside it, he said. Residents did not realize the new and they are upset the new one will be larger and set closer to Columbia Avenue, Berger said. As well, a larger substation will likely generate more LOTTERIES would be so large or they would have protested its planned con- struction, Berger said. However, Doug Fergusson, West Kootenay Power’s divisional manager in Castlegar, said people in the area were told where the new substation would be built and how big it would be. Fergusson said he has received no The winning numbers drawn Thur- sday in the B.C. Keno lottery were 8, 10, 12, 24, 28, 32, 37 and 49 The winning numbers in Wed- nesday’s Lotto-649 draw werre 1, 9, 14, 20, 43 and 48. The bonus number was 44 There was no winner of the jackpot prize of $12,911,116.90. Therefore, the jackpot prize pool estimate for Saturday's draw will be a record $19,000,000. The second prize pool, awarded to those matching five regular numbers and the bonus number, had 13 win- ners of $127,486.70. ARROW LAKE ELEVATION 1443.90 ft. on Oct. 27 Forecast of Elevation 1444.22 ft. by Nov. 2 The third-prize pool, awarded to those matching five regular numbers, had 513 winners of $2,470. The fourth-prize pool, awarded to those matching four regular numbers, had 27,935 winners of $87.20. In addition, there were 540,040 Prizes of $10 awarded to those mat- ching three regular numbers. There was a total of 568,501 prizes worth $23,672,142. The four Extra winning numbers about the utility’s plans. The substation would be awkward to service and maintain if West Kootenay Power built it on the hill behind where the new substation is being constructed, he said. The street has never been a through road and West Kootenay Power had the right to block traffic from using its lot as a passage back to Columbia Avenue if it chooses, Fergusson said. in native territories or there will be more blockades and civil disobedience, says the president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs. Delegates at the close of the union’s annual general congress indicated they were willing to take direct action to protect what they claim as traditional territory, Saul Terry said. But this does not mean Indians want to break laws, he said. ‘‘We're seeking to have it done through negotiations naturally, but if nobody’s listening to them, what are they going to do?"’ he said. “They can’t rule out the blockades and the civil disobedience.’* The union, unlike the First Nations Congress, the province’s other “major “In terms of time frame, we're pretty well open,’’ he said. “‘In the interim, if there’s no action to protest the native interests in the issues of forestry, mining and so forth within their respective territories, people are going to have to act if the provincial and federal governments don’t wish to act to protect our rights."” Terry acknowledged that the main stumbling block so far was the union’s insistence that aboriginal rights and title not be eemecene by any subsequent The provincial povernencsi has yet to respond to the union proposal, while in a letter to the union earlier this week, federal Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon rejected the idea of inalienable aboriginal title. Traditionally, federal negotiators native lobby group, has a igeatet Proposal for negotiating ive tand claims, Terry said. Although union members under- stand that negotiations will be a lengthy process, they want gover- nment to demonstrate good faith by ensuring the land being negotiated is intact, he said. have that abi title is wiped out by any deal made bet- ween native bands and the Canadian government. “The answer the federal gover- nment has given us needs to be strongly responded to,”’ Terry seid. “‘Because what they have responded with, is trying to maintain the status quo. Slide almost claims workers SQUAMISH (CP) — Three rock sealers say they'll go back up the mountain that almost killed them Thursday. “It’s where the pay cheques come from," said Jamie Wilson of Nelson, one of the six scalers and technicians injured by a slide on the Squamish Highway just north of Lions Bay. They were stabilizing rock from Saturday's giant slide when a falling rock 200 metres above them set off the slide about 1 p.m. Tons of earth, rocks the sizé or cars and trees spewed down the chute car- ved by Saturday's slide. The highway, which is notorious for slides, runs along the east side of Hower Sound to the resort com- munity of Whistler, about 105 kilometres north of Vancouver About 100 travellers remained stran- ded in emergency quarters at civic centre in Squamish, which has been cut off from Vancouver since Satur- day. “We see rocks coming down all the time but nothing like that,’ Wilson said. Kamloops scaler Al Haines said scalers learn to detect and understand every rumble of a mountain — but nothing could prepare them for yesterday's horror. “It was like a war zone,"’ hesaid “There were rocks flying all over the place.”” Geotechnical engineer Peter Seelig was on the face with the scalers when he heard the roar of the slide. “I turned around and saw a blur and screamed,"’ he said at Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver. Scalers usually work from ropes hanging over the face. Seelig, Wilson, and Haines agreed that if they had been in ropes yesterday they almost certainly would not have made it to safety. Hardy Bartle, Rodney Chernivchan and Gary Shea were also injured in the slide. Seeling and Bartle work for the B.C. Highways Ministry. The scalers work for Langley-based scaling com- pany Cerka Contract Management Lid. Shea, who was pinned by two giant rocks, was difficult to rescue because he was 120 metres above the road, said John Dell, a Lions Gate Hospital ambulance attendant. “It was a very difficult rescue,” Dell said. Shea was in good condition in hospital Thursday night. B.C. Workers Compensation Board officials say they are satisfied the Highways Ministry and private contractors working on the slide were not taking unncessary risks. Meanwhile, about 500 reserved numbers for berths were given out Wednesday to motorists waiting for space on the 16 and 20-car ferries sailing around the slide area between Squamish and the B.C. Ferries ter- minal at Horseshoe Bay. WINTERIZING June Rourke gets her hands who works for Grass ana fst ty Me NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL NEWS for British Columbia on wre 41, 63, 90 and 91. A match on all four numbers wins $500,000. Threc numbers wins $1,000. Two numbers wins $10. One number wins $1- The winning numbers drawn Wed- nesday in the B.C. Keno lottery were 12, 19, 22, 37, 46, 49, SO and 55. The winning numbers in Friday’s $1-million Provincial lottery draw are 4527466. There are also subsidiary prizes. In the event of a discrepancy bet- ween these numbers and the official winning numbers list, the latter shall prevail. continued from front 1983, he said. the program in the future.”” As well, Turner pege support of the program, \which was implemented in “We shouldn’t have to listen to people nay-saying per week. the late French i i A This fall, a “‘bridging’’ program was put in place in Grade 4, providing the students with 200 minutes Per week of Russian instruction, Wa: ling said. A core language program provides 100 minutes of i instruction Wayling said. program, begun this year at Kinnaird Junior school, may meet the needs of parents who want their children to have more French study. The school district is also considering ways to help Russian bilingual students maintain their skills after leaving the program, superintendent of schools Terry Program ned for Grade 5 next year and may be extended to Grade 6 the year after ‘‘if feasible,” Wayling said. But one of the problems with continuing the to higher grades is that many of the Russian teachers in the district say they are not Proficient enough in the language to teach classes beyond the current levels, Wayling noted. of the bridging program is plan- BRIEFLY From Wire Service job. And he couldn’t be happier. forever,”” into law. in occupied Kuwait, officials say. invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2. estimated 3,500 tanks in Kuwait Independent Business. economist. Activists job is done WASHINGTON — After a decade of fighting for acid-rain controls, environmental activist Michael Perley may soon be out of a Since 1981, Perley and his lobbying partner, Adele Hurley, have been pressing for U.S. controls on acid rain. “*We were set up to get a job done, so I didn’t expect this to last Perley said in a recent interview. “Our work is mostly done now, so we'll probably wind the organization down. Still, I’m feeling happy today." The House of Representatives and the Senate are expected to pass sweeping clean-air legislation this weekend, finally sending a pollution- cleanup dill to the White House for President George Bush’s signature More U.S. troops to Gulf WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is sending additional troops to Saudi Arabia partly to counter a recent strengthening of Iraq’s defences Defence Secretary Dick Cheney said more U.S. soldiers — possibly as many as 100,000 — will be shipped to the Saudi desert to join the 220,000 U.S. forces already in the Persian Gulf area following Iraq's Cheney and other offiicals said the troop addition does not signal a change in U.S. policy from defending against a possible Iraqi invasion of Saudi Arabia to laying the groundwork for an offensive against Iraq. Cheney said the extra troops will give U.S. military authorities more leverage in dealing with Iraq’s huge army, which includes an Women better at business TORONTO — Women are better entrepreneurs than men because they are better planners and men are often defeated by their egos, a consultant told a small business conference. . “*After five years, twice as many businesses started by women are still going than ones started by men,”’ Richard Worzel told a Federal Business Development Bank conference. Worzel’s theory is backed up by the Canadian Federation of It takes only two years in business for women to boast a two to one success rate over men, said Catherine Swift, the federation’s chief Men too often set their sights too high, too quickly, said Worzel, author of From Employee to Entrepreneur and owner of Toronto ial Services, a Science. Galaxy dwarfs Milky Way WASHINGTON — A concentration of stars that stretches for six million light years — more than 60 times the size of the Milky Way—is the largest galaxy ever discovered, astronomers say in the journal The study said the central galaxy in the distant cluster of galaxies called Abell 2029 has more than 100 trillion stars. The Milky Way, which includes the sun and its solar system, has about three billion stars. firm. Jeffrey Kuhn, a galaxy that has been resolved. of,”” he said. Possession since Sept. 11, 1989. State U wrote the study, said the Abell 2029 central wiley “tis the largest single “*If we talk about the galaxy and the halo (diffused light around the galaxy) as a single entity, then it is the largest object that we are aware Kuhn and his co-investigators, Juan Uson of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Stephen Boughn of Haverford College, determined the size of the galaxy using a series of observations from the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. Court orders money returned VICTORIA — A California woman won her court battle Thursday against the Crown and RCMP when a B.C. Supreme Court justice ordered that $52,000 US be returned to her immediately. Justice Allen Melvin also ruled that Dina Bindeman receive costs for the tangled court action, which featured the unusual move in August of Vancouver RCMP serving themselves with a warrant to search their own exhibit lockers and seize the money which they had in their who co- GST ‘inevitable’ after vote OTTAWA (CP) — The goods and Services tax cleared a major hurdle in the Senate on Thursday. And trium- phant Conservatives predicted the tax is now inevitable. A Senate committee report calling for the tax bill to be killed was rejec- ted 57 to S1 The S4-member Conservative caucus, aided by three Independent senators, had no trouble staving off a Liberal attempt to sink the tax. A final vote remains before the GST becomes law. And the Libcrais could delay that vote for weeks. But Tories said Thursday’s vote was an important indicator of what is to come. “All this reinforces the fact that the GST is inevitable," Conservative Senate leader Lowell Murray told reporters following the vote “‘I think that’s the message here,” agreed Finance Minister Michael Wilson, who was there for the vote. “This victory in the Senate isa pretty solid win.”* The GST is slated to con.c into ef fect Jan. 1 And Wilson was not ready to con- sider the possibility that Liberal senators might delay passage of the bill beyond that point Liberals weren't ready to comorde defeat, however. “I don't put a lot of faith im what “it’s a lor like desert warfare.” be said outside the Semate. “You keep shiping away and you might ha the general or the next thing you might do is blow up a propane tank. You mever know. So you try everything. “And im the meantime, time is om our side. Not om theirs. Wilson accused the Libera of fighting a phoney war “I think people see preity clearly that the position of the Liberal party 5s to cause (the goverment) political embarrassment but underiying = ail. they want the tax too.” One of the Liberal efforts Timarsday was to challenge the rights of cagin ex- tra semators to votr. In September, Prime Mimister Brian Mulroncy employed a mever- before-med section of the Com stirutios that allows for the creation of four on eqghe extra Senate sears to break 2 deadlock im the apper house The move gave the Tories 54 sears to $1 for the Liberals Buc the Liberals clam that ome of the et — Nova Scotia Senator Mike Forreszall — may mot qualify to If Forrestall wasn’t qualified, faecher were the other seven and they should mot vote until the matter is cleared up. Frith suggested They ignored him Three Liberal senators were not in the house for the vote: David Croll, the oldest senator. who has recently been i Hazen Argue. who is ailing amd has mot attended the Senate all fall. anid Leo Kolber The absence of Kolber — sho is thought to support the GST — was an The six Independents split down the muddle. Hartland Molson. Michaci Pirfieid. and Doug Everett — who sits as an Independent-Liberal — voted with che gos eramen: Ed Lawson_ Dame! Lang and Sian Waters — the Reform party represen- tative who is the only ciected senator m the howse — vored the Liberais. Senate asked to reject abortion law OTTAWA should ship the government's con- troversial abortion legislation back to (CP) — The Senate the Commons so MPs can take “‘a second sober crack"’ at it, says the Canadian Civil Liberties Association “This legislation ought not to go forward,” Allan Borovoy. general counsel for the association, told the Senate legal affairs committee. ““The House should be given another op- portunity to consider the wisdom and the constitutionality of enactment.”’ » Borovoy told senators that he doubts any definition of health can be written into the Criminal Code that Canada to OTTAWA (CP) — Canada will push for an agreement to stabilize global carbon dioxide emissions at current levels by the year 2000 at the Second World Climate conference in Geneva next week A senior Environment Deparument official confirmed the position at a briefing Thursday But he declined to produce any studies on the methods of preventing growth in carbon dioude emissons or to give cost estimates “The current Canadian position is that (of would survive a court challenge Under the ball, doctors and women could be imprisoned for up to Teo years for abortions performed im the absence of valid bealth reasoms — ‘eather physical or psychological He also said access willl be restricted because 50 doctors have already stop- ped performing abortions and many more have indicated they will sop if the bill becomes ix=. Justice Minister Kim Campbell has said she won't put the ball imo effect until doctors understand they have nothing to fear if they folios stam dard medical practice But Borovoy said be believes doc seek pact Dawson, director-gencral of the Canadian Climate Centre. a federal research agency. “We are developing the action plan to determine how that sould be achieved.” Even if all countries agree to stabilize emissions of carbon daoxide. a beal-trapping gas reicased by the burning of fossil fucis and dctorestanon, & won't be enough to prevent Gimate change, said Dawson. “The scientific community says that if you really wamt to sabelure the you've got to cat back should be the first step.” said Kirk greenhouse emissions by 60 per crm” tors have good grounds to be fear fui “We kmow there are people m ths country sho «ii harass doctors who performs these things.” Ine told repor ters. Borovoy was the firs: witness to testify before the committee which expects to wrap up hearings by the end of November The government hopes for 2 fimai the bull before Christmas when ¢ current vote on session of Parhament is expected to end testify was abor The secomd group to Campagne Quebec-Vie_ an noe group from Quebec Gilles Grondin. the group's president. sand the bill should be scrapped or ai the very least amended TORONTO (CP) At an estmmated $19 muiflhon. the jack por peur im today’s Lomo 699 draw will be the biggest ever im Canada The prive bas grown so large became there has beem mo jackpot wuneer on the kext four draws. m= chodang ome beid W edmesdas Bat Rex Joka Hartley. 2 Uneed Church: mumncer. sand im an imtervics Thursday thar there's “something scandalous about so much momcy being up for grabs. “We cam feed people. We cant prowsde them wah decent howsang but we give them a chamce of winming $19 mndbon_ ~ Harticy accused the goverment Minister criticizes : huge lotto jackpot of promoting gambling and cn ticing people to risk more money tham they can afford “The chances of winning are about equal to goimg out im the street amd being struck rwice by ightning.~ he saad The Unwed Church wants a study of the social effects of legahzed gambiing_ be said The largest previous jackpot prize of SIS.S million im April 1989 was shared among four tachet-hokders The simgic largest wm to dare wehah «2