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A place for hazardous waste

Martin Meyer
RECYCLE ADVISORY GROUP

Last year the B.C. Haz-
ardous Waste Corporation
conducted several ‘hazardous
waste weekends’ in our area.

The function of the events
was to allow homeowners and
small businesses an opportuni-
ty to drop off hazardous waste
materials at a depot in Nelson.

Unfortunately the B.C. Haz-
ardous Waste Corporation fell
into financial difficulties and
folded earlier this year.

At the time it was an-
nounced that there would be
no more scheduled drop-off
days. This was a real shame,
since there is a distinct need
for an agency of this type in our
province.

However, it was recently an-
nounced that the Toxics Re-
duction Branch of the Ministry
of Environment has coordinat-

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Recycling
and
You

ed a six-month extension to the
agreement which was in place
between the Hazardous Waste
Corporation and a hazardous

materials contractor. — :
During the extension peri-
od, two hazardous waste week-
ends are scheduled for our
area. The first will be on June
14-15, and the second will be
August 9-10 (Sundays and

Mondays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.).

The location will be the
same as last year — 91 Gov-
ernment Road in Nelson. It isa
small cinder block building
with a wire fence around it,
just south of Maglio’s Building

ly.

me workers at the depot
will accept all classes of haz-
ardous items, except explo-
sives, radioactive and biomed-
ical wastes. They will also take
old propane tanks, old paint,
dry batteries, lead-acid batter-
ies, used oil and used an-
tifreeze.

Wastes must be securely
and safely contained in leak-
proof containers — preferably
in their original containers —
and must not be mixed. :

For further information on
hazardous waste disposal op-
tions, please contact the toll-
free Recycling Hotline at 1-
800-667-4321.

Forest company hands out awards

The Woodlands Division of Crestbrook For-
est Industries Ltd. has presented its 11th an-
nual independent logging contractor awards.

The awards, first introduced in 1981-82,
were Officially presented during the spring
breakup period to outstanding company con-
tractors in each of Crestbrook’s six major har-
vesting areas throughout the Kootenay region.

The presentation of the plaques is deter-
mined by extraordinary performance in ena
ty, production, environmental concern an

‘quality.

The 1991-92 contractor award winners are:
eCANAL FLATS. Dan Gagne Enterprises
Ltd., environmental; Carl Larson Enterprises
Ltd., large contractor; Fred Canning Logging
Ltd., small contractor and Art Johnson, truck-

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 . CRANBROOK. G.G. and J. Brons Inc., en-
vironmental; Steve Hunt, small contractor and
David Kovacic; trucker. No large contractor

trucker.

ward was presented. : :
e e CRESTON. Robert Logging Ltd., environ-
mental; D. and R. Pukas Ltd., small contrac-
tor and James Edwards, trucker. :
e¢ ELKO Higrade Logging, environmental;
Dixon Trucking, large contractor; Woodbine
Logging, small contractor;and Alex Phillips,

e PARSON. Michael E. Devlin, environ-
an rc Managh, small contractor and
George Altenhofen, nore No large contrac-

was presented. ;
tr OARWOOD. Wayne Annett Logging, en-
vironmental; MBM Contracting Ltd., large con-
tractor; Loss Cee caer’: small contractor
hris Quennell.

pas ee te Forest Industries harvests the
forest resources of the Kootenay region in
southeastern British Columbia and is an inte-
grated forest products company directly em-
ploying over 1,200 persons.

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and kill innocent British Columbians every year.
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_way; June 3, 1992

NEWS STAFF

“The Insurance Corporation
of British Columbia is an in-
surance agency for the
province. It does not write the
laws.”

Those words come from
Andy Neimers, Manager of
Community Relations for.
ICBC, who spoke to the
Castlegar Rotary Club recent-
ly on the ‘flipside’ of the 19 per
cent insurance premium hike
which came into effect this

Rural tax
forms in
the mail

Finance Minister Glen
Clark said Monday that prop-
erty tax notices were in the
mail to 300,000 rural property
owners.

“We want to make sure
that people are notified in
plenty of time so that they
don’t miss the July 2 due date
and incur a late penalty,”
Clark said.

The maximum basic Home
Owner Grant has been in-
creased this year by $20 to
$450 , and to $720 for seniors
and qualifying disabled and
war veteran homeowners.

In addition to the increased
basic grant, the average resi-
dential school tax rate was
maintained at the same level
as last year.

These measures are in-
tended to offset the impact of
the cancellation of the supple-
mentary Home Owners
Grant.

Using the province’s land
Tax Department Program,
homeowners who aged 60 or
higher, widowed, or qualifying
as disabled may defer pay-
ment of their area property
taxes.

Rural area property taxes
are managed by the province.
They include provincial gen-
eral and school tax levies, and
local services levies that the
province collects on behalf of
regional districts, hospital dis-
tricts and other public agen-
cies with taxing authority.

Property taxes fund police,
fire, water and sewer services,
and recreational facilities.

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year.

Premium rates, he said, re-
flect the collective risk on the
road. They do not reflect the
driving history of the individu-
al motorist.

Sixty-five per cent of those
making claims have not been
in an accident in the past five
years, though this does not
mean that they are necessari-
ly good drivers, Neimers said.

“Some of us are just plain
lucky,” he said.

Moreover, he continued,
there is a general confusion
with respect to ICBC’s func-
tion.

What are its responsibili-
ties? After twenty years of op-
eration it is still unclear both
to the public and the bureau-
cracy what the corporation’s
mandate is, and this is a ma-
jor part of the problem.

Why, it is asked, does the
ICBC allow careless, incompe-
tent or drunk drivers to con-

tinue driving and push up the
insurance rates?

It can’t, said Neimers, be-
cause it is an insurance body,
not a law enforcement agency.

Where does it stand in rela-
tion to making recommenda-
tions to improving the laws
and requirements to reduce
the general carnage on our
roads, on driving skills, high-
way improvements, particu-
lar y at intersections, fraud
and a hundred other means to

premium reduction?

The answers are not defined
and anyway, only the govern-
sno can make the changes in

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If, therefore, there is to be
any improvement in rates and
safety on the highway,
Neimers suggests, the neces-
sary changes must come
through public demand and
the political will to change and
enforce the law to meet these
demands.

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