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VICTORIA (CP) — A commission appointed
by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to ask
Canadians about the country’s future should consider
the state of the economy, says B.C. Finance Minister Couvelier said the B.C. government would “have to
Mel Couvelier. consider the merits of government talking to this
“*Failure to include the country’s desperate financial group.”
situation in those discussions would be yet another in-
dication that Ottawa themselves don't yet realize the . Spicer profile, page Aé
serious trouble we're in,"’ he said. “If it angers the group. is nothing but a shallow
Premier Bill Vander Zalm is believed to be exercise then obviously we'd be less interested
travelling the west coast of the United States to Califor- in making such an appearance.”’
Keith Sree, former head of the Duane Radio-

said Mulroney was only making a last-ditch effort to!
regain some of the credibility he lost after the death of:
Meech Lake.
“I think it’s quite apparent its motivated by
politics,”” he said.
Opposition Leader Mike Harcourt said in an inter-

Jack Webster, a retired radio and television
broadcaster, and Carol Corcoran, an Indian band
manager from Fort St. John, are the two B.C. members.

Mulroney said the commission will travel the coun-
try and deliver its findings by July 1 — Canada Day.

The president of the Federation of Franco-Colum-
biens said the commission may provide renewed view he is pleased with the makeup of the task force and
the failure of the Meech Lake con- that he doesn’t think it is too late for the country to
stitutional accord. come together.

“My hope would be whether the report that comes He said there appears to be a good balance of.
out of the commission . . . will re-affirm our desire to. people from all regions of Canada and a good balance
stay a unified country with respect and tolerance for all of men and women.
segments,’’ said Marie Bourgeois. The NDP leader said British Columbians will likely

Gordon Shaw, vice-president of the Reform Party, have a lot to say to the panel.

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EPA gives
support
to plans

By CasNews Staff

The U.S. Environmental Protec-
tion Agency ‘‘strongly supports’’ the
environmental controls Celgar Pulp
Co. plans to institute as part of the

Proposed expansion and moder-
nization of its Castlegar pulp mill,
the EPA’s chief officer of water
planning in Seattle says.

In a letter to Jill Bodkin, chairman
of the panel reviewing Celgar’s
Proposal, Thomas Wilson says the
EPA is ‘‘extremely pleased”’ with the
discharge limits being proposed for
the mill modernization.

The reduction in pollutants such as
highly toxic dioxins will help resolve
many of the health concerns of
people living around Lake Roosevelt
im Washington state, Wilson says.
Celgar, Cominco and eight U.S. pulp

mills discharge pollutants into the

Columbia River which flows over the

Canada-U.S. border into Lake
Roosevelt.

“Please keep in mind, however,
that if the mill modernization does
not proceed on schedule, we will be
urging the (B.C.) Ministry of En-
vironment to take immediate alter-
Native steps to achieve equivalent
discharge reductions,”” Wilson says.

The EPA was expected to make a
Presentation to the panel during
technical hearings in Castlegar but
has been unable to do so because the
debate in Congress over the U.S.
budget has put restriction on the
EPA’s travel allowances, Wilson
said.

In an interview with the Castlegar
News, Wilson said his department
“(doesn’t) pretend to have any
regulatory authority in Canada.”’

But the EPA, working with the
governments of Washington state
and Oregon, is trying to limit the
amount of toxic chemicals
es into the Columbia, he

he EPA is proposing a maximum
daily limit dn dioxin discharges. The
was presented at a pubiic
hearing in July and is in the final
Stages now, Wilson said.
If Celgar does not meet its
reduction standards, the
U.S. pulp mills that discharge into
the river will have to cut their
emissions more to meet the proposed
guidelines, he said.

Documentation ‘of elevated levels
of furans has led the Washington
state Department of Health to issue
an advisory recommending that
young children should not eat
whitefish from Lake Roosevelt,
Wilson says in his letter to Bodkin.

The Washington state Department
of Ecology, speaking before the

Workers from a crew hired by the Castl
end of the file birds at the Bebeon boat launch. The work crew built the wharf which was

and District i

By CasNews Staff
‘A long-awaited wharf at the
Robson boat launch has been

Wharf at Robson launch
has become a reality

Armed with letters of support
from surrounding communities,
the development board ap-

into

“This is the result of an
initiative that we've been working
on for over two years,”’ said
Harry Stan, executive director of
the Castlegar and District
Development Board.

The project.to replace the old
wharf started with former
Kootenay West-Revelstoke MP
Bob Brisco and proceeded as far
as building a ramp to launch
boats.

“They got the ramp in and
then they ran out of money and
they didn’t have any ways of put-
ting any type of moorage in,”
Stan said.

PI the federal Department
of Fisheries and Oceans but
found it would cost $35,000 to
build a wharf to the department's
specifications, he said.

Fisheries and Oceans officials
said the department didn’t have
the money.

“So slowly over time we've
been able to gather, pretty well
by donation from everywhere . . .
enough materials and cash
together from a whole bunch of
different people in order to make
(the wharf) happen,’ Stan said.

“It’s an excellent example of
how the community all pulling
together, everybody giving some

and money from the community. —costews photo by Ed Mills

Board wander down to the

donations in . . . material and
some cash, of how you can make
a project happen.””

Fisheries and Oceans con-
tributed $5,000 for the wharf,
built by the development board’s
14-person work crew hired under
a provincial government program
called Employment Plus, Stan
said.

The crew, which has been
working since last spring, has
done numerous jobs in and
around Castlegar such as trail
clearing on Zuckerberg Island,
work at the Castlegar Rail
Station and cleanup of beaches.

The new wharf is for tem-

porary moorage only while boats
load and unload passengers.

Doctor backs
planned study

By CasNews Staff

An occupational health physician
who is working as a consultant for
Celgar Pulp Co. said he supports a
study being proposed by the B.C.
Cancer Control Agency to determine
whether the working environment of
pulp mill employees causes cancer.

Eric Jeffries said there is ‘‘in-
creasing evidence’ that working in

have already been conducted on the
subject.

The union also wants guarantees
that adequate monitoring will be in-
cluded in an expanded and moder-
nized mill to ensure workers do not
come into contact with chemicals,
especially gases.

More than 60 ‘‘gassings’’ have oc-
curred at the mill so far this year,
Greg the union’s

pulp mills may lead to
the often-deadly disease.

But pinpointing a cause is a com-
plex problem, especially since the
disease can develop over many years
and the person may no longer be in
contact with the substance that star-
ted the illness, he told reporters
during technical sen on into
Celgar’s proposed $650 D million x-
pansion and

national occupational health and
safety officer, told the panel
reviewing Celgar’s proposal during
technical hearings last week. Any
contact with a gas used inside the
mill, including chlorine which is used
to bleach pulp, is considered a

The more complex a disease is, the
more people that must be studied to
“*tease out”’ the causes of an illness,
Jeffries said. He said the Cancer
Control Agency study, which will
collect data on 30,000 to 35,000 pulp
mill workers in the province, will be
an important step toward gaining a

Jeffries said studies so far have not
provided consistent or conclusive
evidence that pulp mill chemicals
cause, or are unrelated to, cancer in
pulp mill employees.

The Pulp,

Celgar to participate in the agency's
study because the union believes
working in pulp mills leads to con-

for workers, as well as the
has been it
into the design of the upgraded mill.
However, Jeffries said that

mills, the sensitive sensoring devices
may not pick up the same gases
workers are breathing, even if the
devices are worn by the employees.
The union supports Ceigar’s plan
to substitute 70 per cent of the
chlorine used in the bleaching of
pulp with chlorine dioxide, which
experts say produces less of the har-
mful byproducts of the bleaching
Process such as dioxins and furans.
But chlorine dioxide is thought to
be 10 times as dangerous as chlorine
if imhaled = the union hopes the

completely the use of both
» Meinechuk said.

concluded that the projected normal
low levels of sulphur dioxide will be
harmful to vegetation over a long
period of time.

Leaves and needles take in sulphur
dioxide, neutralize it and store the
material as sulphate, he told the
Castlegar News.

He said the buildup can lead to
needles dropping prematurely. And
leaves and needles high in sulphate
that accumulate on the forest floor
will lead to degradation of the soil
when rain releases the sulphate, he
said.

Van Barneveld pointed out much
of the West Kootenay has been iden-
tified by the Environment Ministry
as being sensitive to acid rain.

To combat the problem, Bennett
said Celgar will have to find other
ways to handle the sulphur dioxide
during shutdowns of the lime kiln.

only option the company has for
solving the problem.

He could not say what bearing the
ministry’s new findings will have on
how Celgar’s project is evaluated or
how it will affect the decision of the

and federal

“That's a role for the panel,"” he

He also noted that, since the
ministry received the new data Oct.
16, it has only had time so far to
study the sulphur emissions and
problems with other pollutants may
be discovered when the rest of the
data are looked at carefully.

But he said a cursory review has
indicated all other levels of gas
emissions will be below the ministry's
new guidelines.

McDonald, during closing remarks
to the panel, said the ministry wants
the issue of possible vegetation
damage from sulphur dioxide

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Although the ministry has some

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continued from front pege
by the Castlegar News.

“I’ve got to be in contact with the
union this afternoon (Friday) and sce
what they’ve got to say about it,"’
Hopkins said. ‘‘I don’t know what
the union feels about (the non-union
shop) but I would imagine there'll
probably be some kind of
organizational drive.””

Steve Thornton, a reporter with
the Nelson News and the union's
chapel chairman there, said he hasn’t
discussed the new paper with union
officials yet.

“As chapel chairman I'd say that
we'd prefer that it was a union shop
but I really can’t say anything
rie at this point,”” Thornton

satertsacion obtained by the
Castlegar News revealed production
workers at the Castlegar Sun will
receive gross wages of $325 per week,
about half the wages of Sterling's
unionized workers.

City's future predicted

VANCOUVER (CP) — Vancouver
will overtake Montreal as Canada’s
second-largest city as its population
swells during a Pacific Rim economic
boom, global futurist Frank Feather
said.

“It may not happen this decade
but it will surely happen thereafter,"’
he told the Pacific Canada Property
Conference.

Feather, author of G-Forces . . .
Re-inventing the World, said 80 per
cent of immigrants to Canada now
come from Pacific Rim or Third
World countries and Vancouver will
continue to be a major destination
for those immigrants.

“*It will be fantastic for the city,”
said the Lheimergnargs consultant.
“It will and

They will soon understand that
western European investors already
have a big advantage in that part of
the world, he said.

Feather said Canada is currently in
a ‘‘mini-depression’’ that will last
until 1993.

Despite concerns about the future
viability of the Canada Pension
Plan, Feather said the plan will not
go bankrupt.

“This generation of baby boomers
will be the richest pensioners you’ve
ever seen,’’ he said. ‘‘They

sciousness.

‘Companies that are not sensitive
to the environment will either be
legislated out of business or
customers will abandon them and
they'll go broke.””

He the could
install a stand-alone incinerator with
a scrubber to burn the gas during
shutdowns.

Bennett said he had no idea what
such an incinerator would cost and
pointed out his suggestion is not the

about specific aspects of
Ceigar’s proposal, ‘‘there are no out
standing concerns that can't be
resolved at the permitting and licen.
sing stage’? after the company has
received approval for the project, he
said.

BRIEFLY

By CasNews Staff

COURT
NEWS

won't even need the pension plan.’’
Feather said the ‘‘horrendous
corruption’’ that accompanied the
1980s’ greed-driven economy will be
replaced by a “high virtue’’ 1990s

position the city to nt @ major player
in the Pacific Rim."*

Feather said Western Canada will
also enjoy increased Asian invest-
ment when Asian investors realize
that eastern Europe is not for them.

“It can never be totally clean but
it will definitely be a house-cleaning
decade,"’ he said.

Feather said the environmental
movement will not go away because
it has become part of the global con-

In Castlegar provincial court, Ar-
thur Sinclair pleaded guilty to driving
while intoxicated and received a 90-
day intermittent jail sentence.

oe

Johnny Postnikoff pleaded guilty
to selling or giving
toxicated person
suspended sentence
ths’ probation:

Complex.

will start at 7 p.m.

Kirk Duff and Bob Pakula.

Woodland Dr. in Castlegar.

Tom Lang said.

City candidates to square off
Candidates for Castlegar city council seats will face each other at

an all- i ” meeting Monday night at the Community
Sponsored by the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce, the forum

Seeking re-election are aldermen Albert Calderbank, Lawrence
Chernoff, Marilyn Mathieson, Patti Richards and Doreen Smecher
Challenging for the six seats up for grabs are Jim Chapman,

Bullding under construction
Construction is well underway on a new 5,300-square-foot
building on Martech Electrical Systems Ltd. property at 1700

The new building is primarily warehouse and office space and will
be available for lease in carly 1991, Martech’s operations manager