@B10 Saturday, September 21, 1991 Mi Westar continued from page BS And although Westar Group president and chief executive officer Larry Bell gave assur- ances earlier that the sawmill would continue operating, the city is lobbying B.C. Forests Minister Claude Richmond to prevent any splitting of the tree farm,.fearing it would inadvertently have the same effect as an outright closure of the sawmill. Both council and the sawmill union, IWA Local 1- 405, are concerned that an opposite lobby exists in Revel- stoke for a piece of TFL 23. “I am very concerned,” Local 1-405 president Tony Ferreira said in an interview at the end of August. “Anything can hap- pen if the mill is sold.” Castlegar lawyer Terry Dal- ton shares the company’s and the Forestry Ministry’s senti- ment that public input is vital- ly important. But his experi- ence is at odds with their stat- ed claim of making an effort at public consultation. He thinks it’s his duty as a citizen to keep informed on the subject because “these (man- agement) plans are so impor- tant for the economic future of our area.” But he says he missed any public notice, although he follows forestry announcements in local press as a matter of routine. Dalton has acted as a legal representative on various Wes- tar issues over the years for the Arrow Lakes Tugboat Society, which tows logs down the Arrow Lakes to Westar sawmill. But his interest in the company goes back to its earli- est days when he was a mem- ber of the Westar workforce to put himself through law school, when Westar and Celgar formed a twin pulp mill- sawmill complex. An advertisement by Westar Timber ran in the May 1 issue of the Castlegar News, asking for public response by May 22, 1991. “Really, this advertisement should be more public than it currently is,” Dalton said. “It should be an obligation of both the ministry and Westar (to do so), knowing the significant impact this has on our commu- nity for the next five years. “The practical effect is that the public doesn’t know.” However, Dalton acknowl- edged that some of the forestry concerns raised by the groups for which he’d been advocating appear to have been addressed at both the government and the industry levels. He cited the issue of deca- dent wood being wasted that became a problem when West- ar sold its Castlegar pulp mill in September 1986 to a haem harvesting pulp logs. Because Celgar doesn’t hold‘ the tree farm licence, it isn’t required to harvest timber. But the tree farm licence. was originally granted on the condition that a pulp mill would be built to har- vest the pulp wood. “They allowed the pulp mill to be sold without giving prop- er consideration to TFL 23 so decadent hemlock could be har- vested by using the pulp mill woodroom,” said Dalton. But he noted there’s a commitment to restart a woodroom when the new Celgar mill is built. As well, he said, Westar’s management plan No. 7 “addressed a number of con- cerns we Much harsher in his criti- cism of Westar’s efforts at con- sultation_is Slocan Valley forestry consultant Herb Ham- mond. Hammond, a former forestry instructor at Selkirk College and a past co-chairman of t the ing firm called Silva Eco Sys- tem Consulting for the last years. “It is much more a p for Crown Zellerbach as a forester. “The problem (of consulta- tion) is I he noted. tory hoop to go through than it is a consultation process,” he said, noting he’s unaware “of any public notification.” But, he added, in fairness to the parties involved, the SVWA lies outside TFL 23 area. Hammond pointed out that “the ongoing problem is a lack of participation on the commu- “That’s why there are people blocking roads all over the province. You can’t have a bal- anced timber system, or an eco- logically responsible: forest, under the existing system of forest management.” Good forestry “ultimately means reduced AAC quota,” he said. nity level i in’ the d ing process.” On the other hand, he said, people are reluctant to get involved and remain so “until there's a willingness to share decision-making on how we use forest land.” “Until they are prepared to recognize that forests are more than a timber supply, we’ ‘re not going. to shave Es Hi d proposes putting forest management into the hands of “responsible commu- nity: boards” with powers of decision-making at the grass- roots level. “They should be part of deciding the AAC in order to ensure that no one abuses the forest.” At the same time, he dis- misses the current “t h Arrow forest district, in a sepa- rate interview, cited the Cayuse Creek Technical Com- mittee as an example of a joint body working out land use problems on the community level. It involves several min- istry branches (forestry, envi- ronment, health and mining), Westar and other woodlot licence holders and interested individual and group land users. “The intent. is to work together to reach a consensus on how the area is managed in terms of resources contained within it,” said Hamann. But Hammond balked at the idea, pointing out the SVWA participated for four years in one local technical committee and withdrew, as did other par- ticipants, when, he says, it failed to play its Proper part of in the who took his master’s degree in forestry at the University of Slocan Valley Alliance, has op: d, with his p in sil- Iture. Before his hi region whose mission is to work for an integrated land use in the forest. H ment. Likewise, he said, the forest management plans fail to provide “ ‘any shared deci- . They're where the AAC wife, Susan, a private consult- position at Selkirk he worked So wy Qc- 29F20S 508,c7. 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