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Forests have become an emotional hot-bed and hundreds of ecologi- cal groups have been formed to prevent the destruction of the last remaining forests. According to The Bald Moun- tain Bulletin, the problems in the United States are just as serious as in Canada, with less than five per cent of its nation’s virgin forests At the Tr dary Conference, which included pro- moog: groups from the United legislation that provides holistic — to professi 1 forester and co-author, Herb Ham- mond, the war over logs will soon become the water wars, because water is the great connector of life and a forest ensures the quality and quantity of water. People need to be a part of the forests but in our society, we have learned to munities have lost control over their environment, but extreme positions won’t accomplish any- Is such as gov: forestry officials, professional foresters, writers, editors and economists, as well as concemed citizens and representation from one Native Indian band and many representatives from different a continuum and it is important that they are around to provide a zoning, Y forest boards and comprehensive standards for the maintanence and restoration of forests. “We must change our way of need He also said that the forests pro- vide fiber for an industry that is not committed to our communities and therefore, the industry is able to sell our wood products to for- eign countries, then they walk away when there is nothing left. Communities can apply for timber farm licenses in our Country, and this is one way of control of the environment. In British Columbia, only 40 per cent of the old growth forests is left. Evan Frost has been working living for the next g ion of people who wish to make a living off the land,” he said. § Castlegar & District United Way NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING April 16, 1992 at 7:00 p.m. Kinnaird Jr. Secondary School-library Purpose of meeting; to bring the revised bylaws of the society to the membership for a vote of amendment. we work at it, we can find a way to bring stability to our, working forests and protect our priceless environmental heritage. It will take goodwill at the table. It will take openness, respect, creativity and patience. And a process that is fair and balanced. That’s why the government of British Columbia has set up the Commission on Resources and Environment — CORE. Over the next few months CORE will be asking British Columbians to participate in an open public process with specific deadlines for on p ls for the Greater Ecosystem Alliance. He's con- cerned with working to protect the diverse species of the ecosystem. If the forested areas that are left are too small, we lose species of According to Joe Bradley from Washington state, a member of Citizens for a Clean Columbia, the Columbia River has the highest source of furans and dioxins in North America. Dr. Diane Court- ney head of the Toxic Effects Branch of the EPA’s National Environment Research Center, Let's shed new light on an old problem making recommendations about where to log and what to protect. CORE is your chance to help shape British Columbia’s future. Shouldn’t you be involved? More information on CORE and the choices we face is available in a special publication, Focus On Resources & Our Environment. Watch for it in your mailbox. It’s time to find common ground. ritish lumbia The first ever Transboundary Conference, held in Grand Forks, brought together professionals together from across the province and the United States. describes dioxin as “by far the most toxic chemical known to listed as threatened or endangered by federal fisheries. As habitats species hover ” Dioxins in animal tissue and concentrate in the flesh as moves up the food chain. Even in the lowest testable levels of, for example, one part per trillion, dioxins cause cancer, birth defects, miscarriages and death. One ounce of dioxin can kill a million people. It seems probable that dioxins are one of the main reasons that many species have been brought to the edge of extinction. Since the 1970's, many up-river Columbia runs have been on extinction. According to Columbia Maga- zine, a study was released in March of this year in which “WDOE confirms the presence of dioxins in the fish of the Columbia River below the Celgar Pulp Mill in Castlegar.” These dioxins do not break down easily. T hey are carried into the sediment of Lake Roosevelt where bottom dwelling organisms feed in the sediment and transport the dioxins into the food chain. Furans, a type of diox- in which is one-tenth as deadly, were found in the Lake Roosevelt fish. Dioxins have been detected in all samples of Kokanee, White- fish, Sturgeon and in most of the Rainbow Trout sampled by the US Environmental Protection Agency. The fishing industry, like the forest industry, is threatened by the destruction of our complex and delicate ecosystem. Dr. Thomas Michael Power, Economics Chair, University of MT, and author of “The Economic Pursuit of Quality,” states that community economic health depends on the quality of the natu- ral and social environments. We need a new economic paradigm, one that protects and supports all of the people who depend on the forests for their livelihood; and raw materials, such as lumber, are crucial to our communities’ exis- tence. he says that if you pump up the economy of a community by depleting it’s resources and then let it crash when those resources are gone, you destroy that commu- nity. Monoculture plantations do not offer any solution to the dilemma because biodiversity is the natural order of forests., Trees are healthi- est with an understory of species of algae, mosses, small plants and shrubs to supply nutrients to root- stocks and provide food and shel- ter for the wildlife that lives there. A few of the groups represent- ed at the conference were: several chapters of The Western Canada Wilderness Committee; The Green Party; Slocan Valley Watershed Alliance; GIA Inc.; The National Audobon Society; The Forest Watch Program; The Greater Ecosystem Alliance; The Environ- mental Youth Alliance; The West- em Ancient Forest Campaign and ives of the Doukh community. There are plans to hold other such conferences in the future to enable ecologists to work together with communities to plan ways to sustain the forests for their use, as well as for future generations. One thing is certain: if the forests are endangered then we, who depend on the forests for clean water, pure air and our livelihood, are in great jeopardy. In the past, we have been too slow and too blind to see the writing on the wall and because of that, many species have disappeared from the Earth forever. We dare not ignore the writing this time: we face the Possibility of losing the species that is most dear to us: Wednesday, April 8, 1992 The Castlegar Sun Page 5A Warfield fertilizer operations running under budget TRAIL TIMES Amid the gnashing of teeth over Cominco’s failed new lead smelter, another, much smaller modemization project has been quietly completed on schedule and under budget. Two new The Project differs from most others in the modemization plan in that it was not aimed at increasing production, reducii the same size to blend evenly and allow for even spreading. Until recently farmers usually spread each c but costs or meeting environmental standards, "It is an interesting project because it is driven almost totally crystalizers were recently started up at the Warfield fertilizer opera- tions and are running according to specifications. The project was started in 1990 with funding of ae. but it cost only $7.2 about product quali- ty,” said project manager Bob Rogers. Farmers now want custom fer- tilizer blended from components such as ammonium sulphate, ammonium phosphate, urea and potash, but each must be post this practice has been eliminated in the drive for increased efficien- cy. The original crystalizers, built in the 1930s when Cominco was a pioneer in the chemical fertiliz- er business, cannot make big enough crystals for uniform blending. The two new cry i can replacing five old machines and reducing energy consumption One of the original crystalizers will be kept as a standby unit. After six weeks of operations, crews are now fine tuning volcanic ash soils in several major Washington state farm belts are sulphur poor. Its production is important:to Cominco’s environmental control program, since it is made using and g details in preparation for long- term, full- scale production. Construction was done by Cominco’s own crews and design work by Com- inco Engineering Services Ltd. Ammonium sulphate isa com handle the entire current plant capacity of 44 tons per day, mon fertilizer, which is popular in in the Pacific northwest pecease the Rossland fails to convince RDKB about expansion Sun Staff The City of Rossland defended its proposed boundary expansion to the Regional District of Koote- nay Boundary on Thursday, but failed to i that for control over resources.” He told The Times later that Atco Lumber does not own land or timber rights in the boundary expansion area, although it does have | land within Rossland’s Rossland needs grow even bigger than the City of Vancouver in order to protect its water supply. A special meeting was called of the RDKB after Area B direc- tor Joe Tatangelo complained that Rossland planned to expand its boundaries with no with the RDKB, and that the expansion had grown to five times the size of the original pro- posal. He had not been consulted since May of 1991 even though the land is currently within his rural area. The proposed expansion (see map on page 16) would take in portions of the base of Red Mountain, and then extend fur- ther north, including 14,800 acres. The City of Vancouver covers 14,200 acres, according to Atco Lumber Hans Louwe, who porosercy the meeting “I’m here to protect the forest land base. Our fear is Rossland taking control of vast amounts of Crown land and turn- ing it into single use,” Rossland Mayor Bill Profili said that Atco has never dis- cussed its concerns with Ross- land, and there has been very little interest shown from the community at large in the extend of the expansion. He said discus- sions on the expansion have been going on “for three years and four months” and he was “taken aback” that Tatangelo believed the proposal had not been thor- oughly investigated. “Frankly I don’t see how it could be any more thoroughly investigated.” He said the city has followed all steps laid out in the Municipal Act for boundary changes. He said the City of Rossland is taking | a lead role in the province to oppose Rossh He said it is a “mystery” why Rossland wants control of so much Crown land, since the boundary expansion extends a “long way north” of its watershed area, “and this concerns me. I believe Rossland wants control, or why else do they want all this Crown land?” Louwe said “water is not a major concetn here ... but a push ‘ Conroy admits A week after provincial Finance Minister Glen Clark tabled his government's first bud- get, its affect on municipalities continues to be a hot topic. Wednesday night, B.C. mayors left an emergency session of the new ground in the man- aging of our watershed.” But, by annexing the land around the watershed, “we gain no rights or authority, No taxes, no superpow- ers” except to be primary interven- er regarding further decisions on Crown land use. Profili said that every provincial ministry the City of Rossland has spoken to “does not feel they are giving up any of their fights” if the"latge area was part of the City of Rossland. But Louwe said he has been speaking to Forest Ministry offi- cials since he became aware of the expansion accidently when he read the proposal in The Times March 13. He said at the local level, Ken Arnett “thought (the area) wasn’t that large” and the Ministry of Forests regional man- ager “is unilaterally opposed.” He said the size of the expansion “has huge implications.” Profili countered that the Min- istry of Municipal Affairs (which will ultimately decide whether the expansion should be accept- ed) has received a letter from the Forest Ministry approving the posal. RDKB chairman Doug Swan- son said he is most concerned over “urban sprawl, which is a major danger.” He asked Profili if he really thought Rossland “is the right body to be determining what trapping, hunting, mining or mul- tiple use which may occur” in the vast area. He said if the acres were City of Rossland owned it would be for a single use purpose only — the protection of its watershed. “It is the precedent that scares me.” Profili said if the land was city owned, Rossland would have no more authority to enforce new rules than the RDKB has now when it is part of rural Area B. “We are both ruled by the Munic- ipal Act.” But Fruitvgle Mayor Ed Law- ton said there are two different some cost to local taxpayers Arguing the criticism is overblown, the Rossland-Trail MLA referred to a quote from Prince George Mayor John Blackhouse in Tuesday's Vancou- ver Sun that read, “We all screamed loud and strong about taking control of the deficit and the economy. And if that means we all have to take a share of the pain, then I’m perfectly happy to do that.” Union of B.C. Mi palities refusing to comment immediately on reports that they will be deliv- ering a message of criticism to Premier Mike Harcourt’s govern- ment. However, at least one source has been quoted as saying “the government has shattered its partnership with municipalities.” The provincial budget has been criticized by a number of municipalities, including the City of Trail, for cutting uncon- ditional transfer payments and ing the supp y homeowners grant. Trail mayor Sandy Santori responded imme- diately last Friday to comments by Rossland-Trail MLA Ed Con- roy that the budget would not cost his constituents anything, by pointing out there would be a cost of $100 per household locally. Trail city staff Adopt A Flower Box The City of Castlegar invites interested residences and Commercial Business along Columbia Avenue to participate in our 1992 ‘Adopt A Flower Box’ program. The City will provide the flower box (approximately 3 ft. x 5 ft.) complete with plants and soil. Participants will be quired to provide plant maintenance and care. The Flower Box will be placed in the location of choice but must be visible from the street. Applicants for this program will be available at City Hall (460 Columbia Avenue) from April 13th through April 24th. As Flower Boxes are limited in number we encourage participants to apply early. d the cost on: the of i tional municipal grants to munici- palities by 11 per cent costing the City of Trail $50,000; the elimina- tion of the supplemental home owners grant and increase in the basic home owner grant netting out at a loss of $80 on an assess- (at that time) for the cost of the elimination of the $5.2 million B.C. assessment grants. Conroy now concedes that there will he some cost to local taxpayers, but “I think we've avoided major tax increases and I think it is basically fair.” Dake Galevers Big or small, we cater to all 365-8369 Playmor FOODS Your Natural and Convenience Store the store even more * Vitamins ¢ Bulk Foods ¢ Groceries * Video Rentals * Photocopies * In-store Bakery featuring Russian foods * Deli meats & bulk cheeses sections to the Municipal Act, one governs municipalities and one rural areas. RDKB planner Bruce Bourdon said that “the pro- cess is different for rural areas but the authority is the same. Rossland’s administrator Andre Carrel pointed out that Rossland would still be com- pelled to obey the Forestry and Mining Acts in any actions it took regarding the Crown land. But Swanson observed, “I can’t believe the (provincial) gov- emment is interested in making really big cities like this.” The board voted that it would not sup- port the size of the proposed expansion, citing its concern over multiple land use. RDKB repre- sentative for Rossland, Bob Miller, was the only one to oppose the motion. Bluetop Burger byproduct sulphur from the met- allurgical operations. Sulphur dioxide from the lead and zinc operations are scrubbed with ia and water, d ammonium bisulphite. This is treated with sulphuric acid to pro- duce an ammonium sulphate solution, which is boiled in the crytalizers to remove the water, causing the ammonium sulphate crystals to form. * ROBSON MECHANICAL HEAVY DUTY AUTOMOTIVE AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION, We would like to thank you for your cooperation and patience. e We are available to paint parking lots while working in Castlegar. 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