A lS — OPINION Castlégar News PAGE A4, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1990 MEMBER OF THE 8.C. PRESS COUNCIL ESTABLISHED AUGUST 7, 1947 TWICE WEEKLY MAY 4, THE MID-WEEK 12, LV. CAMPBELL — PUBLISHER, AUGUST 7, 1947-FEBRUARY 15, PUBLISHER — Burt Campbell EDITOR — Simon Birch PLANT FOREMAN — Peter Harvey ADVERTISING MANAGER — Wayne Stolz OFFICE MANAGER — Linda Kositsin CIRCULATION MANAGER — Heather Hadley EDITORIAL Lesson apparent Ald. Terry Rogers told an interesting story at last night’s meeting of Castlegar city council which everyone in this city, but particularly owners of businesses, could learn a lesson from. Ald. Rogers recounted his recent visit to the Vancouver Island community of Chemainus where he was impressed enough with beautification efforts to inquire of one businesswoman there how it was done. What caught the alderman’s eye were hanging baskets of flowers outside Chemainus businesses. The hanging baskets, it turned out, are the result of an arrangement between a local nursery and the businesses which, in ef- fect, amounts to an annual ‘‘rental’’ of the baskets. The cost is about $30 but declines the longer the businesses participate in the deal. Of course, the Chemainus council chipped in to help, Ald. Rogers d to the i No, he was told, it did not. Nor did Chemainus council contribute to the cost of brick planters which adorn many businesses in that community. : There are a couple of lessons here. First, the story proves that civic impi doesn’t ily entail going to the local government with hat in hand begging for money — taxpayers’ money, that is. Second, it proves that a little bit of pride in one’s chosen oc- cupation shows in the appearance one presents, the service one gives or the product one produces — in Chemainus’s case, the pride is reflected in the storefronts the local businesses present. We wouldn’t be sur- prised if that pride is also rgflected in the service one receives from 50 FAR WE HAVE NO ACCURATE NUMBERS ON CASUALTIES FROM IRAQ INVASION OF KUWAIT... § ZZ Yj, Willi those businesses. Hand-painted signs, rusted signs, portable signs with letters of all different sizes, shapes and colors, and buildings with cracked and peeling paint — common sights in Castlegar — don’t present an attrac- tive image, as we at the Castlegar News are first to admit. Some may moan they can’t afford to spruce up and we com- miserate with anyone going through hard times financially. But there’s also a self-fulfilling prophecy in a shabby appearance. That is, if you refuse to spend money to improve your appearance and as a result fewer people come into your business — or your city for that matter — because it looks shabby, then you can count on your cash register remaining silent. C - ri ave apps ly figured that out. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Items clarified We appreciate the coverage your paper has given to the recently released report Landslide Study + Cape Horn Bluffs Area, of which we are co-authors. ‘We wish to comment on four items in the articles of Aug. 1, and Aug. 4, and offer some clarification. The headline on Aug. 1, Logging ‘insignificant’ to valley slide cause, raises a misleading impression of what our report says. In our report, we carefully differentiate between the effects of clearcutting and the effects of roads. Our report found that clearcutting by itself was not a igni factor in initiating the slides h the drainage alternations due to roads and skidroads were. Water was diverted on to slopes and channels that did not historically carry as much flow and thus contributed to the occurrence of the landslides. In our report, we state, ‘‘The trigger for all slides was the pattern of high precipitation combined with snowmelt, resulting in a major runoff event.”’ In the Aug. 4 article, Richard Allin, VIEWPOINT Bourassa eyes European example By PAUL MOONEY The Canadian Press Worried about their country’s unity, Canadians might cast an en- vious eye on the European Com- munity. Integration seems to be its watch- word. Goods move more freely among the community’s 12 members than among the 10 Canadian provinces. And with countries like Turkey and Austria seeking entry, the EC ‘worry is over limiting new members — not retaining old ones. Are there lessons for Canada now that the failure of the Meech Lake ac- cord has spurred the search for a new political arrangement?* Certainly, suggests Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa, who went to Europe to study the community following his Liberal government's defeat in 1976. “Let’s say the European Com- munity is an interesting-and probably appropriate refererice,”’ he recently told the U.S. magazine Time. No, counter experts who warn against hasty comparisons. They argue that Europe and Canada are quite different:Cahada is a federal state with a central government; the ity is a group of i countries. **But we should certainly try to un- derstand what's going on there,"’ says Roger Gibbons, head of the Univer- sity of Calgary’s political science department. Bourassa’s views on the issue are so strong that the special Quebec com- mittee on the province’s con- stitutional future will undoubtedly discuss the community as a possible model for Canada-Quebec relations. The cor ity — an emerging econo! giant that’s already challei g Japan and the United States — is ‘tone of the greatest achievements of human _ history,” says the premier. , Community members have agreed to surrender some of their powers, mainly in the trade and economic sec- tors. However, this is the result of compromises between national governments —_got, as in Canada, through talks between provinces and a federal government with clearly defined areas of jurisdiction. Lise Bi: chief edi of the Slocan Valley Watershed Alliance, was quoted as saying “‘there is little question the trigger would have been pulled on an empty gun without logging activity in these drainage areas.”’ Historical evidence and field observations outlined in our report suggest that the slides still could have occurred without the logging. In a separate study on the slides, Mr. VanDine, an expert on debris torrents, also noted that ‘‘the terrain of the Ottawa Hill area and the climatic conditions of May 1990 have been determined to be appropriate for the occurrence of debris torrents.” Contrary to Wayne McCrory’s quoted of the Montreal daily Le Devoir, says Bourassa talks only about the unification aspects of the European Community, not the vast differences between Europe and Canada today. Even if the European Community adopts some form of political union, it will remain a collection of strong states, she wrote in a recent editorial. The community’s budget is tiny and the European Parliament still has only symbolic powers, she added. Canada has more than enough “community,”’ Bissonnette said, and what should inspire Bourassa about the EC “‘is the idea of (Quebec) sovereignty, or at least radical decen- tralization.’’ On May 9, 1950, Robert Schuman, then French foreign minister, made a bold proposal to pool the vital coal and steel industries of France and West Germany in an organization open_to all European democracies. One aim was to reconcile the formerly warring countries of Europe. The success of the coal and steel treaty signed by the original six com- munity members in 1951 led to two more treaties in Rome in 1957. One created the European Community; the other, the European Atomic Energy Commission. Since then, the community's links have grown. Indeed, by 1992 it will be a single market of 325 million con- sumers and possess enormous economic, industrial and technological clout. But despite the expanded co- operation and joint policies on things such as agriculture, fisheries and energy conservation, national gover- nments control most aspects of public policy — like defence, education and health care. 3 Since most members in the Aug. 4 article, our report does indeed identify previous landslides in the area (Appendix 2, page 32). We reviewed previous landslide activity on the ground and with historical airphotos dating back to 1939. The two slides that we think Mr. McCrory referred to were not related to the logging but were probably a result of highway construction activity. Also contrary to Mr. McCrory’s and Mr. Allin’s quoted What is more important, however, is the service that Selkirk College should be providing to the students of this area. I think few people will deny the importance of electronics and electricity to industry and society today. To withdraw the study of this subject in our college is a backward and retrograde step. It is very costly to move to Vancouver to study at the B.C. Institute of Technology and I suspect it has a waiting list for electronics technology already. If Selkirk College has low enrolment in this course, then perhaps it needs an overhaul to make it more relevant to the needs of industry and the students in the area. I’m sure that the major industries in the area would be pleased to advise the college on possible changes to the course. The loss of the co-op program is equally serious. This program provides an important avenue for mature students with family responsibilities to upgrade their education. hope your readers will write the college board and express their dissatisfaction with the dropping of electronics and co-op at Selkirk. Ron Ross Manager Emco Engineering Ltd. Story disputed In the article by Dennis Bueckert on chlorine- free paper products published in the Aug. 4 edition of your paper, the writer claims that the paper industry started to use chlorine gas in the 1950s to obtain whiter pulp. In actual fact, chlorine has been used for bleaching for some considerable time. Consider the following: Discovery of chlorine and its powerful bleaching action by Scheele, a Swedish chemist (1774); Production of ‘*Javelle”” water by Bertholet in France. Chlorine absorbed in caustic potash solution (1798); Patent issued to Charles Tennant of Scotland for the manufacture of bleaching powder. Chlorine gas absorbed in slaked lime (calcium hydroxide) (1799); First U.S. mill to use chlorine for bleaching (1804); Bellmer batch before logging occurred there is clear of d (1895); Multi-stage bleaching large slides occurring along Slocan Lake prior to clearcut or other forms of logging. Alll slide tracks have levees from larger slides that occurred 50 to 100 years ago. In the article, Mr. McCrory was also noted as questioning the logging of such sensitive sites. In fact, the sensitive slopes had no logging on them. Areas above the sensitive slopes were logged; there were no direct impacts from the logging on the four slides that reached the highway. It was the indirect action of drainage alteration that contributed to the landslides. In the report, we provide recommendations to prevent such i d (1920); C high density bleaching introduced (1925); Use of elemental chlorine in a continuous process introduced in Wisconsin (1930); First semi-bleached market xrfte pulp (70 brightness) produced at La Tuque, Que. (1930); Chlorine dioxide used in multi-stage bleaching at Temiscaming, Que. (1946); Fully bleached market kraft pulp produced (1950). It was not chlorine that was introduced in 1950 as the article states, but chlorine dioxide, which allowed the higher brightness pulps to be produced without loss in physical strength. From the above it is apparent that the lorid i i alternations. Both our report and the one from VanDine Engineering Services have been widely distributed in the local communities. In addition, our report is available at local public libraries. Mike Curran, Regional Soil Scientist Brian Chow, Field Engineer Dave Toews, Regional Hydrologist Ministry of Forests and Dwain Boyer, Engineering Section Head ‘Water Management Branch Ministry of Environment Nelson College in error I would like to use the forum of your newspaper to draw attention to what I believe are two serious errors by Selkirk College. The college is planning to phase out its i and co-op next two years. I understand this is because enrolment is down, but I have no first-hand over the feel relatively secure about the long- term survival of their languages and national cultures, none wants a joint cultural policy. But experts say it’s unrealistic to expect social-democrats governing some European countries to see the world the same way as right-of-centre governments in others. in this regard. Asa “‘consumer”’ of the graduates and students in both programs, 1 have a vested interest in seeing both programs continue. We have hired four graduates and one student from the electronics program and they have worked out very well. Loss of this source of trained staff will put additional pressure on our company to relocate to the Lower Mainland, which is the source of 90 per cent of our work. Pi in the process have been around for many years. If they are a hazard to health, why has this not yet become apparent? A recent article in your paper (July 28) has indicated that the risks from these compounds have been overestimated. What has changed over the past five years or so is not the production of these compounds but the ability to detect and measure them in extremely small quantities. Incidentally, the Atholville, N.B., mill that is now using a chlorine-free process is a sulphite This type of pulp is easier to bleach than the kraft d in most improving.the energy efficiency of appliances costs about 2.5 cents for each pound of CO2 and by improving electrical supply efficiency, about 10 cents per pound. An/acre of young vigorous growing trees, furthermore, produces almost 17 tons of oxygen per year whereas in an old-growth forest rot and decay consume all of the oxygen produced. Mr. Lewis can do something personally about CO2 by planting trees. Celgar Pulp Co. does not shred the forests. The trees are already being cut by area sawmills and the residue from lumber manufacturing is sent to the pulp mill. Before we had a pulp mill all the wood residue was burned by area mills in beehive burners. This residue amounted to almost 50 per cent of the logs and approximately half of this was carbon. The generation of CO2 and dioxins from burning all this wood was enormous. Approximately 35 per cent of the wood residue is suitable for making pulp, thus removing 70 per cent of the carbon formerly turned into global- warming CO2. The remaining 15 per cent of wood residue — barks, sawdust, etc. — is disposed of either by incineration at the pulp mill, beehive burners, or put into landfill and the carbon.gontent, reverted to CO2. —_ F With a new, modern pulp niill, the hog or waste wood is burned in as clean a boiler as modern technology can devise. The high temperature breaks down any dioxin created from burning wood and the scrubber ensures that only clean gases are vented. Therefore, if someone is concerned about CO2 emissions and the environment, the whole spectrum has to be examined as a unit. Pulp mills do emit CO2 gas into the environment but they are at least 70 per cent less CO2 producing than beehive burners or landfills would be in disposing of the wood residue from our area sawmills. Indeed, if one is also concerned about justice, one should also examine all the revelant facts. Six acres planted with trees will consume all the CO2 produced by a family of four. James Loveloch has, with his family, planted 20,000 trees. I suggest, Mr. Lewis, that you put your shovel where your concerns are. Fred Peitzsche Ross Spur Bosses know Dear Jack Munro: I have been guilty of ignoring the terrible pain that the IWA collective has been going through for the last 20 years. The move from men and women workers to machines in the forest industry has brought the proud, powerful union — the [WA — to its knees. The history of the IWA is one of real class struggle and determination in the face of the most powerful monied group in the province of B.C. — the forest companies. But I think, Brother Munro, that there is a silver lining in the more recent clouds that have beset your union in the form of demands for i i i i sensible forest harvest is labor intensive. A shift to the type of forest that envi ists are demanding will mean a mighty step forward for forest workers. The ranks of your union will swell — and the bosses know it. Liz Thor-Larsen Vancouver B.C. mills, and is not used in the same paper applications. Eric Ross Castlegar Shovel suggested I suspect Mr. (David) Lewis wouldn't recognize a hard fact if he tripped over one. His recent letter (CasNews, Aug. 1) certainly doesn’t display any acquaintance with justice, carbon dioxide or the environment. A simple mature tree absorbs (about) | > of carbon dioxide (CO2) a year, while a younger, actively growing tree absorbs up to 26 pounds of CO2 per year. About half of the weight of any tree is carbon. Reducing the atmospheric CO2 through tree planting costs between 0.3 cents and 1.3 cents per pound. Doing the same thing by Please address all letters to the editor to: Letters to the Editor, Castlegar News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to our office at 197 Columbia Ave. in Castlegar. Letters should be typewritten, dou! spaced and not r than 300 words. Letters MUST be signed and include the writer's first and last names, address and a telephone number at which the writer can be reached between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. The writer's name and city or town of only will be Only in exceptional cases will letters be published without the writer's name. Neverthel the name, address and telephone number of the writer MUST be disclosed to the editor. The Castlegar News reserves the right to edit tetters for brevity, clarity, legality, grammar and taste. ‘NATIONAL NEWS Troops move into Oka areal: MONTREAL (CP) — Troops of military base 60 kilometres southeast of K near Montreal today, ready to inter- vene if needed at in Oka and the Kahnawake Mohawk reserve. In St-Remi, about 20 kilometres south of Kahnawake, small boys on bicycles watched as infantrymen from the Royal 22nd Regiment, the Van Doos, drove armored personnel carriers through the quiet farm town and parked them near an arena. In St-Benoit, a village about 15 kilometres north of Oka, other soldiers set up tents in a vacant lot as residents sipped coffee on their verandas and looked on. Others moved into Blainville, 30 kilometres northeast of Oka near Mirabel airport, and Farnham, a On the ikirts of the military camped out behind a motor vehicle test centre near a wooded area. The road leading into the areas was blocked to non-military traffic and an army official would not say how many troops were in the area. A steady stream of jeeps pulling trailers filled with equipment and covered with tarpaulins moved into the restricted area. Four trucks, each hauling a 105-millimetre gun, also drove in. Flatbed trucks carried i ville, one resident climbing into his parked car commented that: .‘‘It doesn’t bother me at all. It’s just a show by the government. It isn’t going to do anything at all.’’ week following a request from Premier Robert Bourassa to the federal government. Provincial police and armed Mohawk Warriors have been barricaded at Oka, Que., 30 The brigade's Brig.- Gen. Armand Roy, said Tuesday the movement would place his 2,629 men “in a better position to respond to whatever is required."’ The soldiers moved out of their base at Valcartier, near Quebec City, on Tuesday night. Troops and jeeps, trucks, ambulances, a crane, several bulldozers and a dozen military covered with tarpaulins and one flat- bed truck was loaded with heavy ear- th-moving equipment. As a string of 10 military vehicles moved past a hardware store in Blain- were More troops and supplies were in place at a military base at St-Hubert, south of Montreal, and Longue Poin- te in the city’s east end. The troops have been on alert for a of since a policeman was killed there on July 11. Other Mohawks have blocked the Mercier Bridge near Kahnawake. Many observers believe the army may be deployed first in the city of Chateauguay, just south of Kahnawake. Rock-throwing whites have clashed with police there the last three nights. The suburb lost its most direct route to Montreal with the month-long blockade of the Mercier Bridge by Mohawks of the Kahnawake Reserve. Report predicts .1991 recession OTTAWA (CP) — Canada, already crippled by high interest rates, will have the worst economic perfor- mance of the seven major industrial countries by next year, the Conferen- ce Board of Canada said in a report today. “The Bank of Canada’s high in- terest rate policy, coupled with the strong domestic currency, has hob- bled the Canadian economy and brought on recessionary conditions,” said Ranga Chand, the author of the report. Chand said Canada has many of the symptoms, but that it’s still a technical question whether the coun- try is already in a recession — two consecutive quarters where the economy shrinks rather than grows. “The economy clearly is very, very weak,”’ he said. Chand is forecasting growth of just 1.7 per cent this year and a dismal 1.1 per cent in 1991. Japan is forecast to continue leading the pack in 1991 with growth of four per cent, followed by Ger- many at 3.5 per cent, France and Italy at three per cent, the United States at. 2.3 per cent and Britain at 2.1 per cent. “Canada has the weakest economic outlook and that’s going to mean a lot of bump and grind for us for the next year or two,” said Chand. He said also there’s little hope for major relief in interest rates, which have been at an eight-year high. The Bank of Canada has been keeping interest rates high to cool the economy and prevent a surge of in- flation. 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