Castlegar News Update ‘90 1990 Business Honor 76 Years of Service Eremenko Fit-Rite Shoes Family Footwear Centre 1224-3rd Street, Castlegar Phone 365-7353 Smitheram Trailer Towing * Trailer Towing in British Columbia and-Aiberta * Specializing in Moving and Setting Up Double and Single Wides Phone 365-5308 Francis & Pat Smitheram 157 E. 100 Street Blueberry Creek, B.C. V1N 3E1 14 Years of Service Wizard's Palace Arcade * ARCADE ¢ BILLIARD as SNOOKER TABLES « MR. PO! HARRY ZAITSOFF Phone 365-3237 1005 Second St., Castlegar N1Y4 Dalton BARRISTER & SOLICITOR 805-21st Street, Castlegar, B.C. V1N 2H4 Telephone 365-2841 RESTAURANT ‘Food Done the Homestyle Way’ Breakfast Served all Day! * Delicious Daily Specials! FAST — FRIENDLY — FABULOUS TAKE-OUT SERVICE — LICENCED 365-8155 1004 Columbia, Castlegar at the foot of the Hill on Columbia Ave. GLEN & IRENE BRYSON 41 Years of Service Polonicoff, Jones and Perehudoff Lawyers — Notaries Public * Conveyancing * Accident Claims ° Family Law ¢ Criminal Law * Corporate Law 2 Wills & Estates Jacob B. Polonicoff, LL.B. Anne M.N. Jones, LL.B., Q.C Alex Perehudoff, B.A LL. B. 1115-3rd St., Castle jar, ‘ViN 2R1 Telephone 365-3343 20 Years of Service Geronazzo Holdings Serving Castlegar, Robson, Blueberry Creek, China Creek, Fairviewand Genetle-with Garbage Disposal Service RICHIE AND DOREEN GERONAZZO Box 3279, Castlegar V1N 3L8 365-5816 14 Years of Service napa PARTS & ACCESSORIES Brakes - Exhaust - Electrical Paint Supplies SS 365-7248 Sz) MITCHELL 707-13th St., Castlegar V1N 2K6 Roadside Place “The Best Little Lure House in the Kootenays” © Thrifty Gas * Lotto Centre ° Fishing Tackle and Live Bait No gimmicks, no couponas— just savings at the pumps! Ron and Sandra Franks Phone 365-5225 2253 Columbia Ave., V1N 2X2 Open 7 a.m. to 10p.m.5 Days a Week Saturday & Sunday 9a.m.to 10p.m 4 Years of Service Selkirk Remanufacturing ° Cedar Siding * Panelling & Decking ¢ Custom Planing and Resawing ¢ Bevel and Chanel Siding ¢ Tongue and Groove V-Joints ¢ Finishing Pine & Cedar Products ¢ Dimensional Lumber * Fencing « Posts * Beams MARIO FARENBERG Site 12, C-5, R.R. No.1 Castlegar, B.C. V1N 3H7 Phone 365-2330 22 Years of Service Coleman Excavating Sump and Septic Tank Pumping Excavating and Snow Removal ROY, LORNE & CRAIG COLEMAN 365-5013 3400-4th Ave., Castlegar V1N 2T3 20 Years of Service TO CASTLEGAR & DISTRICT Frank’s Sharpening Service Complete saw sharpening service inctuding band saws and carbide tips. Mower blades, scissorsetc. 1216-1st Street Castlegar, B.C. Call 365-7395 13 Years of Service Columbia Auto Service 850 Columbia Ave., Castiegar, B.C. INTH3 Full line of Petro Canada Products Automotive Repairs Phone 365-5422 Phil Zaytsoft and Larry Webster 9 Years of Service Selkirk Springs Ltd. Kootenay’s Only Spring Shop! Located3 Miles West on Highway3! * Auto and Truck Complete Suspension Service R feet att * types of Springs Phone 365-2245 Waily, Marie and Darcy Prokop 1702 Silverwood Crescent, Castlegar, B.C.V1N2M1 3 Years of Service Woodland Park Shell ¢ Shell Gasand Oil * Open 24 Hours a Day 365 Daysa Year ¢ Convenience Store ¢ CarWash * Diesel and Marked Gas BRUNO AND KIM TASSONE 365-6218 1780 Columbia Ave., Castlegar VIN 2W5S 22 Years of Service Haack Denture Clinic Ltd. DENTURISTS 272 Columbia Ave., Castlegar, B.C. VIN 1G4 Phone 365-8281 JOHN, BOB & DAN HAACK Mon.-Fri.9 a.m. to5p.m. Castlegar — Trail Grand Forks — Nelson 17 Years of Service Regional Electronic Patrol Services Ltd.. West Kootenay’s oldest security co: ° All Atltypes. of alarm systems jurglar — Intrusion * 24 Hour Catt * Private investigation Services DAVID CUMMING B.T. Burger...14 Castlegar News Update ‘90 Columbia Brewing Company. ..14 Williams Moving and Storage. .15 Northern Computer ..15 CELGAR PULP COMPAN Local mill has deep roots in West Kootenay Celgar Pulp Co. has roots in West Kootenay communities that go back 30 years. The construction of the Castlegar pulp mill — the first in the Interior of British Columbia — was an in the of the West Kootenay. The mill was a natural progression in the evolution of an integrated forest-products industry and followed more than 50 years of reliance on sawmilling and shake-and-shingle production. In 1951, Celanese Corp. of America com- missioned an inventory of the West Kootenay forest resource. The following year, Celanese acquired a string of established sawmills — William Waldie and Sons at Castlegar, Columbia River Timbers at Sid- mouth (Revelstoke) and Big Bend Lumber Co. at Nakusp. Sawmilling operations were later con- solidated at Wesley near Castlegar. In 1961, the pulp mill began producing kraft pulp at Castlegar. The British Columbia government purchased 81 per cent of Columbia Cellulose Co. from Celanese Corp. in 1973 and the company was renamed Canadian—Cellulose-Co.Ltd.-The- operations were known as Celgar Pulp Division, Celgar Lumber Division and Celgar Woodlands Division. In 1979, B.C. Resources Investment Corp. (BCRIC) acquired the government's —interest—in Canadian Cettulose and the following year, BCRIC acquired the outstanding 19 per cent interest in Canadian Cellulose, increasing its stake to 100 per _cent._At_that_time, BCRIC merged all its timber 359-7492 /352-6012 (Pager 46) R.R. No. 1, Site 4, C 12 Crescent Valley, B.C. VOG 1HO 11 Years of Service His Place Hairstyling Specializing in Men’s Hair Cutting and Styling Phone 365-5677 Glen Carew, Owner-Operator 355 Columbia, Castlegar VIN 1G6 5 Years of Service A> ROI PRINTING ° Commercial Printing * FullColor e Flyers, Brochures, Etc. ROY DICKIE — New Address — 525-105th Street, Blueberry Creek V1N 3B5 365-2565 2 Years of Service CASTLE GLASS AND WINDSHIELDS LTD. ¢ RENOVATION WINDOWS * PATIO DOORS « SEALED UNITS * MIRRORS * ALUMINUM DOORS * PLATE GLASS * AUTO GLASS 365-7666 2228-6th Ave., Castlegar ViN 2V9 ALEX & DONNA FASTHUBER Owners holdings into B.C. Timber Ltd. B.C. Timber was renamed Westar Timber Ltd. in 1984. In 1986, BCRIC sold Westar Timber’s Celgar Pulp Operations to a partnership consistirig of the Chinese government, and a joint venture of Power Corp.—_of Canada and—Consolidated-Bathurst— Inc. Power Corp. later sold its controlling interest in ‘Con- solidated-Bathurst to Chicago-based Stone Container Corp. Today, Celgar Pulp Co. is a private company © owned by the three partners. China International Trust and Investment Corp. B.C. Inc. owns 50 per cent and Power Consolidated (China) Pulp Inc. owns 50 per cent. Power Consolidated (China) Pulp is jointly Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore (foreground above) a Celgar Pulp Co. last r during the official unvelling of the company’s new chip-truck unloader,; the mill’s new conveyor system (right) can handle twice the capacity of wood chip: the company’s old item; another group of Celgar employees (below) Joined the company’s 25- Year Club last November bringing the number of workers at the mill with 25 years or more of service to 121 — more than one- quarter of the company’s total full-time workforce. owned by Power Corp. and Stone Consolidated Inc., both of Montreal. When the present owners purchased the Celgar pulp mill in 1986, they acquired an old facility operated by a highly skilled workforce. The purchase did not include access to the forest and the only secure fibre was a long-term chip contract for the by-product chips produced at the neighboring Southern Wood Products sawmill. As part of the purchase, the new owners inherited an agreement on environmental performance which required compliance with’ the toughest provincial regulations on airborne emissions by July 1991 and on discharges to the Columbia River by July 1996. In 1989, the provincial Ministry of Environment informed Celgar and other pulp mills in B:C. that the government was preparing legislation to force mills to reduce the amount of organochlorides — the family of chemicals which include toxic dioxins and furans — they discharge Celgar_ reviewed these requirements and began responding. Some of the company’s efforts were suc- cessful, others weren't. At the same time, an indepen- dent forestry consultant indicated there was sufficient wood fibre lable to support a i fii of the mill. In December 1988, Celgar began to study the possibility of expanding and modernizing the Castlegar mill. That study was completed in March 1989 and a further engineering study was completed in September 1989. Based on the studies, Celgar’s owners agreed that the $630 million project could proceed if operating licences and financing could be secured. The owners also agreed the project would be the first to proceed through the provincial government’s new major project review process which included a period of public review and comment prior to the Jicensing—process.—The-period-of—pubtic_input_ended. Feb. 16, 1990. As_of mid-March, the major -project_review process steering committee was reviewing the concerns about the project raised by the public, local gover- nments and special-interest groups and was expécted to direct Celgar on its required responses in the near future. COLUMBIA CELLULOSE A MEMBER OF THE CELANESE GROUP BC Timber A Member of the BC Resources Group Canadian Cellulose Celgar Pulp Company Celgar Pulp Co. has gone through number of owners and a vari (F of different logos in its 30-year history. The company’s current familiar symbol echoe: Corp. (top left). original logo of Celanese Cleanup planned Reduction of emissions — both to the alrand the Columbia River — is one of the goals of Celgar Pulp Co.’s proposed $630 million expansion and tion project. Pollution reduction part of expansion The proposed $630 million environmental upgrading and expansion of the Celgar pulp mill will equip all stages of production with the latest state-of- the-art technology to effectively control all emissions from the mill, company officials say. The mill will meet the provincial government Level A objectives for new mills — the toughest clean air-and-water-regulations inthe province: To achieve this goal, the new mill will introduce new equipment and techniques. REDUCTION OF DIOXINS AND FURANS Dioxins and furans, believed to be highly toxic to humans and animats, are produced by pulp mills which use chlorine in the bleaching of pulp. Celgar’s new mill will incorporate several new steps in separating the cellulose fibre from the glue-like lignin which will result in reduced use-of chlorine and therefore less production of dioxins and furans. The company says the changes in the bleaching Process will reduce levels of dioxins and furans to below non-detectable tevels which are in the parts-per- quadrillion range. A part-per-quadrillion can be com pared to one second of time in 32 million years. REDUCTION OF ODOROUS GAS: Celgar will reduce odorous emissions of sulphur gases with a new low-odor recovery boiler and by the collection and incineration of odorous waste—gas steams, the company says. The company will shut down the existing recovery boiler. The emission rate of odorous sulphur gases will drop to just 148 tonnes a year from the current 1,016 tonnes a year — an 85-per- cent reduction, according to company predictions. Although the new low-odor recovery boiler will increase the amount of sulphur dioxide — a com ponent of acid rain — Celgar officials point out that the total amount of sulphur gases the new mill will emit will still be 350 tonnes per year less than today. “*We are confident that this sulphur reduction will result in less potential for the formation of acid rain,”’ Celgar officials say REDUCED IMPACT ON THE COLUMBIA RIVER A new waste water treatment system will ensure that discharges to the Columbia River meet gover- nmment standards, Celgar says. An important im- provement will be a 50-per-cent reduction in the oxygen demand on the river, the company says. The biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) — a measure of the oxygen required by microorganisms to consume the organic matter in effluent — will be reduced to nine tonnes a day under the new mill from the current 18 tonnes a day. Too much BOD can lower the levels of dissolved oxygen in the river below the point needed to support aquatic life. The total suspended solids the new mill will discharge into the river will increase but Celgar of- ficials say the levels will remain below provincial Ministry of Environment standards. As well, the com- pany says the nature of the solids will change and will be mostly-non-settlable biodegradable solids In_addition,Celgar _says—new—equipment—in- troduced during the expansion wilt reduce the overait toxicity of the effluent to a point where it is non-toxic at concentrations of 100 per cent Taste and odor of the river due to the effluent from the new mill will be non-detectable, Celgar predicts. As well, the color of effluent discharged to the river will be reduced by 58 per cent, the company says. Celgar’s products valued worldwide. Celgar Pulp Co.’s proposed $630 million expansion of its Castlegar pulp mill will be the Southern Interior availability of a wide variety’ of clude: softwood species the mill was completed 30 years chipped, can produce various grades of pulp western hemlock, Engelmann Blends produced for the needs of spruce, alpine fire, lodgepole most important development project in the Castlegar area since ago. The project will secure the jobs of almost 400 full-time em ployees at the mill — Castlegar’s specific customers operating rooms. One of the advantages of the pines, as well as Canada and the United States forest is the The company’s products in- * Celstar Bleached Kraft, which is made from a mixture of which, when blended to is one of pine, western red cedar and largest employer — and create a secure economic base expected to encourage a number of other development projects in and around the city. The Celgar mill produces high- quality, northern softwood kraft (a German word meaning “‘strong’’) pulp which is prized around the world for making a wide variety of paper. Celgar pulp ends up in the hands of consumers in the form of paper for fax machines and computers, stationery, department-store catalogues, newspaper sup- Plements and inserts, telephone directories, maps and gift wrap- ping, magazines and books, and even disposable surgical gowns and patient drapes in hospital Celgar’s specialties The kraft process produces a very strong pulp which preserves the inherent strength of the fibre in slow-growing western trees. It is this strength, together with the brightness and cleanliness of Celgar pulps, which makes them attractive to the company’s customers, Celgar officials say Strength is important for papers that must withstand the stresses of modern, high-speed printing Presses Celgar pulp is _. shipped throughout the world. Customers are in Austri Belgium, Brazil China, France, South Korea, the United Kingdom, West Germany, Japan, India, Pakistan, In donesia, Taiwan and the Philip- Douglas fir. It is suitable for making fine papers, coated and uncoated printing grades, tissue and specialty papers * Celstar Semi-Bleached Kraft, which is made from a mixture of species similar to bleached kraft It is used for newsprint, printing papers, a variety of uncoated magazine papers containing groundwood, industrial specialty grades and twisting grades. * Celect Semi-Bleached Kraft, which is a unique West Coast pulp with a high tear resistance. It is made from Douglas fir and western larch and used for coated and uncoated groundwood-con- taining publication and printing Papers 1