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Castlegar News February 25, 1990

Wilson should go

Canada is up to its neck in red ink.

The interest on our national debt is roughly $115 million a day
($4.8 million an hour!), Nearly 35 cents of every dollar collected in
taxation by the federal government goes to debt interest, much of it
to pay loans held outside of our country.

Until the early 70s, we had one of the world’s most responsible
fiscal records. In the 30 years between 1945 and 1975, the average

- deficit was zero. But today, after 15 years of deficit financing, this
™ Canada of ours has one of the industrial world’s more debt-ridden
economies.

Our national debt currently stands at about $350 billion and
rising — hourly.

At the same time, and as a direct result of fiscal
mismanagement, the prime bank rate now stands at its highest level
since August 1982 — a very scary state of affairs.

British Columbia's economy revolves around export-oriented in-
dustries and over the past half-year. the “strong” dollar has gnawed
away at the value of export sales. Given the amount of capital spen-
ding that's been pledged in this province — especially by the pulp
and paper industry and companies | like poag eal — the result has been
to make it inc ti-poll
measures.

Michael Walker, head of the Vancouver-based conservative

OSA,

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Fraser Institute, says we Canadians have become conditi to
huge government deficits. Canadians “hear the media horror stories
so often that it becomes like crying wolf.”

He's right.

Like the frog that's put in a pan of heating water that is slowly

brought to the boil until the frog obliviously dies, so we Canadians

have got to wake up. And we have to wake up our politicians.

Remember
when

4 YEARS AGO
From the Feb. 23, 1950
Castle News

A Board of Trade Committee,
headed by C.A. Anderson, met with
the Village Commissioners
Monday night and
them the following changes for the
street names and numbers:

(4) It was felt the elimination of
pair and WEST would save con-

eg Columbia Avenue to retain its
name.

(3) The present business section
from Arrow Motors to the ferry to be
“NAMED” streets as this area is not
symetrical.

(4) The area bordered by Columbia
Avenue, the Columbia River and up
to and past the new high.school site
to be numbered as avenues, and
streets named after trees in
order (Alder, Beech,

Letters to the editor

Cedar, etc.).

(5) The numbering of houses
should also take place as quickly as
possible and before the phones are in-
stalled.

NDP finance critic Lorne Nystrom claims Finance
Michael Wilson could virtually eliminate the deficit if he chose to tax
corporations at the same levels as individual taxpayers are taxed.

Mr. Nystrom quotes a paper prepared by a Victoria tax con-
sultant fhat claims that if the corporate sector's tax share had mat-
ched that of individual taxpayers two years ago, Canada would have
enjoyed an $18.5-billion surplus instead of a $30-billion deficit!

Critics will respond that raising the corporate tax share would
send business fleeing from Canada, or would damage: our com-
petitiveness in export markets. This is true. But to what degree is it
true? And who can we believe?

“We need to recognize that the deficit problem is mainly a spen-
ding problem,” comments Mr. Walker while the Royal Bank's cha
‘man says Canadians “must choose either programs (we) can pay for,
or pay fully for programs (we) wish to have.” The “grotesque” irony,

concludes Allan Taylor,

“is that so long as we let government debt

continue to grow, we reduce our ability to pay for social programs.”
Premier Vander Zalm wasn't far off the mark a couple of days
ago when he offered to loan provincial Finance Minister Mel
Couvelier to Prime Minister Mulroney.
Mr. Wilson should go. And if he doesn't then Mr. Mulroney and
his Conservative government must go.

Admit cleaner
job is possible

I have been following this issue of
the proposed expansion of Celgar’s
mill for some time. In October last
year B.C. Report carried an article in
which Celgar’s assistant manager Jim
Browne stated then, ‘We have all the
chips we need for our expansion.””
From then on I believed that the ex-
panded mill would operate solely off
of logging and sawmill waste and
would not need to cut any additional
trees.

Imagine my dismay when I learned
in the press that behind closed doors
Celgar is telling the government it
needs a pulpwood agreement to clear-
cut trees to ensure that it will have
enough wood for the expandéd mill. I
am angry that companies like this can
say one thing in public and another
thing behind closed doors. You have
to be an investigator to find out what
is true.

Now this Ministry of Forests fibre
study comes into the picture. Ac-
cording to the Coalition for Infor-
mation on the Pulp Mill Expansion,
this study shows that there is not
nearly enough waste chips to support
the expansion.

1' presume Celgar was thoroughly
familiar with that study when it said it
had all the chips it needed to support
its expansion. And I figure that’s
exactly what’s behind the back door
argument that it needs a pulpwood
agree! for ‘‘insurance’’ — if the

_etfansion occurs and it gets its pulp-
“ wood agreement, the ‘‘insurance’’
will become the means of support.
The next thing I expect to hear is that,
if we don’t let it clearcut more forest,
it will have to shut the mill down.
Both the company and the
Ministry of Forests know the residen-
ts of this area have been asking for
jess, not more, clearcutting. If Ceigar
gets its way, every person in this area
who has been asking for environmen-
tally sustainable forestry has been
mocked, once more, by its own
Ministry of Forests.

We need to get this straight before
the expansion is approved: if Celgar
has all the chips it needs for its expan-
sion, then it doesn’t need a pulpwood
agreement. It is’the public that-needs
these trees because they're all we're
going to have left when the sawlog in-
dustry gets through. The B.C. public

has no obligation to insure the expan-
sion of a multi-million dollar cor-
poration by forfeiting its few
remaining uncommitted forests.

Celgar has also stated in the press
that the reason for the expansion is to
be able to pay for new pollution-
control equipment to protect the en-
vironment. This poor mill which only
makes $111 million profit a year
comes hat in hand asking to expand
because it wants to help the environ-
ment but it can’t afford to. By the
way, the mill’s¢profits will more than
double with this expansion. Could it
be that this has anything to do with
the reason for the expansion?

Meanwhile, effluent into the
Columbia River will triple. This ef-
fluent will continue to contain the
deadly dioxins and furans which are
already being found in the fish down-
stream as far as Spokane. This raises
important questions as to whether this
effluent will be as innocuous as Celgar
claims.

The expanded mill will spew 37
times as much sulfur dioxide into the
air. This will turn into sulfuric acid
upon contact with water vapour,
which residents will breathe and
which will fall on all our plant life as
acid rain.

And with the pulpwood agreement,
an area ing from the O

Bylaw clarified

This is to clarify the proposed
bylaw that would tax residents of
Areas I and J to help fund the
operation and maintenance of the
Castlegar and District Public Library.

The library presently charges a user
fee for Area I and J residents of $20
per family or $15 for individuals. The
proposed bylaw would eliminate that
fee and replace it with a tax, which for
residential ratepayers in Area I xould
be a maximum seven cents per $1,000
of assessed value; residential
ratepayers in Area J would pay a
maximum of 14 cents per $1,000 of
assessed value. That means the owner
of a home assessed at $50,000 would
pay $3.50 a year in Area I and $7.35
a year in Area J.

That’s quite a bargain, especially
when it is considered that there are no
other user fees — no admittance fee,
no tickets to purchase. Users simply
show their membership card and
borrow the books, videos or cassettes.

The tax will raise a total of $22,000:
$13,200 from Area J and $8,800 from
Area I. That’s a 60-40 split, with Area
J residents paying the larger share for
a number of reasons, among them the
assessment values in their area, the
number of properties, the population,
and most importantly, the number of
present library users (In 1989, 63 per
cent of the library's rural member-
ships came from Area J, and 37 per
cent from Area 1).

The reason the Castlegar and
District Public Library board asked
the Regional District of Central
Kootenay to consider a tax bylaw is
simple: In 1989 regional members ac-
counted for 17 per cent of the
fibrary’s total membership or 764 out
of a total membership of 4,531. Yet
the user fee charged regional members
only accounted for 2.7 per cent of the
library’s 1989 operating budget.

By contrast, in 1989 the City of
Castlegar paid 88.5 per cent of the
library’s operating budget, while its
residents accounted for only 83 per
cent of the members.

The membership figures clearly
show residents from Area I and J are
already using the library. The library
board -betieves that use would sub-
stantially increase if the membership
fees were elii and funding

to Alberta would be subject to clear-
cutting every tree from one inch in
diameter to the oldest giants too rot-
ten for sawlogs. In other words, more
environmental devastation sugar-
coated under the name of cleaning up
the environment. This results in an
ironic situation in which our demands
for clean water and air are, in effect,
being used as an excuse for more
Pollution and exploitation.
Corporations are using up their
credibility with approaches like this.
When are they going to stop acting
like victims of an environmentally
aware public, while always grabbing
for more public resources and more
profits? When are they going to stand
up like the multi-million dollar en-
titles they really are and admit that
they can afford to do a cleaner, more
efficient job without creating more
devastation?
Anne Sherrod
New Denver

from Areas I and J was-on a regional
basis.

But the membership figures only
tell part of the story about the present
use of the library-by Area I and J
residents. The library is also Heavily
used by students from the area

schools — and those include students
from Areas I and J.

The already-heavy use, of the
library by residents from Areas I and
J is of course the major reason why
the library board is seeking regional
funding, but it isn’t the only reason.
There is also the fact that the
Castlegar library is understaffed, and
the librarians overworked — at least
in with our

that the library would receive a large
increase in provincial funding.
Presently, the library receives about
$11,000 from the province. (Victoria
funds libraries on the basis of $1.60
per capita for municipalities.
However, Victoria’s per capita rate
for unincorporated areas such as I
and J is $3.20). Should I and J
residents participate in funding the
library, the provi: would double its

communities of Nelson and Trail.

In 1988 (the latest provincial figures
available), Castlegar and District
Public Library had a circulation of
‘94,310. That was accomplished with a
library staff of 3.5 full-time
librarians.

Nelson, on the other hand, had
a circulation of 85,377, but the
equivalent of 5.17 library staff.
Trail’s circulation in 1988 was only
63,893, yet its full-time equivalent
library staff was 5.71.

So, while the Castlegar library
boasts the region’s highest cir-
culation, it also has the fewest
librarians.

A third and equally important
reason for seeking regional funding is

grant to $22,000. It’s not overstating
the case to say that the inclusion of
Areas I and J in library funding is
critical to provincial government sup-
port.

The’ proposed regional district
bylaw won't simply replace member-
ship fees with taxes; it will do much
more. It will help balance the present
inequities, while at the same time en-
suring a 100-per-cent increase in
Provincial funding. And it will in all”
likelihood lead to increased use of the
library by residents in Areas I and J.
Not a bad deal for $3.50 a year in
Area I and $7.35 a year in Area J.

Reconsider signing
library petition

I am writing to support the

contribution by Areas I and

J towards the Castlegar Public
Library.

For the past few years I have been
paying $20 per year for a family
membership at the library. The
average cost through taxes of $5 to $7
per household sounds like a bargain
to me.

Consider what can be purchased
for $7: a couple of glossy magazines,
one or two paperback books, a six-
pack of beer...

I am very disappointed to see
petitions in my neighborhood against
this proposal. I recognize some of the
petitioners names and have seen them
and/or their children at the Selkirk
College library where I work. I would
like to point out that the college
library does not replace the function
of a public library, and has a very dif-
ferent collection of materials than
found in the Castlegar Public
Library. One important difference is

~ vice.

that potential borrowers must be 16
years old in order to apply for a
college library card.

I find it very ironic that in 1990,
which is the International Year of
Literacy, when many communities are
embarking on literacy projects,
people in the community where I live
are actively working against the
provision for expanded library ser-
I think all citizens and par-
ticularly our children should be able
to use a public library without having
to pay a users fee.

I thank our area directors who had
the clarity to see that not only was this
reasonable cost, but that it would
have the added benefit of matching
funds in the amount of $22,000 from
the provincial government which will
certainly buy a lot of new library
books, videos and magazines.

lL urge people who may have signed
to reconsider. Let’s support literacy.
Strike your name off the petition.

Kate Enewold
Castlegar

PPWC supports project

The Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers
of Canada Local 1 would like our
neighbors in the community to under-
stand our position on the moder-
nization project at Celgar Pulp Co.

The union is in favor and suppor-
tive of the Celgar expansion project.
We are looking forward to the expan-
sion, for the opportunities and im-
provements it will bring to our com-
munity in secured long-term em-
in the mill and the spin-off

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jobs that will be created in the
surrounding communities. Another
benefit that we will get from a world-
class facility will be a cleaner and
safer environment in our community.

In 1970 at the PPWC national con-
vention, resolutions were passed that
state the PPWC is committed to im-
proving the environment in all pulp
mills in British Columbia.

PPWC Local 1 is pleased with
Celgar’s commitment to the environ-
ment in the project and also Celgar’s
commitment to install new

technologies as they become
available.

The sooner that this world class
facility starts up the sooner the en-

vironment will be improved in our

community and our long-term job
security will be insured.
Bob Brommeland _
President
PPWC Local

Show confidence by
backing expansion

1 wish to express my support for the
expansion of the Ceigar pulp mill.
The modernized mill will supply jobs

To date, they have been very open
with the community and are working
hard to meet new environmental

and help ensure ic stability in
this community for many years to
come.

Ican the

as they are by

both provincial and federal
authorities.

Celgar is showing its confidence in

this | by investing a very

concerns by many

of the community. I believe, however,
that the owners and managers of
Ceigar will follow through on their

sum of money. It is time
we as a community show our con-
fidence in them and support their ex-
pansion plans.
Dale Nieisen

Castlegar

The C accepted in
principle the recommendation - as
presented by the board and suggested
a detailed plan be submitted.

. 8 «@

The Castlegar District School
Board met on Monday, Feb. 20 at
7:30 p.m. for the opening of the ten-
ders for the new Junior-Senior high
school.

25 YEARS AGO
From the Feb. 25, 1965
News

B.C. Hydro has tossed out the two
bids received for Arrow dam con-
struction and is now negotiating with
a number of the companies who took
out specificiations on the project for a
mutually satisfactory contract under
which the project will be built.

. 8 «

Judge McLeod M. Colquhoun,
special commissioner of matters
associated with Columbia river treaty
Property settlements, says he is
satisfied B.C. Hydro is attempting to
be fair with persons affected by the
building of the Arrow dam and adds
he sees it as part of his job ‘‘to make
damn certain they (Hydro) are
reasonable.””

In an interview with the Castlegar

News early last Friday morning, the -

judge said ‘‘all the people who have to
move out and Jose their homes have
got my sympathy. I want to help them
and I’m satisfied I'll get the
cooperation of Hydro.”"
. +
A dog poisoner is suspected to be at
work in Castlegar.
15 YEARS AGO
From the Feb. 27, 1975
News
The question of a new swim pool
has not been shelved by the City of
Castlegar, in spite of the recent an-
nouncement that the board of trustees
for School District No. 9 has to aban-
don the original idea of a joint project
between city and school districts.
. oe
Tenders for the Community Centre
and Arena have been opened with all
quotations very close.
o 8
Five new faces have appeared on
the Selkirk College council including
its vice-chairman Robert Buckley of
Trail, one of the six members appoin-
ted by the department of education.
* 6 «

Joking comments about a bomb
threat made earlier this month during
a security check at the Castlegar Air-
port resulted in a Vancouver man
missing his flight to the coast.

5 YEARS AGO
From the Feb. 24, 1985
News

Westar Timber made a ‘‘long term
commitment”’ to keep its Castlegar
operation running at a meeting Thur-
sday with city council. -

Westar president Sandy Fulton

management from the
pulp and sawmill met with council for
1% hours, discussing community
concerns about the future of the mill.
. 8 «

A Nelson man’s plans to install a
stock car and motor-cross racing track
near Castlegar have skidded into a
dead end.

Dick Wills told the Castlegar News
Thursday that a $40,000 federal
MILAP (Modified Industry and
Labor Adjustment Program) grant
for his project had been turned down.

. ee

About 200 demonstrators waved
placards and sang protest songs
Friday at an anti-cruise missile rally in
Castlegar.

Students must foot the bill for field
trips, scifdol libraries aren’t buying

new books and schools may not be _

quite as clean @s they once were.
These are some concerns the
school district will be com-
municating to the Ministry of
Education in a letter sent to Victoria
this week.

MORE LETTERS

Student opposes project

“If the expansion doesn’t go

will shut down, my

husband will lose his job, and
will cease to be.”

So what! I’m tired of hearing that
line. So Mr. Bill loses his . Sure
that’s not very nice; in fact, it’s very
bad, but that’s not considering some
other things.

Right now I want to state that [am
not an adult, but that doesn’t mean I
have to believe everything my parents,
my teachers, or anyone else says.

Great, when I am 25 years old, I
will have this nice little job waiting for
me at Celgar; that is if I am not sick or
dead first!

Some people say we will have
serious environmental change in 10,
20 or 30 years. That’s nice. Do you
know what that means, all of you
people who want a nice, big pulpmill
in Castlegar? You don’t have to

worry, your life will be over by the
time anything drastic happens. We
(the younger generation) will have this
nice, ,screwed-up planet to deal with.
And they yell at us teenagers for not
being responsible.

You people are playing with stuff
that you don’t even know about. You
think that because you can’t ‘see,
smell, or taste it anymore it’s gone.
Well, just go and tell it to all of the lit-
tle animals that are living in the water
downstream getting filled up with all
of the neat things Celgar is dumping
into the water. Tell it to all of the bir-
ds that fly in the smog Celgar creates.
Tell that to the earth which is taking
all of this punishment. And let me tell
you, if they could do something about
it, there would be no more pulpmills,
no more smelters, and no more people
who don’t know or Care what they are
really doing. Maybe we would have a
real future then. .

You don’t know what you are
doing. You are like a little kid playing
with a loaded gun. He's having so
much fun even though his mom is

trying to take it away from him, The
kid is yelling and crying because his
mom is trying to take away the toy he
has played with all day. He won't let
80 of it because he can’t see what it
could do to him. He thinks that his
mom is trying to hurt him because she
won't let him keep it. So, he kicks and
yells. If you were the mother, what
would you do? Think about it. Do we
want to shoot ourselves?

What would be better, having
Castlegar or having a world worth
living in? And like I said, it’s not just
the two choices. We can still have
Castlegar but we can have a future
too. Just because we don’t have a
pulpmill doesn’t mean that Castlegar
is nothing. If we have to depend upon
something which is going to destroy
our lives, then what kind of people
are we?

Bonnie Horswill wrote that she
doesn’t want to move from Castlegar
and into a big city with all of its
pollutiof® and crime. Who is she
trying to kid telling us that she doesn’t

want to move? What does she think
Castlegar will be like if they expand
the pulp mill? What she wants is all of
the conveniences you can get in a city
without really living there.

I could ask her, ‘‘What do you
think about my future?’’ She might
say, ‘Well, Celgar is going to clean
up, and cut down on pollution.””

T would tell her, “The only way
we're going to make it is to stop
polluting, even at the cost of some
people’s jol

What would I rather have, a job, or
a world worth living in? I’m sure you
can answer that question yourself.

You just can’t close your eyes and
hope forthe best. You can do
something about it, It will take a lot
of work, but you have the ability to
change.

My last words to all of you people
out there who want the mill: thanks a
lot for the wonderful future you are

Technology only salvation:

If the remarks made by the four
representatives of political parties at
the forum (during Environment Week
activities tee bepress College) are any

beliefs then

in a high:
along with hospital waste.
Recent technological advances in
incinerators show that high tem-

unit

we are tadeed in trouble. Are there
people so unaware of what’s really
going on in the world in

break down dioxins in this
waste and renders the ash inert. If we
are to have a meaningful commitment
to the we must act now

advances?

I wholeheartedly disagree with you
gentlemen; technology is our only
salvation. We nees to establish gar-
bage factories right now all across the
world and especially in North
America.

But even a factory to process gar-
bage into useful products has to be a
clean, non-polluting plant, as clean as
the present technology permits that is.
The garbage must be sorted into
categories at the source, not at the
factory. All the costs of delivering the
garbage to the plant must also be bor-
ne by the producer.

Foodscraps can be composted by
the h and i

to recycle everything, not just a few
“*glamour’’ items that readily show a
profit.

We washed tin cans out, opened
both ends and flattened them out
during the war, we can do it again. I
get the impression from David Lewis
(Green Party spokesman) that the
members of the Greens are the only
beings that respirate without
producing carbon_ dioxide, produce
no other metabolic residue and flit
about the countryside on non-
polluting light beams or something.
You poor man, we can’t even recycle
paper without technological expertise
in handling the adhesive and printing
ink wastes and other residue.

outlets can pay to have it done for
them. Disposable diapers, sanitary
and other products would have to be

is perhaps the easiest
sickness of them all to cure. Constant
public awareness, environmental
protection and _ recycling are

phrasing without con-
crete plans and commitments to
solving our problems.

We cannot have perpetual growth.
Growth in our population or anything
else has finite limits. The spaceship
earth is already loaded to capacity
with people and yet the good doctor
wants more.

The rain-forests are being cut down
to feed the Notth American man with
beef. If we all quit eating meat two
days a week and had a snack of fries
instead of a hamburger at McDonalds
we could save the rain forests.

If we all refused to consume
products packaged in plastic we could
force industry back to using car-
dboardsorpaper — recycled car-
dboard and paper.

A good place to start would be
milk, eggs and dairy products. Milk
production is geared to the produc-
tion units. We only have to stop con-
suming for a few days and the whole

industry would collapse from the.

volume piling up. One cannot turn a
key or a switch to stop a cow from
giving milk.

The only remark I agree with in the

write-up on Feb. 14 came from
Chris D’Arcy when he said, ‘‘I think
environment is too important to be
left to partisan politics.” It is too im-
Portant to leave to those whose
representatives spoke at Selkirk
College.

We need a grass-roots revolt. We
need to band together and refuse
plastic containers wherever feasible.
We need to cut our meat consumption
by 10 or 15 per cent. These are not
large tasks and cost very little. By
banding together we can force any
government into a comprehensive
recycling program. If the technology
isn’t available for a clean garbage fac-
tory, it can be developed. I have faith
in modern know-how.

We have to call a halt to the growth
of man at some point. Why not-do it
now instead of when every city has
thousands feeding and breeding on
the edges of a garbage dump?

Oh yes, while you read this Mr.
Jenkins and Mr. Johnson, somewhere
in the world four children have star-
ved to death.

Fred Peitzsche
Ross Spur

Jobs shouldn't be only concern

As a member of Local 168 of the
Tunnel and Rock Workers, which is
one of the construction unions. that
will be supplying members to work on
the Celgar pulp mill expansion, I was
naturally interested when I heard a
field representative was in town and
he had called a membership meeting.
A banquet room at the Hi-Arrow was
packed with the standing-room-only
crowd.

After the prospects for work at the
Ceigar expansion had been discussed
and the meeting was about to turn to
other matters, the chairman asked if
there were any further questions.

1 said I had studied the environ-
mental impact statement com-
missioned by Celgar and was very
concerned about it. I went on to say
federal Environment Minister Lucien
Bouchard had identified global war-
ming as a great, great emergency, the

purposes?

Put us to work for

Hours: Mon.-Fri.,

gravest environmental problem facing
‘Canada today, and this environmen
tal impact statement did not examine
the impact of the proposed mill on the
causes of global warming at all. I said
the provincial government’s major
Project review process was avoiding
an examination of global warming
and that this made the whole process
a sham, and I asked the meeting to
pass a resolution saying the union did
not support this behavior because it
was wrong.

People didn’t really want to hear.
As soon as it was understood that I
was talking about an environmen-
tal concern that might mean no jobs
for the people in the room, they sud-
denly found it necessary to make
small talk with those next to them.

I finished what I had to say, was in-
formed that a local meeting could not
determine union head office policy

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and that I should submit a letter in-
dicating my concerns for con-
sideration at a general membership
meeting in Vancouver. The field rep
said that it was his impression that the
members of the union wanted to
work.

I reiterated my belief that = blind
support of the union for jobs now in
the face of the gravest concerns for
the future of the planet being voiced
by people like David Suzuki was a

I said I was a member of this union,
that this was my concern and that I

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sought support. Some of the
approved of what I said but it was not
the will of the meeting to care what
happened to the environment if it
meant that the mill expansion could
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concern for some other group.

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