My. 4 Castlegar News october 16, 1988 Lethal preservatives used VANCOUVER (CP) — Thirty-one of 74 sawmills in British Columbia are still using a lethal wood pre servative more than a month after a government-imposed deadline to switch to safer alternatives, Bernie Heskin, a federal Environment Min istry spokesman said. Last fall, after federal researchers proved that deadly concentrations of chlorophenol wood preservatives from ‘sawmills were pouring into the Fraser River whenever it rained, federal Evironment Minister Tom MeMillan and provincial Environ ment Minister Bruce Strachan im posed the deadline. Industries would “be expected to take immediate control action and to comply fully by Sept. 1, 1988 — or earlier, in cases where facilities are located next to a major fishery stream,” the ministers said then in a joint news release. The preservative is so poisonous that salmon die after swimming in concentrations of just 100 parts a billion — equivalent to just one drop of pure chemical in 1,636 litres of water, Oolichans point to salmon QUEBEC (CP) — A small oily fish found to contain large concentrations of toxic PCBs may help explain why the chinook salmon population is declining in British Columbia, says a federal government scientist study ing the Fraser River estuary Hal Rogers, an organic chemist with the Fisheries and Oceans Department, said he has found levels of polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs in oolichans, a type of smelt about 12 centimetres long, that should render the sterile. s have also been linked to eancex in laboratory animals. Rogers reported the results of his studies of the oolichan population of the Fraser River to an international forum on pollution in the world’s great rivers. The Fraser rises in the Rocky Mountains and enters the Strait of Georgia 1,400 kilometres downstream at Vancouver. “It’s a warning signal,” Rogers said. “The oolichans are telling us that pollution of the river could be to blame” for the decline in the chinook, decline the largest and most prized species of salmon. Authorities have blamed overfish ing for the decline in the chinook population. Rogers described the oolichans as a good detective tool, since toxic chemicals concentrate in their un usually highfat content. A dried-out oolichan is so oily it can be set alight. Coast Indians once rendered their oil and transported it to the B.C. interior along “grease trails” for sale to inland Indians. “It's like looking for a needle in a haystack to find the chemicals in such a huge river. Oolichans are like a magnifying glass,” Rogers said. In a sample of 80 oolichans that Rogers and his team caught in 1986 in the Fraser estuary, 12 were found to have high concentrations of PCBs in their sex organs. West German scientists have found that levels of 120 parts per billion in Baltic flounder caused fewer eggs to hatch, he said. Two of his sample oolichan had 1,200 parts per billion. PCB exemption rule criticized TORONTO (CP) — All provinces except Prince Edward Island have told the federal government that they want to be exempt from the new PCB storage standards announced last month. Only 13 of the more than 2,000 PCB storage sites in Canada are in PEI. The federal Environment Depart ment drafted the standards after thousands of people in St-Basile-le Grand, Que., were forced to flee their homes because of a fire at a ware- house storing polychlorinated biph enyls. The federal order, issued under the authority of the new Environ mental Protection Act, allows ex emptions if the provincial laws impose the same storage standards or have “comparable effect.” All provinces except PEI have either applied for exemption or indi cated that they will apply, said Janet Davies, an Environment Canada spokesman Neither the Yukon, which has 10 storage sites, nor the Northwest Territories, which has 15, is expected to apply for exemption. Crities of the new Environmental Protection Act, which came into ef. fect earlier t year, have argued that the provisions allowing prov inces to opt out severely weaken the bill But Davies said Thursday the ex emptions will be allowed only if the provincial regulations match the fed eral standards. “The interim order is quite specific in terms of requiring access res trictions, fire protection restrictions, etc., so there would have to be those kind of requirements under any pro vincial legal instruments for them to qualify,” she said. Provincial spokesmen deny they are seeking exemptions because the federal law is too stringent “The main advantage is there is only one jurisdiction that industry has to deal with,” said Carl Orcutt, director of environmental control services for the Manitoba Environ. ment Ministry Safe shipping of toxic waste costly €HALK RIVER, ONT..(CP) — A federally-owned laboratory has found a, way to ship PCBs and toxic wastes more safely, but it will increase transport costs by up to $5,000 a 200-litre barrel. New shock-proof, fire-resistant packaging for barrels was introduced at a demonstration by the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, res. earch arm of the federally-owned Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. Developed over 20 years, the packaging, made of steel and shock absorbing materials, is currently used for transporting heavy water and radioactive material to or from the Chalk River plant. However, AECL believes it is just as well suited for transporting other hazar. dous materials. “In my marketing daydreams, I can see protective packaging be coming a standard in the transport industry,” said John Spiers, mar keting engineer with the labora tories. However, he admitted the cost of $4,000 to $5,000 per package may be too expensive, and reduced quality could lower the price. Angela Rowsom, a Canadian Pac ific sales representative, agreed the price is high. But the expense might be worthwhile for companies ship ping large amounts of toxic waste, she said. Goods create hazard OTTAWA (CP) — Many household products can create hazardous wastes, says the Canada Safety Council. “Householders, when dealing with products such as cleaners, pesticides and herbicides, paint products, auto motive wastes (oil, antifreeze), take some simple steps to help keep the home and environment safe,” says the council's Safety Canada publication. It offers several bits of advice: ‘ Buy only products you really ~ need in quantities you can use up. © Choose products that provide labels with clear instructions on how to handle and dispose of them. © Whenever possible, give leftover non-medicinal household products to others who can use them, or take them in to exchange. Use non-hazardous or less hazar. dous substitutes whenever possible. © Learn proper methods of iden: tifying, using, storing and disposing of hazardous household products and residues: Greenpeace condemned the delay Thursday as “completely irrespon- sible” while an industry spokesman argued sawmills have already spent at least $10 million to switch to safe alternatives. Heskin said the switch to alternate. wood preservatives likely means “a miarked reduction" in chlorophenols entering the river, but conceded studies done during the 1986-87 winter haven't been repeated to find out whether chlorophenol pollution has decreased. “Well over 50 per cent of the volume” of lumber now is treated with alternatives and it will be “six months at the outside” before the chemical is gone, said Phil Gilbert of the Council of Forest Industries of British Columbi: Renate Kroesa of Greenpeace ar- gued it was “completely irrespon sible” for the environmental agencies to let the deadline pass. “Chlorophenols should have been banned 10 years ago,” she said. The industry uses chlorophenol solutions on freshly cut lumber to kill fungi and sapstain. British Columbia exports more.than $3 billion worth of lumber annually. c—— Personalized Christmas Cards Now is the time to order! 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Vander Zalm discusses ferry By CasNews Staff Premier Bill Vander Zalm is concerned about the closure of the Robson-Castlegar cable fery, says Martin Vanderpol, Regional District of Central Kootenay director for Area J. Vanderpol met with the premier in Robson on Sunday and discussed the ferry closure at length. The Ministry of Highways shut down the ferry in late April Vanderpol told the Castlegar News that Vander Zalm was particularly concerned with the alternative routes left when the ferry was shut down. “I think we did give him an eye opener,” Vanderpol said. “I think the distance around either over the dam or over the bridges is substantially more than he had bargained for.” Vanderpol also said the premier wasn't too impressed with tHe pedestrian route over the CP Rail train bridge. “He |was a bit surprised and even somewhat shocked especially when he looked at the railroad bridge and recognized that it was classified as a viable alternative for foot passengers,” Vanderpol said. “I think he didn’t particularly like that.” INSIDE Enumerating at an end page A2 Vander Zalm has advised the legar and District Project Society not to bother applying for a $700,000-lottery grant to help fund the aquatic centre's construction. Instead, he recommended the society apply for the same amount of funding under chamber office. Valder Zalm was in Salmo to open a new museum and “He advised us not to proceed on the lottery i ” Ross told the Casth News. “He said it would probably be better if we preferred to fund it under the GO BC project.” The GO.BC project was introduced at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Whistler last month. Over the next 3' years, the province will commit $162 million to economic, environmental, recreational and cultural initi Pp by i said if Castlegar gets the GO BC grant, the community would be one of the first to benefit from the project. “He basically said we have to talk to our minister of state (Howard Dirks),” Ross said. When asked if Ross thought the society would get the full $700,000 amount P Ross - REFUGEES ARRIVE . Lottery numbers The winning numbers drawn Tuesday in The Pick lottery were 2, 5,7. 24, 27. 36, 46 and 56. Irving to run page A3 Monday 9. S camp in Thailand to make a - Young La Saeneyavong remains calm amid the bustle at Castlegar Airport y g. her two brothers, sisters, aunt and parents arrived from a refugee new home in Ross said: “I think so, yes.” The optimism from both Ross and the provincial goyernment was a result of the overwhelming response the next 10 days The committee wili be comprised of to the facility from area residents. Castlegar residents voted 81.7 per cent in favor of the project. residents were 73.8 per cent in favor and Area J residents voted 84.9 per cent in favor of the facility more than 2,800 of the eligible voters cast ballots Saturday. Ross said close to 50 per cent - The votes must be verified by the Regional District Area I tee” project society members and regiona district directors John Voykin, Martin Vanderpol and Audrey Moore We will be having a meeting in the next week and a half,” he told the Castlegar News. “A establish terms of reference for the t that time we'll Iding commit Metge added there is already a tentative construe tion schedule set, but the schedule will not begin until of Central Kootenay’s returning officer before the project proceeds to the planning stage Castlegar and District recreation director Pat Metge — who is also on the project society board the regional district will form a building committee over Castlegar. The family was greeted by members of the five Castlegar sponsoring families. Financial donations are welcome and may be made at the Castlegar United Church Costtews Photo by Nick Allan ORDAINING HOMOSEXUALS Church takes By RON NORMAN Editor The United Church in the Koot. enays has moved to prohibit prac tising homosexuals from being or. dained — at least for the time being. The Kootenay presbytery declared at a meeting Sunday afternoon in Castlegar that anyone considered eligible as a candidate for ordered ministry and ministers “settled” in Referendum sought, A2 Leadership big issue page A4 Kootenay must practise “faithfulness in marriage to a spouse of the opposite sex and chastity in singleness.” Settled ministers are those placed in churches by the national! church. The Kootenay presbytery is one of 10 regional governing bodies that make up the B.C. conference of the United Church. It includes churches from Elkford to Rock Creek. The Kootenay churches also agreed to ask that B.C. conference and its executive not reeommend for ordination or commission “those burch people who are not practising faith fulness in marriage and chastity in singleness.” The churches’ action is in response to a controversial statement adopted by the church's general council in August that said all persons regard less of séxual orientation “who pro fess Jesus Christ and obedience to Him” are welcome as church mem. bers and that all members are eligi ble for ordination However, the Kootenay churches have indicated that their position is only “during this time of struggle for clarification of general council's statement.” Conference president Rev. Art Anderson, who attended the some times emotional three-day session in Castlegar, said the stand taken by the Kootenay churches effectively prevents practising homosexuals from being considered for ministry “In the Kootenay presbytery there won't be any (practising homosex uals) considered,” Anderson told the Castlegar News in a telephone inter view from his church in Sardis. But the move does not prevent stand individual congregations from ac cepting a practising homosexual as their minister if they choose. As well, homosexuals can still be considered as candidates for the ministry as long as they are celibate. Presbyteries are responsible for selecting candidates for ordered ministry. The provincial conference ordains and commissions ministers. Anderson said the Kootenay pres bytery action is in line with the gen eral council statement in August that asked congregations, presbyteries and conferences to work out the im plications of sexual orientation and lifestyles “in light of the Holy Scriptures, according to their res. ponsibilities.” “It's entirely within the way the United Church does things,” Ander son said Rev. Ted Bristow of the Castlegar United Church agreed. “This action by the presbytery is in conformity with the general council statement which recognizes that local areas can do their own screen. ing and make their own more specific on poge AZ official regional district approval of the project “We would like to be able to have the drawings complete and go to-tender in January and then I would said 1990. think construction could take place in March adding he expects the facility to be completed in “early he said, College predicts -— shortfall By CasNews Staff Selkirk College is predicting a $110,132 budget shortfall this year due to “a significant number of items arising on the expenditure side” of this year's expense plan Dale Schatz, college vice president of administration, said the college is currently “sitting” on the predicted shortfall, adding that more revenue may be coming in to cover the expec ted deficit “There's the possibility that our tuition revenue may come in over what we had anticipated inthe budget,” he said today in an inter view. “We're more or less just sitting on this at the moment to see which way things go.” Schatz said the provincial govern ment may provide additional fund ing, depending on the funds available this year. The college spent funds over the summer on additional maintenance projects including new \roofing for three buildings at the Nelson Cam pus, extensive renovations to the Castlegar aircraft hangar and site preparation for a triple-wide faculty office facility Despite the predicted shortfall, the college is embarking on an ambitious five-year plan for additional provin cially funded courses and new facil ities on the Castlegar Campus. Proposed facilities include: e A new $2.2-million educational wing for the Castlegar campus; e More than $2 million in Castlegar campus renovations including $900,000 for air conditioning added to the central heating plant ($150,000 per educational wing), $400,000 for interior space renovations, $273,000 for re-flooring completion, $150,000 for installing electrical switches in classrooms, $50,000 for providing washrooms in educational wings, $100,000 for re-ballasting and re- lamping existing lighting and $150,000 for reglazing hallway and circulation areas; e A $410,000-lecture theatre for the Castlegar campus with a seatine capacity of 200 people; © $200,000 for air conditioning the Nelson campus; $100,000 for more parking spaces at the Castlegar campus; e@ $55,000 for re-ballasting and retro-fitting lighting at the Nelson campus; © $50,000 for landscaping and up grading the Castlegar campus over two years; © $50,000 for replacement of stair tread material on all stairways at the Nelson campus: $75,000 for Nelson campus s'*- improvement; © $60,000 for back-up dicsel powered units to provide power tc well pumps in case of power failure © $165,000 for the relocation of the cafeteria space in Nelson; $225,000 for re-flooring the main classroom and administration build: ing in Nelson e $70,000 for resurfacing the floor of the gym on the Castlegar campu continued on page AZ By BONNE MORGAN Staff Writer Kinnaird Junior secondary | will stil be known as stlegar school trustees nar. rowly defeated a motion to re-name the school Kinnaird Middle school at Monday's board meeting. Due to declining enroiment ai Stanley Humphries secondary school and increased enrolment at distriet elementary schools, KJSS now holds Grades 6, 7 and 8. Traditionally, the Grades 8 and 9 students went to K before continuing their school education at Humphries. The board has dis cussed busing more Grade 6 students to KJ as elementary schools become too full After months of searching for a name to adequately reflect the changing nature of the school, administrators, teachers and students favored Kinnaird Mid die school. However, only three of the six school trustees voted in favor of the new name. Four positive Wotes are needed to pass a motion. “I feel this board has dene TRUSTEES REJECT NAME FOR KJSS very well with consulting the community before any drastic move,” said trustee Tony Gugii- elmi before voting in favor of the new name. Trustee Evelyn Voykin didn't agree, saying the name change is indicative of a policy change to permanently house Grade 6 stu- dents. “I feet uncomfortable with the fact that maybe that's the direc. tion we are heading, she said. Voykin felt. that current en- rolment figures show Grade 6 Students will remain in the elementary schools in the future and structural changes to ac commodate Grade 6 students would be a waste of money Trustee Ed Conroy argued against the name change for sentimental reasans, saying the school had always been known as “KJ” and, “It's still KJ.” Superintendent _of schools Terry Wayling felt the sehool was no longer a junior secondary school having “adopted a toi of different philosophies” to reflect the change in ages of the stu dents. “Don’t cail it a janior school | please.” he said, “There is no such animal.” 3