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Pulp

OTTAWA (CP) — Environment. Minister Lucien
Bouchard has released draft regulations to clean up
Canada's pulp and paper mills, fulfilling @ pone he

made Pa year.
said- compa!

nies will-heve-to

invest or billion to comply with the proposed regulations,
and they're ready to pay the price:

“We are not quarreling with the need for
regulations; they will_provide—all_companies_with a
uniform baseline,"’ Louis Fortier, a spokesman for the
Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, said Tuesday.

But an environmentalist who specializes in pulp mill

Reaction, page AS
pollution says the new standards won't touch some of the
most worrisome contaminants, a category of chemicals
known as organochlorines.
“That's reilly the issue in the industry right now,”’
said Bill Andrews, executive director of the Vancouver-
based West Coast Environmental Law Association.

* dary

not included,

large areas of the B.C.-coastal seabed-because-of-con-
tamination from pulp mill effluent.

Environment Department officials will begin a mon-
th-long public consultation on the draft regulations April
28. :
The new rules would force 90 mills to install secon-

of their rather than di it
virtually untreatgd into marine waters, said Ed Norrena
of the Environment Department.

In addition, dioxins and furans would be reduced to
non-measurable levels.

Norrena said standards for organochlorines are un-
der study.

*

Organochlorine clean-up

expert says

hours, the effluent is considered non-toxic: ~

All mills would be required to meet the test by 1994.

“That's a big step forward, but that test may not be
suficient to protect the environment,”’ said Andrews, ad-
ding that new evidence had shown that effluent meeting
the test could still cause disease in salmon.

But Fortier said some mills will have great difficulty
in meeting the 1994 deadline, and should be given more
time.

Bouchard promised tough new regulations last year
after leaked reports that most of Canada’s 122 pulp mills
could be charged for dumping toxic chemicals into the
water if existing regulations were strictly enforced.

regulations released

50 per cont of all the fi ta into Canada’s waters.

for the Gi peace en-
vironmental group ‘tal the proposed pollution rules will
allow pulp mills to continue pumping a ‘‘chemical stew"
into B.C. waiers.

Regional director Catherine Stewart said she is glad
the rules will force pulp mills to install secondary treat-
ment for waste water.

‘But while toxic dioxins and furans will be reduced to
non-measurable levels, the new regulations don’t cover
organochiorines.

Stewart said mills produce up to 2,000 different

ines in the paper process. They en-
ter the water and to seabed 5

“It’s a chemical stew,’’ she said.

Spokesman Brian McCloy of the Council of Forest
Industries of British Columbia said secondary treatment
of waste water should eliminate most organochlorines.

He said the industry and some environmentalists
disagree on how much of the-organochlorines shoutd be
allowed into waterways.

all the or

“Ti ‘m very disappointed that they didn’ t Bmnounce

to
Commercial fishing of shellfish has been closed in

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The standard test for toxicity is to place fish in the
If at least 50 per cent survive for 96

An_ Environment Department

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report in
estimated the pulp and paper industry is responsible for

News

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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1990

““That_issue_will be dealt with,’’ said-McCloy.
**Reports on it are being written right now.””

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Trustees voice
opinions over
school referendum

By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI
Staff Writer

The provincial goverhment’s block
funding for education covers all areas
of the school board's 1990-91 budget
adequately, Castlegar school trustee.

ween Smecher told the board
Tuesday before joining fellow trustees
Evelyn Voykin and Tony Guglielmi in
Opposing a motion to hold a referen-
dum this spring for extra funds to im-
plement the new primary program.

The board made the decision to
hoid-a referendum two weeks ago in a
closed meeting. The School Amen-
dment Act, tabled in the legislature
last week, includes a regulation that a
vote to go to taxpayers for more
money than the province_will_provide
must be held during a public meeting.

Board chairman Gordon Turner
and trustees Mickey Kinakin; Bill
Hadikin and Ed Conroy passed the
motion.

Smecher told the Castlegar News
holding a referendum for $200,000 to
hire teaching staff for the start-up of
the new program will provide single-
issue groups with a platform to attack
the board from.

“*We'll cause more harm than we'll
ever be able to measure,”’ she told the
board.

Smecher reminded the board that
the block funding for 1990-91 is
about $1 million more than the

board’s current budget which has
generated a surplus of between
$150,000 and $200,000.

The Ministry of Education has in-
creased funding for-each-area-of the

help to relieve the workload, he said.
Studies have shown the teaching
staff is the determining factor in how
well an ungraded system works,
Kinakin—said, ‘adding the new

board’s budget ludi about
$500,000 for the portion of the budget
that includes the primary classes, she
said.

““There’s no question in my mind"’
that all areas of the budget are being
well-funded, Smecher said following
the meeting.

However, Turner said Smecher is
overlooking other factors.

The government has increased the
over-all budget funds but costs have

Pp the largest
‘Sverhaul (of the primary curriculum)
in 30 years.”

“(Government should) give us the
flexibility so we don’t createa-system
where kids fall through the cracks,”’
because there are not enough trained
staff members to identify children
who need extra help or attention, he
said.

Guglielmi agreed with Smecher that

continued on page AZ

also gone -up and the i fun-
ding does not cover those costs, Tur-
ner said.

And funding for in the

INSIDE

district is down substantially this year,
he noted.

Smecher also reminded the board
student enrolment has dropped bny
about 50 students while staff levels
have remained the same or increased.

Turner, in his address to the board,
related his experience as a teacher in
Saskatchewan in the 1960s when an
ungraded system was implemented
but staff levels remained the same.

“By and large that system disap-
peared”’ eventually because teachers
were unable to cope with the extra
demands on their time and lack of

Budget to be tabled Cominco, union

VICTORIA (CP) — Thursday’s
budget will set the government on a
course of providing security for
British Columbians during his next
term in office, Premier Bill Vander
Zalm said Tuesday.

He said the budget for the current
fiscal year will be ‘‘one of the most
Progressive budgets in history .
Progressive in the sense that it goes
beyond what it is we normally go
for.””

He said instead of budgeting just
one year ahead, it’s ‘‘futuristic, it’s
looking beyond.”

But the thought of Vander Zalm
planning for his next term in office
drew chuckles from NDP finance
critic Glen Clark.

“It’s comical that Vander Zalm
would be-a convert to planning,’’
Clark said. ‘This is the guy who
changes his mind three times on the
way in from the parking lot.

**He’s the last one the public would
believe is committed to long-range,
rational planning.””

Q WIN CERTAIN

Vander Zalm said a Social Credit
election win is certain and he is
already planning his second term.

“*My goal for the next term, and
that would be the government’s goal,
is to try and start working on security,
security for the people.””

He said the government will try to
even out boom-and-bust cycles.

“You never get rid of them en
tirely, but (we will) try and provide
security by planning more effectively
in advance.""

Finance Minister Mel
said on Monday the government wan
ts a long-range approach to major
public capital spending projects

Clark said the Socreds are.‘*
to make big spending announcements
that are phased in over five years.’

Couveher

trying

He said Prime Minister Brian
Mulroney used a similar ploy in the
last federal election

“The spending figures will be large,
but if you look at them annually, (hey
won't be much bigger than current
spending.”’

Forest industry in peril,
B.C. commission told

VICTORIA (CP) — Soil
degradation and clear cutting will
destroy the forest industry as quickly
as those practices destroy B.C
forests, a provincial government
commission was told Tuesday

“*The Forestry Act does not address
soil protection,” said Hal Knight, @

land management consultant. ‘“There
is no future in the forest industry if we
continue our present land practices.”’

He was appearing before the B.C.
Forest Resources Commission which
was formed last June to advise the
government about the future of the
forest industry and recommend ways

to improve and protect it

Knight quoted provincial
mment data as saying the B¢
economy was losing $80 million a year
by 1986 because of soil degradation
and blamed it on the ignorance of
B.C. foresters.

continued on page A2

gover

resolve

By ED MILLS
Staff Writer

A spat between and
management at Cominco’s lead-zinc
smelter in Trail was resolved Monday
with both sides giving a little or their
positions to reach an agreement

As a result, Cominco cancelled
scheduled layoffs of 70 workers while
Local 480 of the United Steelworkers
of America called off an overtime
ban

The agreement was reached outside
of a provincial Industrial Relations
Council hearing to decide the issue
which had been in progress in
Rossland since last Wednesday

“The company and the union feel
the agreement effectively addresses
concerns that both parties had,’’
company spokesman Richard Fish
said Tuesday

Union spokesman Mike Spatari
said, ‘I would call it (the agreement)
an understanding more than anything
else."”

Both sides say they hope the dispute
has helped clear the air for contract
negotiations which are slated to begin
in two weeks.

The company said the layoffs,
which were announced last week,

union

dispute
were necessary because the Trail
operation wasn't able to function at
full capacity due to the overtime ban
and construction-related delays.

But Local 480 president Doug
Swanson said last week that the layof-
fs were just a tactic to get back at the
union for calling the ban.

The ban was called to protect the
hirigg of a management consultant
and the layoffs of miners as the result
of the closure of the Sullivan mine in
Kimberley, Swanson said

The consultant, Alexander
Proudfoot Canada Lid of
Mississauga, Ont., continues to be
employed by Cominco, Fish said

But he said the company agreed, as
much as possible, to limit any further
reductions in crew size to attrition

Spatari says nobody really
anything in the fight :

“We didn’t get very much to be
quite honest with you, but. the dust

has settled for bargaining, which was
‘one of our major concerns.

“With negotiations coming up . . .
we felt this was the right time to
remove the ban,"’ said Spatari

The last contract negotiations in
1987 resulted in a strike lasting four

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