rz Castlegar News April 9, 1986

McMillan more than likeable guy

By ALAN BASS

OTTAWA (CP) — Environment Minister Tom MeMillan
says he’s more than just a likeable guy with good looks who
gives great speeches in praise of clean air and water.

But erities and hi aren't so
sure.

When McMillan replaced Suzanne Blais-Grenier as
environment minister seven months ago, his appointment
was greeted with praise. McMillan, the environment critic
when the Conservatives were in opposition, was regarded
by environmentalists as one of their own.

i lists still like i but they're not
impressed with his government's performance on environ-

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mental issues. Some are questioning whether McMillan has
any clout in cabinet or if his job is mostly public relations.

“He's made some excellent speeches recently,” said
Colin Isaacs, the executive director of Toronto-based
Pollution Probe. “(But) with the exception of the progress on
acid rain in Canada, we haven't seen much in the way of
major new initiatives by this government in the environ
mental area.

“At some point, maybe towards the end of this year, we
and other environmental groups are going to sit down and
look at the record. If the (government) can't point to a strong
record of achievement, the honeymoon’s going to be over.”

PERCEPTION PROBLEM

MeMillan admits it’s “the perception the public has that

the government just doesn’t take | matters

government is not anti-environment,” he said in an
interview. “I may have some going to do to convince
everyone that it's actually pro-environment.”

MeMillan has made strong pronouncements on issues
like the dispute over logging in South Moresby and toxic
pollution in the St. Clair and Niagara Rivers. He's also come
up with a plan to reduce lead in gasoline and has continued to
work on a $300 million federal-provincial program to halve
industrial emissions that cause acid rain by 1994.

But all this hasn't stopped environmentalists from
getting restless. McMillan has been accused of muzzling
environmental advocates within his department by
restricting scientists’ contact with reporters.

To make a real mark on improving Canada's

Millan must deme clenll

prevent his budget from being slashed this year, but couldn't
tion.

pr
clean-up.

McMillan says he’s fighting in cabinet to get every extra
cent he can, but his effort hasn't impressed Liberal environ-
ment eritie and former minister Charles Caccia.

“If he’s having a battle at all, he’s losing . . - he's lost
it,” Caceia said.

MeMillan admits the federal government's record in
enforcing environmental laws has never been very good.

But, he says, “part of the reason is that the law is just so
Either it’s so strong so as not to be workable or

seriously.
“{ think I've been able to demonstrate that the

obstacles.
Tight money is one of them. McMillan managed to

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WAS HILLARY
FIRST ON TOP
OF EVEREST?

TORONTO (CP) — Tom Holzel says it’s time the
world knew for sure who first reached the top of Mount
Everest.

‘Books and magazines catering to climbers have long
debated whether two Britons, who never returned from
their 1924 climb, reached the roof of the world first or
whether it was Edmund Hillary, the man given credit for
completing the gruelling expedition in 1963.

Holzel, 45, a Concord, Mass., businessman, will take
an 18-member team from the Chinese side of Mount
Everest in August to try to recover the cameras that
British climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine used
when climbing the 8,848-metre mountain in 1924.

If he finds them, he plans to develop the frozen,
fragile film at 6,400 metres to see whether it carries any
62-year-old images that will settle the controversy.

Hillary, 66, joined on the 1953 ascent by Sherpa
guide Tenzing Norkay, is among those who revere
Mallory and is eagerly awaiting the outcome of Holzel's
expedition.

“At the moment, we have no real way of knowing
whether Mallory made it to the top,” he said in a
telephone interview from New Delhi, where he is New
Zealand's high commissioner.

Four men died during the 1924 assault led by Col.
Edward Norton on the world’s highest mountain.

On June 8 of that year, Mallory, 37, and Irvine, 22,
set off from camp at 8,138 metres. They were seen by
Noel Odell, who wrote in The Times of London how the
clouds parted to unveil the summit ridge and final peak.

Odell said he watched as two “tiny objects” about 640
metres away made their way to the top, but after five
minutes the clouds rolled in. The two were never seen
again.

. Did they reach the top and die on their way down?
Or were they defeated by a smooth wall of black,
overhanging rock known as the Second Step?

Holzel, who has spent 16 years researching the 1924
expedition, believes that once over the Second Step, the
veteran climber Mallory sent the less experienced Irvine
back down, keeping Irvine's oxygen tanks so he would
have enough for the last 250 metres of climbing.

Holzel believes Irvine slipped to his death, leaving
his ice axe behind — it was found in 1933 — and that
Mallory succumbed to fatigue and the intense cold after
making the summit.

Chinese climbers reported in 1974 seeing a body
wearing English clothes.

Holzel said in a telephone interview he is looking for
¢gameras, not bodies, and believes metal detectors will
edsily pinpoint them on the wind-swept rock face.

Hillary said belated acknowledgement of Mallory's
feat would not belittle his climb.

“Tenzing and I had 33 years of glory out of this. We'd
be downgraded a little bit, but we'd still be second and
that’s not so bad.

“['m inelined to think that the public will still believe
that we were the first.”

so weak as to constitute a licence to pollute.”
“| make no bones about it,” he added. “Environmental

law and environmental regulation are a mess.”

Thousands do
without home
mail delivery

TORONTO (CP) —When
John Fedorko wants to pick
up his mail, he has to get into
his car, fight the traffic for
eight kilometres and hope he
can find a parking space near
the busy intersection where
the post office is located.

He's been making this
journey once or twice a week
since he and his family moved
into their new home in a sub-
division not far from the Mis-
sissauga, Ont., civic centre

way out ofthe maze.

Unless he can persuade the
government to change its
marching orders, he has only
three options.

@ Raising rates. Any raise
would have to be approved
by cabinet and he has already
been told that is out of the
question until productivity
rises, Also, postal officials
know that price rises cut into
mail volumes, which have
been sluggish for five years.

e New revenue. Several

- plans to generate extra rev-

houses, will never get home
delivery of their mail.

The best they can hope for
as Canada Post Corp. scram-
bles to meet a government-
imposed edict of financial

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REGINA (CP) — Compul-
sive eaters are swallowing
their emotions when they
swallow food, says Diane
Lepine, an Edmonton-based
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“Mostly it’s feelings that
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ms,” Lepine said in an
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is that they'll
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“We pay the same taxes
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orko said in an interview.
“Why can't we get the same
service as everyone else?”

The answer is money.

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enue have been tried since
1981 to offset stagnant first-
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ness has opposed some of the
ventures.

Cutting costs. Some say
there is still a good deal of fat
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pr is opportunistic and
would result in poorer ser-
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Any decisive moves to cut
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Post spends on wages would
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