Saturday, July 11, 1992 @ Scott David Harrison EDITOR The provincial government is crossing its fi- nancial fingers. Frustrated with mounting losses incurred by the province-wide pulp strike, the govern- ment is calling on Vince Ready to bring it to an end. Ready was to hand down a list of non- binding recommendations Friday which could bring the 28-day-old strike to a close. “The government hopes to achieve a solu- tion to this strike,” Labor Ministry spokesper- son Ed Wall said Thursday. “The government hopes that Mr. Ready’s recommendations will be accepted and both sides will return to work.” The pulp strike officially began on June 15 when. B.C.’s 19 unionized mills shutdown af- ter 12,000 workers walked off the job. The strike began even earlier in Castlegar when 325 members of the Pulp, Paper and Wood- workers of Canada Local 1 set up pickets at Celgar on June 9. According to an industry report, provincial and municipal governments have lost some $1.1 million a day in taxes and stumpage fees since the dispute erupted. That has prompted Labor Minister Moe Sihota to step in. In a news release issued Monday Sihota stated that “the government is becoming in- creasingly concerned about the impact of this dispute on the regional economies of B.C.” Sihota stated that he asked Ready to pre- pare a list of nonbinding recommendations “in the public's interest.” Wall said the government was unaware of the recommendations Ready would make. In- stead, he said that would be revealed to Siho- ta, the PPWC, the Canadian Paperworkers Union and the Pulp and Paper Industrial Re- lations Bureau Friday. Wall also dismissed rumors that Sihota would legislate a 90-day cooling-off period if the nonbinding recommendations were re- fused. “The government wants the strike to end,” he said. “Labor relations is a fluid process. There is no step-by-step process to bring about a resolution. It can change at any time.” Asked if Ready recommendations would bring an end to the strike, Wall replied “only time will tell.” The union are expect to vote on Ready’s pro- posal on July 17. Dr. Christopher M. Chart wishes to announce the opening of the Selkirk Veterinary Hospital at 616 Rallway Street, Nelson, B.C. (Opposite Whitewater Ford) Telephone: (604) 352-2999 HOURS: Mon.;’Tues:, Wed., Fri. 8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Thurs. 8:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m., Sat. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Perfect Picnic served here 2816 Columbia Ave. @ Saturday, July 17,1992 B.C. Hydro to study damage Neil Rachynski NEWS REPORTER They came, they saw, they went. B.C. Hydro officials were in Castlegar Thursday to assess the damage done to Zucker- berg Island by the recent flooding. While walking around the site, B.C. Hydro’s public affairs co-ordinator Harold Gruber told Castlegar and District Heritage Society presi- dent John Coyle, “it must give you some com- fort that everything’s in relatively good shape.” B.C. Hydro’s project manager Lachlan Rus- sel says, “(The Hugh Keenleyside Dam) is a storage reservoir, and when the call was made for the water we released the flow.” Russel added, “we expected to be able to re- lease the water at 225,000 cubic feet per second without causing damage. It wasn’t the eleva- tion that surprised us, it was the damage it caused that surprised us.” As it turns out Hydro only released water at 175,000 cfs from the Keenleyside and Brilliant dams combined. “The scariest thought is that we don’t have any control,” Coyle says, “if Uncle Sammy down there says give me a drink, we’ve got to give it to them.” _ Thethree men spent about 90 minutes walk- ing around the Island. Russel says he and Gru- ber will take the information they gathered and present it to the corporation. “People here don’t understand the anomaly of the flooding,” Russel said. “We've got to keep reminding people what the operating levels are, “If the operation calls for us to release the same amount again, I’m not aware of anything in place to prevent that from happening.” The Crown corporation has already said they have no legal obligation to repair the is- land’s causeway. Ss): a VTE SURROUND YOU Service WITH SATISFACTION ‘o CASTLEGAR & mazpa_ 713-17th St., Castlegar DL. 7956 CALL NOW COLLECT 365-7241 MAZDA— IT JUST FEELS RIGHT! BE PART OF A MIRACLE ... e British Donate your organs to give life A A Cobmbic Transplant Society We're out to meet you! A Federal Business today and @ Castlegar sawmill tries to find new home for hog fuel and chip supplies Neil Rachynski NEWS REPORTER Pope and Talbot is getting impatient. President Abe Freisen says the company is looking for al- ternatives for its chips and hog fuel at the Castlegar sawmill. “We’re starting to get some- what impatient with (the strike situation),” Freisen said. With Celgar as the only client for the sawmill, Pope and Talbot is looking else- where to get it’s operations up and running. Freisen says, “we're consid- ering a few options. It looks like we’ll.be able to send our -hog fuel to Washington Water Power in Kettle Falls.” But finding a place for their chips is proving to be a more difficult task. Freisen says if the sawmill was operating right now they would “have to stockpile the chips.” Pope and Talbot explores options Freisen says it would take two weeks for the mill to get up and running from the day they decide to continue with production. In the meantime, Pope and Talbot is going to wait for at least another week. “We'll have to wait it out,” Freisen says, “On (July) 17 the pulp workers vote again on the latest offer. “We may well wait until the 17th, if the guys go back to work our problems are solved.” McCrory miffed by Clark’s comments Neil Rachynski NEWS REPORTER B.C.’s Finance Minister is biased and irresponsible for blaming lost forest revenue on parks, according to environ- mentalist Colleen McCrory. Areport states Glen Clark said “millions of dollars in forestry revenue has been lost due to increased designation of wilderness areas as parks or areas of study, which in turn reduces the annual allowable cut for forest companies.” McCrory, of New Denver’s Valhalla Society, says “Clark is taking shots at parks. “(His comments) are total- ly untrue. And when you have leaders in the province saying things like that, who can you trust?” McCrory blames the lost forest revenue on market management. dustry that isn’t even provid- ing jobs anymore,” McCrory said. “I think (Clark) is basically misrepresenting the public and making parks the scapegoat.” McCrory said the gov- ernment should be more’ con- cerned with developing a ~ gustainable harvest, rather than increas- ing allowable cuts. “Celgar’s expansion is not the way to do it,” she said. “It’s an example of a large mega-technology,” McCrory says, “large mega-projects can’t sustain those jobs. For nearly tripling its capacity, Celgar is going from 500 tonnes per day to 1,200 tones per day and we're only getting 30 jobs.” McCrory says effort would be better spent on value-added commodities like remanufac- turing. Rossland-Trail MLA Ed Conroy came to the defense of Clark. “You have to realize Mr. Clark’s sole action is to look af- ter the finances of the province,” Conroy said. “He made the comments as a fi- nance minister who’s trying to generate revenue.” Conroy says setting up guidelines for forest manage- ment will take a lot of plan- ning. “How can you make plans when you don’t: know how much timber you have?” Con- roy asked. “It’s like buying a house. How can you buy a house when you don’t know how much money you have in the bank?” : COMMUNITY 3RD ANNUAL CHRISTMAS IN JULY Robson Community Hall, Saturday, July 18, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Antiques, crafts, collectables, baking. Lunch by Robson Evening Group. 2/54 Coming events of Castlegar and District non-profit organizations may be listed here. The first 15 words are $5 and additional words are 30¢ each. Boldfaced words (which must be used for headings) count as two words. There is no extra charge for a second insertion while the third consecutive insertion is half-price and the fourth and fifth consecutive insertions are only half price for the two of them. Minimum charge is $5 (whether ad is for one, two or three times). Deadlines are 5 p.m. Wednesdays for Saturday's paper and 5 p.m. Monday for Wednesday's paper. Notices should be brought to the Castlegar News at 197 Columbia Ave. COMMUNITY 1992 a Concerts én the Park Sponsored by the pomtoger Arts Counc! with the co-operation of the CASTLEGAR NEWS, CKOR RADIO and the CITY OF CASTLEGAR. These concerts are made possible through the (generous financial support of B.C. 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