ae ee + CastléGar News May 6, 1990 Martin impresses We are impressed with Paul Martin. In @ rousing speech to Kootenay West-Revelstoke Liberals last Sunday in Castlegar, the 51-year-old candidate for the leadership of the federal Liberal party outlined what we think are some sensible + goals for Canada as our country heads into the 21st century. Unfortunately, Mr. Martin faces ‘an uphill battle to overtake frontrunner Jean Chretien and claim victory at the June 23 showdown in Calgary. Mr. Chretien is fast approaching the target of 50 per cent plus one of committed delegates — enough to win on the first ballot. Of course, “committed” delegates can change their allegiances at the convention but Mr. Martin must do a lot of convin« cing to achieve that goal. But anyone who doubts his ability to do so should have been at the Sandman Inn last Sunday. Criticized. as a dull and unexpressive speaker when he entered the leadership race, Mr. Martin obviously has done his homework on what it takes to win a leadership race and gave a passionate speech during which he outlined what he thinks is wrong with the country and gave his prescription for a remedy to the ills, among them the increasingly bitter clash of Canada's French and English cultures and the Conservative government’ 's_ economic policies, including the goods and services tax which Mr. Martin th Ho and Quebe Lake is sett “Oneer a Triple E Senate after Meech Wendel T. Dornobly, Canadian, is also ¢onsidering purchasing an acré of ocean~front property in Saskatchewan. promised to abolish if he becomes Liberal leader and y prime minister. That alone would get our vote. But we also agree with Mr: Martin's 's assessment that regional and fi are g Canada's sense of national purpose and we think he is on the right track in touting the develop- ment of a national policy that will support Canadian companies in Remember when 4 YEARS AGO From the May 4, 1950 Castle News No doubt you are fully aware of By-law No. 34 of The Corporation of the Village of Castlegar — if you are not, then you should be, because it concerns you, very ly. Last week our Village Com- missioners gave notice that the vote of the electors of the Village of Castlegar will be taken on the ‘* Waterworks Loan By-law 1950" on May 10th... at the Community Hall, This final and decisive measure comes only after all necessary and preliminary steps have been taken. + * 8 The regular bi-monthly meeting of the Castlegar Village Commissioners was held at the Village office Mon- Letters to the editor day. “Clean-up Week" was reported to be very successful, and a letter of o—_ is being sent to Mr. R. Som- ers, Principal of Castlegar School their efforts to compete successfully in global rk i and bring to Canada the prosperity this country is capable of achieving. Mr. Martin's firm belief that the federal government should ac- tively support and fund both education and research and develop- ment is a breath of fresh air after several years now of the.cut-and- tax economic policies of the federal Tories. Mr. Martin is quite correct when he says Canada will become a third-world social and economic backwater, little more than a colony of the United States, if we are not willing to invest in developing our skills and products that will allow us to compete with Japan, the U.S. and European countries. It was also refreshing to hear Mr. Martin say the environment and the economy need not be an “us-versus-them” conflict in which no one ends up a winner. He believes, and we agree, that Canada can have the cleanest environmental standards in the world backed by the toughest laws while at the same time develop the technology needed to clean up ution and maintain those dards. Asa result, C ies could b world leaders in environmental technology to whom the rest of the world turns for help. And that ties in with his policy of helping Canadian companies compete on a glabal scale. Mr. Martin_is_obvi forward-| liticlan who has developed some sound idecs tor Canada's ee And he has tear- ned to deliver those ideas with passion.to his audiences. We hope delegates to the Liberal leadership convention next month in Calgary listen carefully before marking their ballots. Wilson in lonely corner By LARRY WELSH loadvand credit card balances. (CP News Analysis OTTAWA (CP) — Michael Wilson’s corner in the fight again- st inflation is getting very lonely. Business executives, a leading group of manufacturers and an assortment of analysts and economists came out swinging last week against the finance minister’s plan to knock down in- flation with high interest rates. John Allan, chairman of Canada’s second-largest steel maker, said that Wilson’s in- flation policy is partly to blame for Steico Inc.’s $13 million loss in the first quarter. “It is very discouraging for those of us in the goods-producing the brunt company’s annual shareholders meeting last week. Opposition MPs kept the heat on the finance minister all week long, accusing him of trying to engineer a recession in his ob- session to bring down inflation. Aad there were some disturbing statistics during the week that Suggested Wilson’s critics many be right. Bankruptcies jumped 35 per cent to 4,104 in March from 3,043 in March 1989 while retail sales slumped in February, mainly. because of a sharp drop in sales of cars, furniture and appliances. And at the start of the week, another round of interest rate in- creases took effect as prime rate at major banks jumped half a per- centage point to 14.75 per cent, the- tevet—since the fast recession. Through it all, the dour Wilson The Canadian s' Association, representing some of the largest companies in Canada, issued a stinging condemnation of high interest rates in a policy paper called Short Term Pain and Long Term Pain. ‘*‘Manufacturers are being beaten. with the blunt instrument of monetary policy for in- flationary problems for which they are not responsible,”’ the policy paper said. “High interest rates and an ar- tificially high exchange rate are putting the manufacturing sector into a recession without having any apparent effect on controlling the CPI (consumer price index),”’ it added. Despite a steady climb in in- terest rates for more than two years, the inflation rate, as mesured by the consumer price index, has climbed to more than five per cent from 4.1 per cent in 1988. The manufacturers’ association and some analysts suggested it’s time to try other weapons against inflation, like wage and price con- trols or regulating mortgages, car and said that as bad as economic con- ditions appear, they would be a lot worse if he gave up his fight again- st inflation. “*What would be far worse is that if we ignored the inflationary problem today and delayed taking action, what we would see is a much higher level of inflation, much higher level of interest rates still and a consequent higher level of bankruptcies still that would flow from that,’’ Wilson told the Commons. Unfortunately for Wilson and his unpopular government, few business leaders are standing up to cheer the finance minister for sticking with his painful policies. Statistics Canada is scheduled to issue its report on how the economy fared in February. It took a beating in January, shrinking 0.2 per cent after ac- counting for inflation. Another monthly economic decline may suggest the country is finally slipping into a recession under the weight of high interest rates. ESTABLISHED AUGUS! 7, 1947 HE mi 4 eu. Castlegar News (PAEAABER OF THE B.C. PRESS COUNCHL TWICE WEEKLY MAY 4 1D WEEK Lv CAMPBELL PUBLISHER EDIT TOR PLANT FOREMAN ADVERTISING MANAGER OFFICE MANAGER CIRCULATION MANAGER 21978 AUGUST 271980 PUBLISHER AUGUST 7, 1947 FEBRUARY 15.1973 Burt Campbell Simon jer Hor Wayne Stolz Linda Kositsin Heather Hadley Public input essential Celgar and the Socreds must be sit- ting back and having a good laugh these days. Here we are, name calling and fighting among ourselves and get- ting so scared that we’re practically crawling on our knees to them begging for a mill — any mill. ‘What I suggest would be a lot more helpful is to pause and take a good look at what is really going on here. Remembering a bit of history wouldn't hurt either. We first need to remember that, since its contruction almost 30 years ago, the pulp mill has never kept up with changes in pollution standards. It has consistently depended on fear and apathy on the part of this com- munity to avoid investing in better equipment and processes. The mill has also never lost money in all its years of operation and in times of good markets has chosen to give very high returns to its investors rather than cleaning up the mill. The company has usually used “*low pulp prices’’ as its public excuse for doing so__little upgrading. In private the threat has been ‘‘don’t push or we'll shut down.”* If the fibre supply is as plentiful as they say it is, why on earth would they close down? Someone else would just come in and start the mill up again. There’s too much money to be made over the long run on this resource for there to be no pulp mill in Castlegar. A highly skilled and experienced work force is here as well. Obviously Celgar isn’t doing us a favor by ‘‘giving us’? a new mill. Companies don’t make decisions based on favors to a community. It will make a good return on this in- vestment and it also knows it no longer has a choice on meeting pollution standards. Up until recently, the provincial government has seldom enforced its own lution regulations. If it had insisted on Celgar meeting those stan- dards we wouldn’t be in the situation we're in now. The only reason things are changing is that the majority of people in B.C. will no longer tolerate our air and water being used as gar- bage dumps. It’s important to keep in mind that we need to maintain a unified pressure over pollution. standards or we'll quickly go back to the bad old times. Every pulp mill must be made to meet the same standards with no exceptions. They can’t be allowed to play one community off against another or use threats of closures and job losses to silence people. It’s clear that Celgar simply did not think it necessary to have in-depth and thorough studies prepared to back up its claims on the prop fork his and Application to subdivide Part of Lot 7182 and Part of Block 62 were, after careful discussion and con- sideration for future growth and development of the Village, okayed. Petitions, one asking for regrading and lighting of 3rd Avenue, and one for grading of 6th and 7th Avenues, were answered. The roads and grading will be attended to as soon as men and machinery are available, but more lights are at present ‘‘a luxury which we cannot afford unless all are willing to pay for them." 25 YEARS AGO From the May 6, 1965 News ~ The Celgar pulp division is down because of an internal problem in the recovery boiler but all maintenance are working and a substan- tial number of operating personnel supply-holds out). The mill workers want a-clean-and- safe workplace and we all want the best possible mill so our environment and health is well protected. It'simply isn’t good enough for the company just to assure us that this is a “*world class mill’’ — watever that means. We have absolutely no reason to trust an organization whose single over-riding purpose has always been to make the —highest- possible return for its investors. That’s the way the system works — Celgar is just doing its corporate duty. That’s why our community must have assurances from y and i sources that the mill will indeed be what it claims. That’s our respon- have been offered work on various sibility. jobs throughout the mill during the Every other mill in B.C. will be sub- _ shutdown Period. ject to the same standards and review Process that now affects Celgar. ism and Celgar knows this. The days are with maintenance of the Castlegar hopefully drawing to a close when a Kinsmen Park were the subject at company can successfully use threats council’s meeting on Tuesday night and fear to silence a community’s when Kinsmen delegates Mel Mc- concerns about the environment. Mullen and Jack “Hogan appeared __ en in before i expansion. Given the growing en- vironmental awareness in B.C., the company should have known it would no longer be able to bluff its way through. It should also have realized that a proper review would take mon- ths, not weeks. After all, we're looking at what essentially will be a new mill that will double in capacity. ‘We'll be living with the new mill for another 30 years (provided the wood Residents must Have you ever considered what the meaning of Celgar is to our fine city? Does Celgar mean ‘‘your choice?” Celgar logically could mean cellulose (cel) in Castlegar (gar). At some point, a group of investors got together and made a choice to build a cellulose mill in Castlegar. After that choice was made, a number of the fine citizens of this city made a choice to move to Castlegar. Whether that choice was made by your mother and father, or by you, it was made. The interesting point about choices is that they are always made ‘‘today.”” On a given day, as Canadian people living in a free society, we are given Mill cleanup overdue The people of Castlegar seem to be in a panic about the pulp mill expan- sion and growing more agitated by the day. Celgar’s strategy is,, obviously working. Threaten jobs and em- ployees will accept anything. It’s a time-honored tradition of big business and it works beautifully. thousands of choices to make. Some of these choices are simplistic, like driving your car from home to Celgar. Choices cannot be made yesterday, because yesterday is already peste Choices cannot because tomorrow is tomorrow and never gets Choices can only be made today. nlwiya here. Do you want a ‘‘cellulose- Castlegar” or would you prefer a *‘cellulose-U.S.A.?"" If you think Celgar sounds like the choice you wish to make, then make the next ob- vious choice to let your support for the mill is heard. Talking to a neigh- bor about your support doesn’t let the willing or able to produce some plan as to how it will remove the toxic materials currently being discharged into our air and water. Surely it is a reasonable request that such plans be made clear and concise now — before development begins. Perhaps the company could go the extra mile and solve the problem of removing the I gather the prop of the pulp mill is being delayed due to the fact that Celgar is not ready, chemical not covered in the new regulations. I appreciate this is not a popular Production figures called averages 1 am puzzled by the letter from Wilf Sweeney, general manager of Celgar Pulp Co.'s proposed expansion project (Castlegar News, April 22). ‘What happened to the times when the company was proud of making over 700 tonnes of pulp in a day, or @ daily average of 677 tonnes for a mon- th? Didn’t we all get presents of pocket knives or jackets and congratulations from our super- visors? It seems that we -are down to juggling figures. The figures. in Wilf Sweeney's letter are averages of the 700-tonne days with the days of very low production, or weeks of main- tenance shutdown when nothing is produced. We all know that it is on the days of high productivity, when the recovery boiler is pushed to the maximum, that our valley is polluted. 20-year Ceigar instrument dept. veteran Glade king is toa Mr. Hogan said lumber used to are democratic society. | would hold up 80 young trees being used say that democracy is a little more as May poles by youngsters while alive and well in Castlegar today three eight-foot-wide holes have been because of those who had the courage chopped through the park fence. and the concern to submit their com- 15 YEARS AGO ments after having examined Celgar’s From the May 8, 1975 Proposals. In the. long run we’ll be Castlegar News healthier and living in a better world A saving of over $1 million is to be because of their i 5 i by the city, says sewer Ann chairman Ald. Steve Castlegar Jankola, who told the Castlegar News a special council meeting was held Thursday night at which authority ch oO ose was given Associated Engineers to submit an amendment application to 7 . CMHC in accordance with Bill C-46. investors know you are in support. Bill C-46 allows CMHC to make At NRS Mountainview Agencies Ltd., we are clearly in support of the modernization and improvement of our pulp mill called Celgar. A strong loans to provinces, municipalities or municipal sewerage corporations at a preferred rate of Snterent.. * industrial base in our community is Nelson will serve as headquarters vital to a strong and stable real €st@l€ for the proposed integrated Kootenay market and we are sure both the pure Library System. chasers and vendors agree with us The decision was made in Creston completely. Whether you are buying saturday following presentations by or selling, it is nice to know the the cities of Castlegar, Nelson and market is stable. Trail to the Kootenay Library System Choosing a. stable real estate Society board. market is your choice too. Choose to . . . write a letter of support today. It’s even fun to do. NRS Mountainview Agencies Ltd. Castlegar Kiwanians and six new Canadian citizens were challenged Tuesday night to ‘‘shame’’ school ‘boards into doing something about improving knowledge about Canada and things Canadian. Judge Leo Ganser said ‘‘something must be done”’ to correct the situation where a recent poll showed less than 20 per cent of Canadians can name five Canadian authors while a smaller Percentage could name the premier of Quebec. opinion in Castlegar, if one is to judge from the large number of petitions placed strategically about town where we sign our cheques. My husband, bless his heart, says he signed my name to one of two of them, along with his. 5S YEARS AGO From the May 8, 1985 Castlegar News The Castlegar school board recen- ly. made a decision to partly reinstate lunch-hour supervisors, but district teachers are still taking the board to court over the issue. Rita Morrison ° . . Castlegar The United Steelworkers of America has filed 72-hour strike notice against Cominco Ltd. and has asked the mediator to book out of the contract dispute with the company: * 8 I believe the time has come for pulp mills, and any other type of pollution- spewing mill, to clean up their act. It’s long overdue. Please address all Letters to the Editor to: The Castlegor News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to our office at 197 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar. Darcy Martini of Castlegar is a member of the Kootenay hockey team which will compete in the B.C. Cup tetters should be typewritten tournament which begins Thursday in dout poced and not longer thon 300 Kamloops. words + 8 Lert | be ned and include the writer's full nome end address. Only 1S Castlegar the fittest community in very exceptional coses wilt tetters be in British Columbia or in Canada? published without the eae nome We'll find out later this month. jevertheless, the name and address of the writer must be disclosed to the . -astlegar has accepted the Par- editor ticipaction challenge and on May 29 The Castlegar News reserves the right Will be competing against other com- to edit letters tor brevity, clority. legality munities across Canada to determine end grammer the fittest community. “OPINION MORE LETTERS Alliance doubts ministry data The West Kootenay Forestry Alliance would like to comment on ‘the front-page article in the April 22 edition of the Castlegar News under the headline, ‘‘Carbon-dioxide pollution pinned on forest industry.’’ West Kootenay Forestry Alliance members support the need for less burning of logging slash. We have submitted a supportive brief to the Regional District of Central Kootenay’s air quality committee to that effect. Our forests are increasingly becoming regarded as a means of countering world buildups of carbon dioxide. Although we advocate less slash burning, it is important to un- derstand that even its elimination would have little to do with reducing overall carbon dioxide production. Through the usual process of decay of natural or logging debris, the same total amount of carbon dioxide is released as with slash burning. The only difference is the period of time over which the process occurs. Improved timber use, particularly of poor quality wood, is one of the main ways of avoiding the need to slash burn. Reopening of the wood woom with the Celgar pulp mill ex- pansion would therefore have a positive effect on reducing slash bur- ning locally, HoWever, the statement, ‘‘Slash burning of (logging) debris pumps an estimated 20 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year,”” has to be questioned. T have been in contact with some of the parties that contributed to—the report which*was based on data only for 1988. During that year, ap- proximately 90,000 hectares were burned throughout B.C., which was an unusually high amount because of favorable burning conditions. This included many areas in the Interior that were only spot burned. This translates into some 225 ton- nes_per_hectare of carbon dioxide which is more than the total wood fibre mass on some poorer Interior sites prior to logging! The Nelson region of the protection branch of the Ministry of Forests use a maximum of 1.5 tonnes per hectare. I asked the parties contacted-about data concer- ning slash bio mass and they said that they had very little data and only used “*broad-averages.”” They also had no information or data on the amount of particulate carbon produced compared to carbon dioxide and nitrogen dioxide. Much of the information is ‘‘confidential’’ as it is provided by a Vancouver con- sultant. The veracity of the data is Why was it by THE KOOTENAY SOCIETY FOR COMMUNITY LIVING < oercae comme bg joina Lp number of other provincial 9 tl The Society te ee on on behalf of individvote wi who live with a variety of h this ig name. and others who belli: 1@ we can ¢ all pe pd contribute to our of ou Bn § more information ~ sssistenca call y Living 365-2624 or 365-3433 the Ministry of Energy rather than the Ministry of Forests? There is an old saying, “‘If you don’t get the facts, the facts will get you.’* However, 1 will give the Ministl of Energy the benefit of the doubt until I receive and analyze a copy of its report. I will then let your readers know further. Rod MacLeod Secretary ‘West Kootenay Forestry Alliance Delegation like the Titanic When I heard about the latest delegation of bigwigs from the Castlegar area going down to Victoria to lobby for fast approval of the Celgar pulp mill expansion, | thought this should be called the voyage of the Titanic. We could smash a bottle of cham- pagne on the plane just before it took off, conduct a ceremony, and hope the attitudes of the people involved would suffer the same fate as that famous ship. saw Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore at the recent Globe 90 con- ference on the environment. I tried to talk to her after the opening plenary speeches. All the speeches were made by people who accepted that global warming is a reality. She wouldn’t talk. It appeared to me that she rejected the assumption of the speakers that the planet was in peril, She acted like someone who wasn’t being taken in by a snake-oil show. I didn’t get a theory until | read recently how a woman diagnosed with terminal cancer came home to find Tories’ taxes I did not mind paying my fair share of Canada’s tax bill. However, there seems to be a conflict between what I consider fair and what Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Finance Minister Michael Wilson do. Recently, a small instance has come to my attention with regards to non- residents holding Canadian gover- nment securities. In 1989, non-residents held $55.5 bilion worth, with treasury bills Budget a I went to bed the night before the budget came down thinking that Bill Vander Zalm’s handlers finally had him under control. I thought that Carol Gran would get provincial funding for women’s centres. I thought John Reynolds would tax polluters and that Claude Richmond would get a massive in- crease in silviculture funding. 1 thought Howard Dirks would get to announce a commitment toward fun- ding for a degree-granting institution in Nelson. And I thought Mel Couvelier would not spend more than he took in. In short, I figured it would be an election budget. Maybe, in Van- couver, it is. But in the Kootenays this budget isa disaster. But the biggest tragedy for interior communities is the nonsense the government has made of reforestation. They lose a half billion dollar contract with the federal government, budget to spend less on silviculture, and then take it away from the forest service to pad the Clean up own act first Thank you Mark Mealing for poin- ting out that money isn’t everything, the earth is. That’s exactly why I sup- port the construction of an environ- mentally sound pulp mill. We all know that it’s too late to turn back so let’s look ahead to a cleaner future. I assure you that if Celgar and other industries were not fere neither would the airport or Selkirk College. Many other aspects also contribute Pollution is also a major co! . we and the environmental groups so concerned about the earth and the air-we-breathe in, then it’s time to Prove it by other means. I find it hard to take that some of the people criticizing Celgar are the same people I see every day driving old vehicles with visible pollution following them. If you really care about the environ- ment, clean up your own act before you criticize others. I believe we must all work together to clean up our environment. I also believe the first step is to allow our companies (like Celgar) to provide us with state-of-the-art environmentally sound workplaces. + Stew McCullagh amounting to 27.8 per cent or $15.4 billion. Turnover for the year was $536.4 billion and we have no withholding tax in Canada. If people held their securities for a minimum of three months at I1 per cent, the money earned would be $14.751 billion. It would be presumptuous of me to assume that Mr. Mulroney’s and Mr. Wilson’s rich friends in the Bahamas should pay as much as a ‘disaster’ budget of the Ministry of the En- vironment. The trees and the land and the workers of the interior take it in the neck again so that the government can her husband couldn’t even talk about it with her. He insisted on con- tinuing to watch a TV commercial. The woman chose to divorce him as a way of dealing with her anger but acknowledged that this man needed to do this. It was his way of coping with the situation. According to this theory I have then, Moore and the delegation that is the voyage of the Titanic, that are hell bent to have the mill built despite whatever effect it will have on the planet, are the husband who had to continue to watch the TV commercial even though his" wife needed to tell him she was dying. Unfortunately, divorce is not an option when it comes to dealing with all the people who want the mill built. Bon voyage, Audrey Moore and company. Perhaps we could build a shrine to the almighty dollar in down- town Castlegar where the devotees of this planet-killing cult could gather in worship of the only thing that they appear to value. David Lewis (Crescent Valley called unfair laborer, but a 25-per-cent withholding tax doesn’t seem to be too extreme. 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