A2 ts CASTLEGAR NEWS, November 19. ‘1900 | Lively discussion ae forest service and the forest industry: took some knocks, The IWA’s’ Wayne Nowlin, who now lives in Cranbrook, accused forest ies of not foll 3 good logging practices add the forest service of turning a blind eye. He said he recently was in the Yahk River area and spotted “thou- sands and th and of Kristiansen, the NDF’s forestry Continued from Page Al "Nowlin of the IWA’ said - that’, Cr critic, said British Col: histori- cally have taken'the forests for granted and that. from the arrival of-the first settlers little thought has been given to, — ensuring regrowth, . “We can't see the lack of forests for the trees,” he said, describing as “unrealistic” the goal of the Council of and usable logs and Piers scattered around, whereas in Montana he has seen logging slashes that were so clean “I awear to God they might have been going to plant wheat.” : Corky Evans of Area.H said the production of forest products increased 300 per cent’ between 1950 and 1970 “because of the- Social Credit govern- ment’s the in- ,to see forestry production increased 60 ‘per cent by the year 2000, The movie’ noted that. unless proper forest’ management practices are adopted immediately, forest prod- ucts production will fall off by one-third over the next decade with. ensuing disasterous effects on jobs and the economy. dustry, put call ‘Operators out of: business and attract foreign capital.” SMOKESCREEN He accused ‘the ferest service. of throwing up a smokescreen to distract from its own ineptitude by promoting the belief that hunters, other. out and are ‘opposed to logging. The service, he said, is trying to “cover itself for not insisting that logged-off land be re-. planted.” Nowlin noted that loggers, too, are efvironmentalists. — . Evans. pooh-poched the 1978-80 moratorium on logging in the Valhalla Valley. That ‘two years was “the breathing time the companies wanted anyway.” Although hasn't yet started up, ‘the Ministry of Municipal Affairs now will decide its future and that of the Slocan Valley. Kristiansen interjected that “the amount of forestry in the Valhalla is minimal; we all know that.” Martin Vanderpol of Area J said it's time Victoria started to listen to local voices and for government 8 quit ing. de- cisions made locally. “Decisions affecting us in the Kootenays are being made in Van- couver and the Lower Mainland,” he said. : Vanderpol claimed the only local input into decision-making allowed by Victoria‘is that “we.can scream while being raped.” - INDUSTRY ‘SCREWED UP" Evans said the forest industry is “so screwed up” in the Kootenays because it is being run “by a Lower Mainland mentality.” “People with vested interests in the West Kootenay should run the West Kootenay in co-operation with the provincial government and Ot- tawa.” et KFP's Jack Sigalet of Nelson said his company currently_js-doing jwater. studies and hopes evéntuallyt6 log in: the West Arm area in co-operation and dialogue with locat people. Tom MacKenzie of Genelle said the forest service has given lip service. logging there - ‘td forests bring ‘in more revenue nationally than mining, tourism and commercial fishing com- bined, . ‘ The IWA’s Nowlin said “the over-all picture facing us is staggering” and blamed B.C. Hydro for gobbling up prime forest. space.. The “most critical area in B.C, is in the southeast corner” where mountain pine beetles have infested forests in the Flathead Valley. “Last year that forest was green; this year.it was red; next year it will be grey,” he said, describing a grey forest as dead, “Fifty per cent of that valley and ForeatProducts. is: going back .to logging, horses in an : attempt tolessen mage in the forests and to encouragatregrowth, . : Lively discussion also involved the proposed’Murphy Creek hydroelectric ' power project and’ B.C. °. Hydro's’ ‘exemption from paying school and property taxes. Chris D'Arcy, the NDP's energy critic, reported that Hydro's proposed construction of the Murphy Creek project now has been postponed a year to 1984 with complétion in 1990 while . engineers try to determine the prob- able effect on communities, land and wildlife of raising the water level to. 1,410 feet abovertta level rather than 1,890-foo! reir olla g little cynic munity relatondy program’ Greek. The rag gence-gathering'\ - almost the whole of the -K Valley within Kootenay National Park is pure lodgepole pine, but unless something is done it will be bright red (dying) i in a year or two. Parks Canada is going to have to start allowing logging within national parks” to, curb the infestation. planters and gobbled up the seeds. Took @ while for forestry experts te figure ovt why the seeds didn't sprout, : He also said that when lodgepole pine, and other, forests die and are left standing “one lightning strike will really have disasterous effects; we'll have a real wilderness area on our hands that will take years and years to bring back.” Lorne Nicholson said logging. ride” because itis exempt from paying taxes on some of its Projects. “Hydro sdys it is willing to pay taxes but won't until the government orders it to,” Lorne Haas, mayor of Montrose, said he has a letter from Robert - Bonner, chairman of the Crown-owned utility, ‘saying Hydro refused to pay local taxes voluntarily. Mike Jessen of Nelson, president of the B.C. Council of the Society for Pollution and Environinental Control, said Bonner has increased Hydro's debt 50 per cent since becoming its chal ‘man, ‘ He saw “no economic sense in building giant hydro projects that will have to be paid for by generations not - yet born. It (Hydro) can borrow up to’ $6-billion without the -bonds coming due until 2008.” ANOTHER ‘MONUMENT’ 7 Jessen says he opposed the Murphy Creek proposal “on economic grounds even though it ‘is likely to. cause little environmental damage.” David Barclay, mayor-elect of should have been allowed “rather than — Slovan; sald-that if the- Murphy” Creek: sing-a useless. spray’, to: control. a recent infestation of spruce. budworm in the Fraser Valley. But the spray used was the samestype that residents of New Brunswick claimed was toxic and harmful to human and animal He to proper forest but it hasn't been accepted by the industry es whieh, “aided and abetted by the Twa, is raping our forests.” He said a “bumbling bureauacracy in Victoria and Ottawa .°. . no Alex Hills, said a timber stand he Navestal 20 years ago with horses now can be logged again. He accused large com- panies of devastating new growth, polluting streams and destroying ds by pushing heavy equip- of ity... communication between goveriment departments” has led to the attitude that logy is better than ad: a policy of intelligent use of renewable resources, Earlier, following a showing of the 80-minute film, “The Fail-down Effect” which was made in the Kootenays, Kristiansen noted the world is losing 50 acres a month of prime forest land to ment willy- nilly. through the forests. Big operators with head offices in New York and: elsewhere are more interested in making money and pleasing shareholders than they are in replanting, he said. LITTLE KNOW-HOW; + Strebchuck said young men and women now entering the forest in- dustry “don't know how to log" but are agriculture, urban sprawl and other causes, more interested in ‘operating fancy high-powered equipment. + BCRIC has plans? VANCOUVER (CP): — $89.75-million share block of MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. “of Vancouver traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange Monday. Fanning speculation that someone may intend to fight British, Columbia Re- sources Investment Corp. for control of the big forest. pro- . ducts company. But analysts said a more probable explanation was * that Canadian institutions - were buying. shares of Mac- Millan Bloedel following a buy recommendation issued earlier this month by Pem-. berton Securities Ltd. of Vancouver. Trading. in MacMillan Bloedel totalled .1,412,486 shares, making it.by far the exchange's busiest issue. Vol- ume included blocks of 264,100 and 55,000 shares. Laird Grantham, a local stockbroker, said a possible explanation for the. recent heavy trading may be that a company is buying up shares in MacMillan Bloedel to fi; ight BCRIC for control. AUTHENTIC RUSSIAN. , SPINNING WHEELS by local craftsman, 365-5593 A Message-from Alderman-Elect NOV. 27 29 & 30 project is to be. undertallen, it;should: be built by *-the- privately-owned; a tax-paying West Kootenay Light and Power Co.; otherwise, he said, “Hydro will just, build another export monu- . Ment that will see electricity go south of-the border.” . Mayor Chuck Lake of Trail said West Kootenay Power “is likely to get a lot of support if it's able to apply to ~~ construct Murphy Creek.” D'Arcy was asked. why NDP members didn’t scream when the Util- ities Act was debated last session in the legislature. = * He said they did and that proof can be found in Hansard. He accused the news media of not reporting NDP protests. o “Our criticism isn't with the errors the media make,” -he said. “It’s with what they don’t report. Decisions are made in the press galleries in Victoria . .'. eontinued on page AS 28, 1/3008 REGULAR PRICE. REG. PRICE FASHIONS Located in the Chahko Mika Mall NELSON STORE ONLY $32; $413. BUBIYIS Be Muden oi) AU Porat SINGER at the Castleaird Plaza. _ TWENTY-SEVEN leaders in indust politics and, inions * ry c . met in Castlegar Sunday at the Hi Arrow. Armna¢Motor Hotel in the. first day-long Reston of MP'Lyle: + Sen's r ly-formed since MacEachen budget [D : By GAIL LEM ‘THE CANADIAN PRESS . ‘| Hidden ‘in the~ federal government's national en-- ergy program are important benefits for some Canadian Toronto's W: ‘The prapos the share “of the? That's the word from some analysts delving he- neath wide-spread criticism of the new energy package, for a close second Idok. : - One company that seems more: attractive since the government outlined its con- troversial policies just three weeks ago is Nova; an . Alberta corporation, says analyst Gordon Elliot of industry and the in. centives offered . to Sheav: crude oil upgrading aogur well for ‘Nova's three. basic businesses, Elliot said in a : recent report. -“Even the tax intro- duced. on natural gas and natural: gas liquids, though seen as a storm cloud by some provincial govern- ments, could have*asilver lining for the gas transmis- “las rate base expansion of the company formerly called Alberta Gas Trunk Line Co. Elliot said. ATHERS NATURAL GAS Nova's regulated: Alber- ta utility operation gathers . * and transmits natural gas, much of it for delivery to Eastern Canada. ‘In that area, Bllict said, has prices, falling from 80 per cent of parity to.67 per cent by 1988; -- Consumers are to be offered grants towards the cost of conversion; — The federal govern- ment says it-is determined to. make gas available in the Maritime provinces by 1983 and if necessary will set aside a significant sum of money to support the construction of a the new gi several policies to promote the use of natural gas in ppeee of fuel oil: Phone subscribers come ler = VANCOUVER (CP) — B.C. Telephone Co.” puts profits first and service to subscribers” ldst,”""gaya the” Telecommunications Work- ers. Union, Therefore, the telephone company should not get its requested 12.5-per-cent in- * erease in residential rates until it improves its service, the union said in an inter-- vention before the Canadian Radio-television and Tele- communications Commission. The TWU intervention is supported by the Inter. national Woodworkers’ of America and the B.C. Fed- eration of Labor. ~ John Johnston, a B.C, Tel installer-repairnian for 15 years, told the commission quality of service has deter- iorated. Handling of trouble re- ports has become much less efficient with the introd- “yction ‘of’ a”““decison “tree” - which relies on the custom- er's account of the problem with. his phone, Johnston said. The new approach elim- inates one employee, but fre- . quently leads to complaints being dispatched to the wrong place or. tossed into bins marked for “three-day or five- -day "follow-up," he said. “It has the effect of in- ereasing the time that cus- tomers must wait for their phones' to be repaired while the trouble is pursued by the wrong people, and then while the trouble is re-routed to the proper repair area,” John- ston said. __ DRAPERY SAMPLES _ DRAPERY RODS, HRDWE. PLEATER TAPE, HOOKS © DRAPERY FABRIC. IN STOCK! RED TAG SALE DAYS THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY Stocks ‘Noon TORONTO (CP) — — The _agement Tuesday and said it " WOOL BLENDS FLANNELETTE 115 cm wide Plains, prints. RED. TAG SALE.’ For fall skirts, suits. Be DOM OFF m bd bis SINGER FREE-ARM a a COTTON ‘SEWING MACHINES PRINTS 15cm nu] 59 SUMMIT SUEDE -~ | “ont $235, ODDMENT TABLE- Toronto stock market was sharply higher in active mid-morning trading today. The TSE 300 index rose 8.52 to 2321.12. Twelve of the 14 stock “groups in the composite in- dex advanced, led by golds. Paper and forest products ‘and financial services de- clined. Volume of trading by 11 . a.m. was 3:41 million shares, compared with 3.03 million shares at the same time Tuesday. Advances outnumbered declines 197 to 128 with 197 issues unchanged. : The Toronto Stock Ex- change said the trading halt in shares of D'Eldona Gold Mines Ltd. was continued from Tuesday pending clari- fication of the “company’s af. ge The stock last traded at $2.66. The company announced a reorganization of its man-, wants to shift ils efforts in oil and gas exploration to the U.S. from Western Canada, |Stocks Open. Problems such as noisy lines, phones going out of . service during storms and faulty~ cables~«long-overdue::- for replacement by pressur- ized, grease-filled cables seem to be low on B.C. Tel’s scale of priorities, Johnston, said. Union lawyer Don Rose- nbloom said other workers will present. evidence this‘ week based on the. union's stand that “it is nothing short of negligent for the company to consider. installing elec- trical equipment until its op- erations are brought uP to standard.” B.C. Tel is asking the commission for a 12.5-per- cent increase in the rates it charges, residential custom- ers and a 15-per-cent increase for business customers to boost its. earnings and make the company attractive to investors. The investors’. dollars - will pay fora multi-million ' dollar automatich’ scheme which will reduce the number of operators" ‘and -close B.C. Tel offices in some ‘smaller ~-B.C. centres. However, the company says the project will - improve service and cut costs. By 1985°the company hopes to have installed elec- tronic switching equipment in 84 per cent of its oper- ations, . HASN'T ASSESSED ~ Rosenbloom charged the VANCOUVER (CP) — Prices were up in heavy trading during the first .45 minutes today on the Van- couver Stock Exchange. Vol- ume was 761,849 shares as 111 issues advanced, 55 de- clined and 83 were un-. changed. In the Industrials, Renn “ was up .05 at $4.40 on 5,100 shares, B.C. Resources In- vestment Corp. was off .05 at $6.10 on 4,955, Profléx was up .05 at .30 on 1,600 and Taro was steady at $4.35 on Pp has failed to ade- quately assess the economic impact of job relocation and the loss of jobs in major B.C. communities. pipeline from Montreal. Elliot said these mea- | sures should promote the rapid construction of the Trans,Quebec and Maritimes Pipelines project, in which Nova has a 50-per-cent in-* terest, and should encourage expansion of the Alberta ga- thering system. Elliot said the results of “the natural gas export tax, - could. be-mixed.-The-tax will’ initially make Canadian nat- ural gas less attractive to U.S. markets, but it also ‘might provide Ottawa with “an incentive to authorize new exports, COULD OUTWEIGHT TAX | As well, he said, Nova is a major participant in the Al- berta petrochemical complex, which uses natural gas as its feedstock, ~The general policy put forth by the national energy program — it says the petro- ‘chemical industry should not plan on using more oil in'1990 than ’, it-does presently and promises~ to support the trend-of concentrating the future growth of the petro- chemical industry in Western Canada — appears to’ out- weigh the effects of the new | tax, Elliot said. + He also noted that No- | va's major presence in the oil and gas industry is its 69-per- cent interest in ‘Husky Oil Husky stock closed Mon- ‘day.on the Toronto Stock _ Exchange at $17.63 and Elliot Said that company’s net asset value could rise dramatically if probable reserves of heavy crude are proven up because of the energy program's $30-a-barrel reference price * for heavy crude. 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