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TORONTO (CP) — Toxic chem-
icals are seeping into milk from
cardboard cartons, preliminary re-
sults of a study by a federal gov-
ernment research team indicate.

Traces of furan and dioxin were
found in small samples of homo-
genized, two per cent, skim milk
and cream from eastern Ontario,
Diane Kirkpatrick, diréctor of the
bureau of chemical safety in Ot-
tawa, said Tuesday.

She emphasized only limited
amounts were present in the milk
and cream available in corner
stores.

The toxins were found in milk
sold in cardboard packages made
of chlorine-bleached paper.

But Renate Kroesna, a spokes-
man for the environme: group
Greenpeace, said a six-year-old
child drinking two glasses of
carton milk every day will ingest

about 15 per cent of the dioxin
limit considered acceptable by
Ottawa.

The toxins were not found in
milk sold in plastic or glass con-
tainers, the Globe and Mail re-
ported Tuesday from Vancouver.

The results of the analysis, part
of the bureau's regular monitoring
of chemicals in food, were released
recently at an international con
ference on dioxin in Sweden.

Kirkpatrick said federal re-
searchers do not yet know the
extent of the problem, but the
findings have sparked a multi-
million-dollar research project, to
begin soon.

The research will be conducted
in co-operation with industry and
will investigate the source of
dioxin and how it passed from the
cartons into the milk.

In Vancouver, Louis Fortier,

public relations director for the
Canadian Pulp and Asso-
ciation, said in an interview that so
far, the in Canada and
a_i.

Toxins found in milk

said her group is concerned about
bleached paper containers that
contaminate products with dioxins
and furans.
“The recent discovery that milk
 ssepaties is

NOT A THREAT

“Our view is that the bleached
product is no threat to the con-
sumer or to the environment. We
respond to the marketplace. The
question is as simple as that. If
they require newsprint with blue
polka-dots, they're going to get it.”

Sroeupese ‘was one of a coali-
tion of 30 groups that told a
Vancouver news conference the
Swedish paper products like juice
containers, diapers and coffee fil-
ters “are selling like hoteakes in
Europe.”

Ada Brown, president of the
British Columbia branch of the
Consumers Association of Canada,

paper
contaminated with dioxins and
furans from the paper illustrates
the urgency of the problem,” she
said.

Fortier said he has no problem
feeding his children milk from con-
tainers made from bleached paper
products but agreed “in some
paper products very low levels of
dioxins have been found.

He said that is‘a concern to the
pulp industry which is conducting
research into that area “but the
things we are hearing from health
authorities in Canada and in the
U.S, are that the traces are so
minute as to not represent a threat
to human health.”

Dump proposal
to be reviewed

«CP) — Environ-
ment Minister Bruce Strachan called
Tuesday for a public review and ref-
erendum on a proposed $20-million
toxic waste incinerator and dump
site in the British Columbia Interior.

The announcement came after a
committee studying the dump site

Tegart said Strachan has agreed to
meet with the committee on Thurs-

day to discuss the
Strachan said the province will
look elsewhere for a dump site if local
residents are opposed.
“It's always been our position, if
the community is not in favor, to look

da regional referend
or full-scale provincial review on the
controversial facility which would
handle wastes from around the prov-
ince.

Many residents in the Ashcroft-
Cache Creek area have voiced fear
that the proposed incinerator and
waste site, about 200 kilometres
northeast of Vancouver, will present
an environmental danger.

Gerald Wong, who has been
orgafiizing a petition, said about 80
per cent of homeowners are opposed
to the dump.

Jackie Tegart, the spokesman for
the committee, said a referendum or
inquiry is needed to ascertain the
views of local residents.

“The final decision has to be (with)
the people,” she said.

Opposition to the toxic waste facil-
ity covers two regional districts —

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the Thompson-Nicola and the Cari-
boo Regional District.

STORE LOCATIONS:
Castleaird Plaza
Downtown Castlegar

Police
investigate
PCB fire

MONTREAL (CP) — The owner of
a PCB warehouse which was des-
troyed by fire in August, causing
what has been called Canada's worst
environmental accident, used to sell a
blend of PCB-laced oil and industrial
oils, La Presse said today.

Quoting former employees of Lub-
rimax Ltd., a recycling firm owned
by businessman Mare Levy, the
newspaper said purportédly purified
oil sold by Lubrimax contairied
PCB-contaminated oil.

“We recycled transformer oil and
put it back on the market after
distilling it and mixing it with other
oils,” said Jacques Derive, a bio-
chemist who worked for Levy for six

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October 26, 1988

Castlégar News as

Fewer forest fires

By CasNews Staff

The provincial forest fire season
has finally come to an end and there
were 67 fires reported in the Arrow
Forest District from April 15 to Oct.
15. The 67 fires burned a total of 103
hectares.

The provincial totals are far below
last year’s reports. A total of 1,916
fires consumed 9,814 hectares of
forest compared with last year's
3,247 fires which burned 35,509 hee
tares of forest,

Firefighting costs were $51 million
compared with the $70 million spent
last year to combat forest fires.

“There's no question that recre-
ationists and others using the woods
took their responsibilities seriously,”
Forest Minister Dave Parker said in
a prepared release. “Through careful
use of fire and machinery in the
woods, thousands of hectares of
forest that otherwise might have
been consumed by fire, are still

to support r ac
tivities, fish and wildlife habitat, and
help fuel the province's economy
through tourism and harvesting acti.
vities.”

Personnel and equipment involved
in initial attack operations this year
included air tanker fleets of 11
firecats and three DC-6s, 13 three-
man rapattack teams, 38 three-man
helitack crews and 68 three-man
firetak ground crews.

There was air tanker activity on

320 fires — about 17 per cent of the

total fires this year — which involved
the dispersal of 6.8 million litres of
retardant. Air tanker flying time
totalled more than 1,600 hours while
birddog aircraft logged about 1,200
hours.

In 1987, air tankers dispersed 13.9
million litres of retardant on 710
targets. The tankers flew-more than
8,000 hours with birddog aircraft
reporting 1,900 hours of flying time.

Hydro sale costly

VICTORIA (CP) — It has cost
taxpayers almost $2 million to make
the privatization of British Colymbia
Hydro’s gas division look good, Glen
Clark, the NDP member for Van-
couver East, said Tuesday.

Clark said the sale of B.C. Hydro
gas bonds is being handled by Pem

berton Securities which is getting a
1.5-per-cent commission — twice the
industry standard — and that has
cost taxpayers an extra $1.12 million.

Clark also criticized the fact that
taxpayers are paying the $500,000
advertising bill for the bond sale.

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GENUI

Victim/witness plan
gets $5,800 grant

RCMP in Trail and Warfield will
get a $5,800 provincial grant for their
police-based victim/witness pro
gram.

This grant is being provided for
the period Oct, 15, 1988 to’March 31,
1989. Included in the total grant is
$2,300 in ongoing funding plus an
additional $3,300 start-up grant to-
wards the costs of initiating the
program, which will include a civilian
coordinator and volunteers working
in conjunction with the local RCMP.

The funding comes from the B.C.
Victim Assistance Program.

“I am pleased to announce this
grant which is part of our ongoing
commitment to make the justice
system more responsive to the needs
of victims,” Howard Dirks, Minister
of State for the Kootenays, said in a
prepared release.

The program will provide the fol
lowing kinds of services:

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PRINCE RUPERT (CP) — This
north coast city asked the prov-
incial government Tuesday to
eliminate the requirement that
municipalities go to referendums
to obtain taxpayer approval for
garbage management  expendi-
tures.

The request was made by Mayor
Peter Lester at a hearing of a
provincial task force on municipal
solid waste management headed
by Jim Rabbitt, the Social Credit
member for Yale-Lillooet.

Lester also asked that the legis-
lative change be made retroactive
to this year but Rabbitt said, while
he didn't know whether that could
be done, he would pass the request
on to Environment Minister Bruce
Strachan.

Lester said solid waste man-
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Chesterfields, Sofa Beds, Decorator Lamps,

There is a referendum on the
Prince Rupert civic ballot Nov. 19
to seek taxpayer permission to
borrow $2 million to develop a new
landfill site. If it fails, Lester said it
could take more than two years to
bring the issue before the voters
again.

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