na_Castlégar News

April 1, 1990

OPINION

Committee made
right decision

The pi

's review

which is study

Celgar Pulp Co.'s proposal to clean up and expand its Castlegar pulp
mill has made the right decision to require the company to provide
more information about the project and to hold public hearings on

the proposal.

Unfortunately, the decision means the $630 million project will
be delayed, possibly as long as six months, while Celgar prepares
another report and the committee reviews that report. Nevertheless,
we think the decision bodes well for the long term.

Had the committee granted approval in principle to the expan-
sion at this time, the project would have begun in an atmosphere of
resentment and distrust among the many people who raised
questions about the project and felt the company wasn't supplying
the answers. And it's quite likely those people would have turned to
the federal government or the courts in an attempt to force further
reviews of the expansion and possibly even longer delays of the

Project.

This way, we hope everyone will be satisified Celgar and the
Provincial government are doing the best they can to ensure the

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residents of the West

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It's just too bad Celgar is the guinea pig for the provincial gover-
nment's new major projects review process. Had the process and the
review committee been firmly in place last October when Celgar an-
nounced its expansion plans, we might already see the makings of a
new mill along the Columbia River north of Castlegar.
As it stands now, we just hope Celgar officials — and the com:
pany’s*bankers — have a large reserve of patience.

Rural residents
now face hefty
library fees

At its March meeting, the Castlegar
and District Public Library board
unanimously agreed that effective
April 1, 1990, thé annual fee for
library members residing outside the
City of Castlegar will increase to $50

The $22,000 the bylaw would have
raised from Areas I and J would have
amounted to about 14 per cent of the
library’s 1990 budget, still less than
the Area I and J membership propor-
tion a7 per cent). And with the

of the ip fees

from $20 per The board
also approved a move to eliminate the
single membership fee ($15 in 1989).

The board takes these steps with
deep regret. Membership fees. affect
everyone, but in particular those least
able to afford them. The board firmly
believes libraries should be accessible
to all regardless of their ability to pay.
This was one of the reasons the board
approached the Regional District of
Central Kootenay with the request for
a_tax bylaw that would eliminate
membership fees.

The regional district agreed to
present the bylaw to voters in Areas I
and J through a counter-petition. The.
bylaw would have seen residential
Property owners in Area I pay 6.6
cents per $1,000 of assessed value
($3.30 a year for a home assessed at
$50,000), whilg those in Area J would
have paid 14-7 cents per $1,000 of
assessed value ($7.35 a year for a
home assessed at $50,000).

The bylaw would liave raised
$22,000 for the library's operating
budget: $8,800 from Area I and
$13,200 from Afea-3As well, with
formal library support from Areas I
and J the provincial government

and free access, there was every
reason to believe that membership
from Areas I and J would have in-
creased to more than 17 per cent of
the total membership.

The bylaw, then, was a very good
deal for Areas I and J.

Unfortunately, opponents of the
bylaw needed to gather only five per
cent of the registered voters on a
petition in order to defeat the
measure. They managed to do this
and the bylaw has been rejected.

This has left the library board with
no alternative but to retain its mem-
bership fee and, in fact, increase the
fee to in some way address the under-
funding from Area I and J members.
Stated plainly, members from Areas I
and J can no longer expect City of
Castlegar taxpayers to subsidize them.

Therefore, the membership fee for
residents outside Castlegar has been
increased to $50 this year. There is
every likelihood the fee will increase
again next year in an attempt to bring
Area I and J funding in line with City
of Castlegar funding.

Regional members upset with the
result of the counter-petition and the
new $50 fee have one

would have il an

$15,000. (The provincial grant,
currently about $11,000 a year, is
based on population. The province
recognizes only the City of Castlegar’s
population, even though more than
840 of the library’s members are from
outside the city.)

The bylaw would have also ad-
dressed some serious inequities in the
library’s funding. In 1989 Areas I and
J accounted for 17 per cent of the
library’s membership (842 members),
but contributed only 2.7 per cent
($3,531) of the operating budget. The
City of Castlegar picked up the lion’s
share of the costs — more than 88 per
cent.

avenue of appeal: they can approach
their regional district representatives
(John Voykin in Area I and Ken
Wyllie in Area J) and request there be
a referendum on library funding. The
counter-petition saw only a small per-
centage of the voters in Areas I and J
have their say; more than 85 per cent
of the voters have yet to be heard
from.

A referendum would settle the issue
once and for all in a truly democratic

Sample answers
hard to find

I read that the federal government
is planning to spend $147.6 billion in
the 1990-91 fiscal year.

Of that money, $41.2 billion will
pay for interest charges on the public
debt. If we multiply this $41.2 billion
by 10 years, it seems to amount to
$412 billion, which is certainly a
figure well above the amount of the
national debt.

Why is it that we cannot get simple,
Straight answers in our local
newspaper regarding this matter of
such vital importance to every citizen?
How many times over have we already
paid this debt and how many more
times will we have to pay it? Where

does this money go? Who are we
Paying all these billions of dollars to?
Will there ever really be an end to
paying the debt? How did we get into
this predicament in the first place?
Why is it that we cannot get these
simple answers or some kind of an
explanation from our local gover-
mment representatives? Are their
careers or lives in jeopardy if they
reveal the truth? If so, then the con-
stituents. should be informed as to
why they are silent on this issue. Or
do they simply feel that local citizens
are too stupid to deserve an answer?
Mike E. Chernenkoff
Crescent Valley

At least this

Remember
when

4 YEARS AGO
From the March 30, 1950
Castle News

Seven girls have been chosen by the
1.0.D.E. to run for May Queen on
May 24: Lois Delorme, Eleanor Paty
more, Dawn Jenks, Laura
Stuckleburger, Shirly Taylor, Heleh
Friesen and Donna Muirhead.

Plahs are being formulated by the
1,0.D.E. for a bigger and better May
2th.

* 8 «

The plane that had been flying the
Kamloops hockey fans to Trail, lan-
ding on the Columbia River at Rob-
son, was forced down on Shuswap
Lake on its return trip Tuesday mor-
ning.

* 6

In Robson news, a general meeting
was held in the Robson Hall on Mar-
ch 17, where the decision to incor-
porate the Robson Recreation Society
was approved.

Plans for the work of the coming ;

Letters to the editor

Terms explained

Many people
effect of pulp mill
vironment. Healt ind Welfare
Canada has listed pi mill effluent
third on the priority’substance list.

The reason is to assess whether pulp
mill effluent poses a threat to the en-
vironment. This assessment may take
several years.

Pulp mill effluent is tested in
several ways. Among the substances
examined are total suspended solids,
biological oxygen demand, toxicity
and ii organic

incertain of the
fluent on the en-

plex brew of mill wastes. The test for
toxicity takes a certain amount of ef-
fluent and dilutes it until more than
half the fish live for 96 hours. In
Castlegar, you would take 10 gallons
of effluent and 90 gallons of fresh
water and more than half of the fish
would not die. Industry standards are
heading for 100 per cent

or many other Pollution problems
i the

year was for the ‘next
meeting.
* 8 6

Commissioners for Kinnaird have
requested that! school signs be placed
in the vicinity of Kinnaird school. In-
vestigating this matter both for Kin-
naird and Doukhobor Hall, the
Castlegar School Board has been ad-
vised that the signs will have to be
purchased from the Department of
Public Works and erected. by the

which are
papers. Pulp mill industry executives
will tell you they are doing everything
they can. More often they are
pleading poverty or the regulations
are too strict because they have a big
river or ocean to dump in.

in the future. This means that half of
the fish will live after 96 hours in pure
effluent. However, fish still suffer
liver dysfunction, stress and even

Suspended solids are bits of bark,
wood fibre left over from the pulping
Process and with new technology
biosolids. When these solids finally
settle to the bottom of rivers or bot-
tom of lakes they place a tremendous
‘Strain on aquatic ecosystems. Dum-
ping a significant amount of any solid
waste will result in fish mortality.
Technology is available to remove
most of these solids but industry will

* tell you it is too expensive or not

Biological oxygen demand deals
with the extent to which pulp mill
waste exerts a demand for oxygen in
the water. Substances decaying in the
environment demand oxygen. Dump
biodegradable mill waste into a river
or stream and — if there is enough of
it — watch the fish suffocate.

Toxicity is another factor in a com-

'y in the so-called pure ef-
fluent.

AOX’is the measure of chlorinated
organic compounds released in pulp
mill effluent. One of the most toxic
and famous compounds, 2, 8-
TCDD (dioxin), is formed in the
bleaching process. Dioxins can ac-
cumulate in the body of living
organisms, including humans.
Dioxins have been known to exist for
many years but the technology to
measure levels has only been
developed recently. Despite the lack
of evidence that dioxins contribute to
health problems, the government of
Canada believes their unintentional
production should be limited.

The pulp mill industry will tell you
to teave the problems to the experts.
Perhaps the same ones who were
responsible for the fouling of Howe
Sound, or the caustic leak at Quesnel,

Many of
groups have degrees in biology,
chemistry, engineering and waste

The two water works bylaws and
the one on paving presented in the
twin villages of Castlegar and Kin-
naird last Friday all passed with
healthy majorities.

. 8 6

s*of Celgar’s pulp and

Some are doc-
tors or lawyers. Many knowledgeable
people have combined to do

lumber divisions here were offered
“equity positions in the company
with a mini of risk”’ on Tuesday

about the
pollution being caused.

I am not saying shut down in-
dustry, or progress, or growth. We
must stop polluting before it is too
late. Most pulp mills will only commit
to the environment when forced to.
Many experts agree that the environ-
mental concern will be the greatest
single challenge facing the pulp mill
industry. The challenge goes past the

feth ‘

night.

Columbia Cellulose president Paul
M. Marshall, speaking at the Kinnaird
Junior secondary school to promote
employee purchase of blocks of 25
convertible shares, offered employees
the opportunity to purchase shares
through a payroll deduction plan.

_ 8

Romeo Goulet was elected

i of the Castlegar Rotary

scenario.
It_also involves communication with
an increasingly vocal public — a
public so concerned with pollution
and forest management that it is
demanding to be part of the decision
makers.
‘Cal Him
Co-Chairman
Coalition for Information on the
Pulp Mill Expansion

‘Forestry not guilty

Professor Howard Rapson is
Professor of engineering at the
University of Toronto. Dr. Rapson
holds 55 bleaching-process patents
and-was awarded a Canada Council
prize in engineering in 1986.

In an article he wrote entitled
Dioxin: Perceived Problem Yields
Real Improvements, he said:

“Where does this chlorinated
dioxin come from? Forest fires are the
main source. This means that man has
evolved through millions of years with
this chemical in his tissues and has
developed methods for repairing the
damage it does to our DNA.

“Smoking cigarettes (or any other
organic material containing salt) is the
second largest source of _2,3,7,8-
TCDD.”""

See! Mr. Him, I get my infor-
mation from sources other than my
own imagination. It is not my inten-
tion to mislead, defame or demoralize
the public. But when people are fed a
bunch of misleading garbage by a
group that is supposed to be finding
facts, on the public’s behalf, someone
had to tell the truth.

My remarks on the de-inking
process for waste paper some of
the problems that process faces came
from Pulp and Paper Manufacture,
second edition, Volume Two.

In your new role as chief fact-finder
for the Coalition for Information on
the Pulp Mill Expansion, Mr. Him,
you may wish to scan Scott’s Stan-
dard Methods of Chemical Analysis,
and Pulp and Paper Chemistry and

Chemical Technology Volume Two
— Papermaking. These books,
however, are not as easy to read as
Winnie the Pooh.

1_am_not_an expert_on the environ-
ment or anything else, but I will say
this. Sustainable development has got
to mean usage of the world and its
resources today without jeopardizing
that same usage by future
generations.

Consider this — in just 200 years
we have used up more than half the
topsoil in North America. Farming
practices are destroying the world,
not forestry.

Recycle carbon dioxide — plant a
tree.

Fred Peitzsche
Ross Spur

Omission disturbs

As a steady contributor to the
Castlegar News by way of letters to
the editor and as our church
correspondent, I would like to express
my appreciation fot the kind
recognition your paper gives to its let-
ters and news releases. The loan of a
camera to some and film supplied to
me is much appreciated.

However, the caption under the
photograph of the church service
(Castlegar News, March 18, page B4)
is a somewhat disturbing sample of
several cases of what I consider un-

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Lv. CAMPBELL

PUBLISHER, AUGUST 7, 1947 - FEBRUARY 151973

PUBLISHER — Burt Compbell ~
— Simon Birch

12.1978 AUGUST 27.1980

script. in news ar-
tes submited by myself
I appreciate the fact that some
editing is Often needed to conform to
a more acceptable style. It seems to”
me, however, that when deletions are
made which change the sense and im-
portance of a photo caption then it is
a serious breach of your newspaper's
ethical code.

I believe I state this advisedly in
view of the fact that a human rights
‘ct, printed regutarty and adhered to
in your paper, distinctly pays respect
to the freedom and expression of

one’s religious views without

The parts eliminated from the en-
closed photo clipping distinctly state
the religious views of our church of
which I am authorized to report. It is
disturbing that the‘lines important to
the meaning of the whole picture were
cut out.

Sir, we want to continue our good
rapport with your paper. We write
this not particularly as an affront per-
sonally but as a principle important to
all our cherished freedoms.

We believe this letter will

Editor's sete: Captions under

captions opinions as to the meaning
of the event pictured. Such opinions
are more properly copveyed in letters
to the editor, such as the ones on this
page, or, in the case of religious
views, in the ‘Pulpit and pew”

Club at its luncheon meeting on
Tuesday.
. 8 8

This month will see the end of an
organization that has been serving
Castlegar and its environs for the past
16 years.

The Castlegar and District Project
Society will hold its final general
meeting in the arena next Tuesday at 8
p.m.

The meeting is necessary to pass an
extraordiniary resolution to wind up
the society’s affairs before surren-
dering its charter. In addition, mem-
bers will decide the disposal of funds
remaining in the society’s coffers.

15 YEARS AGO
From the April 3, 1975
Castlegar News

Fhree-separatefires,one resulting
in six women being charged with ar-
son, have occurred in the area in the
past week.

The latest fire occurred yesterday
morning when the Blue Top Burger
was completely destroyed.

* 6¢

The completion of a 10-bed exten-
sion, the installation of a second
elevator and the building of a new
repair shop to consolidate and im-
Prove the present shop facilities, were
Proposed by chairman Nick Oglow at
the recent annual ing of the
Castlegar and District Hospital
Board.

. * 8

The City of Castlegar would like to
,See the provincial government
petitioned to make lable a
professional engineers service to
municipalities.

S YEARS AGO
From the April 3, 1985

Castlegar News
British Columbia's 20 colleges and

column written by rs of the
Castlegar Ministerial Association
which appears every Sunday in the
CasNews with little or no editing.

Please address all Letters to
the Editor to: The Castlegar
News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar,
B.C. V1N 3H4, or deliver them to
our office at +97 Columbia
Avenue, Castlegar.

Letters should be typewritten,

_ spoced ond not longer thon 300

Letters must be signed ond include
the writer's full nome and oddress. Only
in very exceptional cases will letters be
published
Nevertheless, the name ond address of
the writer must be disclosed to the
editor

The Costlegor News reserves the right
fo edit letters for brevity. clarity, legolity

grommor

will be able
to-get_an-exira $5.8 million if they
come up with ‘‘innovative and

i training a
Education Minister Jack Henrich said
Tuesday.

. . .

The credit union system in B.C.
overall is as healthy as ever, says the
chief executive officer for B.C. Cen-
tral Credit Union.

Still, like most British Columbians,
credit unions have had better days,
James Thomson remarked.

._ 8 6

If the number of tourists to the
West Kootenay increases by 10 per
cent, and those tourists stay just one
day longer a year, it could mean 700
new full-time jobs for the area, says
the president of the area's tourism
association.

April 1, 1990 Castlégar News

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Feds unveil Green Plan

MONTREAL (CP) — Environ-*
ment Minister L Bouchard wan-
ts Canadians to tell him whether
they’re ready to pay more taxes to

The discussion paper contains

calling for wide consaltation among

© National environmental standar-
ds for Canada’s key in-

parties before the gover-
nment takes specific actions on en-

dustries;
* Tougher enforcement of existing

se een heady comere””

He isn’t sure Canadians will be
ready to pay for environmental
protection, particularly if the

* Substantial new funds for en-
vironmental science and technology.
Half of the funds for the environmen-
tal agenda will go into this area, said
Bouc! H

leanup of the Fraser River,

At a news conference, spokesmen
for the Greenprint for, Canada Com-
mittee said they wished Bouchard had
produced more concrete

question period, he said the paper was
filled with weasel words rather than
concrete proposals.

“Why has the Canadian gover-
nment let down the Canadian people
so badly today?’

NDP Leader Audrey ————

but they’re willing to get on with the
consultations.

“There are a couple of positive
things to talk about,’’ said Stephen
Hazell of the Canadian Arctic

y goes into — and
that’s a key issue to settle in public
hearings across Canada.

“*I personally intend to try to know
to what extent people are ready to pay
for the environment,’’ Bouchard said.
“*Are they ready to pay more taxes?

“Some people say the environment
concern is so high, it is there to stay,
whatever happens, so . . . people are
ready to pay for it, they are ready to
lose Jobs for it.

“The other school of thought is,
that if there is a recession . people
will not be ready to pay. When the bill
comes, they will be much less en-
vironmentalist.’’

MORE LETTERS

Fish

Last December, the Nelson Rod
and Gun Club sponsored a meeting to
deal with the very depleted fishery in
Kootenay Lake and the West Arm of
the lake. Several club§ were represen-
ted at the meeting along with Bob
Lindsay, the local biplogist of the En-
vironment Ministry's fishery branch.

After much discussion on why
somethirig is not done to enhance the
fishery, Mr. Lindsay gave a talk with
slides-to show why the fishery is
becoming more depleted each year.

Mr. Lindsay said it was the lack of
food to keep the fish chain going. It
has been firmly established by
biologists that to bring the depleted
fishery back to a reasonable and ac-
ceptable state, these waters need to be
fertilized. This same conclusion was
Presented to the Nelson Rotary Club
Dec. 9 by local chief biologist Jay
Hammond of the local fish and
wildlife branch.

Pet
owners
advised

This is warning to all pet owners
and animal lovers.

‘We have a sick person among us
somewhere. Here, in downtown
Castlegar, we have someone who
hates animals so much he (or she) has
taken to poisoning them. The
question foremost in my mind, apart
from who could be so cruel, is why?

I doubt very much that we'll ever
find the answers to those questions
‘but for now I urge all pet owners to
keep your pet inside until this
depraved person is caught or acciden-
tally takes some of his own poison.

Austin
Castlegar

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on existing progr for the

Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River;

* A Drinking Water Safety Act to
provide standards for drinking water;

© A Canada Oceans Act to protect
the marine environment;

© At least five new national parks
by 1995;

© And, legislation to regulate the
biotectinology industry.

Although some conservationists
cautiously supported the gover-

Cc

“Lucien Bouchard is now begging
for the public to answer the questions
we thought we had answered years
ago,”” said Elizabeth May of the
Sierra Club.

She said he’ll get his answers.

“We're looking at it from a very
positive viewpoint and a very con-
structive one,’’ said Paul Griss,
executive director of the Canadian

Nature Federation.
hal aris b, .,

nment’s new
discussion plan, political opponents
were scornful.

Environment Minister Lucien
Bouchard announced a program

F 8
paper ag too little, too late.

Liberal Leader Herb Gray said the
so-called green plan is a letdown.
Speaking during the Commons

need food

Most local wildlife clubs support
the findings of the fish and wildlife
branch and ask that the implemen-
tation of a complete fertilization
Program be started as soon as
possible. We would like to see and
hear the design of this program before
the end of the government’s fiscal
year. Mr. Hammond was sure that
this could be done.

Kootenay Lake is the prime factor for
maintaining the tourism industry in
this area.

Once again, we must point out very
strongly that approximately nine-
tenths of the megawatts produced by
the hydro stations in the West
Kootenay is transmitted to other parts
ofthe province or across the border
into Washington and we are left with

We believe that the
District of Central Kootenay board
should’ see that this program is carried
out as it represents the entire region
surrounding Kootenay Lake.

It should be pointed out that re-
establishing a good fishery in
Kootenay Lake and.the West Arm of

the ing our fish and
wildlife.
Ken Hebert
Club President
Jess Ridge
Fishery Chairman
Nelson District Rod
and Gun Club

Visitors served well

Editor’s note: The following letter
was forwarded to the Castlegar News
by the Castlegar Chamber of Com-
merce.

I would like to take this oppor-
tunity to tell you of our appreciation
in the way our business dealings were
handled by a couple of your town’s
busiriesses. They were excellent.

My husband and I drive for Cran-
brook Parcel and Delivery, an Atlas
Van Lines agent. Twice our truck
broke down and needed minor

repairs, once at Selkirk Springs and
once at Castlegar Truck Service.

The jobs were dealt with in no time
and we were able to continue our trip
without too much of a delay. Also the
repairs were final — in other words,
fixed right.

Another time in your town we were
treated great was at your Royal
‘Canadian Legion.

It is certainly nice to- be treated so
well in town we don’t know.

Steve and Sharon Carpenter
Cranbrook

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called the
tment, saying it was ‘‘watered
down.

“Where is the political will to move
things in the area of the environ-
ment?’*

NDP environment critic Jim Fulton
said Bouchard’s plan is a smokescreen
for inaction.

~~

Campbell
issues
warning

OTTAWA (CP) — Trying to give
better legal protection to doctors who
perform abortions could wreck the
Political chances of getting any
legislation on the subject through the
Commons, Justice Minister Kim
Campbell warned Thursday.

Trying to give greater protection to
unborn children could undermine the
legislation by inviting the Supreme
Court of Canada to strike it down,
she suggested.

Appearing at a parliamentary
committee studying the government's
Proposed abortion bill, Campbell in-
sisted she wasn’t ruling out amen-
dments, but she sent a clear signal the
cabinet wouldn’t accept any major
changes.

The Canadian Medical
Association, which opposes the bill,
says many doctors fear anti-abortion
activists will harass them by laying
private criminal charges.

Doug Lewis, the former justice
minister, said in January that problem
could be solved by requiring provin-
cial attorneys general to approve any
prosecution under the bill, thus
blocking frivolous cases.

Campbell said-such an amen-
dment is unnecessary, since there are
already legal safeguards to weed out
malicious charges.

Private prosecutions are rare and
must be approved by a justice of the
peace.

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A Message To Kootenay Savings
Credit Union Members
From The Credit Union’s Concerned Employees:

W: re concerned that the
Board of Directors and
management of KSCU
appear to have taken a
malicious and vindictive
course of action since we
exercised our right in 1989
to join a union.

One of the most pressing
problems facing business
and industry today is good
communication between
management and
employees. At the same
time, while one of the 7 "core
values” adopted by KSCU is
“strong, positive employee
relationships”, employees
feel this doesn't exist
between ourselves and
management.

Are KSCU members
aware that your credit union
pays large sums of money to
management negotiators
from the Lower Mainland to
deal with KSCU employee
contracts?

Did You Know. .
There have been times
when KSCU failed to live
up to negotiated contract

clauses?

That

1 rights to be

suspended a loyal
employee for participating

in union business?

against a long-term

employee for giving her
union criticial information?

That management
actually misinforms board
members, to exclude them
from fully understanding
anything about the credit
union's labour relations?

That, by not allowing
employee representatives an
opportunity to discuss
matters with branch
managers, management is
making it impossible to
resolve problems before
they become formal
grievances?

That management's
delaying tactics in the
arbitration process have

upheld?

That, at Rossland Credit
Union (unionized for I]
years), and Warfield Credit
Union (unionized for 3
years), there has never

been a grievance? KSCU's

A, KCSUemployees, we
have the right to be treated
with respect and dignity.

As KSCU members, you
have the right to know how
your Credit union is being
run and how your money is
spent. You have the right to
attend the annual general
meeting and ask some
questions about how
employees are treated, and
why.

‘We deserve some
answers, and so do you.

KSCU Annual General Meeting
Tuesday, April 3, 1990
7:30 p.m.

Cominco Arena