8, 1990 az C News 2? LOCAL/PROVINCIAL NEWS LOCAL NEWS Reaction continued trom tront pege that has no substance in it what- soever, that this was the approval it- self,” Sherrod told the Castlegar News. “This whole major federal and provincial process certainly has to have that major report delivered with that documentation and full summation of the issues and the federal and provincial people have to review that and they haven't done that at all.’’ The Valhalla Society di say “There was abundant evidence that chip truck traffic through the Slocan Valley would have a disastrous impact on our com- munities and use huge amounts of taxpayers’ dollars,"’ they say in the news release. Meanwhile,- the Kootenay Coalition for an EARP (environmen- tal assessment review process), an umbrella group representing 20 citizen and environmental izati said its r they ‘‘are most shocked at the panel's failure to insist upon rail and transportation of (wood) reactions to the interim report were or indeed no substance at all,’* spokesman Susan Hammond said in @ news release Friday. ‘‘The provin- cial and federal governments cannot possibly make a responsible decision hearing process, the review panel claims to have analyzed thousands of pages of socially and technically con. tradictory testimony, involving both hearing transcripts and written: sub- missions. In order to protect the en-: under,’’ Him said Friday. ‘I’m sure the union is relieved it could come out so quickly.”” gaid the report comes ‘‘quite lose fo what the union wai requesting throughout the hearings. MP on the in the review panel's preliminary report. Both levels of government must await the panel's final report prior to making a decision to grant approval in principle to Celgar. “The whole process indicates in- dustrial rubber stamping, not balan- marked ’ ced impact "Hi d added. “The report contains no specific “Within one month of the end of the and the a fair analysis requires more than mon- 7 a cate However, Cal Him, second vice- president of Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada Local 1, and a former co-chairman of the Coalition for Information on the Pulp Mill Expansion, said the in- terim report is ‘‘excellent.’’ “It's extremely well done con- sidering the time frame they were Lyle apes did personally — that this is a good Project and it should be permitted to Proceed.’’ Kristiansen also took a jab at Nelson-Creston MLA Howard Dirks who made the announcement of the review panel's recommendation “The that the mill upgrade will su! - tially reduce river and air pollution, and that adequate waste wood already exists to supply it,’’ Kristian- sen said in a news release Friday. “On that baiss, and with numerous conditions pending, I am pleased that the panel has concluded what | “*A disappointment to me is the in- “terim report's announcement by “MLA Howard Dirks, rather than by that independent panel itself. He's injected more politics into what should be an objective process. Mr. Dirks ought to think before he speakes, because he’s provided fod- der for those who hold the process in suspicion.”’ Latest strain is deadly VANCOUVER (CP) — A rare and deadly bacteria has killed two people in British Columbia and af- fected 11 others, provincial epidemiologist Dr. John Farley said. The bacteria, a new strain of Group A streptococcus, was iden- tified in British Columbia about a year ago, he said Victims die of toxic shock-like syndrome. Muppets creator Jim Henson, 53, died suddenly in May of severe pneumonia caused by the bac- teria. The two who. died in British Columbia were an 82-year-old man and a man in his 40s, Farley said, but declined to say where they were from. Farley also stressed the disease caused by the bacteria is not con- the victims are in hospital but others are leading nor- mal lives,’’ he said. Four of the surviving B.C. victims have undergone extensive surgery, he said. Three suffered damage to internal organs while one had to have his arm amputated, Fariey said. ‘‘The bac- teria is very aggressive and can destroy muscle tissue or organs like the kidney and lungs quickly.”’ The bacteria is rare and there is no cause for alarm, he said. It enters the body through cuts and scrapes and becomes dangerous once in the bloodstream, he said. LOTTERIES The $1,000,000 winning number in Friday’s Provincial lottery draw was 4417594. The winning numbers drawn Thur- sday in the B.C. Keno lottery were 2, 6, 19, 20, 50, 51, 53 and 56. The winning numbers in Wed- nesday’s Lotto 6-49 draw were 10, 17, 22, 26, 34 and 45. The bonus number was 38 The Lotto 6-49 jackpot of $4,450,700.30 was won by one ticket bought in Ontario. The four Extra winning numbers for British Cofumbia on Wednesday were 9, 21, 55 and 67 The winning numbers drawn Wednesday in the B.C. Keno lottery were 7, 16, 20, 29, 46, 49, 50 and 54 In the event of a discrepancy bet- ween these numbers and the official winning numbers list, the latter shall prevail. Carl's Plaza Drugs Central Foods (Prices effective Dec. 9-Dec. 15) Fields (Prices effective Dec. 12-Dec. 31) Overwaitea (Prices effective Dec. 9-Dec. 15) Shaw Cable (Christmas Hamper Telethon. Sun., Dec. 16) Shoppers (Prices effective Dec. 11-Dec. 15) SuperValu (Prices effective Dec. 9-Dec. 15) Woolco (Prices effective Dec. 8-Dec. 15) Zellers (Prices effective Dec. 12-Dec. 16) Not oll flyers receive full distribution. # you did not receive one of these flyers and would like to do so. please phone our Circulation Department at 365-7266. LATE NIGHT? tournament at Selkirk Coll Even though the action was furious last week duri I ing the 1990 District No. 9 Elementary Volleyball je, three-month-old Sandra Postnikoff decided it was time to stretch and have a good yawn, whiie mother Jesse kept a careful eye. _ cosews photo by Sieve Peden Panel continued from front page damage. Most of these discharges at Celgar’s location on the Columbia River into the ambient air and water will not result in unacceptable environmental i will a i discharges in the future. Although improvement over Celgar’s present contribution to pollution levels. Additional process control improvements could further reduce limited research has been focused on the particular indicated measures which could gate further harm and, over the itions. According! long term, improve present our conclusion is that the proposal is acceptable against both and site and project specific environmental considerations. must be applied. Although Celgar “*However, strict terms and conditions for environmental control has demonstrated a substantial i dated future i the past per of its mill gives little comfort to of iti for the of the ity. , for the people who live in the surrounding communities, and for those who work in the mill, will require that the company assume genuine responsibility for inimizi of its i We were i adverse by the dedication of residents, workers and other industrial users of the Columbia River, to cooperate with Celgar on environmental improvement. The panel expects individual and organizational to monitoring and problem of Ceigar’s solving. The expectation of environmental protection must permeate policies and practices of the staff, whose activities could affect pulp mill expansion. are Asa * Availability of wood chip supply. “‘Inventory data considered in separate studies by Celgar, the Ministry of Forests and several forest industry consultants, indicate that there is a substantial surplus of fibre supply for the purposes of “*The Panel concludes that residual chip supplies are sufficient to supply Celgar’s requirements, provided that average levels of sawmill , its owners, and all pollution from the mill." we will be passing on to shortfall, available pulpwood within current tenures should be adequate to provide a secure source of wood chip supply. However, » and in the event of a received which may be required.’’ © Transportation. presents traffic safety concerns at project approval. and our views regarding the environmental impact of any harvesting “*The proposed truck transportation would cause a considerable increase in large truck volumes and a small increase in the total highway traffic volumes in the region. These effects are particularly significant on some of the proposed routes. The route of greatest impact is Highways 6 and 23 through the Slocan Valley. “*The current state of road conditions on Highways 6 and 23 particular problems which need to be resolved as a condition of “*Transportation aspects of the proposal are only acceptable to the Panel with substantial measures to manage traffic on Highways 6 and 23, and with the provincial government's commitment to the various locations. This route has Logging continued from front pege government for timber harvested on Crown land — would help, he said. But D'Arcy noted that the provin- cial government says it’s handcuffed by an international agreement bet- ween Canada and the United States in which Canada agreed to maintain a certain level of timber royalties, that is, stumpage fees, after the United States slapped a counter- vailing tariff on Canadian lumber at the border. “The government of B.C. has very little latitude to reduce that (stumpage) beyond a certain point, Particularly as it relates to certain parts of British Columbia,”’ he said Speaking on the open line show, D’Arcy said the federal and B.C. governments must somehow regain their “flexibility”? on forestry issues. “I think we have to understand, though, that since the countervailing tariff business of four or five years ago we have really iaken it on the chin, particularly in this part of the Province, simply because the gover- nment doesn’t have the flexibility they used to have,"’ he said. ‘I can remember in the downtown of °75- "76, stumpage rates were reduced to r sovereignty in this regard.” New Democrat MLA said West\Kootenay loggers and sawmill ~ GREETINGS Best holiday wishes and sincere thanks for your contidence gencies iid. 365-2111 or 365-3407 operators hi also paid a high price for being highly efficient. “These are some of the most highly efficient mills in the province of British Columbia, maybe in the world, and because of that, even before the countervailing business, stumpage rates were inordinately high within the region. In other wor- ds, the more efficient you were, the higher you're charged. It seems to me the government took the revenue out of the efficiency rather than leaving it for the community. “The government has simply — and the interior lumbermen have said this for years — not taken into ac- count the expense of logging on the way up to Revelstoke. To the east and west of us and to the north they simply don’t have these kinds of problems. They either have flatter land and they certainly don’t have the wetness and the instability of ground cover. “I would hope that the gover- nment would somehow, in Canada and in British Columbia, reacquire the flexibilitygto make the adjust- ments appropgfite to keep this region going and otfers. After all, I think we're payin, bit of the price for being extremely good loggers and good sawmill operators.”” Ti por and ¢ Recommendation. bridge and highway improvements proposed in the Ministry of “On the above basis, the Panel finds Celgar’s proposal acceptable. We recommend that the federal and British Columbia grant approval in p ciple “However, any interested parties who choose.to act on the basis of this or should proceed with caution. They should be advised that the Panel's final report will recommend that strict terms and conditions be imposed by permitting authorities. of governments BACK BREAKER ge a City worker Nelson Newlove clears snow and slush away from drains to prevent a water bockup eral spots along the main strip in order to keep along Columbia Ave., last week. Newlove hit traffic moving smoothly. cosews photo by Steve Peden , 1 Fireside Continued tram trent page visor, said charges againet the om- Ployer of using unfair ther practices: Tuesday's hearings was te settle the dispute or at ieast sert out the issues was for drinking on the job and met coming in to work for awo days. She time there were four staff aenthers — not including kitchen staff — working when the restaurant thad only six customers. Employees were advised layoffs would tbe @counring, she said. Both Schmidi and Camigan strongly deny Hailt’s fier firing the one employee. some com ite cant! siadke ot! rte sctinowel She said theme appeared op the oe damage itmsintie the scthoesll Henwewer hocks am dine wirntiows were tresiber NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL NEWS More locals are out of jo By CasNews Staff Castlegar and Trail unemployment rates both continued to rise, continued from front pege — is divided into three programs, Sutherland said. © Outstanding ob Covers areas harvested between 1982 and 1987. He says the ministry plans to have all the work in this program complete by 1992. © Current. An ongoing process required by law which includes tending to and improving the forests. Projects such as site rehabilitation, planting, brushing, spacing and fertilization come under this program. © Backlog. Covers areas not properly restocked due to any number of reasons such as wildlife or or poor Outlook Most important, he says, is that the agreement provides balance between the three programs. “*We need a balanced program (where) different treatments are in place as the same time.’’ Given that two programs, out- standing and backlog, should be finished by 1992 and 2000 respec- tively, Sutherland says it’s still too early to know whether or not the agreement will be too small. Further, until other sources of income are confirmed for silviculture, such as the federal green fund, he said ie would be difficult to comment on the ef- fects of FRDA II. He adds that the agreement is still being harvesting. Sutherland said this Program is expected to be com- pleted by the year 2000. “We've been working on the backlog quite agressively under FRDA.”" “‘The past program was very successful,”” he said. ‘‘We'd like to see a good healthy program (with balance) again. Our general feeling is that we're fairly op- timistic."” Canada said. bs In Trail’s economic region, some 13,000 people were unemployed out of a total labor force of 116,000. Castlegar is part of a Statistics Castlegar’s rate of rose in November to 12.6 per cent, up 2.2 percentage points over Oc- tober’s rate of 10.4 per cent, while Trail’s rates rose one percentage » to 11.7 per cent from 10.7 Almost 5,000 people were out of work in Castlegar’s economic region in November, out of a total labor force of 39,000. Canada region that in- cludes Nelson, the Slocan Valley, Crestoh and the Columbia-Shuswap region. Trail is part of an economic region that includes Grand Forks and the Central Okanagan. Statistics Canada warns that figures for economic regions should be used with caution due to variability of sampling from month to month. continued from front pege However, Forests Minister Claude Richmond recently dismissed- these allegations as ‘‘ridiculous.”” “The entire forest industry cteates about 100,000 jobs. How can anyone suggest that the reduced fun- ding puts 100,000 jobs at risk? “More important, the federal- Provincial agreement is not the basis year than the agreement will’ over five years. In fact, this year the silviculture budget is $250.6 million and almost 300 million seedlings will be planted, a record year for treeplanting in B.C.,"" Richmond said. However, Richmond admitted the ministry is not happy with Proposed new agreement but reluc- tantly accepts it ** on a verbal a ifi for our sil prog! in British Columbia. The province in- vests more in silviculture in just one \ for forestry component in the federal green fund.”’ BRIEFLY Talks suspended BRUSSELS — The four-year-old Uruguay Round of world trade talks were suspended Friday to the surprise of European Community ministers after they and their counterparts from around the world failed to find a way out of a bitter dispute over farm export subsidies. As the ministers entered the final session of the week-long meetings in the Belgian capital, officials of GATT — the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade — said the talks were being moved back to Geneva without a deal. “it looks like that’s the way we're headed,"’ Agriculture Minister Don Mazankowski said as he entered the closed final session. The meeting which began Monday was to be a triumphant end to four years of work on opening up world markets. But instead it ended in acrimony over the refusal of the 12- country European Community to make deep cuts in export subsidies to wheat and other farm produce. “It’s a bit of a let down after there was some expectations and hope’’ Thursday, said Mazankowski. The rift between the United States and the EC has been the major issue in the Uruguay Round. ‘‘They were too far apart to make ground for negotiations,"’ said Mats Hellstrom, Swedish trade minister who led the negotiations on farm trade this week. Decision welcomed World leaders have welcomed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's decision to free all foreign hostages, but opinions vary on whethe; move diminishes the threat of war. External Affairs Minister Joe Clark said he would w: Canadian hostages leave Iraq before throwing any partie: Canadians are trapped in Iraq and Kuwait. Clark was i that Saddam's raised hopes of a peaceful end to the Persian Gulf crisis and Iraq’s occupation of Kuwait. : “*It gives us some grounds to believe that we are more likely to be able to come to a peaceful resolution of this question,” he said outside Commons. ‘‘That’s a long way from being accomplished.”* Canada’s ambassador to Iraq, Chris Poole, said from Baghdad that ‘‘everyone is very, very happy,’’ as a result of Hussein’s Nothing learned KELOWNA — The federal government has learned nothing from the death of the Meech Lake constitutional accord, a summer of Indian blockades and violence between natives and police, Elijah Harper said. The federal government has made no move to address native concerns, he said in a speech to 300 people. “*For far too long, we’ve been far too patient’’ waiting for governments to negotiate, he added The younger generation of Indian leaders will not be as patient and will be more forceful in pressing native demands, said the man who killed the Meech Lake accord earlier this year. “*Saying no to Meech Lake was saying no to government policies of the past hundred years," said Harper, the New Democrat who refused to give consent for a debate on the accord in the Manitoba legislature. Arsenal slashed BRUSSELS — NATO pledged to slash its Cold War arsenal of nuclear weapons in Europe, but said the alliance would have to keep some modern nuclear forces there as a guarantee of peace. NATO defence ministers, in a statement at the end of a two-day meeting to plan the alliance’s military response to the transformation of East-West relations, said they have already begun work on this. “The work will lead to further dramatic reductions in the number of NATO's nuclear weapons retained in Europe,’ the statement said “We reaffirmed that, to keep the peace, the Alliance must maintain . . . an appropriate mix of nuclear and conventional forces, based on Europe, and kept up to date where necessary,’ the statement added. U.S. short-range nuclear missiles and artillery shells, most of which are based in Germany on the former Cold War front line, are expected to be cut out » probably in i with Moscow next year, NATO diplomats said By GORD McINTOSH The Canadian Press ii ain*t over yet. That was the general reaction to Thursday’s decision by the Supreme Court of Canada that mandatory retirement i§ a legitimate legal limit on the constitutional rights of the elderly. Across the country, legal experts studied the nuances of the court's split decision covering several cases. Their conclusion: the issue is far from resolved and the court's ruling will stii further ina different arena “They have passed che (ball ign ack to the iegisiators,” said an Lawson, counsel 10 the Onawe- based Public imerest Advecacy Cen- tte. Max Yaiden, chief of the federal Human Rights Commission, also saw the issue shifting 10 the poilittical arena. Basically, the court mailed the Charter of Rights docs prohihn mandatory retirement. But ¢he char ter, as a document designed a9 kenp By MARLENE HABIB The Canadian Press f Newspapers and casters say the CBC's slashing of local TV broadcasting hasn't made their jobs any easier With the competition cut back or killed, some media outlets plan to restructure their coverage to satisfy the news appetites of viewers Others say it’s too soon to deter- mine the effect of the CBC cuts an- nounced Wednesday in Ottawa: $108 million from the 1991-92 budget, resulting in 1,100 jobs lost and the end or reduction of local program- ming at 11 stations. But news organizations and media experts agree the cuts are a blow to maintaining high journalistic stan dards. “I have some sympathy for the CBC people who have lost their jobs — I've been colleagues of some of them for 17 years,"’ said Jim Mat- tern, news director at CFQC, a Private station in Saskatoon, one of the cities affected by the cuts. “*I always hate to see a competitor disappear. You don’t get better with no competition, and we're better because the CBC was here.” OTTAWA (CP) — The national unemployment rate jumped by 0.3 to 9.1 per cent in November, its highest level since May 1987, Statistics Canada said. The rate is up from 8.8 per cent in October There were 1.24 million unem- ployed in November, an increase of 36,000 from the previous month, Statistics Canada said That brings the total increase in unemployed people since last March to 271,000, the agency said In a reverse of last month, the abuses im check, can Despite the reduced competition, CFQC doesn’t plan 10 expand or 4 service chez ne ““broadcasting industry im general iis in bad shape.” Dick Thompson, cxccutive wice president of the Saskatoon Sitar Phoenix, said the situation am Saskatoon — which thas two priate TV stations — isn’t nearly as had as im Windsor, Ont., where there is no private alterntive 10 the axed OBC station “In the area of advertising locally, the CBC wasn't the major player in that area, so we can‘! sec much effect,”” Thompson said of the impact on Saskatoon “But on the newspaper sitic, we really hate to see the loss of any journalistic coverage. 1 don’t think we'll do anything differently am serms of news coverage. We'll still operaie on the premise of what we ‘fee! our readers need.” Journalism professer Peuct Desbarats said private ‘broadcasters are getting whai they have iheen seeking for years “This idea of CBC getting out of local news is not new.” said Desbarats, dean of the gratume unemployment iate fer men, month among those aged 25 and over, sosc $2,000. 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