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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.

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LATE NIGHT?

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Panel

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Fireside

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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
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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.

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NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL NEWS

More locals are

out of jo

By CasNews Staff
Castlegar and Trail unemployment
rates both continued to rise,

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— 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.

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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

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