a2 Castlegar News September 26, 1990 LOCAL NEWS Environment dominates Celgar hearings By CasNews Staff the use of chlorine in the pulp-making process that A lawyer for the West Coast i Law Association says the panel reviewing Celgar Pulp Co.’s proposal to expand and modernize its Castlegar mill should insist the company commit itself to completely climinating any toxic dioxins and furans from the mill's effluent if the panel recommends approval of the project. If the company can’t comply with that condition immediately, then the panei should set a deadline for the ‘climination of the toxic pollutants, Anne Hillyer said. Hillyer was one of almost 30 people who made presentations Friday in Castlegar during the second day of public hearings on the Ceigar project which the com- pany says will more than double the mill's pulp-making capacity to 420,000 tonnes a year from 190,000 tonnes sabi at he eamie sinne sater’ Pete soap ca. pass the i tougher en- Virvamnesieal sete. Ceigar says it will use hydrogen peroxide and dioxins and furans, part of a family of chemicals known as organochlorines. But Hillyer =- who made the presentation to the panel on behalf of well-known environmentalist David Suzuki, Gi the of In other presentations, Bonnie Horswill, whose husband is a recovery engincer at the mill, told the panel she doesn’t understand why the company is being asked to provide answers on issues such as the stability of the local economy, the supply of wood for the mill, pollution levels and the maintenance of highways, which she said America-Canada and the Pulp, Paper and of Canada — said the new process and equipment is un- proven and does not always work properly when first in- stalled. “We strongly recommend approval (of the Project) be conditional on a rigorous monitoring program,” * she said. The per of all discharges and the long-term effects of pollutants on the should be Hillyer said. Jim Browne, Ceigar’s general manager, told the panel that company officials recognize some people ‘are worried about how Ceigar will operate the new mill based on the company’s “‘past performance.” But he said Ceigar is to partici ina Central Kootenay medical health officer Dr. Nelson Ames told the panel the Central Kootenay Health Unit's earlier concerns about sulphur dioxide emissions from the proposéd mill have been allayed by Celgar’s second en- vironment impact report. But he said the health unit remains concerned about the possible release of pollutants from the proposed burning of solid waste at the new mill, the continuing release of small amounts of i into the Columbia River and the dangers production im an increase in the “net load”’ of chemicals in the And he hoted that Ceigar’s environmental impact assessment omits an analysis of present or future levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a major cause of global warming. “Even to tolerate the neglect of this issue creates the impression that it is insignificant,’’ Mealing said. with additional truck traffic to and from the ex mill. Ron Schmidt of Castlegar, area supervisor for Dist#iet 3 of the United Steelworkers of America, told the panel Celgar is proposing to do something other com- panies, such as Cominco, have not done — modernize an aging operation without laying off workers. **Celgar’s intention is to spend $630 million to work towards a healthier environment, ensure the future of If Celgar can’t promise a pulp mill with zero community panel which will monitor the per of and destruction” Lise Schindél reads from hor brief while Baird Connelly (contre) and Jecy Schindal look on guring « public hearing into Celgar Pulp Co.'s prop project in Slocan. resources, he said. then the project will guarantee the ‘‘ongoing of the region’s natural Schmidt said. Castlegar and create more permanent jobs, not less,”” Celgar estimates the new mill will create 30 jobs. Celgar continued from front page has become an issue during the hearings. Carbon dioxide is the gas which is mainly responsible for heating up the atmosphere in what is known as the greenhouse effect A number of people presenting briefs to the panel have noted Celgar’s second environmental im- Pact assessment report does not men- tion carbon dioxide emissions. Parnell said the federal and provin- cial environment ministries, which wrote terms of reference for Celgar’s second report, did not ask the com- pany to cover carbon dioxide. Brian Briscoe, a processing engineer at Celgar, told the panel no guidelines on carbon dioxide emissions have yet been established by the federal government or any provincial government in Canada. As well, the United States Environmen- tal Protection Agency does not yet have guidelines, he said. But Celgar has studied the pulp mill’s carbon dioxide emissions and the company’s findings show that the Hearings continued from front poge of trucks on the road and will become more dangerous if additional trucks are put on the highway, valley residents and their elected officials told the panel People making presentations, including Slocan Mayor Dave Betts, and two Slocan teenagers, told the panel of near misses between bicyclists and trucks. Many people also said they fear for their children’s lives when chip trucks pass loaded school buses. School bus driver Larry Avis told the panei he is frequently passed by truckers who overtake him by crossing double- solid lines and driving around blind corners in the wrong lane. However, he said the problem is with trucks in general, rather than just chip trucks. And Avis said drivers of private vehicles make more unsafe attempts to pass his bus than commercial drivers David Chambers, vice-president of DCT Chambers Trucking Ltd., which hauls about 60 per cent of Celgar’s chips, said Tuesday there is “*no doubt in my mind” that occasionally one of his company’s truck drisers does something illegal and possibly dangerous on the highway DCT Chambers employs about 250 drivers across B.C., Washington state and Oregon and when that many people are involved there are always those who “‘push the safety margins,"’ Chambers told reporters. However, the company will take steps to deal with a driver who is operating his vehicle in an unsafe manner if people who witness such incidents report them to the company by calling the number on the back of the trucks, Chambers said. The company receives an average about one call every week or two from people who claim to have seen trucks operating in a dangerous way. he said A number of submissions to the panel concerning chip trucks have alleged the drivers speed on Highway 6 because they are paid by the truckload and the faster they travel to Ceigar and back the more money they can earn. DCT Chambers drivers have no reason to speed because they are not paid by the load, Chambers said. The drivers are given a loading and unloading schedule, which is based on “reasonable” travelling times from the sawmills to Castlegar and back, and the drivers must adhere to the timetable, he said. However, not all trucking companies schedule their drivers, he said. DCT Chambers trucks are alse equipped with recor- ding devices that keep track of a number of items in- cluding how fast the truck is going, Chambers told the panel. After an accident, the devices can determine such things as whether or not the driver was falling asleep at the wheel, he said Such *‘black boxes,"” trucks, he said. People in the valley communities also said they fear an increase in the use of the longer double-trailer trucks. But Willy Hicks, a truck driver from Slocan, said those who think the newer double-trailer or **B-train”’ trucks are more dangerous than single trailers are unin- formed. The double trailers are much more manoeuvrable around corners, he said. After driving both types of vehicles, “‘by far | would rather drive the B-train,"’ he told the panel Parnell told a crowd of about 100. people in Slocan that the major changes in traffic volume won't occur until 1994 dr 1995 so there is time to study the highway problems and make some improvements. He said Celgar will make recommendations for upgrading of Highway 6 to the Ministry of Transportation and Highways As well, he said figures in Celgar’s second report showing a substantial increase in chip-truck traffic after the mill expands is only a ‘‘worst-case scenario."” should be mandatory on all LOTTERIES -. The winning numbers drawn 6,7, 9, 10, 20, 21, 29 and 38 The winning numbers drawn Mon. day in the B.C. Keno lottery were 24, 27, 29, 30, 44, 45, 50 and $1 The winning numbers in the Ex Tuesday in the B.C. Keno lottery were press draw were 791740 and 460462 The winning Lotte BC numbers were 7, 10, 23, 30, 32 and 34 These numbers, provided by The Canadian Press, must be considered unofficial 086364, 479127, mill would produce about 16 per cent less carbon dioxide than the mill currently emits, even though pulp production at the new mill would be doubled, Briscoe told the panel. Valhalla Society director Grant Copeland told the panel that despite claims by forest companies and forestry experts that timber is not being logged too fast, observation of timber regions and sawmill shutdowns show there is not enough wood available to sustain current cutting Practices. Sustainable forestry is outside the mandate of the panel but a significant number of presentations to the panel have covered the issue Harry Gairns, president of In- dustrial Forestry Services Ltd., the Prince George company that prepared the portion of Celgar’s report concer- ning fibre sources, said there is no need to worry about whether or not current logging levels can be sustained to provide 2 guaranteéd supply of wood chips for the expanded mill A tired Lorne Parnell, vi: ids of Power C hid d (China) Pulp Inc., one.of Celgar's parent companies, looks like he's had enough public hearings for awhile as he sits through the session in Nakusp on Tuesday. The hearings concluded today in Trail. Costews photo Ministry of Forests projections show no detrimental changes in the long-term sustainable yield for the next 200 years in the timber supply areas that provide Celgar’s wood chips, Gairns told the panel Friday in Castlegar. And if silvicultare practices and forestry research are stepped up, the ministry eventually may be able to double the amount of timber it allows forest companies to log, Gairns said. However, he noted ‘‘current levels of forest practices would lead to some decrease in AAC (allowable annual cuts).”” - Patty Bossort, an adult literacy consultant and instructor, told the panel Saturday in Nelson that fewer than 10 per cent of the people in the area who might be interested in Celgar’s expansion proposal have the education needed to read and under- stand Celgar’s second report The report is written for those with college and university backgrounds and the average education level of people in the Central Kootenay area is Grade 9, Bossort said Parnell acknowledged the report deals with highly technical subjects and has to answer technical questions. The consultants who worked on the report attempted to put the infor- mation into layman's terms and they were available to answer questions at Celgar’s series of open houses, held before the hearings got underway, he said. a Lora Markin of Castlegar (centre) was the overall winner in the intermediate category of the Union of B.C. Municipalities 1990 poster contest held to promote Local Government Awareness W earlier this year. Lara, 13, a Kinnaird Junior secondary sch fioont. was presented with a plaque at Tuesday night's meeting of C: tlegar city cou: aldermen Marilyn Mathieson (left) and Patti Richards. cosnews pho STREET TALK BUYING AND SELLING A HOME is the topic of this fall's first legal seminar sponsored by Selkirk College and the People’s Law School. Is it better to sell your home privately or use a real estate agent? What are the concerns of a buyer versus those of a seller? What is the role of a lawyer in a real estate transac- tion? You can discover the answers to those and other questions at the free seminar Oct. 9 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Castlegar campus of Selkirk College. Although the seminar is free, pre-registration is required. Call the college’s continuing education department to register. =MINUTE MUFFLER in Trail is now Minute Muf- fler and Brake as the firm had added a brake service to its business and expanded into a huge new building in There has been a voluntary safety standard in place since June 1989 for baby walkers. Although it’s legal to sell old baby walkers, the ministry suggests people do not use them and that they turn the walkers in during Safety Hunt. Owners should be aware of faulty wheels which may cause tipping, lack of lap belts, or walkers which fit through doors. People who wish to turn in unsafe cribs, baby gates and baby walkers may do so at the following fire departments: Castlegar (north station only, 8:30 a.m. to 4:40 p.m.); Castlegar Airport (8 a.m. .to 4 p.m.); Tarrys, Winlaw, Crescent Valley and Robson (all 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.). SHAW CABLE begins a nine-week course on television production today. The course uses BBC-TV Glenmerry. Located since 1981 at Rock Island, near techniques and is free to those qualified. The course Waneta Plaza, Minute Muffler and Brake is now in a —_ will run from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. each week. brand-new 7,800 sq. ft. building. Owner/manager C.A. (CHARLIE) SUTHERLAND, general Dennis Deptuck says the eight bays include a huge manager of research and development at Cominco’s hoist for servicing RVs and Greyhound-size buses. The Trail operations, was recently honored with the company offers mufflers, shocks, a brake service and Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy’s Airey under-vehicle repairs. award for 1990 in recognition of his kishly significant i to the in Canada, in the industrial field, Cominco says in a news release. The nomination was supported by University of B.C. professors, the Noranda Research Centre, and many other prominent figures in the Canadian metallurgical industry, Cominco says. ‘Charlie Sutherland possesses exemplary technical knowledge combined with a quite extraor- dinary grasp of the details and practicalities required of operating plants,” his nomination papers said. The purpose of the award is to get up a memorial to the late H.T. Airey who played a role of fundamen- tal importance in the creation and organization of the enough for a child’s head to fit through are banned by 4nnual conference of metallurgists, now sponsored by the federal Ministry of Consumer and Corporate Af- _ the Metallurgical Society of the Canadian Institute of fairs Mining and Metallurgy LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENTS are on a Safety Hunt. Part of a new national awareness program called Kidscare, Safety Hunt, which runs until Sept. 30, en- courages the public to turn in unsafe cribs, baby gates and baby walkers, which are among the leading causes of injuries involving children’s products. All people participating in Safety Hunt will be eligible to enter a national draw for prizes valued at over $13,000. As a general rule, it’s unlikely any crib made before 1986 will meet the current safety standards. (Owners should be able to find the date of manufac- ture marked in the crib itself). Accordian-style baby gates which have diamond-shaped openings large By CasNews Staff Communities as far away as Revelstoke and Golden will be af- fected by the proposed Celgar pulp mill expansion project, whether it goes ahead or not, people from the two communities say. Small sawmills in both com- munities are looking to Celgar’s expansion plans as a guarantee of demand for their wood chips, the federal-provincial panel reviewing Ceigar’s proposal was told during Decision will affect many a public hearing Tuesday night in Nakusp. Jack Heavenor, representing Downie Street Sawmills - in Revelstoke, said the sawmill currently sends about 75 per cent of its chips to Bellingham, Wash But that market is not guaran- teed to last and even though Celgar is located almost 200 kilometres from Revelstoke an expanded pulp mill would provide security for the sawmill, Heavenor said. As well, the mill expansion will mean the ‘‘interior wetbelt”’ forest can be better managed, with pulp-grade timber sent to Celgar rather than being left in the bush, the panel was told. Presentations in Nakusp were made by representatives from the City of Revelstoke, the Revelstoke Chamber of Commerce and Evans Forest Products in Golden. About 20 presentations were made in total. The winning numbers in Saturday's Lotto 6/49 draw were 8, 9, 17, 22, 43 and 45. The bonus number was 16. {tte Convention good and bad, divided into three prizes of $5 million won with tickets bought in Quebec and Western Canada, The four Extra winning numbers for B.C. on Saturday were 3, 4, 68 and 95 Editor Last week's By SIMON BIRCH Union of B.C Municipalities annual convention was organizations will work on to attract well organized and packed with major valuable information but the lack of Castlegar referring to the discussions on the sports tourism program which council hopes local businesses and athletic sports tournaments to The winning numbers drawn Saturday in the B.C. Keno lottery were 4, 15, 21, 22, 36, 45, 53 and 55 © Shop & Save * Woolco (Prices effective Sept. 26-Oct, 3) Mot all Hyers recerve bull destribution. commitments from provincial gover ament officials on local issues and Projects were frustrating. Castlegar aldermen said Tuesday City officials met with represen tatives from 10 ministries at the con vention in Vancouver. Among the topics at the meetings were changes to the Highway 3-highway 22 inter change, a sports tourism program and a government agent's office for Castlegar “We're always seeing the person who couldn't make a decision or who didn’t know our particular case,” Ald. Marilyn Mathieson said. And Ald. Lawrence Chernoff said he is “‘disappointed”’ questions about the interchange and the proposed bridge between Castlegar and Robson were referred to the. Highways Ministry’s regional manager. Cher- noff said the city has been “‘up and down"’ the ministry’s bureaucracy lobbying for improvements to the in- terchange **| just don’t think that's the way to g0 about it,” he said. Ald. Doreen Smecher said the Highways Ministry is working from priorities identified last year by the provincial goverfiment’s regional task force of transporfation for the Kootenays. But she said those priorities need to be changed in light of the “‘economic activity” in and around Castlegar The priorities are due for revision this fall and Mayor Audrey Moore said she will attend a meeting this week at which those revisions may Smecher said Ministry of Regional and Economic Development officials told council they would be in contact with the city about a government agent's office. “They're going to get back to us,"” she said, which drew a quip from Moore. “That's only a 15-year-old request,”’ the mayor said. Ald. Albert Calderbank, who has often in the past expressed frustration say city officials with the city’s meetings with High- ways officials, jokingly called it a “normal meeting.” Calderbank said. he feels the ministry is not sending its ‘“‘top people” to the meetings. “I'd like to talk to the top dog,"’ he said. ‘*1 understand the ministers were there (at the convention) but we never saw them at the rooms we went to. In the old days you could see the ministers with ease."" Moore said the ministers were at the convention briefly at various times. Otherwise, Calderbank called the convention “‘excellent."" Ald. Terry Rogers said the conven- tion also provides an opportunity deputy ministers. But he said the official meetings are a chance to plant seeds with ministry representatives. “You try to pin them down and hope your project is high on the list You hope the seed you're planting and the follow up that can be done will get results.”” Rogers said the amount of infor- mation available at the convention is enormous. “You need to take a second suit- case to bring back all the paper. I try to find the appropriate people i community who can benefit from the material,’’ Rogers said, noting that he turned over a thick stack of papers to Harry Stan, executive director of the Castlegar and District Development Board. 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