A2 "Castlegar News August 30, 1989 Acid rain discussed By CasNews Staff Acid rain is not as serious a problem in B.C. as it is in Eastern Canada and the U.S. but it will get worse if changes aren't made now to how industry and ordinary people’ pollute, the at mosphere. That was the consensus of a panel on acid rain after an hour of questioning by four local reporters during a Shaw Cable forum on the issue taped last Thursday for broadcast tonight The forum, titled Acid Rain: Whose Problem Is It?, included Graham Kenyon, chief of. environmental ser vices at Cominco, Rod MacLeod, a local registered professional foreste and George Newton, a representative of the Acid Rain Caravan which is travelling across Western Canada and the western United States to educate the public about the problem of acid rain The three panel members discuss means for curbing acid rain, including ways individuals can help, look at the effects of acid rain on local forests and discuss the environmental impact, of emissions from Cominco. A represen- tative from Celgar. Pulp Co. in Castlegar was invited to take part but did not attend the forum Acid rain is formed when sulphur dioxide and/or nitrogen oxides, given off when fossil fuels such as gasoline or coal are burned, mix with moisture in the air and return to earth in acidic form. In Ontario, Quebec and the eastern United States, acid rain is killing lakes and is said to be the cause of the death of maple trees in Quebec, among other concerns The»forum airs tonight at 8 p.m Friday at noon and Sept. 3at2 p.m Company charged after PCB spill (CP) nN was PENTICTON, B.C Grand Forks charged Tuesday under the Waste Act, eight months the spill of abou PCBs near the Valley firm 180 litres of taining Similkameen Hedley Boundary community Electric was char Penticton court with spilling waste and waste without necessary docume The maximun provine transporting special penalty on the first charge is a $50,000 fine, while the tran sportation-related $10,000 fine T atter Was a charge carries a joured until Sept 26, when a plea will be entered. Boundary Electric 34 transformers on two flatbed trucks from Grand Forks to was transporting the Vancouver aréa when the accident occurred The transformer oil was found to have a PCB level of 60 to 65 parts pe million, which is not considered dangerous Okanagan land to stay in reserve More central KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) — 1,500 hectares of Okanagan farmland will stay agricultural land provincial agricultural mission The commission has rejected an ap plication by 167 landowners in the south Okanagan area to remove their Property from the reserve so that it than in the reserve, says the land com Lottery numbers The follow e bersdrawn in weekend lot LOTTO6/49— 4, 12. 14 48. The bonus number was jackpot of $2,084,701.40 wa into twoequ EXTRA — 29, $5, 68 and PACIFIC EXPRESS 942575, 444129 and 864895 C. KENO — 03, 05 44.and 47 LOTTO B.C could be used for housing and com mercial development The disappointed farmers the h the battle may be lost just starting ‘This is only the first step in the political process,’ says Doug Bullock a Kelowna apple grower. ‘It’s say even a war is been political The landowners now will seek leave the provincial ¢ d use Hardwick environment la Grant comm commission sai The land reserve was pei = bers 4 Pp ig access to the ide the CPR bridge in aved t ide path on both sides of the river should be ow par peohaalrne by aids taladie at October, Wayne McCargar, area manager for the Ministry of Highways said, The path will run from the top of the hill on the Castlegar side of the bridge and pedestrians will circle underneath the bridge by the lagoon to avoid crossing the railroad tracks on the Robson side. Bylaw will limit animals By CasNews Staff Regional District of Kootenay directors Saturday p: limit the number of Central eda bylaw which will domestic animals on property in Area K, the rural area surrounding Nakusp The Ministry of Municipal Affairs must approve the bylaw before it can take effect The bylaw comes just a few weeks after the Long Drive Cattle Co. of Barriere, B.C purchase 10 lots in West Arrow Park on Lower Arrow Lake Burton to establish a feedlot for up to 40,000 cattle Area K direc tor Bill Cuthill Tuesday the regional district is not aiming the bylaw said it will attempt to across from However said specifically at the cattle company’s proposal “We're not singling out the feedlot no,"* Cuthill said. **The intent of the bylaw is to give the regional district authority to. regulate the density of lifestock in Area K We're interested in achieve a degree of harmony the various users of the land in the area The Long Drive Cattle Co.'s interest in acquiring the property for a feedlot has drawn the wrath of local residents who say the urine from the cattle will Arrow Lake and the operation of the feedlot will destroy the area's lifestyle Ata public meeting earlier this mon th in Burton, Long Drive Cattle Co spokesman John Dormer said the company would use a system of ditches and a collection area to prevent the liquid waste Arrow Lake But residents at the meeting trying to among pollute Lower from entering Lower scoffed Court merger said possible in 5 months KAMLOOPS, (CP) merger of British Columb uld bec Fhe merger, guaranteed—by 1990 legislatior federal the move under ation needed to approve s passed by e Closkey continued from front pege nada pagea eting agains across Canada, Clos sh Tax panel continued from front page gram and residential experience ol boards to pass on the full reases to the province “The quer justified,” Moore said Provincial funding fo: directly to boards homeowner grants school tax portion of tax notices, Homeowner grants should taxes, the mayor said, and not first to s local which reflect current system ‘If the homeowner grant were ¢i » develop a uniform complex than those curren eliminated, it would not be difficult t tax notice that would be far less tly in use.” School boards should issue their own tax notices and collect taxes directly, Moore added She said there should be less emphasis on property tax and more local governments should have access to provin cial income taxes and water taxes. Exemptions for businesses distort the basic principals of property taxation, Moore said, and if the province wants ucation should be rather than a highe t priority on the apply to total property chool taxes as in the ther simplified or epay for 100 to provide incen direct grants ally dev eloped Those sideration when grants businesses such as B.C paid on all federal and provincial property, she said that the present not entirely provided generating through said Ferry Users Ad Per cent in assessed values of property ves to business it incentive facilities Darlene Schultz Hoc ferry’s closure last year h effect on the area's This year in our area there was a gene a decline of 35 per cent,”” yuld do so through orloans should not be taken in lieu of taxes are late Hydro and full grants should be grant program introduced this! year has not altered our position that B.C required to pay full grants Hydro in lieu of taxes must in future be on all of its power throughout the province,"’ Moore speaking for the Robson-Raspberry Committee, told the Castlegar and Rob: panel the hurt sor son businesses and contributed to the closure of others. She read from affidavits residents who say the clos from business people and f the ferry had a detrimental economy al decline of 20 in Robson there was Schultz quoted from an affidavit sworn by former Regional District of Central Kootenay residents, ** Robson ferry, director for Area J Martin Vandérpol, dated Nov Based on the testimonies of area business people and of the community begins Schultz said 3, 1988 the clear path to restoring the economic health with the re-instatement of the all matters in a court of law cai Kamloops he Kamloops will increasingly become a tice centre because we have all t heard in facilities here already. The pegple of the Interior will have moreaccess to the courts Smith is also touting the merger of al courts of Canada with the In British Colum: which hears such the feder provincial system. . federal court ases as those involving taxation, sits nly in Vancouver at Dormer’s suggestion that the estimated one million litres of urine produced daily by 40,000 cattle would simply dissipate or evaporate B.C. Hydro is selling the lots in West Arrow Park as part of the utility’s plan to divest itself of property it bought in the 1960s during construction of the Hugh Keenleyside Castlegar Sept 10s the closing date for bids on the lots which range in size from 12 hectares to 96 hectares and in price from $60,000 to $600,000. dam north of Deadline set for lawsuit By CasNews Staff The Regional District’ of Kootenay and Central three Interior regional districts will gc Nov 1 in an attempt to win the right to tax B.C, Hydro’s Columbia Rive! properties unless Premier Bill Vander Zalm and government ministers agree to face-to other to eourt Treaty other senior provincial face meetings on the unresolved issue, RDCK board chairman George Cady said Cady and chairmen of the Koot nay-Boundary, Columbia-Shuswap and East Kootenay regional dis have asked for a meeti Minister Jack Davis, Finance Mir Mel Couvelier and Municipal Affairs Minister Rita Johnston in an attempt the dispute Hydro’s exemption from paying property taxes onits treaty properties Cady said he has designated to contact Vander Zalm to try to with the to solve over also been arrange a meeting premier If the ministers refuse to meet, the lawyers for the four regional districts have been instructed to ** litigation” in B.C. Supreme Court as of Nov. 1, Cady said. RDCK directors Saturday during a closed mi commence d an offer from the provincial government to have the ng reje issue of the tax exemptions relegated to discussions with Cady said The government in May announced B.C. Hydro would pay grants in lieu of municipalities and regional sughout B.C. on the utility's dams. The government said Hydro would pay $250 per megawatt of power the dams fF junior ministers, taxes to districts oduce or are capable of producing if they were to That figure will double to $500 per megawatt in 1990, the government said RDCK rejected the saying the $155,000 the district receive is far below the estimated $4 million in taxes Hydr have generators installed However, the grants would would owe the district each year if its Property were taxed like any othe company or any of its family on Monday Traffic continued from front page gham of Crescent Valley He also criticized the tions, saying they are not properly constructed for today’s industrial traf road con have 1950 roads for today’s Cunningham said Godfrey addressed the problem of drinking and driving by suggesting the irinking age should be raised. And the continuing high speeds at which young people drive may be corrected by some form of restrictive licence where no more than one passenger can ride with a young driver, he said “Young people driving with other young people raises the possibility of anaccident,"” Godfrey said Godfrey said he is also concerned about the aging driving population and suggested more education may be needed for all drivers Corp. Bruce Halstead of the Nelson City Police suggested increasing safe traffic flow .on the highways by recommending that drivers of slower vehicles allow faster traffic to pass In Washingto you have more behind you, you them by, than five vehicles must pull over and let Halstead said Godfrey agreed that road conditions in B.C. are unique short widenin Godfrey telling the audience the Traffic Safety Directorate would return to the are: and a possible erm solution would be pf the shoulders. ended the discussion by October or November to tell people what we've heard around the provin continued from front poge forced to work only on the undisputed south side of the river until the injun ction was granted. However, the injunction does not allpw the construction crew access to the planned road site, and Barry East man, the Ministry of regional Manager for the Kootenays, Highways has said the government will return to court, to argue for complete access to the project area Summonses issued Tuesday the current injunction name a number of people who were present on the first day of the blockade, as well as “‘John Doe and Jane Doe,"’ which applies to all unnamed parties present Those named will be expected to ap pear in B.C couver within seven days of receiving a summons, the documents say Evans will defend band members listed on the summonses and will speak individually with non-band members listed who may want to hire him to represent them in court, he said. under Supreme Court in Van. Band spokesmen had said the band would consider filing an injunction of their own to prevent construction on the site but Evans said that is no longer necessary We could start our own action but what would that prove?" he said. “We can do it all under the one action (that the province has initiated) If the band loses its next round in court, it, is willing to take far as the Supreme Court of Canada Evans said The band wants compensation for natural resource extraction from the land, he said, but would not supply a dollar figure for the claim Meanwhile, the native encampment is remaining on the site, Evans said it is no longer a blockade since the court injunction prohibits the construction crew from working on the road route Wayne Choquette, he issue as although the archeologist whose report to the government stated the road will have an indirect impact on the burial grounds, said today he is up set a gravel pit has been dug by the con tractor on agricultural land near the extreme northern end of the burial site private Choquette said Tuesday at the site that he was to be informed if such a pit would be dug and was told the contrac tor would use a “typical cut-and-fill method where the ground is levelled by filling in low areas with earth from higher areas along the route The pit is near an area where artifac is have been found and it is impossible to tell if any remains or artifacts have been dug up, Choquette said today However, the presence of camas, a root plant, in the pit could mean ovens were nearby since the plant was a staple food of ancient people, much like potatoes, he said Choquette said he has been in con tact with the Archaeology and Out Branch of the Affairs about the Recreation door Ministry of Municipal Recreation and Culture avel pit Avgusi.s0. 1989. Castlegar News as Voyager produces a wealth of data PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Far in the cold darkness beyond Neptune, a lonely Voyager speeds into the void, dozens of worlds in its wake as it leaves a legacy that may aid the survival of its home planet, of space. a garden island in a sea What wonders Voyager 2 w unessed as the one-tonne system, traversing an arc shaped seven-billion-kilometre. path. in -12- years as it trekked past four planets and at least $6 moons: In 1979, Jupiter and its moon fo, a hellish satellite of sulphur-spewing volcanoes. Saturn and its graceful rings in 1981. Five years later, Uranus, knocked on its side by some incomprehensible collision. And today, the probe is eight million kilometres past deep blue Neptune, with its frozen volcanic moon Triton, once flooded by seas of icy lava Such marvels, such sights never before seen by human eyes, were returned to Earth in 81,000 photographs cap- tured by television cameras aboard Voyager 2 and its twin, Voyager 1, which explored Jupiter and Saturn before hur Uing toward the stars. And what did these humble Voyagers, these piles of 1960s electronics, do for their human masters, for the U.S taxpayers who paid the equivalent of $1 billion Cdn to propel thi “The immediate benefits of Voyager's pictures of Neptune and Triton and their wealth of scientific infor mation is to stimulate our intellects and to nourish our said Bruce Murray, president of the Planetary Society and former U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory “But surely over the coming generations those arcane facts will become relevant to our destiny on Earth, just as earlier arcane facts from Venus and Mars are now con sidered vital to our destiny."” OTHER WORLDS Cornell University astronomer Carl Sags you want to understand Earth, go look at other worlds,” From Mariner and the space probe Pioneer, scientists studied how Venus’s thick clouds trap solar heat, warming the planet to 482 degrees Celsius in a runaway effect.”” That discovery helped alert scientists to show in dustrial air pollutants threaten to warm Earth, flooding coastal areas and triggering droughts and starvation Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina first warned of the depletion of Earth’s ozone layer after using chemical formulas devised to help NASA understand Venus’s at mosphere, Sagan said Sagan and other planetary scientists developed the theory that smoke from nuclear war could plunge Earth in. toa dark, cold nuclear winter and cause mass starvation of spacecraft cruised the solar n to the outer planets? souls,"* director of the “greenhouse those who survived the exchange of warheads. “The idea of ultimately evolved from our attempt to understand the great Martian dust storm of 1971-72," which was detected by Mariner 9 and chilled Mars’s already cold surface, Sagan said. ‘- “The lesson we're learning is that the complexity of the universe is something you'll never imagine without looking av‘it,"" U.S, Geological Survey geologist Laurence Soder blom said Tuesday at a final news briefing on Voyager At Neptune, Voyager discovered six moons in addition to Nereid and Triton, which were first detected from Earth It discovered three thin rings of debris and.1wo broad rings orbiting the planet. It found at least six moonlets hidden in one ring WIRLING STORM Voyager detected in Neptune’s bluish atmosphere an Earth-size swirling storm called the Great Dark Spot, 1,158 kilometre an hour winds, invisible ultraviolet auroras and cirrus clouds of natural gas casting shadows on clouds far below It also revealed two types of ice volcanoes on frosty, pinkish Triton: 300-metre-deep craters measuring hun dreds of kilometres across that once produced ocean-size floods of ice flowing like lava, and volcanoes that may be active today, ejecting nitrogen ice 40 kilometres high at speeds of 900 km-h Scientists presented new findings Tues: photochemical smog, y showing Nep: tune’s weak, tilted magnetic field doesn’t go through the centre of the planet but is offset about four-tenths of the way toward the surface. That and other evidence suggest the liquid that generates the magnetic field may exist in a shallow spherical shell, not in a deep central core as inside Earth ** As exciting as the discoveries at Neptune have been, this encounter has really just been the fourth and final planet that Voyager has revealed in an unprecedented decade of discovery,"’ said Voyager project scientist Edward Stone. “For those of us fortunate enough to be involved, this has been the journey of a lifetime Voyager 2 keeps looking back at Neptune until Oct.2 Then, like Voyager 1, it will collect information about particles and magnetic fields in space and search for the edge of the solar system, sending Earth information until about 2020. Then, carrying copper videodisks of pictures and recorded sounds of Earth, the Voyagers will spend billions of years orbiting the centre of the Milky Way Perhaps one day an alien civilization will find one of the Voyagers and play the record. If they do, they'll hear a simple message recorded by a seven-year-old boy from another time and another world: ‘Greetings from the children of the planet Earth Underwater camera fails in search for Ogopogo KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) — A high tech hunt for Ogopogo failed to locate the legendary Okanagan Lake creature crevasses, But a Salmon Arm car salesman is pressing ahead with plans to send his video of an earlier claimed encounter with Ogopogo to the National Geographic Society The Vancouver-based “Cryp tozoology Club, devoted to studying mythical beasts, under water vehicle equipped with a video camera in a fruitless hunt for Ogopogo. The unit had been used to cover the swimming leg of the Ironman Triathlon competition on the weekend The $14,000 vehicle, owned by Robotic Systems In ternational Ltd. of Sidney, B.C down 30 metres as reporters observed large creature Meanwhile, jarger parent used a tiny creatures, Seamor underwater , went Mayor opposes new tax QUESNEL, B.C. (CP) — Mayor Mike Pearce wants all his B.C. coun: terparts to sign a petition opposed to the planned federal goods and services Crayola Hexagon 4s Thermos Reg. $10.95 tax BONDFAST $ Mayors should fight the proposed nine-per-cent tax on behalf of their communities, says Pearce A petition will be sent to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, he said. A copy of the petition will also be sent to Premier Bill Vander Zalm so he can use it to fight the tax in Ottawa, said Pear Lepage Bonus 150 mi ce REPORT COVERS Quesnel, a town of about 8,200, is about 660 kilometres north of Van couver Prestonia 3 pal Reg. $2.19 Congratulations sa Judi Closkey - Clearasil Reg. $5.95 On becoming Miss Interior B.C. 1989 We re all very proud of you and we Ii always be close by to support you in whatever you do. tove and photographed the effort Although the cable-tethered vehicle But the found several interesting ledges and there was no sign of any Ken claims to have filmed Ogopoge earlier this month, and local Ogopogo expert Arlene Gaal now believe the creature Chaplin saw is thé offspring of a much Members of Chaplin’s ded family claim to have seen two smaller His video of a serpent-like creature up to five metres long will be shipped to the National Geographic Society in CHILDREN’S GLUE dB ART PORTFOLIO if FACE WASH $ CREST Washington, D.C., said Chaplin location of a “feeding ground’? where four sightings were vidéo-taped will not be revealed until the provincial and federal governmen ts secure the area from hunters who might injure Ogopogo, he said Chaplain believes the lake creatures are non-aggressive, but isn’t sure how they would react if cornered or woun Chaplin, who He stressed that he is not associated with the cryptozoology club. 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