Castlegar News April 18, 1990 Packaging continued from page C1 polystyrene disposables by 1995. But even as they scramble aboard the bandwagon, the people who make such throwaways are furiously ‘unapologetic about the past. “We need war stories of public health solutions and sickness avoided by the use of food-service disposables!" Joseph Bow, president of the U.S. Foodservice and Packaging Institute, exhorted mem- bers in an institute publication. “We need the public to:know these things so that they can protest if any elected officials attempt to endanger their health, or that of their children, by banning any food-service disposables of any kind!’’ Farretti’s reaction: ‘‘That’s such & crock.”’ But in the United States, ‘at least, some environmentalists are taking more of a middle ground They-say-plastics may be drawing inordinate blame cénsidering their benign effects when buried and the fact they account for about seven per cent of municipal waste — in- cluding disposable diapers — com- pared with about 40 per cent for paper and paperboard. “A number of communities have proposed or passed bans on Styrofoam or certain kinds of plastics,’’ says Richard Denison, chief solid-wagte scientist with the U.S. Environmental Defence Fund, a U.S. lobbying group,“‘I think that is an - placed concern. “My view is not to take the heat off plastics but to put the heat on other material." Indeed, the can be a BUSINESS DIRECTORY TELEPHONE 365-5210 New | ons, comm h and it for the C News. Business Directory will be accepted up to 5 p.m. April 24 for the month of May. maze for the well-intentioned. Take orange juice. At the factory, Peelings and pulp from the manufac- ture “of the small can of frozen Orange-juice concentrate were likely ground up for chicken feed. But shoppers who buy fresh Oranges to press their own juice, and throw the peels away, add to the waste stream. Unless they, like Ferret- ti, have a composter at home. As well, environmentalists are widely criticizing so-called degradable plastic garbage bags and degradable diapers, saying they don’t break down well either in landfills or backyard compost heaps and gum up the machinery in plastic-recycling plants. “I frankly think it is the consumer hoax of the late 1980s,’’ Denison said. Still, Ferretti says people exerting the right kind of pressure can make a difference — like. the Toronto. H who began their fast-food hamburgers on paper napkins. Evidence that little things add up to a lot comes from McDonald's itself, which, by making its plastic straws 20 per cent thinner, claims to be saving 450,000 kilograms of waste a year in the United States. Hoax: continued from C3 over 100 ji in a pulling out article after article to cite wide variety of subjects relating to climate. Widely-quoted by the media on ‘weather matters, he has-become in- creasingly popular on the lecture cir- cuit, where he averages two talks a week that routinely debunk the theory of global warming. The straight-talking professor makes no apologies for his attacks on studies that suggest alarming changes are about to occur because of the burning of fossil fuels and other fac- tors xhich add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. The whole business is little more than a fad, especially among scien- tists, charges Ball. GETTING COLDER —“Go -back-andtook-at-the-titerature- 12 years ago and it was all about the coming ice age,’ he says as he rum- mages through a thick file of papers, You Are Invited he claims abound in studies which predict significant global warming in coming decades. “All of these predictions about global warming are based on com- puter models and these computer Brian L. Brown CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANT 270 Columbia Avenue Castlegar © 365-2151 Certified General Accountant Office 368-6471 Residence 365-2339. 1250 Bay Ave., Trail “ARTARITES BACKPAIN or MIGRAINE CALL 365-5527 For Appointment 2408-9th Ave. models are not for the predictions they are making. “It’s the old thing about a lovely hypothesis destroyed by an ugly fact. And, fact is, from 1940 to 1980, the world cooled — 40 years of cooling.”* Ball does not dispute that there is such a thing as the greenhouse effect, although he disputes the link to global warming. 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BS Vol. 43, No. 32 75 Cents CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 1990 WEATHERCAST Today: Cloudy with suney periods thighs trom —17*-t0 ‘Monday: Clouds and showers Frababaiy of o—percipitation:-30- per cent todey-up- to 70 per cent for Monday 3 Sections (A, B &C) ie MAKING MUSIC . . . Fiddiers from all over B.C., Calgary, Washi: kkend for the annual Oldtime Fiddlers Contest. The Castlegar News are inc this wil ve results of the contes etealiaatinn Terms of -elarehice released in inesday's paper. and idaho CaiNews Photo by Steve McSherry Budget dishonest, NDP critic says VICTORIA (CP) — Dishonest and deceitful were just two of the words used Friday by Glen Clark to describe the budget presented by B.C. Finance Minister Mel Couvelier. Clark, finance critic for the op- position NDP, was responding in the legislature to Thursday’s budget described by Couvelier as balanced. “When. is a deficit not a deficit, More on budget, Page A3 Mr. Speaker?”’ asked Clark. ‘‘And when is a balanced budget completely one of the largest deficits ever. “The government is planning to spend $684 million more than it will be taking in during the coming fiscal year. That, by any definition, is a deficit.’’ r He criticized the budget for what he said was cursory attention to the en- vironment, housing, women’s issues, education and for not reducing the tax burden of middle- and low- income families. Couvelier, addressing women’s issues in a speech Friday to the Van- couver Board of Trade, defended the budget’s i to a policy of the government used deceitful bookkeeping to persuade the public the $115.2-billion budget was balanaced when, in fact, it contains equal pay for work of equal value for the public service. He said pay equity introduced in Ontario has not been a success. “‘We think the reason for the On- tario salary experience on pay equity has been that they tried to impose it on the private sector concurrently with addressing the issue in the public sector.’’ He said the B.C. government will tackle the pay equity issue ‘‘in house’’ and bring it in slowly over the next three to four-years. RECORDS SURPLUS Couvelier reported in his budget ‘speech that the government recorded a $140-million surplus for 1989-1990, the first time in a decade the province had no deficit He has made his budgets look good with the help of the budget stabilization fund, an accounting device that shuffles money between the government's general operating continued on poge A2 The survey, conducted by Richard Hallet, vice president of educational support serives at the college, shows that 94.4 per cent of 1988 graduates from Seikirk College got jobs related to: their studies. That figure is four points higher than the number from other in- stitutions in the province to which College measures up By ED MILLS Staff Writer “If one of the mandates of Selkirk College is to get jobs for its students, a survey shows it’s doing that just fine, thank you. Selkirk is compared to in the sur- vey. Hallet, who presented the college board with the results of the survey at its regular monthly meeting in Grand Forks Tuesday, said the number across the board on questions in the survey show Selkirk College is ‘“‘doing it's job.” “T can't say that we're better than Vancouver Community College or other colleges in the province, but TI can say the results of the survey are very positive,"’ Hallet said. Hallet was im with the number of former Selkirk students who, in responding to a question on how they rated their college stay — definitely worth- while, worthwhile or not worth- while — said their time at Selkirk was definitely worthwhile. _ “Considering the, possibilities, + Celgar told areas to snalves further By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer More details on the impact the proposed Celgar Pulp Co. mill expansion will have on air, water, the regionat woodchip supply and transportation in the West I must be provi: by the Pi before the pesmi committee overseeing the major project review process Celgar is undergoing can determine if approval in principle for the project Can be granted, the terms of reference for stage two of the review say. Ceigar must provide evaluation and analysis on a wide range of technical topics including the fibre con- tamination of the Columbia River, possible impacts on river effluent from B.C. Hydro dam construction and ion, possible g ination, the Characteristics of the fibre mat ‘‘with respect to chlorinated organic content to determine if the material must be considered a special waste,"’ and document alter- Natives to-water storage and-handling oflogs-to avoid residue buildups. ““Celgar must commit to a process to evaluate the feasibility of removal or management of these solids as part of stage two."’ * evaluate “impact scenarios_with- proposed B.C. Hydro dam construction and modification.”” Such evaluations were not included in Celgar’s initial impact studies and the Ministry of Environment ap- Ppreciates Celgar’s position the company does not have enough information to do this evaluation. “However, we oabeered recommend that —_— con- ith-B.C-Hydre-t0- jinpact of sulphur dioxide and nit emissions, pulp log arid chip supplies, and project truck and rail traffic and its possible impacts, according to the terms of reference, received by the Castlegar News late Friday. Celgar was denied approval in principle earlier this month after the committee decided more study of the proposed expansion was needed. The company has had the terms of reference for several weeks but were Prohibited from releasing them to the public until the committee released the documents, Celgar industrial relations manager Ron Belton said Friday. extent Hydro’s plans (particularly with reapect, to the Keenleyside and Murphy Creek projects) may alter the flow regime of the Columbia and therefore affect the dispersion and dilution of Celgar’s effluent discharge and impact on water quality under various flow conditions.”’ © evaluate potential for increased algae growth in the river due to increases in nitrogen and phosphorous discharges in the effluent “B.C. Ministry of Environment information in- dicates that under certain flow/temperature conditions there are significant growths of algae and fungus that may fish habitat of the mill. The release of the material was held up by over wording of a press release to accompany the material, committee chairman David Parsons said Friday. Fheterms of reference ask © explain why some chlorine bleaching is still required and why alternatives such as hydrogen peroxide cannot be substituted at this time. If hydrogen peroxide substitution is not feasible now, Celgar should indicate how mill design will accommodate additions of this technology at a later date. ® provide an analysis of the solids, known as the fibre mat, produced by processing at the mill and log handling in the river which accumulate on the bottom of the Columbia River. The analysis should define the surface area and depth of contamination in the vicinity of the mill, determine the Carbon-diox “Also, due to the large input of phosporous from Cominco at Trail, the Columbia River at Waneta may be nitrogen-limited.”’ © predict the impact of the expansion on the Colum- bia River at the international border. © provide a current assessment of the fisheries using recent data and information. The assessment should incorporate all current scien- tific research regarding impacts of bleached kraft pulp- mill effluents and the physical impacts of mill construc- tion of the fisheries habitat should be assessed. “(Celgar) should also provide the design of, and a commitment to participate in, an intensive, integrated monitoring program which will define the current status continued on page A2 ide pollution pinned on forest industry VANCOUVER (CP) — The forest which was presented at the federal- forest industry is already under pressure to reduce slash burning in industry is British Columbia's biggest culprit? when it comes to producing carbon-dioxide pollution associated with global warming, according to a provincial Energy Ministry report Slash burning of debris left behind by clear-cutting operations pumps an estimated 20 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, more than alll the cars, trucks, planes and other mobile sourcés in the province, the report says. Pulp liquor, a black liquid produced as a waste product in pulping operations and burned as a power source in pulp mills, churns out another 14.7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year. Gasoline u: in cars and trucks: produce 8.8 million ton nes. The study was prepared as part of a federal-provincial effort to size up Canada’s carbon-dioxide pollution. It indicates _significant energy- conservation measures and changes in we had 79 per cent who ‘definitely worthwhile’ and on the provincial level it was 73 per cent That tells me the whole college system (in B.C.) is doing well. The Students are succeeding and that's what we're here for,’’ he said College president Leo Perra on page AZ are needed if British Columbia is to cap, lei alone reduce, production of carbon dioxide, widely considered the prime threat to the global environment. If nothing ‘changes, the study forecasts the annual emissions in British Columbia will increase by 40 per cent within 15 years. A summary of the B.C. report, provincial energy minister's meeting earlier this month, was obtained by the Vancouver Sun. Energy Ministry officials Peter Ostergaard said the full report will be released at the end of the month DOUBLE AVERAGE The study found that British Columbia pumps out close to 30 ton- nes of carbon dioxide for every man, woman and child in the province. That's double the national average, estimated at about 15 tonnes per capita, and second only to Alberta Alberta produces most of its elec tricity through coal burning, which generates a lot of carbon dioxide Alberta churns out more than 50 ton nes per capita each year. (The typical garbage truck carries 10 tonnes of trash.) Carbon dioxide is blamed for causing changes in the chemistry of the atmosphere and scientists fear it may set off a process that will warm the world climate to deadly extremes within $0 years. While cars and power plants are of ten singled out as the main carbon dioxide producers in Canada, the B.C. study indicates they take second place to the forest industry in this Province. Brian McCloy of the Council of Forest Industries of B.C. said the some areas — such as the Okanagan where fruit growers say the haze produced by the smoke affects ripening of fruit. McCloy said he ex Pects pressure to grow given the con cern over global warming. McCloy said the level of slash bur ning should decrease in future as the industry reduces its use of old-growth timber and increases use of second growth forests that do not result in the production of as much left-over debris. D‘Arcy to answer questions Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy will answer questions about how the provincial budget tabled in the legislature Thursday, will affect the people of the riding as well as other concerns during a live phone-in show on Shaw Cable 10 Monday at 8 pum. D'Arcy’ will also answer questions from a studio media panel